1st Grow - 2x4 Tent - 125W T5 - Soil - Advice Very Welcome

[GFord]

Day 11 of Flower

Things are going pretty good. RH stays around 40% and temps hover around 77. She has just started showing some pistils and stretching healthily. I did some LST to spread the canopy out and have built a couple clamp-on lights with 40w CFLs. So now I've got 190w on her. I'm thinking of buying a LED panel for the next grow. Maybe a Mars Hydro Reflector 96.

Since I am over 5 weeks on the same soil, and into flower, I have started supplementing with Fox Farms nutrients. Last 2 feedings I have used a 1/3 dose and still got a little tip burn and leaf curling. Also have been seeing an increase in purple stems so I added about a 1/3 dose of CalMag as well.

We'll just keep ticking off the days. Flower time for this is stated 9-11 weeks so there's still some road ahead. So far I am having a great time growing this. It's my first time growing anything really and I have some tomatoes in the yard as well. Using some of those Fox Farms nutes on those too because... why the hell not?

Enjoy my ameteur pics.

Day 42

Day 45

 

[dirt mcgert]

Looking good

 

[David Bowman]

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[GFord]

Yeah I hate to leave it unfinished. I'm harvesting this Saturday, which will be day 80 of flower. Been hard to hold off these last couple weeks, but she's nice and frosty now and I'm glad I did! It's been an uneventful grow... thankfully. Had a little P deficiency a ways into flower but that wasn't hard to remedy.

She's got a pungent citrusy smell that isn't really in your face but still noticeable. I really don't notice in the tent that much because I'm exchanging the air about once every 40 seconds, but get her out in the room and she's very noticeable inside a couple minutes. Buds are solid. True to the marketing. Even the buds low in the canopy feel pretty tight.

I didn't do a "real" flush with multiple gallons of water, but I switched to water only about 3 weeks ago. Didn't really mean to flush that long but I underestimated how long flowering would take. Live and learn.

 

[Stinky Snid]

Way to go Gford, those buds are sweet to look at. Great job on getting them to this point. Only one thing left to do... Right? Let us know how the harvest goes, get those scissor fingers warmed up.

KiG cheers

 

[GFord]

Harvest on day 80 went without trouble. Took about 3 hours to trim and rack the whole thing. I used a 2 foot drying rack and trimmed about 1/3 the plant off the stems to dry. I realized later I should have left it on the stems but oh well. Live and learn.

I still jarred that section up a day before the rest of it. The hygrometer in the jar showed @62rh. The rest of it however, I left on the rack until the stems snapped. Once in the jar the hygrometer was showing @50. Not great. After being in the jar for a day it was up to 55. I guess I'll have to live with it being a tad dry, but it still smells fantastic.

Since they had been in the jars and I've been burping them since Tues/Weds, and they feel about right, I figured now would be a reasonable time to weigh. *drum roll* 126 grams. I know it might be almost double if I had more experience and more light, but I'm pretty stoked about 4 oz. of really good bud from my little 190 watt T5/CFL setup. I guess this is the end of my journal. I hope it helps someone in some small way.

Regards,

 

[Stinky Snid]

Hell yeah!! Nice buds a plenty... Good job gford
Enjoy that amazing looking super satisfying homegrown green splendour of buds...

Thanks for sharing brother

KiG cheers

 

[Pat999]

Great harvest Gford!

 

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