1st Grow Thin Mint & Sherbet, Indoor, Soil, LED

[Paso Nogales]

New Year's Resolution #1!! I just started my first grow. It is a small, indoor grow with 1 each of 2 Girl Scout Cookie related strains, Thin Mint Cookies and Sherbet. Both clones were purchased at my dispensary and are from Purple City Genetics. Both strains tend to be indica leaning.

• Thin Mint cookies is a hybrid combining Grandaddy Purple, Durban and OG Kush.
  
• Sherbet, (or Sunset Sherbet), is derived from GSC and Pink Panties.
  

I am not looking for massive yield or especially high THC! I will be thrilled with a successful grow and getting some of the basic characteristics of the two related stains.

My grow tent is 36"x20"x63". I am using 2 Mars Hydro Reflector 48 LED units. They each draw about 100 watts from the wall. This will be a soil grow in fabric pots with Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil mix. 1 gallon for clone transplant, then 3 or 5 gallon for bloom. Nutrients will be Roots Organic. Clones transplanted with Mykos Pure Mycorrhizal Inoculum for root development.

My grow space is a utility room. Heat & AC are available, but not on. Room temp is 62° day and 56° night. Tent temp is 77-81° when grow lights are on. RH is 58%. I have a room humidifier and tower oscillating fan in the tent.

Currently vegging at 18/6 until transplants take, then 20/4. Using both the Veg and Bloom spectra on the LED grow lights. Currently 24" above tops, will move down to 18" in a couple of days.

That's the baseline. Girls are just into the tent. Update shortly.

 

[Paso Nogales]

Day three update.

• Added oscillating tower fan
• Added humidifier cycling on/off with timer, humidity was dropping to low 30's. Now consistent 50-60%
• Lowered lights to 18"

Girls are looking good! Pic's shortly!!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Day 4:

• 1st water with Roots Organic Buddha Grow 1ml/Qt
• Added small fan near roof to better circulate air in tent
• Temp and humidity holding well

Pics!

 

[b.real]

looking good.

 

[Paso Nogales]

One week since transplant!

• Watered with Roots Organic Buddha Grow 1ml/Qt
  
• Cut back on humidifier, 10 min/hour 8 hours/day
  
• Likely top both tomorrow, then start LST
  

Pics tomorrow!!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Thanks b.real!! Feel like a proud Pappa!!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Day 9 time to top!!!

Before....


After.....


I will start LST tomorrow!!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Day 15!

• The Sherbet plant taking to the LST and filling out very well!
• The Thin Mints, not so much. Healthy, but definitely lagging behind.
• Started first nutes.
• Shut down the humidifier, rain keeping the humidity within desired range.

Pics to follow!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Day 18

• Rainwater, I may be able to water the entire grow with collected rain!!!!
• More LST
• Sherbet really filling out nicely

• Thin Mints still tightly bunched! Any thoughts on getting her to stretch more?

Transplant in 2 days!!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Transplant Day 21 of Veg

• 5 gallon fiber grow pots

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• Fox Farm Ocean Forest potting soil
• Mykos Pure Mycorrhizal Inoculant

Sherbet with more LST



Thin Mints battling LST



More rain!!!!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Falling a bit behind here! Life keeps interfering with my good intentions!

Day 38, 9 days into bloom!

• First Bloom nutes 3 days ago
• Girls starting to stretch.
• We have had mucho rain!! Cannot keep the humidity down!
• Added extra fan.
• Fully opened lower side vent.
• Few spots of powdery mold today. Pruned most infected leaves and treated with SNS 244.

Pic's to follow!!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Almost 6 weeks!! 3 weeks Veg. 2 weeks bloom!

• I am still fighting a powdery mold on a couple of leaves, but using an organic fungicide that is working well
• Hard to fight the high humidity when we have had months of solid rain and the outside humidity is always about 90%.
• The added fan and leaving the tent vents open and the door partially open helps, but that only gets the humidity in the tent down to about 60% at the mid point of watering, but still nearly 80% the day of watering.
• The fabric pots, although working very well, contribute to the humidity in the tent.
• Added a 20" UV fluorescent tube.

I am learning a lot!

• The Mars Hydro Reflector 48 lights are doing a great job!
• The organic nutrients are working great and I am only using about half the recommended strength.
• The high humidity is a bitch!!
• A 36"x18"x67" tent gets crowded really fast with just 2 plants.
• The Sherbet plant is flowering well, the Thin Mints a little behind, (but that has been the case since transplanted!)

Sherbet


Thin Mints


Crowded Tent!

 

[Paso Nogales]

Almost 9 weeks!! 4 weeks Veg. 5 weeks bloom!

• Sherbet is getting brown pistils
• Good trichrome growth, still clear
• Thin Mints still looks to be a week or two behind
• Switched lighting to bloom from both
• Still doing some LST to open the plants, especially Thin Mints, still a bit dense
• Been watering 5 gal cloth pots Sunday, with nutes @ 50% dosage, and Wednesday, no nutes.

Will try to get some bud pics posted over the weekend.

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

Hope all is well in your world.

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