The story of Anne Frank.
So my friend grew a plant in this huge garden pot in his backyard a summer ago, with kindbud seed, and it grew fairly nicely, just barely getting 3 smalls buds out before its gruesome death. Some people got wind of the plant and it eventually was ravaged to nothing but a few sparely leaves.
Winter soon came, and seemed the plant died alltogether, after we lost interest in it.
the next spring, saddened by his lost girl, my friend threw some more seeds (ditchweed this time) in the same pot. this sprouted some small plants here and there ( this is one hell of a pot) after about 3 months we had about 4 plants now, but one of them seemed to be much larger and greener than the others.
so this poses my first question i havent found an answer for; Can a marijuana plant die in winter, and regrow itself in spring?
So anyway, to avoid what happened to the plant this time, my friend moves the plants into his basement, and attempts to grow them there on a few convenience-store grow lights. This was working for like a month, when he asked me to step in, and help him grow the plants using hydroponics.
We are working with a space that is about 6' by 6' for the veg room and 4' 4' for the bloom room, serperated by cardboard stapled to the rafters of the ceiling and covered with mylar, and black plastic-sheet material. the floor beneath the sheets of plastic is dirt. the area is pretty dirty in general, we are trying our best to sweep the plastic as much as possible and clean out all the gunk.
the biggest problem i see with the grow space is that the ceilings are about 5' from the ground- VERY LOW CEILINGS.
i went to a local grow store and bought everything i need to build a hydroponics system, including some stuff i gathered from home and walmart. Im using a resovoir and a 400w pump to push water to drip-feeders that will feed into the expanded clay pellets.
I started off with cloning the mother plant, deeming her anne frank, due to the condition in which she lives, closet nug. My stupid ass didnt read as much i shouldve before cloning the plant, and somehow i cut the first 4 clones right off the main stem, so that must have shocked the crap out of her enough already- but wait untill you hear whats next.
Its about day 3 now and my clones are looking okay, i got them 18/6 lighting, and spraying them 2 times a day with c02 water. i noticed that the mother plant stared to get little brown spots and holes on it's big, beautiful leaves, and so when i took a closer look i noticed little ant-like looking bugs walking all over my baby.
After a day or so of using vegetable bug killer spray, and i decided we need to jsut get rid of the soil. if the clones survive then im a-okay anyways, so i decided to take the risk of taking anne frank out of her soil pot and putting her into clay pellets and nutriet water.
i completed this process a few hours ago, and so now i can only wait, which is why i am on here beginning my journal.
ummm so for now here are some pictures of my babies.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! any comments, concerns, or input would be GREATLY appreciated, im sooooo new at this and i really want this to work! thank you so much guys!
(pictures didnt work first time, now they need to be approved, up asap)
thank you
So my friend grew a plant in this huge garden pot in his backyard a summer ago, with kindbud seed, and it grew fairly nicely, just barely getting 3 smalls buds out before its gruesome death. Some people got wind of the plant and it eventually was ravaged to nothing but a few sparely leaves.
Winter soon came, and seemed the plant died alltogether, after we lost interest in it.
the next spring, saddened by his lost girl, my friend threw some more seeds (ditchweed this time) in the same pot. this sprouted some small plants here and there ( this is one hell of a pot) after about 3 months we had about 4 plants now, but one of them seemed to be much larger and greener than the others.
so this poses my first question i havent found an answer for; Can a marijuana plant die in winter, and regrow itself in spring?
So anyway, to avoid what happened to the plant this time, my friend moves the plants into his basement, and attempts to grow them there on a few convenience-store grow lights. This was working for like a month, when he asked me to step in, and help him grow the plants using hydroponics.
We are working with a space that is about 6' by 6' for the veg room and 4' 4' for the bloom room, serperated by cardboard stapled to the rafters of the ceiling and covered with mylar, and black plastic-sheet material. the floor beneath the sheets of plastic is dirt. the area is pretty dirty in general, we are trying our best to sweep the plastic as much as possible and clean out all the gunk.
the biggest problem i see with the grow space is that the ceilings are about 5' from the ground- VERY LOW CEILINGS.
i went to a local grow store and bought everything i need to build a hydroponics system, including some stuff i gathered from home and walmart. Im using a resovoir and a 400w pump to push water to drip-feeders that will feed into the expanded clay pellets.
I started off with cloning the mother plant, deeming her anne frank, due to the condition in which she lives, closet nug. My stupid ass didnt read as much i shouldve before cloning the plant, and somehow i cut the first 4 clones right off the main stem, so that must have shocked the crap out of her enough already- but wait untill you hear whats next.
Its about day 3 now and my clones are looking okay, i got them 18/6 lighting, and spraying them 2 times a day with c02 water. i noticed that the mother plant stared to get little brown spots and holes on it's big, beautiful leaves, and so when i took a closer look i noticed little ant-like looking bugs walking all over my baby.
After a day or so of using vegetable bug killer spray, and i decided we need to jsut get rid of the soil. if the clones survive then im a-okay anyways, so i decided to take the risk of taking anne frank out of her soil pot and putting her into clay pellets and nutriet water.
i completed this process a few hours ago, and so now i can only wait, which is why i am on here beginning my journal.
ummm so for now here are some pictures of my babies.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! any comments, concerns, or input would be GREATLY appreciated, im sooooo new at this and i really want this to work! thank you so much guys!
(pictures didnt work first time, now they need to be approved, up asap)
thank you
