Growing Cannabis 101: Mint Chocolate OG, HSO, Organic Super-Soil, 25% Perlite, Gaja Green Organics, 3 Mars 300s &1 Mars 144, Equal Par Wall To Wall

[KingJoe83]

March 25/19
I decided to put a medium cover in so my soil doesn’t dry out as fast, the microbial life will become dormant if it dries out. If it does I will have to run a bubble tea to reintroduce a mass amount of microbial life to the medium. I am using Organics so I feed the soil the soil feeds my plants



March 26/19

March 28/19
She’s small but she’s 7 nodes tall at this point

March 29/19
This is the day I topped it , now I’ve only done one grow prior and it was with hid , LED is a whole different ball game, I set the light to the recommended height at 24/30”. I am at 34 “ right now and this is where I ran into problems.

March 30/19
She looks really bad from light burn the led was too strong , I added another foot of spacers to solve the issue

March 31/19
She’s bouncing back from the light adjustment wheeeow if I didn’t check it as much as i did idk what would have happened

April 2/19
She seemed to bounce back right away

April 3/19

April 4/19

1sr defoliation after toppin trying to get more light into the nodes

I just want to say thanks to all the people who helped me get this going , I’m really enjoying it. Has anyone else every had this issue with being new to leds ??

Add a table spoon or two of molasses one a week or two ?

 

[DeanWest89]

April 4/19
15 hours later then my last photo and she has filled in nicely , I have started to spray the plant morning and night to help with RH.


A light defoliation to open everything up again


April 5/19
And she is growing strong and vigorous I couldn’t be happier.



April 5/19
took a few more leafs off before bed


April 7/19
A little lst


April 9/19
She is responding really well



April 10/19



April 11/19

She’s starting to take shape
All the lst is starting to pay off
Very happy with the grow

 

[DeanWest89]

April 11/19
I forgot to tell you guys the plant got topped again I topped 7 of the nodes , and I’ve don’t some LST to get more of an even canopy for my light , and even after this topping my LED still damaged some the the. We growth tips , this is my first led grow so just taking me some time to dial in

 

[DeanWest89]

@Kingjoe83 yeah I do the odd molasses watering but I try to stay away it makes the soil sweet and pests tend become a problem. I just gotta keep the medium moist at all times, I’m looking into making a drip system but that’s another story. Did you ever use molasses or compost teas ? ALSO. I found out at least one of these pheno’s do stretch quite a bit for an indica dominant , must have favours the sativa genetics in that sense. But I’m excited to see what happens

 

[TurboBucket]

As I understand it black strap molasses will actually kill most pests that ingest it. Fwiw.

When I ran buckets I'd try to keep it to a few main colas 8 sounds good.

 

[DeanWest89]

@TurboBucket really , that’s wild I always thought it would attract pests . I am going to have to do some more research. I just used it in my compost tea as a food for bacteria. And that soil smells some sweet at first. Thanks for the info brotherman . I am new to the indoor growing scene and any help is greatly appreciated friends. Thank you

 

[KingJoe83]

@Kingjoe83 yeah I do the odd molasses watering but I try to stay away it makes the soil sweet and pests tend become a problem. I just gotta keep the medium moist at all times, I’m looking into making a drip system but that’s another story. Did you ever use molasses or compost teas ? ALSO. I found out at least one of these pheno’s do stretch quite a bit for an indica dominant , must have favours the sativa genetics in that sense. But I’m excited to see what happens

Yup I used act last year

I just used DE to prevent pest and added rocks around medium base I had the odd any but nothing to worry about .

 

[DeanWest89]

April 12/19

New growth starting already, this plant bounces back so well to defoliation and topping , I am very impressed. I like to think it’s from the 25% power bloom 2-8-4
More phosphorus helps stimulate the root growth which in turn helps with faster heal time , healthy roots= healthy fruits

April 13/19
I thought I was in the clear with the led burn , but seems that all new growth is over whelmed. My light was 3 ft from the canopy. I have it now set to 4 ft and I’m nothing having this issue anymore. But coming from my first indoor grow being HID this is a real learning curve .

April 14/19
She reallly bounced back fast this time I couldn’t believe it when I got home from work.

April 16/19
I did another round of defoliation to expose more bud sites in trying to get them to all grow at the same rate , so when one gets tall I bend it down and it redirects the hormones thoe the next tallest one , so I keep tying down until the rest catches up. It seems to really works for maintaining an even canopy. But I disfigured a lot of plants before I got this down to somewhat feeling comfortable doing it. My first grow I was so scared to touch the plants and then I dived into main lining 4 plants that vegged for 100 days , so I learned a lot in that time .

April 17/19
Just one more day later she was filled in again, this is my first time running gaja green and I am so impressed with how well it feeds the plants , I don’t have time to mix nutes and Ppms and ec , I spent hours reach day feeding and prepping water it took time away from my family , so I wanted an easier solution. The change has really paid off.

And another defoliation , I try not to take too much at once, some people say it’s so bad to do , but as you can see the plant responds really well to it , and it almost puts the plant in a super repair mode and the growth seems to explode, I haven’t came across a strain that didn’t like it. , and I’m trying to keep my node spacing tight , so when flower comes it’s not 3” between bud sites, this way when she flowers they will be big tall solid colas, depending on genetics and pheno of course

This is a side shot after defoliation

April 18/19
She is finally filling up the space in the bucket (this is my first bucket grow) if I was to anything different it would be not having so many colas ( I do feel like I’m going to run out of horizontal space but I do have a 2x4 grow tent with a mars 144 reflector as a plan b ( thanks to the person who gave the that idea you know who you are )

April 21/19

I was really busy past few days here and didn’t get any photos, I dropped the ball in that sorry guys and gals. But she is really filling the space now but another defoliation is due.

I just really want to thank everyone who’s been checking out my grow it means the world to me , and to get all your positive feedback is amazing, I am so glad I joined this 420 family. I know there’s a lot I can learn off you guys and gals

 

[DeanWest89]

@carcass what’s the white stuff in the whole in the new pot before you transplant ??

 

[Carcass]

That's just a little rooting hormone-It may or may not help with transplant shock,so I sprinkle a little in the holes...
They didn't even notice the transplant,so,if it didn't help, it didn't hurt anything either...

 

[KingJoe83]

Great white ?

 

[Carcass]

Great white ?

No,it's just some stuff called "FastRoot" by miracle grow- bought it a few years ago at home depot
when I was trying to get some clones started.

 

[KingJoe83]

No,it's just some stuff called "FastRoot" by miracle grow- bought it a few years ago at home depot
when I was trying to get some clones started.

Yeah I just buy this mycros from My local garden seems to do good stuff for about 12$ I think

 

[DeanWest89]

Homegrown or Dutchman @Kingjoe83
Well if if they don’t notice keep doing what your doing @carcass I have this root stun but I use it for clones I wonder if a sprinkle would help transplanting

 

[KingJoe83]

Homegrown or Dutchman @Kingjoe83
Well if if they don’t notice keep doing what your doing @carcass I have this root stun but I use it for clones I wonder if a sprinkle would help transplanting

Homegrown I believe

 

[Carcass]

It might say on the container-mine says "helps prevent transplant shock",so I use it for that..
It's 0.1% indole-3 butyric acid if you want to compare ingredients....

 

[DeanWest89]

Awe sweet mine the same thing I’m gonna try it , thanks @carcass

 

[Jedward]

April 4/19
15 hours later then my last photo and she has filled in nicely , I have started to spray the plant morning and night to help with RH.


A light defoliation to open everything up again


April 5/19
And she is growing strong and vigorous I couldn’t be happier.



April 5/19
took a few more leafs off before bed


April 7/19
A little lst


April 9/19
She is responding really well



April 10/19



April 11/19

She’s starting to take shape
All the lst is starting to pay off
Very happy with the grow

You have patience, I see! Looks awesome! I’m symmetry loving kinda guy!

 

[Mars Hydro]

Hi Dean, nice new grow journal, I was so happy to see this is with with our lights, anything you need me, just feel free to let me know. Happy growing!

 

[KingJoe83]

Hi Dean, nice new grow journal, I was so happy to see this is with with our lights, anything you need me, just feel free to let me know. Happy growing!

Thanks for coming by Sara .