Hello, I'm new to growing

[GrowGirl63]

Hello,

I am new to growing cannabis. I am over 50 and within the past couple years I have been learning about the benefits of using cannabis. After 30 + surgeries, 6 of those on my spine and number 7 scheduled for mid Jan 2019, I am learning just how beneficial cannabis is, and, I have been able to stop taking Xanex, Dilaudid, and several other medications for pain and only use cannabis unless my pain is beyond control. I decided to grow my own medicine myself because I wanted to grow organically for health reasons, reduce cost, and reduce cost. I have a thirst for knowledge.

I spent 5 months researching every method of growing and ended up choosing an organic soil method. All of my seeds are feminized unless otherwise noted. I ended up making my own soil , feeding and watering solutions. I have two 4 x 4 Apollo grow tents, each is equipped with a 600 W LED light and a 1200 KINGLED lights. The 600 w lights are for Veg and the 1200 w lights are for flowering. I have 6 plants in a one grow tent getting ready for their first of 2 SCROG nets, four of which are Durban Poison and 2 that I call GYOF (GYO seedbank-free seeds), they didn't tell me what strain it is. I also have 2 Shark Auto and 2 Tangerine Dream Auto, 1 Girl Scout Cookie, 1 Blueberry Cheesecake, 1 Cheese, and 1 Northern Lights in another grow tent.

This is my first grow and I would love to do a grow journal. I have no past experience to judge this grow against. I'm just happy this site exists.

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Looking great and welcome aboard

Lots of peeps here to help u for sure

Start a grow journal and yer dialed

 

[Pennywise]

Welcome to 420 magazine Growgirl. Looks like you have a nice set up started. If you start a grow journal others can follow along and offer advice or a pat on the back. Find a few active journals and join the conversations. It will help build interest in your own journal. Here’s a link to help get you started here.
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[LaquerHead]

Welcome GG! Glad to see you went with the organic approach start up a journal and I'll be sure to follow along!

Things are looking killer already, very nice!

 

[GrowGirl63]

Update from 17 days ago....

The tent with the 6 Durban Poison's (DP) have completely taken over the entire tent. I'm thinking 4 instead of 6 plants next time. I'm too damn old to be twisty bending into my tents to care for the girls. Anyway, they look to be doing great. Haven't seen a cannabis plant growing before except for the internet so I'm just wingin' it. The DP tent was flipped to 12/12 from 18/6 on 30 Dec 18. I added a scrogg net on 11 Jan 19.

The tent with the misc plants are as follows:

Tallest and leanest flowering plants are 2 - Tangerine Dream Auto Fem
Fullest shortest flowering plants are 2 - Shark Auto
The four babies are one each of the following fem seeds: Blueberry Cheesecake, Girl Scout Cookies, Northern Lights, and Cheese.

That's about all folks..........................

 

[John Wick]

Hi, just stumbled upon your grow, very nice and welcome.
Do you have any updates?
Take care,

Wick

 

[Carcass]

She's probably busy with harvest...

Hope your January surgery went well,GrowGirl63 !

 

[Emilya Green]

I just happened across this too! I admire your resolve @GrowGirl63 ! I hope things are going well... it sure looked like they were!

 

[Backlipslide]

Looks like your off to a great start! You were smart to research for as long as you did, many people just jump into it blind. There is a lot to the hobby, I’m sure you have a great start to knowing what you need to know. I will be sure to follow along.

 

[GrowGirl63]

Hi Everyone,

Here is the final update on this post. I did really well I think. I harvested the first couple of plants too early. The buds shriveled up to little airy nugs. Cute tiny little bud that wasn't worth smoking. My worms are loving that stuff. The next two plants were harvested still too early but some of the buds were decent. Nothing to write about. Pushed the last 2 plants longer and this is my yield. The yield from the final 2 Durban Poison plants was 14.3 oz. Currently in curing stage. I have sampled the product and have determined that it is going to work perfectly.

My chickens produce the eggs that i use the shells from to make my Cal-Mag solution. I found it somewhere on this site as a recipe someone had posted. Works amazing and now it gets worked into my soil. Then my worms eat all the trimmings from the plants so I don't have to worry about where that ends up. The castings from the worms go into my soil. If I ever have too much trim I will throw it in the chicken pen and the evidence is gone in less than an hour.

I am shutting down now and scheduling to start some studies using different techniques later in the year and will be doing my first grow journal at that time. Take care everyone. I will be lurking happily about.

 

[Emilya Green]

Good luck! Thanks for sharing with us! I look forward to seeing how you do the next time!

 

[GrowGirl63]

Good luck! Thanks for sharing with us! I look forward to seeing how you do the next time!

Emilya,

I believe it might be your Cal mag recipe. It's perfect with my growing style. Thank you so much.

 

[Emilya Green]

Emilya,

I believe it might be your Cal mag recipe. It's perfect with my growing style. Thank you so much.

You are very welcome. I am pleased that you have found it and tried it out. It does sound like it fits right in with what you are doing. It looks like we do a lot of similar things actually. Have you found my recipe for a super nutrient made out of dandelions yet? They are amazing plants and you can easily produce a rooting, bloom enhancing and flowering nutrient out of them that just like the calmagphos+, is better than anything you can buy commercially. Enjoy your summer! Pick some dandelions and get ready for your grow in the autumn.