Puente
420 Member
Hi folks!
I've been lurking the forum for the last year while fudging my way through our first grow. Bagseed in soil (supposedly a diesel of some sort), used FF nutes and a 1000w LED and used the bedroom as a 'grow room', ha. We popped the seed into (generic) soil outside early May, not really expecting too much. No training, no issues with pests. Popped a second seed about two weeks after the first. Upsized from the solo cup seedling to a 3 gal hard-sided pot for a bit and finally transitioned into an old 140 quart cooler (I know, I know - waaaaay too much pot for waaaaay too little plant). We didn't feed any nutes through veg.
Got a little freaked out cause she kept getting bigger and bigger and she was outdoors in our relatively high-traffic back yard, so bought a cheap outdoor greenhouse when she started preflowering. Temps went crazy in the tent and she started to look stressed, so we picked up the LED light, hung it from a hook in the bedroom and called it good (blackout curtains on the windows already anyway).
Fed with the Fox Farms nutes according to their schedule, lost a LOT of the lower growth (okay okay, maybe I cut it) with the decreased light penetration after moving inside. Flowered for nine weeks (it ended up being nearly five feet tall), chopped, trimmed, dried and jarred.. and have experimented with Cannabutter nom nom cookies and gummies featuring an Everclear tincture. For someone with zero edible experience.. let me just say its been AMAZING!
Ended up with four nice colas on the first plant and one on the second plant... and a whole bunch of trim/larf. Decided to go with some training techniques next grow to maximize yield.. that's in progress now.
Sorry for the burple..!! They were looking fiercely unhappy here, ha. Lessons learned, lessons learned..
Freshly snipped
Trimmed Up
Hang 'em high..
We were gifted an Acapulco Gold clone (Sativa-heavy) at the beginning of the month and picked up a used 3x3x7 grow tent for $50. Mwa ha, the CONTROL we will have with this one! I've been LST-ing the daylights outta this girl and she seems quite content in her home. Came to us in a 3gal hard-sided pot; I opted to up-pot to a 10gal fabric with unamended FFOF when I started training later in the week (again, too big a pot too quickly, I'm sure). Unfortunately I didn't do the clever thing and remove the bottom two nodes in a sorta-kinda quadlining manner, so she's really low and dense at this point and seems to only be kicking off single-bladed fan leaves, oddly enough. Watering about every third day or so with 1/2 gallon and every other watering she gets 1/2 strength veg nutes.
About four weeks ago...
More LST..
Today (with new basil companion.. I HATE buying herbs through the winter):
Anyone with any ideas what's up with my single-bladed leaves ... feel free to give me a shout.
Running the same 1000w for now but am planning to pick up one of the MarsHydro TS 1000 during their Black Friday Sale. We've got a 6" inline fan and 4" carbon filter setup in the tent as well, along with an oscillating fan to keep those branches strong. Tent is generally at around 45% RH and varies from 65F overnight to 75F for highs during the daytime. Light is about 16" above the canopy.
I'll kick off a dedicated grow journal when I'm not such a noob, ha. In the meantime.. cheers all! I went from being a 'pop a seed and see what happens' kinda girl to 'I need to poke my head into the tent at least seven times a day to check temp/RH fluctuations throughout the day', ha! So excited to be part of this community and all the great resources available to us here, look forward to chatting you up soon!
~ Puente
I've been lurking the forum for the last year while fudging my way through our first grow. Bagseed in soil (supposedly a diesel of some sort), used FF nutes and a 1000w LED and used the bedroom as a 'grow room', ha. We popped the seed into (generic) soil outside early May, not really expecting too much. No training, no issues with pests. Popped a second seed about two weeks after the first. Upsized from the solo cup seedling to a 3 gal hard-sided pot for a bit and finally transitioned into an old 140 quart cooler (I know, I know - waaaaay too much pot for waaaaay too little plant). We didn't feed any nutes through veg.
Got a little freaked out cause she kept getting bigger and bigger and she was outdoors in our relatively high-traffic back yard, so bought a cheap outdoor greenhouse when she started preflowering. Temps went crazy in the tent and she started to look stressed, so we picked up the LED light, hung it from a hook in the bedroom and called it good (blackout curtains on the windows already anyway).
Fed with the Fox Farms nutes according to their schedule, lost a LOT of the lower growth (okay okay, maybe I cut it) with the decreased light penetration after moving inside. Flowered for nine weeks (it ended up being nearly five feet tall), chopped, trimmed, dried and jarred.. and have experimented with Cannabutter nom nom cookies and gummies featuring an Everclear tincture. For someone with zero edible experience.. let me just say its been AMAZING!
Ended up with four nice colas on the first plant and one on the second plant... and a whole bunch of trim/larf. Decided to go with some training techniques next grow to maximize yield.. that's in progress now.
Sorry for the burple..!! They were looking fiercely unhappy here, ha. Lessons learned, lessons learned..
Freshly snipped
Trimmed Up
Hang 'em high..
We were gifted an Acapulco Gold clone (Sativa-heavy) at the beginning of the month and picked up a used 3x3x7 grow tent for $50. Mwa ha, the CONTROL we will have with this one! I've been LST-ing the daylights outta this girl and she seems quite content in her home. Came to us in a 3gal hard-sided pot; I opted to up-pot to a 10gal fabric with unamended FFOF when I started training later in the week (again, too big a pot too quickly, I'm sure). Unfortunately I didn't do the clever thing and remove the bottom two nodes in a sorta-kinda quadlining manner, so she's really low and dense at this point and seems to only be kicking off single-bladed fan leaves, oddly enough. Watering about every third day or so with 1/2 gallon and every other watering she gets 1/2 strength veg nutes.
About four weeks ago...
More LST..
Today (with new basil companion.. I HATE buying herbs through the winter):
Anyone with any ideas what's up with my single-bladed leaves ... feel free to give me a shout.
Running the same 1000w for now but am planning to pick up one of the MarsHydro TS 1000 during their Black Friday Sale. We've got a 6" inline fan and 4" carbon filter setup in the tent as well, along with an oscillating fan to keep those branches strong. Tent is generally at around 45% RH and varies from 65F overnight to 75F for highs during the daytime. Light is about 16" above the canopy.
I'll kick off a dedicated grow journal when I'm not such a noob, ha. In the meantime.. cheers all! I went from being a 'pop a seed and see what happens' kinda girl to 'I need to poke my head into the tent at least seven times a day to check temp/RH fluctuations throughout the day', ha! So excited to be part of this community and all the great resources available to us here, look forward to chatting you up soon!
~ Puente
you may want to start a journal so everyone can follow...I have 2 in my sig...you can put yours in your sig also so it'll follow you around 
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If not, may I suggest you cut back on the electricity and run 18/6 which is more than adequate for veg. The plants roots will grow in the dark, plus it has a chance to rest from standing at attention for 18 hours 
and the more the merrier 
The outdoor growth is crazy in the right enviroment, feel like James And The Giant Bud compaired to indoors lol
