oopssteptinit
Well-Known Member
Hi all you wonderful folks here at 420. Stumbled on to this site about three weeks ago and have been spending almost every free moment I have reading and scanning and Lord willing, gleaning some knowledge of how to properly and effectively grow this medicine. I am a complete and an absolute newbie when it comes to growing. I just have never been around any type of growing operations and truth be told, these two girls that I am trying to grow are the first plants that I have ever seen in my life. Had I known this site existed, I would have been over here back in
April, when I started this, begging for input.
Anyway, here it is, I was told and have tried to keep it as simple as possible:
Grow area: 3 X 5' grow closet built in the back corner of my tool shed.... with a small a/c unit to circulate air and help control RH, flung flat white paint all over, caulked and sealed it up
Lights: LED 1500W full spectrum?
Strain: Two Northern Lights clones crossed with ?????? who knows what, taken off the mother plant of a good friend of mine.
Medium: Happy Frog
Nutrients: Fox Farms Trio
Containers: 5 gl. Grow Bags
Photographer: Some old man with shaky hands
April 24, 2019 got both plants home and transplanted out of their beer cups into 1 gl. grow bags:
Well, sort of got them transplanted. I hadn't moistened the soil in the grow bags when I transplanted, and watering turned into a fiasco and
both plants layed over, I tried to dig the girls out of their bags, and it only got worse from there. Somehow, was able to keep the roots together long enough to get them into the 5 gl. grow bag and looking somewhat happy after a few days......
May 2, 2019
I didn't know anything about LST, but I knew about tomato cages, so, I wrestled a couple cages over them to keep them from falling over.
So, from May 2nd until May 25th, ran 18/6 and watched them grow and over watered them and over watered them.
On May 25th, I whipped out the tape measure, measured my plant, measured my light distance from the plant and how much room I had
from the ceiling and having read that the girls might shoot up twice their height, I gave them 36 hours of darkness and switched them to
12/12, and switched to bloom on the LED...... and by June 4th was seeing first pistils...
Red pictures, sorry....
Along about this time I found 420, by searching for proper watering for potted plants and landed on Emlya's thread here..... and lurked around
for a few days, while applying what I was learning here towards the girls..... got the PH of the water down into the 6 and 1/2 ish range, went full nutrients, pruned lower areas and they started to look pretty good.....
June 26th, brought them out for their flush and a little underside pruning..... kinda had to wrestle them back into the closet.... don't
think the 24" door was a well thought out plan when I went with it......
Which brings me to tonight, this morning, whatever it is.
July 4th, Happy Independence Day to the Americans here!
According to the calendar, the girls are either 5 1/2 wks from 12/12 flip or 4 wks from budset.
To be continued, next post.....
April, when I started this, begging for input.
Anyway, here it is, I was told and have tried to keep it as simple as possible:
Grow area: 3 X 5' grow closet built in the back corner of my tool shed.... with a small a/c unit to circulate air and help control RH, flung flat white paint all over, caulked and sealed it up
Lights: LED 1500W full spectrum?
Strain: Two Northern Lights clones crossed with ?????? who knows what, taken off the mother plant of a good friend of mine.
Medium: Happy Frog
Nutrients: Fox Farms Trio
Containers: 5 gl. Grow Bags
Photographer: Some old man with shaky hands
April 24, 2019 got both plants home and transplanted out of their beer cups into 1 gl. grow bags:
Well, sort of got them transplanted. I hadn't moistened the soil in the grow bags when I transplanted, and watering turned into a fiasco and
both plants layed over, I tried to dig the girls out of their bags, and it only got worse from there. Somehow, was able to keep the roots together long enough to get them into the 5 gl. grow bag and looking somewhat happy after a few days......
May 2, 2019
I didn't know anything about LST, but I knew about tomato cages, so, I wrestled a couple cages over them to keep them from falling over.
So, from May 2nd until May 25th, ran 18/6 and watched them grow and over watered them and over watered them.
On May 25th, I whipped out the tape measure, measured my plant, measured my light distance from the plant and how much room I had
from the ceiling and having read that the girls might shoot up twice their height, I gave them 36 hours of darkness and switched them to
12/12, and switched to bloom on the LED...... and by June 4th was seeing first pistils...
Along about this time I found 420, by searching for proper watering for potted plants and landed on Emlya's thread here..... and lurked around
for a few days, while applying what I was learning here towards the girls..... got the PH of the water down into the 6 and 1/2 ish range, went full nutrients, pruned lower areas and they started to look pretty good.....
June 26th, brought them out for their flush and a little underside pruning..... kinda had to wrestle them back into the closet.... don't
think the 24" door was a well thought out plan when I went with it......
Which brings me to tonight, this morning, whatever it is.
July 4th, Happy Independence Day to the Americans here!
According to the calendar, the girls are either 5 1/2 wks from 12/12 flip or 4 wks from budset.
To be continued, next post.....