SleepIsWrong
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The particulars:
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Seeds: Weedseed Express Chocolope feminized
Medium: Soil grow, 4 parts premium Leaf Gro, 2 parts Peat Moss, one part vermiculite, one part pearlite.
Location: Indoors, Gorilla 30"x24"x6'11" tent
Lighting: To start - HLG Rspec 100 - I have two so I may double up during flowering.
Nutrients: Fox Farms Big Bloom, Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, Sledgehammer Flush; GH CalMagic
Germination date: June 11, 2021
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So here we go with round #2. My first grow was based on some clones I got from a friend. They've turned out pretty good, here's a link to my Journal for that grow: linky. The seeds were germinated by dropping them into a glass of distilled water and leaving them overnight. The next day I popped them into the soil mix in 1-quart containers. As I now know, those containers were way too big and I was constantly fighting overwatering and keeping the soil from getting totally soggy and drowning the roots. I believe that led to a nitrogen deficiency later on.
By June 15th, just four days later they had begun to rise from the soil!
Since my grow tent was currently occupied by my previous grow I put these under some grow lights my wife had for germinating seeds for her vegetable garden. After a few days I began to take them outside during the day to get full sunlight. I was hoping the sun and wind would help dry the soil a bit. Watering was done by watering lightly in a circle about 2" out from the main stem. During the week of June 21-28 I took the first of two week-long trips to Michigan. When I got back here is what they looked like (June 29, 18 days since germination).
And so they continued to grow, but a couple of lower leaves were showing a bit of yellowing. On July 13th I took the second of two vacations to Michigan, returning on July 19th. During both of these trips my garden-wiz spousal unit (she's a U of Md certified master gardener) watered them and I think she most definitely overdid it. Here's what they were looking like when I returned - they had not grown much at all and all the bottom leaves were showing signs of a nutrient deficiency - my guess is Nitrogen.
On that night I decided to harvest my first grow. The very next morning I mixed up soil for the new plants and transplanted them to their "forever" homes, 5-gallon fabric pots. I also decided to buy another HLG RSpec 100 light as I did not want to take the one in the tent out - top of the tent was full of hangers for the drying harvest, and I thought I might be able to use a second light in the tent during flowering. It will be interesting to see if I can actually fit four 5-gallon pots in my small grow tent. Here they being transplanted.
The up-potting seemed to do them some good! After a day or so they started growing rapidly! During their post-seedling and pre-transplant time they had simply been given pH-adjusted water. Once in their new pots they got a 1/3-strength nutrient schedule as recommended on the Fox Farms Feeding Schedule. They grew a lot of new fan leaves and looked very healthy by yesterday, July 26th.
Today I topped them. This is my first time topping. Since they were a bit weak a week or so ago I delayed doing so. The result is that I've topped them a bit higher than I see most do. I wanted to be sure there were lots of leaves to provide lots of power for the roots. Here's one of the topped plants from yesterday:
And so that's where things stand today. My previous grow has a few days left to dry. Once that is done I'll clean up the tent and move these plants in.
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Seeds: Weedseed Express Chocolope feminized
Medium: Soil grow, 4 parts premium Leaf Gro, 2 parts Peat Moss, one part vermiculite, one part pearlite.
Location: Indoors, Gorilla 30"x24"x6'11" tent
Lighting: To start - HLG Rspec 100 - I have two so I may double up during flowering.
Nutrients: Fox Farms Big Bloom, Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, Sledgehammer Flush; GH CalMagic
Germination date: June 11, 2021
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So here we go with round #2. My first grow was based on some clones I got from a friend. They've turned out pretty good, here's a link to my Journal for that grow: linky. The seeds were germinated by dropping them into a glass of distilled water and leaving them overnight. The next day I popped them into the soil mix in 1-quart containers. As I now know, those containers were way too big and I was constantly fighting overwatering and keeping the soil from getting totally soggy and drowning the roots. I believe that led to a nitrogen deficiency later on.
By June 15th, just four days later they had begun to rise from the soil!
Since my grow tent was currently occupied by my previous grow I put these under some grow lights my wife had for germinating seeds for her vegetable garden. After a few days I began to take them outside during the day to get full sunlight. I was hoping the sun and wind would help dry the soil a bit. Watering was done by watering lightly in a circle about 2" out from the main stem. During the week of June 21-28 I took the first of two week-long trips to Michigan. When I got back here is what they looked like (June 29, 18 days since germination).
And so they continued to grow, but a couple of lower leaves were showing a bit of yellowing. On July 13th I took the second of two vacations to Michigan, returning on July 19th. During both of these trips my garden-wiz spousal unit (she's a U of Md certified master gardener) watered them and I think she most definitely overdid it. Here's what they were looking like when I returned - they had not grown much at all and all the bottom leaves were showing signs of a nutrient deficiency - my guess is Nitrogen.
On that night I decided to harvest my first grow. The very next morning I mixed up soil for the new plants and transplanted them to their "forever" homes, 5-gallon fabric pots. I also decided to buy another HLG RSpec 100 light as I did not want to take the one in the tent out - top of the tent was full of hangers for the drying harvest, and I thought I might be able to use a second light in the tent during flowering. It will be interesting to see if I can actually fit four 5-gallon pots in my small grow tent. Here they being transplanted.
The up-potting seemed to do them some good! After a day or so they started growing rapidly! During their post-seedling and pre-transplant time they had simply been given pH-adjusted water. Once in their new pots they got a 1/3-strength nutrient schedule as recommended on the Fox Farms Feeding Schedule. They grew a lot of new fan leaves and looked very healthy by yesterday, July 26th.
Today I topped them. This is my first time topping. Since they were a bit weak a week or so ago I delayed doing so. The result is that I've topped them a bit higher than I see most do. I wanted to be sure there were lots of leaves to provide lots of power for the roots. Here's one of the topped plants from yesterday:
And so that's where things stand today. My previous grow has a few days left to dry. Once that is done I'll clean up the tent and move these plants in.
