Barry Manilow
New Member
Welcome to my first journal documenting my first grow. It's been a long series of disasters, mistakes and catastrophes that has somehow produced some very nice plants now in their 5th week of flowering. I can tell already this will be some of the best smoke I've ever had, going back 35+ years.
Yes I'm getting old and can't see details that well so I apologize in advance for the quality of the photos. I'm in the heartland so this is a stealth grow. I've recently resumed smoking after many years off. Back in the day there was very little great smoke to be had, so I'm totally psyched about this one.
This is a bagseed grow, I ended up with about 25 seeds when I was starting my tomatoes indoors so I thought what the heck and planted them back in mid-march. After a few weeks I found this site, unfortunately I didn't pay attention to the most important stuff until later, but I've had fun.
I'm doing this journal to document what I've learned, and to get some help from you all as I enter the critical time period. Hope you visit and come back!
Back on 3/15 I planted 11 seeds. I imaginatively named them A1 - A11. A week later I planted another batch, B1 - B7. Then a week after that came C1-C8. So that explains the names.
I was so ignorant I didn't even know that you only wanted to keep and smoke the females. Thank heavens I found this site!
I've done it all to these poor plants. They've been fim'd, lst'd, supercropped and chopped. They've been transplanted 3-5 times. They've been indoors and outdoors. They've been on every kind of weird light cycle you can imagine. Some of them have been in flower for a week or more then put back to veg. Usually because I'll start doing something, then read what looks like credible info here to the contrary, and stop what I've been doing and do something else!
By far the worst thing I did was buy some Scott's topsoil with slow-release ferts in it. Now it wouldn't have been so bad if that's all I had bought. But no, I bought other soils with no ferts, some manure, and some 'organic' soil. Even that would have been ok if I'd have kept really good track of what soil was where. But between all the transplanting etc I didn't.
So lesson number 1 would have to be don't ever mix soils like I did. And I'd go further and say never buy soil with slow-release ferts because you really can't undo the damage if you have some, and you will be totally afraid to do much of anything once you nuke them the first time. And I nuked them.
I'm probably making another mistake as we type this but it can't be helped. The girls in flower have been on a 5:30am - 5:30pm light cycle. About 9 there's enough sun in the backyard, they go out until 1:30 when I have to put them back in the garage because I work 2nd shift. However it's now so hot that I kept them dark yesterday from about 1:30pm until 9:30 this morning, they're now going on an all outdoors 9:30am until dark schedule. As it gets dark earlier I'll adjust the time I put them out. Because of the trees they'll only be getting about 6-7 hours of direct sunlight, I hope that will be enough. We'll all find out together.
It's in the 90's here now and the garage gets to be almost 100 under the cfls. I don't think they can take that, they were looking pretty stressed yesterday morning.
Yes I'm getting old and can't see details that well so I apologize in advance for the quality of the photos. I'm in the heartland so this is a stealth grow. I've recently resumed smoking after many years off. Back in the day there was very little great smoke to be had, so I'm totally psyched about this one.
This is a bagseed grow, I ended up with about 25 seeds when I was starting my tomatoes indoors so I thought what the heck and planted them back in mid-march. After a few weeks I found this site, unfortunately I didn't pay attention to the most important stuff until later, but I've had fun.
I'm doing this journal to document what I've learned, and to get some help from you all as I enter the critical time period. Hope you visit and come back!
Back on 3/15 I planted 11 seeds. I imaginatively named them A1 - A11. A week later I planted another batch, B1 - B7. Then a week after that came C1-C8. So that explains the names.
I was so ignorant I didn't even know that you only wanted to keep and smoke the females. Thank heavens I found this site!
I've done it all to these poor plants. They've been fim'd, lst'd, supercropped and chopped. They've been transplanted 3-5 times. They've been indoors and outdoors. They've been on every kind of weird light cycle you can imagine. Some of them have been in flower for a week or more then put back to veg. Usually because I'll start doing something, then read what looks like credible info here to the contrary, and stop what I've been doing and do something else!
By far the worst thing I did was buy some Scott's topsoil with slow-release ferts in it. Now it wouldn't have been so bad if that's all I had bought. But no, I bought other soils with no ferts, some manure, and some 'organic' soil. Even that would have been ok if I'd have kept really good track of what soil was where. But between all the transplanting etc I didn't.
So lesson number 1 would have to be don't ever mix soils like I did. And I'd go further and say never buy soil with slow-release ferts because you really can't undo the damage if you have some, and you will be totally afraid to do much of anything once you nuke them the first time. And I nuked them.
I'm probably making another mistake as we type this but it can't be helped. The girls in flower have been on a 5:30am - 5:30pm light cycle. About 9 there's enough sun in the backyard, they go out until 1:30 when I have to put them back in the garage because I work 2nd shift. However it's now so hot that I kept them dark yesterday from about 1:30pm until 9:30 this morning, they're now going on an all outdoors 9:30am until dark schedule. As it gets dark earlier I'll adjust the time I put them out. Because of the trees they'll only be getting about 6-7 hours of direct sunlight, I hope that will be enough. We'll all find out together.
It's in the 90's here now and the garage gets to be almost 100 under the cfls. I don't think they can take that, they were looking pretty stressed yesterday morning.
