On October 5th, 2022 NY State legalized home grow for certified “Medical Marijuana” patients like me. So this is my first fully legal grow.
I popped three Jack 47 XL Autos (sweet seeds) for an overnight soak then grabbed a plastic container on hand, and planted the three seeds in the soil from my first run. They grow… slowly.
I then transplanted them each to their own EarthBox and used the black cover it comes with. They don’t seem happy. I take off the covers. I replant then AGAIN into a single EarthBox. I add a the seeds for a cover crop. Cover crop is leftover sprouted amaranth micro green seeds from my 14yo’s old middle school project.
Now I did this re-transplant to free up some EarthBoxes for more grows. I get cocky and try running another batch of autos PLUS some Jack Herer crosses sent to me by the most wonderful @Maddawg.
That is when things go off the rails.
Meanwhile the original three Jack 47s are growing and three completely different personalities emerge. One plant is tall and spindly. One is squat and wide. One is in between.
Here is where these plants are now, day 62.
Plant 1: least mature (tall and spindly)
Plant 2: most mature (single large cola)
Here is a sample of bud under my digital scope:
Finally plant 3 (short and squat):
Here’s the kicker. I need to harvest in nine days. Heading to California with my husband and two teen sons. We rented a little beach condo in San Diego (Mission Beach). I don’t really trust anyone to care for the plants.
I’m thinking about how to prep for harvest, knowing it will be a bit early. Do I fresh freeze the bud and make bubble hash? I’ve done ice water and dry ice — but with much, much more starting material than I will have this round. Do I try to do a proper cure then an alcohol extraction? Should I use those new fangled grove bags? “Set and forget”?
Once I’m back from vacation I plan to dump all the soil into a baby pool I have for mixing, change the filter on my cloudline outflow, and get better at my sprouting phase (@Maddawg is kindly tutoring me) and set up to switch to phenos, working with dialing in a more successful seedling sprout game and veg phase environment. Gotta get much, much better at environment. After my spectacular first grow this one has deeply humbled me. I believe in the soil. I believe in the science behind the magic. I know I can do much better.
I’m so hooked on this hobby.
OH! The medicine I made from my first grow blows anything I’ve had from a dispensary out of the water. I’m flourishing like never before. What I do is I take a scoop of the tar-like decarb hash and make a micro temple ball. Size of a half grain of rice. Then I flatten it and eat it with a big spoonful of organic almond butter. YUM. I’m dancing while I do household chores in an hour, crying and journaling in two hours and medicated for the next 8 hours. One dose a day does me.
Sorry for the long post typos and sneaky cat sitting on laundry photo. 
