Hi everyone! I read from somebody’s journal on this site once,“there’s no point starting the journal before the plants are flowering” and so I am gonna say that THAT is my excuse for not starting this journal earlier and NOT my overwhelming fear of ridicule and/or failure! Not that I want people to NOT comment if I am doing something “wrong” because THAT is the reason I AM doing this at all, so lets not mistake my motives. And FULL DISCLOSURE, I REALLY like and AGREE with what some of the people on this site are saying and doing and I want to show my commitment to becoming a part of that. And lets be frank, guys and girls, connecting to others is essentially what these forums are about, RIGHT? NOW, the grow… I have had some problems as this is the first time I have invested in this and tried to prepare by reading and then building the grow slowly after I already bought the initial investment worth of stuff like the seeds (genetics) the tent (location) and light (energy source). So, I have VERY few of the things that some of you have come to collect through you r years of doing this and its real cool to see something that is used as a tool for something and I never thought of it and then to get that “Aha!” moment to quote Oprah, where I make the connection! Some of that stuff is really the meat and potatoes to all this for me as I have yet to harvest and get the MAIN thing from this, end consumables. I LOVE THIS PLANT AND LOVE USING IT FOR ANYTHING, really though, consuming the THC laden buds is MY FAVE! I am honestly excited about the new things I can do when I start getting these girls harvested…
To the pictures…I will start by loading you up on what they look like now and then how they became this way. I am going soil now as I thought it was the “easiest” way but am starting to see the way I think soil should be done naturally is actually pretty hard to get the knack of, and honestly, I haven’t thought about claiming any knack for any of this yet because the second I think I have something, it goes all SNAFU and I realize I DONT KNOW SHIT! excuse the language but I don’t.
anyways here is what they look like now
And here is a progression of their lives. I originally bought 5 Black Widow feminized seeds from Robert Bergman and the rest from Amazon and the Solsheet X is courtesy of @Baudelaire and their fine products which I learned about from all of you that I saw using them first and me thinking you guys knew what you were doing. When I started and now the LED light market is UNREAL as far as the EXPENSE of the really favored lights made in the US and all that, (I know this site is international and I don’t MEAN to be nauseatingly patriotic for the good ole Trumped USA, because I am not. I just think buying stuff from the people around you is a good economic practice. If I lived in Canada or Europe or Asia or the South Americas or wherever, I would TRY to buy locally first and if I couldn’t for what I need I will buy elsewhere) its a joke UNLESS you can build your own, it seems, Im thinking of some of the posts on here by some of you guys and I have to pinch myself because some of you ladies and gentlemen are REALLY GENIUS is your “inventions” and the fact that you chose to share FOR FREE this information is the essence of what the internet should be, IMO.
Rand Rant Over…
alright, i have a Solsheet X, it has 5 strips in it but don’t remember the exact stats just that I read and went with the 185 watt lesser driver with the Solsheet X as per how I read the blog on there about them. I think I nagged the poor guy every other day for my light and he was ALWAYS very nice and didn’t show, at least, his displeasure with me and I VERY much appreciated that so a shout out to him, MR Solstrips, you know who you are…
So the Solsheet and a tent its 3 x 3 x 6, so 90 cu ft.and a Solsheet and a KingsPlus LED, I believe it is “1200” watt rated meaning it draws?? and actually puts out ?? but it got a lot of good reviews and I haven’t had any problems with it and it is actually pulling double duty as when its lights out for the flowering 5 I switch the KingsPlus LED to the closet in the same room with the tent and its lighting my cuttings though, this is one of the areas I need help with as I am just trying to try something a little different each set of cuttings I take and I have 5 cuts from one mother and 3, the three I took most recently from another mother. The last 3 since the other mother is no longer a mother but a flowering yellow leaved lady that I still love, regardless of her inadequacies which are REALLY MY inadequacies as a gardener and not hers as a plant.
Oh and the nutrient regimen OH THE NUTRIENT REGIMEN! Talk about figuring stuff out, this is the hard part for me as though I feel I have a science mind to some extent, CHEMISTRY, which is the study of life, right? So like REALLY important stuff that touches EVERYTHING, I can’t get this stuff AT ALL. Its like when you’re younger and you are really good at multiplication tables and so your confidence builds but then BAM! you hit the higher maths and what you THOUGHT was a math mind was really an average mind for math because, really, who understands calculus? Don’t answer that, I don’t want to feel any more inferior!
I germinated 2 at first and then the final 3 but that is how they got numbered and why a couple look bigger than the rest
Some close-ups pf the little ladies!
Some nutrient burn which you will see stays a common theme…at least that is what I think it means when I got burnt tips of new growth…?
It was only the KingsPlus LED at first and I went with the 4 inch fans but would do differently if I could do again!
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Some more of the progression through the veg state. I had started with the Botanicare nutrient line used by a member of this site and its CNS17 line of base nutes but then I just pulled back from that and only use Big Bloom now and it at 1/4 - 1/2 strength mixes with distilled water and also have been alternating Microbe Brew and Superthrive both at 1/4 strength and Big Bloom at 1/4 strength and I alternate it each week so one week they get the ST and MB and the next week they get BB and a 1/4 teas of Epsom Salts for that magnesium and sulfur kick. I am doing that because I am trying to experiment, which is why I use very small doses according to the recommended dosages. But I read that those are later consumed minerals for cannabis and so I figured theyre flowering so that later in life…? Get me? IDK if its the right thinking but that WAS my thinking.
Check this mutant out! Think I was prolly doing something wrong here!
Started having some root bound problems with this plant, number 2 ended up flushing it then forgetting to reinoculate the soil and was wondering why it never un-yellowed. cut all the yellow leaves off and transplanted it into a 5 gallon bucket and now 2 is the best looking of the bunch! What a resilient plant! I love it!
and now 2 in front in the orange Home Depot 5 gal bucket
Some more of the nutrient tug of war and the helicopter gardener I was but am now trying to practice the recently learned art of LITFA. I used cut 2 liter bottles for transition pots for the girls…
oh, and some washed out milk or distilled water jugs as transition pots then I just was not doing so good at transplanting so I figured why not just double pot it?
thats a good shot of the temperature and RH in the tent and I know the books say a higher RH, and the humidity has got better in the tent its actually back to these numbers which are better for flowering, or so I have read…
Some close-ups of 2 before her resurrection and the root bound nute burn funkiness of her foliage! 
but she is better and I have now had to flush number 1 and though I remembered to reinoculate her I am still worried about her yellowness. Is it just that she will have those yellow leaves till I cut or she loses them? They’ll never turn back to green?
I squeezed the stem till I felt or heard cracking, trying my best not to crack the outer stem but I believe that is supercropping? I read it helps “GNARLY-FY” the stem. I did it twice as you can see.
You can see the yellowed number 1 in the back right. All five seeds germed, BTW, and made it till now. None culled and so I look at that as a success but not just that I have 8 cuts that 3 have rooted and I have seen their roots with my eyeballs but the other 5 I have not seen any roots though 2 of the 5 should have roots I just dont want to dig to look!
And to get to where it is now and then a little LITFA and time if anybody wants to comment…Thanks for reading thus far…
On the LST I have just tried to pull open the plant and I HAVE topped or FIMed all five plants and I think with theearly nute problems they have bushed out nicely!
Sounds like you have achieved your personal balance…such a great feeling!
Thanks for checking out my post!
