SubtleSam's First Grow Adventures

[SubtleSam]

I’ve been tying the branches down since the first week of getting it, as I’ve been nervous about cutting leaves… But as they bunch up more and more, Im trying to avoid any rot/mold/mildew. Just going on the cautious side of things. Humidity is just a bit high (high 50’s peaked above 60 quite a few times) as we got a fair bit of rain recently, so trying to be preventative rather than reactive I have about 2-2.5 feet of room to the lights and using 2x 25 Watt led flood lamps. Haven’t seemed to burn anything yet, but I’ve been trying to adjust light a bit throughout to see what works. 3/4 of veg was spent under camera just so I could watch what was happening and how it reacts to certain things. And honestly just watching it breathe and move in time lapse is very interesting to me

Also regarding stretching, what I’m hearing is the sour strawberry doesn’t stretch much, “if any” so I probably could have vegged a bit longer… But hey, it’s all about the journey right?

[GoGoKid]

ah right, im with you, best to be safe then sorry

[corgitron]

If you squeeze the solo cup it will give you an idea of root mass. Better to have a little wiggleroom going into flower.

[SubtleSam]

I broke and was talked into not finishing up in the solo cup seems I have some more room in my space, so let’s see.

I’m sure my roots will be happy

[SubtleSam]

Coming up on week 3. I think I’ll be lollipopping a bit in a couple days. Not a whole bunch to chop off as it is. Updated with new pics. Flowers are developing well. It pretty much hasn’t stretched out much if at all. I was expecting more
Seeing some starts of some rusty spots, so will up my cal-mag some

[Eagles009]

Congrats on the first grow! Nice little bush you have there.

[SubtleSam]

I’ve been working to bring my night time temps down a bit to bring some color, from 82-83°F in the day to 73-74 °F at night
Keeping humidity 45-50% spike at 55% at times, but not seeing any issues

Was having an issue with some soil gnats. I think I bettered my watering routine a bit, and haven’t really seen any more, so far as of about a week now

[SubtleSam]

Now have a separate bigger veg space. Working on upgrading flowering area. work in progress.

[SubtleSam]

Day 57 (Week 5):

Accidentally brushed up on one of the buds. Smells great. Fruity. Citrus. Funk.

[TopShelfTrees1]

Looks great my friend! Very nicely done

[SubtleSam]

Hairs are all orange for the most part.
Seeing a few cloudy heads on all of the buds . Gonna start flushing.

[Eagles009]

Looks like photos 1 and 3 are leaf not bud. Make sure you are looking at calyx not leaf, for accurate measure of bud maturity. Sugar leaves will mature at much faster rate.

[SubtleSam]

Yeah they were right on the leaf sticking out, was mainly trying to get right next to the leaf(bud) but that’s just where my focus happened to be. I’m aware of sugar leaves maturing faster.

[SubtleSam]

Few days ago
(Day 4-ish of flush. Day 71 total)

[MoBilly]

Very strong, healthy plants SubtleSam and those buds!!! It looks like you got this and more.

I’m late getting here but I’m tuned to watch what you have going on.

[SubtleSam]

62g-ish wet (I think more. 2 didn’t get written down so I’m guessing)

I’ll get more pictures once things have dried a bit.
Ill lose what like 65-70% from water weight?
So probably around 3/4 oz dried?
I started off a bit dry as well though. Kept from watering a couple days.

[corgitron]

Nice work man.

[Gpaw]

Excellent harvest brother!
Good on ya!

Cheers
G

[SubtleSam]

If anyone is curious at all. I decided too late really. I mean I’m sure it helped… But not much.
The main ‘root ball’ stayed about the same size as the solo cup. It threw out some extra roots that held the Coco together.
But yeah these are the main roots

[SubtleSam]