Step Onto the Road - Grow Journal (Kit's First Grow)

[SoOrbudgal]

And this is the way we've learned to grow trial an error and remember what not to do next grow. At least you get to harvest and did'nt give up kudos paladinkit. I've learned not to over love these plants and each strain has different appitite for food/nutes. Time to start more seeds now LOL

[paladinkit]

My girls have definitely been slow to mature, but I finally called it for 2 out of the 3 - today we took down the lemon Kix and the white widow. Now the NL gal can just stretch her arms and take her sweet sweet time!

Planting to harvest for these two; 105 days

[paladinkit]

Hi! And thanks The NL is featured in the 3rd and 5th closeups, and is in the back right of the group photo. I'm still giving nutes for one more week according to my chart (from GWE although I don't remember what article as I downloaded the PDF months ago), although I might extend that longer depending on how the trichome closeups look as time passes.

[Puglover1]

Hi, I didn't see your thread until now. Congrats on getting this far. Which plant is your NL? Nice nugs growing in front, still have time to go. If I'd seen this earlier, I had bought a box of heavy duty cord extensions, thick and black like the lights, from amazon. I used them for wall mount TVs that couldn't quite reach the outlet, used one for my grow, the extension cord couldn't reach my timer, I've given some away, they really come in handy. You could connect enough of them to reach your desired outlet. Are you still feeding nutes to all? How's your pH? Fun, isn't it?

[paladinkit]

So I definitely
1) did have ph issues alllllll grow (although with a local friend's help I know what I wanna do differently next time)
2) did forget to update this journal at all
3) did keep my plants alive long enough to get deep into flowering regardless!

It's week 11 as of today, and for all that it is probably gonna be a game of seeing how long I can stretch their lives to reach the latest possible harvest time, I'm honestly happy because I expected my first grow to go worse than this.

[SoOrbudgal]

Afternoon here in Oregon, sorry your little gals are not happy. I see a few issues not sure why some growers are not filling up the grow bags with soil less room now for roots, been seeing this on a few grows? I do not grow in straight coco an perilite i mix it with my composted soil i make along with wormcasings. I saw where you said you did a double feed perhaps they were too young to handle it? I myself use a simple nutients for my plants so i don't feed bloom till i see budlets cause the soil i use is enriched and autos unless your familiar with them don't like heavy doses when young.

If they were mine i would do this....take the whole pot to a sink and run a slow gallon of water only threw them really soak and drain that out, let them rest dim the light if it has one, give them a rest from the lamp for several hours. How's the temps now?

[Canuck147]

They barely look okay - closer to being not okay - me thinks you have a pH problem beginning.

[paladinkit]

Hey folks! The girls are three weeks old today and doing their best I gave them nutrient water today and got some pictures and a close look at them, and I had some questions:

1) this girl (my white widow auto) has been smaller and a little less perfectly symmetrical all her life, I thought due to the fact that her seed casing was stuck over both cotyledons for I think two or three days after the stem pushed the whole thing above ground. However, over the last 24 hours or so these marks started appearing on the leaves, and I don't know what they are?


2) I've started giving them nutrients every watering rather than every other because of the paler lower leaves these other girls have. Other than that, do these girls look ok? (Northern lights auto & lemon kix auto)

[paladinkit]

Thanks for the advice! I was planning on giving them no more than another week in the solo cups I just don't want to cause them any more problems than I already have with figuring out what correct watering looks like in practice rather than just reading about it.

I did see that thread! I'm going to take a closer look later, not sure yet what training I want to try for this grow but I do want to do something for a more flat canopy.

[SoOrbudgal]

Goodmorning way to grow Here's some advice from another auto learner. Autos waste no time so before long maybe a week they will need to be in there final pot. It's why most not all but most who do autos go from sprout to final pot. But i have transplanted autos and they did fine as long as the roots are not damaged when holding and transplanting. This will make them slow down do to shock. You will learn this as you grow them more. Have you seen the post on auto training/growing going on right now?

[paladinkit]

All three girls are alive and doing their best! I'm not sure how old they are technically - I planted the seeds on the 25th, and they started poking out of the jiffy plugs on the 29th & 30th respectively. I transplanted them to solo cups and gave them their first feeding/watering on the 1st.



I do think, after a week in the solo cups, that I maybe didn't put enough drainage holes in the bottom of the cups, so that's going to be a project for this evening. Once they've outgrown the cups they're going into fabric pots, but I don't want to stunt them before that point!

[SoOrbudgal]

I see something poking out good news

[paladinkit]

Humidifier is magic It's helping the tent stay cooler during the hottest part of the day too




And all three girls are showing little signs of movement! Hard to see in the picture, but I can see changes even from this morning.

[SoOrbudgal]

Well if it keeps it at those temps 80f is perfect. Yes my humidity is very low also cause it's our heating system woodstove. I do not use a humidifier frankly probley why my buds are slower to fatten as much. I like the cool temps on lights out during winter grows this helps. Don't let that fan blow directly on those plants it's like desert wind OK.

[paladinkit]

I didn't think it would put out that much heat either! If I let it dangle it pulled the light sideways, so I moved a table next up to the tent and stacked some boxes so I can rest the driver securely just outside the port & not cause any tension issues on the power line.

It's steady right around 80F after about 18 hours with the driver out and the fan on high... and it's also only 20% RH. So next step is setting up a humidifier because wow no.