3 years of growing - numbers, pics, and charts!

[Doubledealing72]

Funny story about my thumbs and March. This happened on St Patty's day (March 17th). A few years before this, on March 15th, I was working at a steakhouse. I had made mention that it was the Ides of March that day, and none of my coworkers knew what the hell I was talking about lol.

Later on, I'm juicing a lime with a big French chef knife (because I'm an idiot), and I turn my head to talk to a coworker and sliced my other thumb right below the pad. I got 9 stitches.

I told myself after the St Patty's day incident that I'm just going to lock myself up during the month of March and not do anything.

Kind of comical seeing as how this year played out 😂

 

[Doubledealing72]

*whispers*

Go for the quadline

😉

 

[Doubledealing72]

GROW 8

Just when you think you have it all figured out, reality smacks you in the face again. This grow started off pretty rocky, and ended rocky. The middle was nice though.

To start, I grabbed my normal bag of coco from the store, only to find out that it didn't have any perlite. Apparently they ordered the wrong kind that time. Not really my fault I suppose.

Then the plants at an early age had some weird leaf spots going on. More than likely, definitely my fault.

As stated, middle went pretty smoothly.

My last plant to finish was taken slightly early due to seeing what I thought was a spider mite. My first encounter with the devil.

Luckily, I grabbed some Mighty Wash and havent seen them since.

For everything that went wrong in this grow, a lot went well too. I got close to a lb off 3 plants, and had some really good smoke. I ended up snapping a branch pretty bad, but taped it and got to see it make a full recovery.

Gotta take the good with the bad!











Girlscout Cookies



Sour Diesel



Jock Horror - the one that got contaminated with the infernal beast.

 

[Doubledealing72]

GROW 9

This grow started out as a growback - a throwback to old grows where it's all strains I've grown already.

The plant in grow 3 that had nanners hermied this time. Maybe it hermied last time too, and maybe it wasn't because of the fungus gnats. It all came from the same package, so im guessing they are all like that.

So that plant got pulled, and i put 2 more in its place.

This grow was all around successful. Grew some new strains that yielded great and tasted great. Grew an old strain that knocked the pants off the previous plant i grew in terms of yield. Total yield was also very high up there.




Amnesia Haze XXL





Leg long buds, and im 6 ft!



Kush



Six Shooter





Weed leaf made of bud. Im so talented (please don't delete me.) 😂

 

[Doubledealing72]

GROW 10

Ah, the People's grow. I took a poll to see what people wanted me to grow. Sadly, the one with the most votes never made it, and i planted 2 different seeds of it.

So i put a Blue Cheese in its place. It was a mutant because it had 3 branches per node, but it was a great mutant to have. I got 6 main branches for the price of 4. My quadline suddenly became the elusive sexline I always knew it could be.

This grows yield wasnt phenomenal by any means, but i knew that would be the case with the 2 that I had grown previously. They just never had big yields, but i still liked smoking them.

As a bonus, this was when I participated in the solo cup challenge hosted by Mr.furley. My little solo cup got 26g. It was an awesome thing to be a part of!

This is probably one of my favorite pics I've taken. It reminds me of a snowflake. This is the sexline plant, 6 branches. Blue Cheese






Red Poison



The solo cup

 

[SoOrbudgal]

You are a " professor" of weed now in my book. Outstanding work and learning

 

[Doubledealing72]

GROW 11

My most recent completed grow. I only ended up with 2 plants making it to completion. The third plant went the longest I've ever let a plant go that didnt flower. She made it 100ish days before i gave up on her. I even changed my light schedule from 24/0 to 20/4 in hopes that a little loss of light was enough to force her to flower.

It wasn't, so she got pulled.

So even, with my most recent completed grow, I'm still finding out new things every grow. Running into new and old problems, and learning how to handle them. I think i will continue this piece as i complete grows. It's cool to have a summary of all my grows in one place. Just reading through them all again and arranging them this way has shed some more light on growing.



Bubba Kush (again!)



Green Poison XL

I stunted this one. I believe i overfed her when she was young, even though it was the same amount of nutrients that I have given to all my plants. Next time I grow this one, I'll be sure to go easier at the beginning.







Violet Kush

I was really sad to take this one down. I wanted to see her go to completion, but I had new ones sprouting, so I could not bring myself to flip the lights to 12/12. Plus, at the point she was at, she would have been too tall for the tent.




This is my tent wall with a list of strains I have successfully grown. I have to add Blue Cheese and Green Poison XL to the list, and hopefully ill add a few more names once my current grow is complete.

 

[Doubledealing72]

Lol, thanks! I actually went to college to become a professor! It did not pan out, but im happy with the choices i made 🙂

 

[alltatup]

@mcubed After studying both Neb and Nugbuckets, I'm gonna follow the Nugster for my first try with 8 colas. Please. Be patient with me.

 

[alltatup]

Beware the covides of march!!!

 

[Doubledealing72]

And Finally...the charts and graphs.

And thank you all for coming to my TED talk lol

 

[Doubledealing72]

Well thats amazing 😂😂

 

[Doubledealing72]

You take as much time as you need atu 🙂

 

[Doubledealing72]

Just a quick update a little over a year later.

Just over 4 years in, I've completed 15 grows. This past year, I've harvested 1,757g, or 62.75oz, or 3.92 lbs.

This brings my total to 6,349g, or 226.75 oz, or 14.17lbs

I'll try to update yearly.

 

[TOKABIGONE]

Wowsers Doubledealing72 If you are not crowned King of Autos, I'll have to wonder why! I will be dropping my first auto seed in a few weeks and I will def be referring to this all the time. All I have is 1 photo grow to my name so your info will be valuable. I hear so much back and forth on how you can and cannot top or train autos but I believe you have shown the way. My favorite part of my grow was the plant training both lst and manifold. My avatar shows one of them. I have been curious about quadlining with autos too and I see it here. Funny thing when I started my first manifold I thought twist ties and soft garden wire were a pita so I thought gee I have some leftover 14 ga electrical wire I could just make a hook and stick it in to the soil. So much easier that I decided I was a genius! The sexline you did was amazing too! I'm gonna try the Maui autos this time which is sativa dom so with a 5 ft cabinet I'll have to train all I can before any stretch. Supposed to be a medium height sativa so I'll manage it. Thanks for the great thread and I'll be watching for you. Toka

 

[Doubledealing72]

Thanks TOKABIGONE! I really enjoy the training part too. It's cool to see how strong the branches are and how they will always reach for the light.

I appreciate the sentiment, but im just a normal dude growing weed lol. No king status here necessary. I still have yet to grow a photo. One day I will though!

I'm actually taking a couple weeks off from growing. As much as I love it, I have some company coming over that doesn't share the same interests that we do on this site. I also have enough to last me a while.

I've been not nearly as active on here as I used to be, but I will try to keep popping on every now and then..

If you ever have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. I love talking about growing lol

 

[Doubledealing72]

Might as well continue to update this as I go.

GROW 12

This was a good grow from what I can remember. The Purple Lemonade was the first plant I had to hand trim in a while. The buds were just too airy to put through the auto trimmer. Bubba Kush always produced well, and this was no exception. The Mass Shooter was a small little thing, but tasty.