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SOIL First Grow

Got my new 20L air pot today so I embarked on transplanting my LSD into her new home.

Built the air pot and put roughly 3" of my standard non brand organic soil bottom and saturated the soil with a nutrient mix. This will allow the LSD to sit flush at the top or a fraction below.
i then cut all her ties and made 2 cuts to the fabric pot releasing her with no fuss. Placed more soil around the edges and watered again. Alan tichmarsh eat your heart out, job done 👌.

Before I put her back in the tent I tied her down in a better formation this time and jiggled my tent around to accommodate her. Nice and snug, another 10-12 days and she get flipped.
 

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Thanks @PaganRich

Was so nervous when I picked the root ball up. I had visions of it just disintegrating in my hands 😂😂

Now she has room to grow. Hopefully she takes to her new home okay
 
IV went in for another check and watering.

I still can't see any amber's on the plants. Iv looked for a good 30mins but still can't see any. The underside of all my buds are frosted big time and really impressed with how they have turned out. However they all seem to be cloudy

My plan was to chop them down next Saturday (6 days away) as my LSD is out of control and needs the space pronto haha.
 
Peebz Morning mate...can`t remember your veg area set up but are you able to switch bulbs and lasses to allow you to keep LSD in veg til ambers appear but have that extra height then just switch bulbs to flip. If you`re chasing a deadline then sod`s law, the ambers will trundle off on holiday and make you wait mate. You can harvest slightly earlier say when majority are milky but the hit is different and you prob will lose a slight amount of yield depending how close you are to harvest and prob power as well so it`s kind of a false economy kinda thing if that makes sense. Another option would be to just gently structure your LSD grow sideways a bit to buy you some time. You know how it is waiting for lasses to get ready, so much like real life :) Still, good problems to have mate in a sense. Hope you`re mellow :)
 
Hey PaganRich! I'm very well thanks.

Thanks for that. This makes sense, I am not cutting early I'll leave them until the amber's show. I'll just have to keep rotating my plants to give them as much room as possible. I have no more horizontal left buddy. It is packed and she swinging her elbows in the other ladies faces.

I also dont have a veg area yet just one tent so I can't flip until my auto's are ready.
 
Peebz Been there mate and is frustrating. Hang in til the last moment would be my advice. Always getting stronger and the ambers are the best indicators. It`s an anxious time and probably played day by day. Sorry I haven`t anything more helpful to add mate but thoughts are with you on this one. If you have one like 80% cloudy then you will get a different type of high which if you harvest the others with amber you could either keep separate or mix together at a later date. Tricky one.
 
Peebz Beautiful mate and a very impressive grow. One thing I have noticed is that when I feed in veg-weekly-there is an immediate noticible overnight growth spurt then it settles down-I`m not a big fan of this suggestion but I would probably do this in this situation-I`d hit the LSD with just plain water for a week to try and contain her then back to a feed in a week`s time. That might help if it works. LSD does look very nice :)
 
I took my most developed plant out tonight and had another good look and spotted a couple amber's for sure. So I will get to harvest at least 1 plant shortly. I'll just deal with the constraints till then.

The last has 4 main tips and main big tips from them. She looking swole.

I got my first compost tea brewing today as well so looking forward to that. Really taken an interest the the organic grows so that's my course of action from now. Especially from what yourself and D.A.A.S.69 shared.

Just wish I could use the most organic thing out there. The sun.
 
PaganRich have you seen them making teas with sprouted seedlings. Like corn or alfalfa seeds. Going to give that a go today when I get some corn
 
No Peebz but will be really curious to see how you fare with that. Sounds very interesting mate. Have you thought of running a page showing you doing a tea, different ingredients/ thoughts and experiences. This would be useful as it would be new to you and so others could see how you handled anything unforeseen and learn from it. On the other hand you might think sod that for a game of soldiers and just get one together and enjoy the time with your mrs :D
 
Decided to update my grow details since I'm close to first harvest and Iv been trying to think of some main areas that messed up on .

Here is some of my current and updated setup info,

Strain - Barney’s AutoDiesel x 3, Barney's LSD feminised photo period

Medium - standard organic compost Soil in 10l fabric pots

Edit, LSd transplanted to 20L airport week 11 in veg

Tent -800x800x2000 (32"x32"x78")

Light -1200w JS LED full spectrum (10w bulbs)

Edit, viper spectra 450w added around week 8 (few weeks into the auto desiel flower)

Exhaust - 4” vent fan through carbon filter

Induction - 2x 4” black orchid induction fans

Nutrients - bio bizz trio pack Grow, Bloom, Top Max

Edit, week 10 ran out of artificial nutrients and moved to organic compost tea, molasis and kelp extract in RO water.

Other bits and bobs

Digital temp/humidity reader, Small dehumidifier, dehumidifier pots, digital ph meter, clip on fan, ph up/down, 25ltr container, flower can & small hose, soil ph/light/moisture gauge

Edit, jewelers loupe 30x & 60x, airpump and hoses, various soil amendments

So some main mistakes I made,

General Watering, ph'g was a shambles for first 8 weeks until I got to grasp with it all .Sort of a waste of time learning about the bottled nutriets but silver lining I found a healthier way imo to feed my plants and all part of the learning curve.

Training my LSD was to severe and notice what I did wrong. Only damage it caused was added length on to the grow.

Temperature and humidity control as always could be better. I have a very anolouge set up and need to refine it some more. Because I stay in a fairly humid climate (always around 65-70rh level) I run a big dehumidifier outside the tent 24/7 and room humidity has been 30-35% for many weeks. I run the small dehumidifier inside the tent 24/7 also to keep humidity down and has also sat between 32-40%rh. If I drop one or the other, my temp drops dramatically and humidity shoots up. So I must run both and water accordingly.

I have plans to build a simple veg space within my cupboard so I can get a couple more plants going. But I am holding off until my 3 auto's are finished. So the tent is easier manovered.

Almost at the end of my first harvest if this journal. It's been an emotional roller coaster but thanks to a lot of guys in here Iv learned so much and growing as a person as I learn some patience.


​​​​​​Thanks for reading 😎🚬 .happy growing happy smoking.
 

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Big night tonight!

Harvest is here!

So I wateree them again 2 days ago and checked them for amber's and all 3 of them had chunks of amber's at the top and slightly less at the very bottom.

I had to buy a whole new setup for drying my buds in as my grow area is non-use because the smell. I went and bought a 60x60x60 tent, 2 small induction fans, carbon filter, heat mat and drying net.

Got it all rigged up tonight, cut down 2 out of 3 plants and trimmed all large fan leaves off and some bigger sugar leaves as that's all I had time for tonight. I'll get the 3rd tomorrow, she seemed a bit behind the other 2 as she struggled with defficiencies for a long time I think.

After trim I weighed each plant separately produced 280g.(420 - 140g plastic tub)

got a couple nice thick buds on the tips and all bud seems to be fairly consistent top 1/2 of the plants which I'm super impressed with for my first grow. Still got the 3rd plant but sitting at 560g wet. No show stoppers but the buds have thickened nicely the last few weeks

The LSD has now been switched to 12/12. Let the fun begin again 👍
 
Peebz, thanks for those nice words ,mate.
But you did the growing, and you did an excellent job to, my Swedish friend.
It only gets easier, from now on, plus you got a good head on your shoulders, you stay on top of everything.
HappyGrowing.
HappySmoking.
 
Peebz excellent job, my friend, you and the mrs. Have something to be very proud of,
It sure looks like killer to me, it bet it is too.
Just be careful and don't over dry them,
Nice job, Mate.
 
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