First Time Grower - I really needed a hobby!

[JD419WHYWAIT]

Well I spent several hours with the girls last night. Each of the Mandarin Cookie Clones took a while to spread open. There are so many growth sites, I am afraid these might grow to monsters. I am not sure I will have enough space when all these flower and I have another Jack Herer Auto sprouting. Guess it will be a good problem to have. I am going to have to learn to spread grows out and keep some of these vegging for a while or just turn this room to flower and have both spaces flowering? Not sure. I do have plans to build a 10 x 10 room off the veg room but don't really have the funds right now.

Question to anyone that might want to comment, the two Mandarin Cookie clones are almost a wide as the pot, should I maybe plan to transplant these again to bigger than an 5 gal pot? When I transplanted them from the 1gal to 5 gal the roots were growing out of the fabric. I know my 1st grow in 3gal pots were not large enough and having root issues I think in late flower see yesterday post.

Not at all, it's a fabric pot mate. The roots will grow through the fabric. It is completely normal in a fabric pot to do that It is supposed to actually Then, the air will air prune the roots that have grown out Where you have root problems Is when the pot is sitting in something wet. The roots can't dry if the fabric pot is wet. Look at this picture of three plants, and they're in 3 gallon pots. I could of gotten some better growth in 5, but that's how it is. I'll do 5 gallons when it suits me, but 3 is easier to handle

 

[PhantomSulker]

Spent a few hours with the girls last night, I took a bunch off the 2 Maindrain Cookie clones last nigh, there are so many bud sites I sort of thing I should cut some back but part of me wants to just go. I am really considering either moving everything to flower and move all the equipment in to the larger room I have set for Veg and can just use some CFL's for starting any new plants. I am also thinking about just building the new flower room I have planned, but just don't really have the extra funds right now. Anyway I am digressing, I don't know what I will do but I am glad I am keeping this it has been interesting to go back and read and look at stages. Ok so the 2 huge clones are in question what to do. I am not sure what I will do with the clone from my first grow, they have taken so long to flower and could have gotten huge if I had veged them longer and knew more. But I do have time, just not sure if I want to put effort into it. Might just keep it small and veg for long while. I have some more 5 gal bags on the way. Everyone else in the veg room is in another journal.

In addition if you have been following along, the poinsettia is now growing again, been trying to remember to feed her, but lots of new leaves on her, I am afraid of how big it may get. I have no idea, I will have to find some info online.

 

[LurkingInTheGrass]

https://www.trurodaily.com/news/reg...ristmas-poinsettia-bought-19-years-ago-87116/

 

[PhantomSulker]

Hey thanks for the link, at the rate it is growing now in the corner I could make it that big.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Well no photo updates, but I hope that I am not going to have issues, but the digital balist for my HID light went out sometime since Saturday. Sunday AM around 8 when I got up to check on the girls no light, the breaker on side of it just kept popping. I went by the one of the local grow shops, but they were 3x what they are on Amazon, so I just ordered one and should be here it is out for delivery now. so hopefully 30 or 40 hours of darkness will not disrupt them in week 11 of flower which started yesterday.

 

[LurkingInTheGrass]

PhantomSulker
Is your digital ballast variable?

If it is, try turning it down (could get you through until delivery)

On the upside, you are in flower, so extra darkness isnt bad (could even encourage a faster finish)

 

[PhantomSulker]

Yea it was, nothing really happen bad, I also got to change my light schedule from 6am to 6pm to 1pm to 1am. It was hard to get them watered during the day. I ordered it on Sunday at 11am and had by 1pm on Monday. Got to love prime.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Wow what a long time since I posted. Won't share too much but just went through a 3 year breakup, been a bit preoccupied. I have been barley able to keep up with watering and feeding right now. I decided to take one branch off and trimed it up to dry. Used my crummy microscope and all clear I think still. But I am drying it anyway. Overall the buds just keep getting bigger. They are in Week 13 of flower. My buddy took the one clone of these with him, I was not really excited to grow these again due to how long they took, but if the bud is great I will be able to get a clone or so again. We also hung the 2 small flowering clones that he had brought. I will get some new photos soon, just wanted to keep up.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Well on the sickly plant everything was almost milky and I was out so I went a head and took her down. I did it over a few days and have been smoking it as fast as I can get some dry. Wish I could have waiting longer but the other plant I will let keep going it looks good and the buds are continuing to grow. Even with it being wet and drying it in microwave, it still smokes great really high at first and then mellows out. Very happy and glad there is still a clone, but not sure I would ever want to grow something indoors this slow. I am kind of sold on Auto's right now as fast as the 2 Jack Herea Autos that are growing now. They might be done before the other plant. I made 2 lbs of butter from the trimmings and popcorn, really turned out good I ate half the pan on top of smoking as much as I could all day on Sunday and Monday! I can't wait to have a unlimited supply of multiple strains, I am going to be so happy!

 

[PhantomSulker]

So I posted about the harvest of the one plant from my 1st grow, as for the other one she is going great, keeps building buds, lots of clear tri's still probably several more weeks it looks like. The two flowering clones that are now hanging at the canopy level which is working great are just building more and more they will both end up as one big cola, have not put the scope on them but will likely tonight. The other 2 clones, got a major defloration a week or so ago and I have been bending and LST them a lot. On one of them I got creative and started twisting and putting some middle ones into a spiral. I will likely put one in flower very soon and keep vegging the other for a bit. I think these could become monsters and I may consider moving to a 7 gal pot prior to go to flower. Not sure.

 

[PhantomSulker]

I took down the drying buds, the main cola weighed .25 oz pretty wet still but moved to jars because the air is so dry in basement. Well it was 1.9 oz still pretty wet, i won't get a real weight because I am smoking it too fast, but next plant I will make sure to harvest properly and get weight on that one. I am so excited to be smoking my own grow. All 10 of my plants are doing exactly what I want them to right now and my only real problem is timing caused by this first grow. Its been 115 days since seed sprouted, guess that is normal but seems to be so long.

The buds on my one first grow plant are looking great and just keep growing and getting bigger. I thing my Jack Herer Auto that is in week 7 will get harvested before this one finishes. Tricomes are mostly milky now on this plant but nothing at all looking amber yet.

The 2 small clones are continuing to build buds, just keep them going everything on those two are clear and maybe starting to get cloudy.

The 2 clones still in the veg room are getting huge and will be a space problem when moved to the 4x4 tent. Still debating what to do on space.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Well the first grow plant is still building buds, I scoped her last night and she is still clear to milky and still growing white hairs so she is still a while to finish. Sunday will mark week 15 of flower for the one plant. The one I cut down last week is finally dry enough to smoke. Still a bit harsh but awesome to smoke my own grow! I left the bud out last night it was a bit too wet in jars, this AM the outside was crispy and put them back in their jars. I have humidity packs coming and hydrometers today to put in the jars.

The two Mandarin little clones are still building buds and all tricomes are clear still on both, they will each be one decent cola. These may have to come down early as my next auto seeds will be here middle of next week. You can see them hanging in the flower tent.

I spent some time deflowering the other two clones still in veg, they are looking great, after I put them back in the veg room they were looking droopy, but this AM they are perked right back up. They are more than ready to move the the flower room. I will feed them one more time and likely wait till Sunday to move them in but they are ready now. I fed all the plants in the flower room last night with a good flush and then light nutes and some cal mag. I need to get some more molasses today after work. GFS has it by the Gallon I am going to try to get some today.

 

[PhantomSulker]

The first grow girl continues to grow new bud, everything is clear to starting to turn milky, I moved her to the front left corner of the tent to make some room earlier than Sunday for the other two clones. I moved the shelf to the back and got the Jack Herer Auto centered hanging at canopy level right under the light. The other two little clones are in good position now too. I am going to try once the two new girls in the flower room grow a bit, might try hanging them too, but not sure 5 gal pots will hang as well. Either way the flower tent is now full. I might have room for the other Jack I have in the veg room. But I will update that on my other grow journal. Everyone is going to need a feeding today. I did get the molasses at GFS it was $15.99 for a gallon way cheaper than buying jars at the store.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Curing is going well, it gets better every day the main cola has gone from .25 oz to .20 now I hope I can save it for a while, but the other plant still is about 50% clear / 50% milky and buds keep growing. I have just under a oz total right now to get by till next harvest. At this rate my Jack Herer Auto that is 8 weeks old will harvest before my first plant I planted is done. The other two small clones are still clear and growing bud like crazy, every day their are new bud developments on top and they are growing together in the center. The two other Mandarin Cookie clones are growing well. Not sure how big they are going to get during their stretch. Otherwise all is going great, I have my new light to put back up my 2x4x4 tent to veg in because my other 3 plants in another journal need more room and ready to flip so I am going to use my veg room for flower for a while. I planted 2 more autos yesterday as well so I will need the additional space for now.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Feeding time, the flower tent sure goes through some water. Gave all the girls in the flower room a good feeding last night, took 6 gallons of water, with 2tsp MaxiBloom, 1tsp KoolBloom, 2TBS Molasses and PH to 6.2. I took a good bit of top fan leaves off the Mandarin Cookie clones. I also took off any lower bud sites that I could find there were a lot I took off, and did not want to do too much to them. Will do some more next week. The two small 1 gal Mandarin Cookie clones hanging in front just keep building more buds on top of buds. I scope them and they are still all clear on both plants. The other plant hanging in the 3 gal pot in center is my Jack Herer Auto in another journal.

The buds on my first grow plant now in week 14 of flower is still growing new white hairs and buds. The main cola keeps filling in.

Hoping that the first grow will finish very soon and get more auto's going.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Happy 4/20 everyone!

Got home last night and continued to chop the lower and smaller bud sites on the last of the two girls from my first grow. I am down to less than 1/2 a oz of the first plant, the harvest so far looks like as much as I had total off the first plant. Guess I won't get any kind of weight total of these first two. But it sure is great to be smoking my own grown bud!

The two small clones in the 1 gal pots hanging in the front are still growing lots of new budlets on top of budlets. The other two clones are just growing like crazy, I took a bunch of fan leaves off last night and did some serious bending on them.

After I finished working with the girls I gave them all a good feeding, the one plant I chopped up got plain PH 6.6 water and the other girls all got a regular feeding.

 

[PhantomSulker]

What a busy weekend, I got home around 3:30pm on Saturday and non-stop 4/20 activity I finished everything around 2am, I made 125 Coconut Oil capsules out of 1oz of trim from 1st grow harvest. I made 2 boxes of cookies from the Cana Butter I made from trim from first plant. I still have 1/2 or more of that plant growing and it still is making new bud everything is clear to milky still. The drying bud in my closet is nearly dry and about ready to jar for cure. I am down to smoking the main cola from the first plant now so it needs to finish drying soon.

The two small flowering clones in the front hanging just keep making more buds as well they are still all clear with a few milky tricomes. The two clones in the back of the tent are definitely on their stretch and growing like crazy.

I also gave all the girls in the flower room a feeding with full nutes except for the 1st plant she is just getting water. Very happy with everything that I am tracking in this journal.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Last night everyone needed a feeding except for the girls in the veg tent that was a lot of mixing and PH balancing I think I mixed up about 6 2 gallon watering cans.

The plant from my first grow is still making new buds on buds and new white hairs growing like crazy, 2nd feeding now just plain 7.0 PH water. I checked the buds I took off this plant and the stems finally are snapping and I trimmed it up and weighed it. I had one jar with .97 oz and one with .75 oz and there is more bud on the plant still than what I harvested. So I estimate that I may get over 4oz off her total? Guess we will see. The tricomes on the parts that are established are mostly milky and all the new growth is clear.

The two small clones in the 1 gal pots hanging in front are also still building buds like crazy and all tricomes are still clear on both.

The two giant clones in the back are growing like crazy, they are looking good just fed them all and watch them grow.

 

[PhantomSulker]

Wow, the bud off the 2nd plant was way better than the first! It still is a bit wet, but in my Hippie Rebel Vaporizer it was a better high than the first plant. It is interesting that the buds on this 15 Week Flowing plant is now with the remaining 1/2 of the plant it is growing new white hairs and buds. I am wondering if removing so much of it now it is sending more energy to the reaming buds and all the new tricomes are clear so I was mostly milky before, now all the new bud is clear. Oh well I have about a OZ left hopefully something will finish.

The two small 1 gal clone pots are also just building bud and they are totally clear all tri's. I'd really like to chop these two little ones, I could start some more Auto's when they finish!

The two huge clones in the back are getting huge and they are staring to show signs of flowers I can't believe how big they are getting.

Other than that right now it's just a waiting game.

It has been really relaxing having a supply for once and not have to figure out how to balance out what I have till next time I can get some. I look forward to the day when I have a selection of strains to choose from depending on my mood.

 

[PhantomSulker]

I continue to state that the smoke off the 2nd plant is much better than 1st still everything is looking clear/milky and lots of new growth on the buds, so I decided after 2 plain water feedings I would give her 1/2 strength MaxiBloom, full KoolBloom and Molasses. I weighted the jar that was .97 oz at lunch it was .891 now. Humidity in jar was 66% I aired out the bud and put back in will check again when I get home. I hope I get some cured before it's gone. I snapped a few pictures of her main colas last night while she was out of the tent.

The other two clones hanging in front are looking great just going to be one cola each. The one on the right has a lemon/sweet smell and is much more gold/yellow than the one next to it. These were from seeds and the guy that had them had 4 plants that 3 were Mandarin Cookies and the other he thinks might have been a lemon haze but he did not recall. The other two big clones in back could be either strain, will know when buds really start forming. They all got fed regular feeding last night. I need to make sure next feeding they just get PH'd water they have gotten full feeding every time. The one clone in the back right has some slight signs of nute burn, but just a bit, so water is a definite next time.