AccidentalGardener
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Hello my fellow newbs. I am in the midst of the first almost-planned grow, and it's the second grow, period.
I have tons of outdoor gardening experience and I still botched it when it came down to growing pot the first time..
A lot of us got started during lock-down, with little or no planning. Hell, half of us were wondering if we'd find toilet paper or hand-soap again, right?
It sounded like a good idea at the time.
All y'all who are trying this with zero practical gardening experience will need to work twice as hard.
I collected cuttings within a week after the parent plants were determined to be female. You're really not supposed to do that but I'd read it could be done, so I did it, and the plan was to make normal clones from the first clones.
Omg, all the clones. Tribbles, lol. I did 14; 7 of each strain, and 13 grew roots. Ah shIt!, all I needed was the genetics saved, and the baby plant tent was starting to look like Sleeping Beauty's castle.
What to do with all these ever-loving plants? I can't leave them by the road hoping they'll be adopted where I'm at. So I tossed a bunch into their final resting places - 5 gallon pots, and left them alone on 18/6 in the bigger tent with the LEDs on VEG only.
Grow went a little feral. The soil is new and a little warm with all the earthworm and bat poo has made them happy, plus each time I up-potted, I added new soil - I fed them each time I moved them - all the way from coco pellet --> 4"--> 1gal -->5gal. They still don't want to be fed. I tried it once and they all hated it and they all let me know.
They went beyond when they should have been topped, but these weren't supposed to be the 2nd grow. I had photo seeds from faraway exotic lands that I wanted to start, but the Universe intervened.
I am glad they were vegging, because they didn't get much except water.
Sometimes you don't plan, and sometimes you do, but the plan changes.
I thrashed these poor things last night. I defoliated and bent branches and apologized the whole time and told them it was for their own good. I learned tomato cages are nice it you have enough room. If you don't have enough room, they suck.
I had a bag of leaves by the time I was finished, and some pretty sorry looking plants. Naked, leggy; bent and tied down, defeated. And two great-looking FBL auto seedlings. The tent was changed to both VEG and BLOOM lights today.
Nine hours later, 6 in the dark and 3 in the brighter light, and look what they did.
Almost every branch shot out new leaves as soon as I zipped the tent closed at midnight last night. You can't tell I cut any leaves off!
If you are not right on the money with every step, plants in veg will recover. It's okay to experiment. These are clones, not seedlings, so the leaves grow a little different and technically, these are not manifolded. They are a mess is what they are...a hot mess, but they have roots all the way to the bottom and margins of the 5-gal containers.
( I might still have enough plants to do this again without taking any more clones, lol)
Don't be afraid to trim stuff up while they veg. The plants will make more leaves as long as they veg. Know difference between a bad haircut and just a hair cut?
9 hours.
Pay attention to what you plant your pot in, and what you put on your pot each time you make changes to its habitat.
If you think your plant can do this without you, take your stuff to the nearest dumpster, toss it in and try stamp-collecting.
If you want to grow pot, read GWE from end to end, even the stuff you don't think you need. Especially the stuff you don't think you'll need.
Because you'll need it someday.
Peace
I have tons of outdoor gardening experience and I still botched it when it came down to growing pot the first time..
A lot of us got started during lock-down, with little or no planning. Hell, half of us were wondering if we'd find toilet paper or hand-soap again, right?
It sounded like a good idea at the time.
All y'all who are trying this with zero practical gardening experience will need to work twice as hard.
I collected cuttings within a week after the parent plants were determined to be female. You're really not supposed to do that but I'd read it could be done, so I did it, and the plan was to make normal clones from the first clones.
Omg, all the clones. Tribbles, lol. I did 14; 7 of each strain, and 13 grew roots. Ah shIt!, all I needed was the genetics saved, and the baby plant tent was starting to look like Sleeping Beauty's castle.
What to do with all these ever-loving plants? I can't leave them by the road hoping they'll be adopted where I'm at. So I tossed a bunch into their final resting places - 5 gallon pots, and left them alone on 18/6 in the bigger tent with the LEDs on VEG only.
Grow went a little feral. The soil is new and a little warm with all the earthworm and bat poo has made them happy, plus each time I up-potted, I added new soil - I fed them each time I moved them - all the way from coco pellet --> 4"--> 1gal -->5gal. They still don't want to be fed. I tried it once and they all hated it and they all let me know.
They went beyond when they should have been topped, but these weren't supposed to be the 2nd grow. I had photo seeds from faraway exotic lands that I wanted to start, but the Universe intervened.
I am glad they were vegging, because they didn't get much except water.
Sometimes you don't plan, and sometimes you do, but the plan changes.
I thrashed these poor things last night. I defoliated and bent branches and apologized the whole time and told them it was for their own good. I learned tomato cages are nice it you have enough room. If you don't have enough room, they suck.
I had a bag of leaves by the time I was finished, and some pretty sorry looking plants. Naked, leggy; bent and tied down, defeated. And two great-looking FBL auto seedlings. The tent was changed to both VEG and BLOOM lights today.
Nine hours later, 6 in the dark and 3 in the brighter light, and look what they did.
Almost every branch shot out new leaves as soon as I zipped the tent closed at midnight last night. You can't tell I cut any leaves off!
If you are not right on the money with every step, plants in veg will recover. It's okay to experiment. These are clones, not seedlings, so the leaves grow a little different and technically, these are not manifolded. They are a mess is what they are...a hot mess, but they have roots all the way to the bottom and margins of the 5-gal containers.
( I might still have enough plants to do this again without taking any more clones, lol)
Don't be afraid to trim stuff up while they veg. The plants will make more leaves as long as they veg. Know difference between a bad haircut and just a hair cut?
9 hours.
Pay attention to what you plant your pot in, and what you put on your pot each time you make changes to its habitat.
If you think your plant can do this without you, take your stuff to the nearest dumpster, toss it in and try stamp-collecting.
If you want to grow pot, read GWE from end to end, even the stuff you don't think you need. Especially the stuff you don't think you'll need.
Because you'll need it someday.
Peace
