Grow Journal First grow #1

[Inuart88]

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The buds have started and got my last defoliation hair cut in ... Did i over do it or does it look good i really cleared up alot to get light to my lower bud sites.. Just hoping i didn't over do it also picked up 4 new clone strains Sugar black rose, White Mystic Cb99 Jack! so this will be good.. after watching my Veg plants the ones i topped i wish i would of topped the girls in flower.. but its okay learning experience!

 

[NebulaHaze]

Looks great to me! I don't think you overdid anything

 

[Inuart88]

I saw some plants that didn't have lst and they looked pretty good also they were only about 4 1/2 feet its make me wonder if i should have lst'd them or not.. but i can see how they only really get one main cola and it did look like an xmas tree which was funny but they looked really good also so im kinda in the air with all this too much to think about some times and i stress about it just the way iam! lucky i got enough plants/clones to change things up with but anyway thoughts on yield from lst to topping to just letting grow recommendations im going for yield but also quality! any imput on this nebula would be great i know your the lady with the experience

 

[NebulaHaze]

I've always found that I get the best yields when getting a plant to produce multiple big colas that are all the same height (so they can all be the same distance from the light) over letting it grow naturally with just one big cola, with all the rest of the colas lower on the plant and further from the light.

But you can definitely get great yields without training, especially if you grow a bunch of plants together like how you did. This makes it so you don't need to train the plants as much. In the end, your goal is more about getting many long, thick colas under the light than anything else. The shape and number of plants underneath makes far less of a difference than that final result! From your pictures it looks like you've done that beautifully! The entire grow space is filled with main bud sites that are about the same height as each other, which is perfect!

However, my one piece of advice is to keep bending over any stems that get way taller than the others during the growing process, which is likely to happen as they switch from the vegetative stage into the flowering stage. You'll get the best results if you keep all the colas around the same height of each other, so the canopy is wide and flat like a table Other than that, I don't really see a need for LST in your tent!

 

[Inuart88]

I did lst all the plants in the picture and my next 4 coming up i topped two and lst the other to for experiment purposes but i think your right im not going to lst or topp and more and just let em go since i have so much head room! Thank you for the advice

 

[Inuart88]

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Its week 2 and 1 day of flower! I did some transplants yesterday i did 10 total 3 into 2 gallon pots and 7 into 1 gallon pots with a FOFF mix with happy frog to kill the high ph of FOFF instead of high 7s it hits it down to 6.1-6.6 ph level! I got some good buds coming i believe anyway and some sugar leaves starting. i Also cut clones off my plants i started from seeds the big ones in the back of the veg tent. i call em Seedling 1 2 3 4. no clue of what kinds they are just know that they came from hella good medical pot. Been a busy couple days but hey thats okay im hoping soon to get a a t5 300 watt- 400 watt for veg so i can have two flower tents im done with topping and lst since i have 7feet of overhead i believe theres really no need for it anymore so im kinda mad at my self for doing it to my seedling ones i may scrap them i dont know yet. all my bigger transplanted clones are looking awesome. Im hoping to upgrade my flower tent to a 4x8x7 but who knows so i can do between 10-12 plants in there. and use one of my 4x4x7 tents for my new t5 8 bulb im hoping to buy soon. also i paid 60 bucks last month for running my two 600 watt lights one on 12/12 obviously and one 18/6.. is that bad is that alot of money per light or not? But i really need to get a bigger flower space after this harvest... Also how do my buds look do they look right for about 2 weeks into flowering? i think they look awesome but this is my first grow so im not sure.... wish i would never bent them but cant go back now though. we will see Should i scrap my 4 seedlings since i cut clones? because i wont have a spot for them to flower and there already almost 2 months old or they are im not sure i mean i could let them go for another month or but im not sure if i will be able to get my t5 by then and change out my bulbs.. i need to tranplant them to 5 gallon pots but just dont have the money this week so im going to do it next week i know them being in small 2 gallon could be stunting the growth but theres nothing i can do this a week. anyway thats my update any thoughts would be welcome... had a lot to talk about!

 

[Inuart88]

So im trying to figure out how to pictures with the hps on the color of the light makes the pix come out like shit any thoughts?

 

[Inuart88]

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Week 3 and 1 day start of week 4 and things are moving along nicely its weird making a post every week its kinda of like i look forward to my progress or something maybes its just looking back at the pictures and see how far my girls have come who knows... But ether way been a busy week things are going good on my flowering girls.. Wish i could pull them out and give them a haircut but its so tight in there i don't see it happening easlily.. My veg tent is getting packed i threw out 5 clones and i gotta pick and choose now since i got 6 more to start... also i got my big girls put in 5 gallons well 3 out of 4 put in but ran out of soil/money damn that thing called money have to wait till next week.... also moved two dr.purple clones into 2 gallon containers that were looking good i think my goal is to keep 2 of all my clones so i dont have 14 in one tent LMFAO.... hard to just toss something growing so good next week when i get soil im going to start getting picky and throwing things out needs to be done i need room so im going to keep 2 dr's 2 Fire OG and 2 Chernobyl and start my other seed 1,2,3,4 and my two black sugar rose i think two of each should be good even though all my Fire og in my tent are growing massive buds!

 

[Sonnyhad]

Looking good!!

 

[9fingerleafs]

Wow. Super healthy nice big fat nugs forming congrats great work

 

[Inuart88]

They are dense too can't squeeze em at all no give i tried =).. im interested in the fact that led lights seem to not give buds the light they need because of the airy buds! i m glad i went with the mh/hps.. i noticed some light burn today though i been looking at buds not leaves LOL but i fixed it tied some tall girls over and raise my light i hope the stretch is over because i will have to remove the rachets and just zip tie it to the top and i could gain 7 inches i think i got the light between 17-19 away i may lower it down to 16 though i have ran it at 14-15 with no light burn but i think it was at like 10 ... i feel bad i burned my babies!!!

 

[9fingerleafs]

yeah be gentle and they wont stop

 

[Inuart88]

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Its offically 1 month in!! i had to start my a/c with the damn 85 degree days which kinda sucks but i got it figured out pretty good.. Anyway here's the awesome bud pictures also i have a question about flushing i know you flush the week or 2 before harvest in soil.. but do i need to do it anytime nowish im going into week five and im just wondering if thats something i need to do!

 

[9fingerleafs]

It depends on your strain but I wouldn't flush until I felt harvest is coming, leep feeding them they gonna get phaaattttt

 

[Inuart88]

You mean flush like days before or the week before? Just wondering this will be my first harvest so I will have a lot a questions

 

[9fingerleafs]

I'd say flushing just a few days before. It's better to have some hard sense not very well flushed buds than having fluffy airy well flushed ones. Focus on getting the plant to develop nicely and fill out those buds. Only experience will give you a better sense of when to flush but every strain is diferent so my advice is right when you think it's ready (it's not going to be, trust me) flush for a few days and harvest before too many tricomes become amber. It's hard to wait. The hardest part of all this

 

[Inuart88]

Honestly I don't smoke so the waiting hasn't really bothered me I'm growing for profit.. Hoping to make enough in a year or so to open a hydro store in my town. So I'm basically just waiting to recoup my investment I may smoke later but it will be when I get a better sense of growing even though I have definatly exceeded my expectations my first time and then some. I figured this would be a test grow not a top quality max gram grow maybe I got a nak for it

 

[NebulaHaze]

They look great! Developing very nicely! However, I'd guess you still have at least 3-4 weeks to go so I don't think it's time to start flushing yet The good news is that means they'll get a lot bigger. What nutrients are you using?

 

[Inuart88]

Fox farm trio. At full strength seems to be doing the trick pretty nicely.. I heard a of stuff between FF and gh but I'm happy with result

 

[NebulaHaze]

The FF trio is great, I think you'll be very happy with the results!