Grow journal

[Mrblu]

Ocean forest is not necessarily good for the whole grow, happy frog could stay active longer, so it could be a deficiency if you have been going light on nutes considering how big your plants actually are. Or I read back a little and you said your watering at pH of 6.7 do you vary it at all, I believe if not nute lock out can occur.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Day 37 of flower. Had a lot of leaves turning yellow sooner than expected and found I had a range of problems, I was feeding light because I am using FFOF soil and thought it would do most of the work but I was wrong, I bought a soil tester and found that I have like 0 nutes left in the soil. I am calcium and magnesium deficient and no nitrogen either. On top of all that the ph test pen I am using was out of calibration so the water that I thought was 6.7ph was actually closer to 5.9 so I have deficiencies and lockout. Have fixed problems now and hoping it didn't stunt my yield too badly. They still look awesome. Watered today with some tiger bloom and a little cal mag and tiny bit of blackstrap molasses.

 

[JohnEmad]

Good catch SH. Plants are resilient.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Day 44 of flower. Every plant is different, they want different nutes, different amounts of water, and they are all maturing at different rates. Good old bag seed. Things seem to be going well though. One of my plants is looking a week or so out the rest are at least two weeks some probably more.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Day 49 of flower. My most mature plant has like 5% amber tricromes, so pretty much I saw a couple turning on the most tippy top buds.the rest of plants are just starting to get milky or still clear but most tricromes have heads at this point. A few plants are starting to drop leaves now and some are barely starting to yellow on the bottoms. My two most finicky plants, which have seemed to claw and just overall not like anything have done are still producing nice looking flowers. I have fed the least mature plants what I think will be their last feeding of big bloom with a little blackstrap molasses and the rest I gave water with molasses. In 4 days half will start ph water flushing and the slow girls will get a little more sugar water. My weakest plant will yield at least 35 grams of final product. As of right now I am looking at an overall yield of well over a pound from 11 plants, but less than 2 for sure. Hard to tell at this point because some buds swell every day and others have stopped growing bigger. I am so happy with this but also know I could have done better. Next time I'm going to kill it.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Day 52 of flower. Here's a couple pics of my furthest plant. Under the loop I am just starting to see the first signs of amber. All tricromes are milky. They look a lot more milky under natural light than I am able to show in the photos.

 

[StillHigh1982]

One more thing, while I'm sentimental. I recieved a few tips on here from other users and also read countless other tidbits of invaluable information on forums and user posts, I attribute the success I am having to those things being available to me and I thank you all. The other users and the people in charge of running this forum.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Almost there. A few days short of 8 weeks from 12/12 switch. I have about 80 buds the size of 8.4 oz redbull cans(some bigger some smaller, this seems like a good reference for average cola size)plus all the smaller buds. I cannot wait to make hash, been eyeballing extraction machines too. With my final yield it's looking like the money I will save from not having to buy will pay for all my gear. Plus some. Next go around I will be taking my savings and buying some sort of machine so I can make my own live rosin. Stay tuned for the goodies. They are close now.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Lovely and so frosty

 

[StillHigh1982]

So, week 9 of flower, I thought I would have harvested a plant by now but still barely any amber and still some clear tricromes, I feel like they haven't matured in a week. Having trouble waiting. I wreak like weed at all times now because I have been venting my grow down the hall into the living room. The entire house is marinated in the wonderful funk of ripening buds.

 

[StillHigh1982]

So, with very little amber my trics on most mature plant are bending over and they are super milky, heads starting to crack off, so I placed the plant alone in a dark arid room. I will be cutting her tonight or tomorrow...finally. worried about the small amounts of amber but feck it

 

[JohnEmad]

Nice fat buds

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Sometimes it happens sure look frosty in my opinion your OK doing what your going to do.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Thanks. They are rock hard too. I'm excited to try them. I'll post pics of plant cut up and hanging after I get a chance to chop her.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Yassss. So close.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Took my first plant today. Day 70 of flower. I put her in the dark 3 days ago. Cut her today. Did some wet trim, just the sugar leaves that I could easily snip at their base, and the remaining larger leaves. Tossed the big ones and kept the ones with any trics on them to mix with my popcorn buds for hash making. Not sure of wet weight but from the looks of it after I dry it will be over an ounce maybe two but that's pushing it . The pic of the plate is all the popcorn nugs and good sugar leaves for hash. Probably about 2 oz wet but I didn't weigh it. I need a bigger scale. Mines good for nothing.

 

[FunkyButtLovin]

Buds look great, I like the hat too.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Hell yeah, Thanks. Go Cubs.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

StillHigh1982 that is outstanding. You are going to be the party house so hide it LOL beautiful grow.

 

[StillHigh1982]

Thanks budgal. My house has cameras all over it, and my better half is a homemaker. So she is on the couch with an AR watching HGTV right now lol.