Subliminal
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Ok so here goes.
My grow is different. I started with seeds that I have no idea what strain or anything else about them except my girlfriend said she enjoyed the smoke from the buds they came from. The story is long and doesn’t need to be repeated here. Look for my introduction thread for more info on it.
My seeds started by being blown off my patio table and into my yard. I noticed them growing and stretching under my apricot tree and transplanted the best looking ones into small ½ gallon pots. From there I have been piecing together stuff best I can day to day and improving what I can when I can. I’ll document as best I can as I post these pictures.
Medium: Soil
Lights: 2 CFL 200W/2 LED 100w + a 250W HPS for Veg in different stages of growth. In my flower closet I am running a 250W HPS.
Nutes: basically normal green house stuff but high % water soluble fert that is listed as 15-12-12. I cut their suggested mixture to about ¼ strength.
October 23rd is when I discovered the sprouts:
I waited a few days to let them establish some roots and then I transplanted to ½ gallon pots and rigged up some lighting while I figured stuff out.
I didn’t take a lot of pictures as they matured as I was doing heavy reading on GWE and 420Mag forums/tutorials. But I have a few once I set them up in a new area. I weeded them down to 4 plants that I thought were gonna make it. I have never grown cannabis before but sweet lord I grow tomatos and peppers every year.
Here they are about a month after I transplanted….see the stretching? My grow CFL was way too low powered and way too far away…(the 4 on the right were seeds I planted after the fact, I’ll show some pics of those too later on)
After some super reading sessions of tutorials and forums at both GWE and 420mag, I came to one true conclusion….I am stupid, but not unwilling to learn. I was over thinking things and I really didn’t have the equipment or money to get a gigantic yield. Instead, I employed some extra HPS lights and ballasts I had in storage for my workplace lighting and payed more attention to my watering schedule and training methods and calmed down a little. I think it’s easy to get lost in playing with your plants too much.
I had 4 biggish plants going and I was attempting to sex them every single day… and then I saw this on two of them:
This was a hard day. I tossed two of the four I had been spending so much time on…Thank you tutorials! This is still strange to me because they had been on 24 hour light and I am not sure why they should have shown SO much sex. The great part of it was, I was able to practice my pruning without worry since they were garbage can no matter what… bright side?
I had been spending so much time reading and figuring out the best way to propagate bigger yields, I think I overlooked the initial stretch my plants had before I topped and started training them. I read about mainlining(nugbuckets) and manifolding(Nebula) and did that for the two big females I had remaining….(Dec 17th)
They are both happy and doing well, I just think the initial stretch of both are going to limit their growth pattern and yield…
This is a pic of the 2 big “yard girls†in the flower hut. Taken Dec 19th right as they were added to the flower hut. Both have been manifolded.
And this was taken moments ago. 12-28-18
More to come….
My grow is different. I started with seeds that I have no idea what strain or anything else about them except my girlfriend said she enjoyed the smoke from the buds they came from. The story is long and doesn’t need to be repeated here. Look for my introduction thread for more info on it.
My seeds started by being blown off my patio table and into my yard. I noticed them growing and stretching under my apricot tree and transplanted the best looking ones into small ½ gallon pots. From there I have been piecing together stuff best I can day to day and improving what I can when I can. I’ll document as best I can as I post these pictures.
Medium: Soil
Lights: 2 CFL 200W/2 LED 100w + a 250W HPS for Veg in different stages of growth. In my flower closet I am running a 250W HPS.
Nutes: basically normal green house stuff but high % water soluble fert that is listed as 15-12-12. I cut their suggested mixture to about ¼ strength.
October 23rd is when I discovered the sprouts:
I waited a few days to let them establish some roots and then I transplanted to ½ gallon pots and rigged up some lighting while I figured stuff out.
I didn’t take a lot of pictures as they matured as I was doing heavy reading on GWE and 420Mag forums/tutorials. But I have a few once I set them up in a new area. I weeded them down to 4 plants that I thought were gonna make it. I have never grown cannabis before but sweet lord I grow tomatos and peppers every year.
Here they are about a month after I transplanted….see the stretching? My grow CFL was way too low powered and way too far away…(the 4 on the right were seeds I planted after the fact, I’ll show some pics of those too later on)
After some super reading sessions of tutorials and forums at both GWE and 420mag, I came to one true conclusion….I am stupid, but not unwilling to learn. I was over thinking things and I really didn’t have the equipment or money to get a gigantic yield. Instead, I employed some extra HPS lights and ballasts I had in storage for my workplace lighting and payed more attention to my watering schedule and training methods and calmed down a little. I think it’s easy to get lost in playing with your plants too much.
I had 4 biggish plants going and I was attempting to sex them every single day… and then I saw this on two of them:
This was a hard day. I tossed two of the four I had been spending so much time on…Thank you tutorials! This is still strange to me because they had been on 24 hour light and I am not sure why they should have shown SO much sex. The great part of it was, I was able to practice my pruning without worry since they were garbage can no matter what… bright side?
I had been spending so much time reading and figuring out the best way to propagate bigger yields, I think I overlooked the initial stretch my plants had before I topped and started training them. I read about mainlining(nugbuckets) and manifolding(Nebula) and did that for the two big females I had remaining….(Dec 17th)
They are both happy and doing well, I just think the initial stretch of both are going to limit their growth pattern and yield…
This is a pic of the 2 big “yard girls†in the flower hut. Taken Dec 19th right as they were added to the flower hut. Both have been manifolded.
And this was taken moments ago. 12-28-18
More to come….
