1st Grow: Glue Gelato Auto - Sanjida

Glue Gelato babyyyyyyyy So the is the first week since germination and everything is going relatively smoothly. Not much to speak on to be honest. But the plant is looking good.

So since this is my first grow, I didn't do enough research to see how much I needed to feed them and when to begin but I just used some common sense to use minimal nutrients and did its first feed once the first pair of true leaves began growing. D12-D14 had some major growth in my opinion. Super excited to what this plant becomes!

This week started off extremely strong and I was pumped. I saw that the leaves towards the end of the week started looking....off. You guys could probably tell by looking at the pictures towards the end of the week. I had no idea what the deal was but I did some research and I think it was because of a phosphorus deficiency but maybe an overall deficiency. So once the plant dried enough, I picked up the feeding and fed it more nutrients and the plant responded extremely well. The pictures to how it responded can be seen on week 4.

Since I have finally caught up from back logging the prior weeks, I can finally get more in-depth to what has been happening. D22: -I have began LST on the plant. I think the stem has hardened too much so I can't make it as flexible as I want it to but it's all good. D23: - The new leaves look healthy and happy with no signs of deficiency so that means that it was definitely a problem with the amount of nutrients I gave it. D24: - I see some leaves coming from the crevasse of the main node. Does this mean LST is working? D25: - The leaves grew a lot today and needed to be trained and moved so that I expose more of the plant to the light. D26: - I took a better picture to show off the new sights sprouting some leaves :) hopefully these spots develop and give me more than 1 site. D27: - Leaves are getting pretty and the small sights are getting longer, thicker and bigger so that's a positive. I will be doing more LST and moving of the fan leaves to give light to smaller places. D28: - The other sites are growing!!! I am excited and ready for this plant to kick into flowering. Again, I am not 100% sure when this will happen because it is an autoflower.

So unfortunately, there has been a lot of change ups in my living situation and I currently have my friend watching over my plants so looking after them daily has not been a thing. Regardless, my friend is doing a great job with watching them and keeping me posted. So this week, I fed the same solution I fed my other plant which is switching to flower. He told me it looked like pistols but he was incorrect so I think that bothered the growth a tiny bit and gave the plants too much phosphorus and potassium. Other than that, its been growing a lot. Once I gave him the plants, they blew up. I also had him remove some super big fan leaves (2 or 3) to get more light to the lower places.

So flowering began. I kinda messed up with last weeks watering because I gave it some bloom nutrients because I mistaken leaves for pistols. This girl has survived and looks to be flowing pretty quickly now. Good progress and nice to see the hardwork and research has begun to look like it has paid off. I think with understanding how much to feed and water, hopefully everything will be smooth sailing from now until harvest time which I am hoping for will be mid July according to BF's specifications.

So this week was probably to most hectic week so far for the plants and myself. I was in-town for a few days so I was able to see the plants and I separated the branches to get more airflow and light between all branches. The main difference is that, as you can tell from the pictures, the plants have moved to a new location for a few days with only sunlight as the source of light. This didn't seem to affect the plants too much and they seemed fine once I moved them back to their original spot. They were left unattended for the rest of the week so I figured with the hot weather and someone not being able to see them each day, a flushing would be a nice thing to do since it fully saturates the pot, cleans out a majority of the salts and supplies enough water for the days they were left unattended.

I actually began this week for this plant with a negative, pessimistic mindset. I was thinking I got a bad seed/phenotype for the plant. I noticed that she wasn't or hasn't been thickening up. If you are new to my diary, I currently have a friend watching and taking care of the plant for me so he sends me pictures so I can't really judge in person. Regardless, he told me that she's doing fine and is growing. Hopefully she hits a point and blows up and gets thick. I might increase nutrients to help.

So I was becoming somewhat scared thinking that something was wrong with her cause she wasn't fattening up. I was thinking if I wasn't giving her enough P and K and I boosted it up a little from the previous watering and this watering. But as you can hopefully tell, she has been getting thicker at all points. I am not sure how much longer its gonna be for her. BF says ~10 weeks but I think she may go longer than that. She was also becoming yellow and a leaf fell off so this was telling me there wasn't enough N. I was hoping it wasn't too late so I gave her some N heavy nutrients and she has began recovering from the deficieny.

She is definitely thickening up. Pictures don't do her the justice of how nice she looks. Super dense, heavy and becoming thick. A week or two left before I chop her up.

Flushing week!. Flushed these plants this week and waiting for trichome color difference using my microscope. Once they turn cloudy and amber, I will give them some darkness and then cut to hang as branches to dry. Hopefully with me drying it this time, I can control the environment a lot better.

Just happiness. First grow done and hopefully more to come. I don't think I'll be doing a day by day for my next few journals just b/c I might not have enough time. Cheers to everyone who followed this grow and supported me with likes, comments and follows. Goodluck everyone!