grow diary (journal) week5 by Papa_T

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Growing_With_Friendscommentedweek 53 years ago

Looks like you’re doing so well! They look healthy and happy. Good job, and good luck!

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Growing_With_Friends, yeah I find it really cool to watch them grow and evolve over time and they grow up so fast unlike kids, these ones don’t talk back 🤣 What kind of light did you get? Well if you got questions about setting up and indoor grow, I’m not the most knowledgeable guy but shoot some questions whenever bro.

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Growing_With_Friendscommented3 years ago

@Papa_T, set it, and forget it! Lol that’s pretty much how my grows going. I just got a light a bad ass light so I have to get my indoor set up going. That’s where the challenge is, and I’ve never done that. You’re ahead of me in that realm, so I’ll hopefully learn from your mistakes 😂 my dad used to grow, so I’m hoping he lends a hand from time to time. I do enjoy looking out my door at those big bushy beautiful ladies.

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Growing_With_Friends, that’s cool you got your own compost going on. To be honest up until this yeah I haven’t ever really had much interest in horticulture in general. I bought some beans a while back at a corner store in Ottawa and just decided to crack em. I was helli ill prepared with just a shitty pot of shrub soil and a 50W light from Costco hahaha. I’ve been addicted to growing marijuana for 79 days now. Experience is key bro. Books and YouTube university will only take ya so far. I’ve also learned to just make decisions and live with them, if things go wrong try and rectify and learn from your mistakes. Also trying a few different things to see what works and what doesn’t. I wanna grow it all and do everything now I just don’t have the space 🤣. Well we’ve made this far we gotta be doing something right. I also learned from a friend I had a decade ago. He grew and it was fun times. I retained some of what I learned with him and his knowledge has helped me a little at the beginning. It’s huge learning curve man. Or maybe I’m making things too complicated, I’m making it!!!

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Gerryboy82dcommentedweek 63 years ago

Woww you got skills yourself pal looking very nice

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Gerryboy82d, Right!! If this is results we’re getting now, it’s definitely gonna be killer once we get honed in brother. I can’t wait.

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Gerryboy82dcommented3 years ago

@Papa_T,I'm a newbie myself pal... imagine what we can do in a few grows 😁🤪🤔lol

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Gerryboy82d, I’m just scraping by here my friend. Still working through a huge learning curve. Thank you for the kind words and stopping by brother! For a first grow I’ll consider this still a success. She did make some nice buds.

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Wackytabacky_420commentedweek 93 years ago

Hey bro I read this whole diary from beginning to end and I have to say I'm making all the exact same mistakes u made in my first grow! But to see your outcome reassures me that I will get there! Really nice informative diary. My plants are on day 55 and nowhere near where your plant was at day 55. I prob still have 4-5 weeks to go on an auto flower! So much for speedy grow and harvest!! My day 55 is whole plant life 55 days is yours just 55 days in flower or is that plant age including veg? So I maybe doing worse than u on my first grow!

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Wackytabacky_420, oh yeah man. It’s weed. There’s a reason it’s called weed 🤣. It’s resilient as fuck this plant. She’ll take abuse well. I mean the mistakes we make sometimes just hinder quality and yield. No when you saw Day 55 you were looking at day 55 of flowering. Once I flip to flower I don’t really care about how long the over all life of the plant.

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DoDrugs420commentedweek 63 years ago

Well you got skills with Blue jack.

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@DoDrugs420, well looks like my faking is making it! 🤣 Thanks man. In actuality I’m having a hard time keeping her happy. The leaves are pretty trashed. The buds look nice n fat though. The only saving grace of my grow is my HLG Scorpion Diablo, that’s the real star here. Thanks for checking out my grow and I really appreciate the kind words brother.

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Horseluisweedcommentedweek 03 years ago

beautiful Janky Jane❤️

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daveleetraviscommentedweek 83 years ago

Nice grow, really like the training. Good luck😸

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@daveleetravis, yeah it’s a bit of a strategic thing to do. I make three cuts and I try to get 3 “Ys” out of the main stem. Just gotta practice it.

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daveleetraviscommented3 years ago

@Papa_T, I do top them around node 6 and a bit of LST but never seem to get uniformity.

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@daveleetravis, you’ve never topped a plant before? Well if you got any questions just holler brother!!

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MrStinkycommentedweek 63 years ago

Lookin good Pappy! Just a couple weeks to go!

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@@MrStinky, hahaha yeah I hear ya. I do wish weed to be legal everywhere. I think once the the world police (USA) decides to legalize it. Change will come globally. I hope at least. Yeah I like the cheeses too. They’re nice. The cheeses seemto be a more predominant in Europe vs North America. It’s hard to come by around here. I have some critical cheese auto flower seeds along with some White Widow so those are gonna be my third round of fun. I have a friend in Germany who grows and he said to check out Zamnesia. Unfortunately they only distribute in Europe so that isn’t a seed bank I can pan purchase from. I purchase my seeds from amsterdamseedsupplydot com. I make an order and get a free pair of socks 👌🤣.

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MrStinkycommented3 years ago

@Papa_T, nice! Good work with the cloning, I have cloned other variety of plants with varying success in the past but never a weed. I am somewhere where it is not permitted to grow so I am sticking with autos for now. I am already planning the next two grow as well, got a seeds mafia competition coming up with some chese plants (amazing flavour if you never tried it) and then a grow sponsored by Zamnesia for Blueberry which I havent even seen for about 15 years and wanted that hit of nostalgia. Good thing with autos is pick the flavour you want, look after it well and say 10-12 weeks later you have a pretty much guaranteed harvest - you could even have 3-4 in a tent under basically the same conditions, one seedling one veging one hitting flower and one finishing off, a harvest every 3 weeks. If you have the patience fir a photo but want to try an auto...maybe check out Auto Ultimate or something? They be 14-16 week monsters. I am already planning a 4x4 tent rather than the 2x2, and a bigger light, and exhaust, and oscillators, and and and and...god I hope it becomes legal here soon, gonna be like the Garden if Weeden up in here.

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@@MrStinky, Before I sent Jane into flower I took some cuttings and made some clones of her because if it turned out to be a phenomenal phenotype I wanted some back up. Plus I just wanted to test run my cloning abilities. It was a rough go but I’m happy to say that I’m 100% success rate in my clones. Actually I see myself takings cuttings of new phenos before they go into flower. If you don’t back up the genetic before flowering and the smoke is nice, it’s gone forever. After this round of Penelope and two clones. I wanna try a few autoflowers for the next round. Hahaha already have my third grow planned and I’m not even done the first.

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Buddhakushcommentedweek 95 months ago

Hey man. Thanks for the advice on my question about the light bleaching . I wasn't really worried. More curious than anything. I'm using a new light that's more powerful than I'm use to so I just don't want to cook the ladies. Good looking grows you have man. I followed you.

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Papa_Tcommented5 months ago

@Buddhakush, yeah at least you’re using something to measure the light output. That’s good to have two sources of information. I use the Apogee MQ-500 quantum light meter to do my readings. Does your light have a dimmer on it? Or is it straight on and off? What I tend to do is keep my lights further away and then adjust the light to give me the PAR value I want.

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Buddhakushcommented5 months ago

@Papa_T, I have a Quantum PAR meter and I compare it to the photone app. That app is fairly spot on if you have a new enough phone. I just raised my lights up 6 inch since I have plenty of room. Took me down to 575-650 across the canopy. Haven't raised the lights in 3 weeks until now. The plants grew into them. Just started showing signs of stress this evening so I'm sure I'll be fine.

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Papa_Tcommented5 months ago

@Buddhakush, haha thanks man. Those grows are few years old now. I just fired up my tent about a week or two ago. I got some auto flowers I’m starting to muck with for the first time. Though I do think you may be pushing a bit more PAR than you should. For VEG I don’t push more than 600 and for flowering I push it up to 800. But if you take a look at few of my grows the plants did pretty much the same thing when they went into flowering. What are you using to measure how much light output you’re pushing?

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OGSeshcommentedweek 53 years ago

Good luck, mate.

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@OGSesh, ouuuf try and get a dehumidifier up in there man. Too much RH for flowering. Yeah I only saw a handful of them. So I think I caught it early. I watched the soil for a bit and they seem to just be on the under side of the pot. Oh well I think I got it under control. Spent my afternoon fucking around and cleaning trays. It is what it is. No matter how clean you try to keep your space can’t stop microscopic life forms. 🤣🤷‍♂️🏼

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OGSeshcommented3 years ago

@Papa_T, I'm also a little worried now. My girls are starting to bloom, getting tarry buds and other sticky shit. Humidity stays at about 75% throughout the day. I have good ventilation, but I'm afraid of mold. I hope your buds will be ok, mate.

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@OGSesh, thanks brother. I’m stressing a bit right now. I need this one to end. I found some spider mites under the pot and they were walking around on the pot elevator. Fuckin busted out my safers 3 in 1 on that shit. Tomorrow is her last day under the lights and then it’s 72 hours dark and then chop. Fingers crossed 🤞.

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Growing_With_Friendscommentedweek 73 years ago

They’re coming along so well!!!! I was trying to finish our last convo but couldn’t find it and I see your girls are doing fantastic. Set it and forget it seems to be working

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Growing_With_Friends, absolutely brother patience is key and we’ll be rewarded. I actually still have a fair bit before I get to try my weed. At least a good month and a half of drying and curing before it’s actually smokeable. Well hopefully the weather keeps going for you to finish it off quite nicely. Yeah I’m thinking it’s quite possible that Jane was heavily underfed. Still trying to figure out my methods to my madness. But once I figure that out oh boy watch out!! Gonna be growing some real dank sticky icky!! Be the turtle brother!! Slow n steady wins the race. 🤙

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Growing_With_Friendscommented3 years ago

@Papa_T,i still have 6 weeks if the weather works on my favor. I’m still pounding my plants with bloom and they seem to be eating it right up. I’m almost jealous that you’ll be tasting your harvest soon! But slow and steady wins the race

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Growing_With_Friends, hahaha yeah this messages system things get lost so easily. Thanks yeah she’s got some issues with yellow fan leaves but I’m close to harvesting so the flush is on and let the plant consume itself and fatten up them buds.

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Themythicalchristinecommentedweek 53 years ago

Gorgeous plant 🌱 May she continue to grow heavy; good luck with the coming harvest 🌾

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Themythicalchristine, thanks again brother. I appreciate the words. All I can do is get better with experience. Thanks for the welcome into the community. Look forward to meeting great people. Cheers bro.

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Themythicalchristinecommented3 years ago

@Papa_T, research and development. This is a great community full of incredible minds and experience. I have learned much myself from these amazing people around us. Good luck my friend

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Themythicalchristine,Thank you. I’m having some trouble with it right now but I’m gonna have to ride this out. I made some mistakes on this grow. Hence why I’m here to learn from more experienced growers. I can only learn so much alone.

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BearBudscommentedweek 93 years ago

GREAT JOB!!! What great structure and super dense nugs. How tall was that plant in the end?

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BearBudscommented3 years ago

@Papa_T,Still a great yield all things considered. Nice work!

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@BearBuds, haha thanks man. Though unfortunately all the main tops had to get junked. My RH got to high near the end and because it was tight dense buds the inside molded a bit. So I harvested 97 grams total and 26.5 grams ended up getting wasted. But still 70 grams for one plant I’m happy with the results for a first grow. Thanks for stopping by brother, I appreciate the kind words. 🤙

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Sparklescommentedweek 93 years ago

Nice. Congrats on the harvest!

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Sparklescommented3 years ago

@Papa_T, all good man.

Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Sparkles, thanks brother. Sorry for the late reply. GD seems to notify when they feel like. I just happen to notice the message now.

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Katalistcommentedweek 93 years ago

The master!✊

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Katalist, where’s the master? Lol thanks bro.

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JustGrowWithIt420commentedweek 93 years ago

Beautiful harvest growmie! 👌 Keep up the great work and enjoy!👊☮️

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@JustGrowWithIt420, ahhhh man aye I appreciate the kind words brother. I’m glad you stopped by to say hi!! We’ll see how she smokes in a few weeks. I can’t wait. 🤙

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Budboxbiocommentedweek 03 years ago

I see what your saying lol

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Budboxbio, Yeah so when you look at your seedling now 🤣 its much nicer than what Jane was right? Lol. I actually was going to give up on her early on. I have a friend in Germany he said no to keep her going and that she’d grow out of it. She did, she was also my only female out of the lot. So keep it up with your plants brother and they’ll take care of you. Cheers!! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my grow.

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Inganjawetrustcommentedweek 83 years ago

Good looking plant you have there man 🌱🥦🥦🥦✌️

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Inganjawetrust, Aye!!! Thanks grow fam!! It’s been a rough go but we’re getting there. She’s got a few more hours under the light and then she’s going dark for 72 starting tonight. Appreciate you stopping by and showing some love. Cheers 🤙

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DeathInccommentedweek 83 years ago

Wow! Just beautiful! Great job with your grow!!!

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@DeathInc, Thanks, it’s actually been a bit of a rough go but an intense learning experience. Thanks for checking it out 🤙

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kizdogcommentedweek 83 years ago

She's looking beautiful! Well done this is super impressive dude. Keep going and you'll be at the top of the game in no time!

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@kizdog, man thank you for the kind words!! It means a lot to me to have some recognition from other growers. Yeah I feel like I’m on the right track. I got into this to be able to start up a business as a licensed micro grower in Canada. I really just need to get all my information ducks in a row and show that I’ve built up some infrastructure and prove to whoever I need to that I’m not fucking around. I want to be able to sell my weed legally and be recognized as a craft grower. But lets be honest my HLG Scorpion Diablo is the real rock star in my grow. Again I really appreciate the kind words. Thank you for visiting. 🤙

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Blabinacommentedweek 83 years ago

Yeah great job, coco seems definitly to have a massiv impact on how roots grow, which means having healty plants. Mine are not like that ;D

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Papa_Tcommented3 years ago

@Blabina, hey hey. Well it’s not just coco it’s a sphagnum peat moss coco perlite mix. Basically Pro Mix but that’s a brand. Well I have to also say that I’m playing with a heavy hitting light in my flower tent. That is the real rock star of my growing success. Thanks for the kind words.

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Jane (first grow) Strain- Blue Jack