Black Thumb's First Grow (EVER)

After a friend looked her over because of my stunted growth issue, they decided the pot was way too small and I wasn't letting her dry out enough between feedings. They also discovered the seed I ordered and the seed I received were not the same. She is NOT an auto. According to them, she isn't nute locked and she isn't root locked, yet. The "bloom" feed is an all stage feed in addition to the specific stage (veg) feed. They suggested a final replant and to let her dry more (feed when meter is 1-3 on a 10 scale). Also said I could use cider vinegar to lower the PH a bit as a quick but very temp fix until I can get a PH down chem but to flush (with molasses water?) before adding actual PH chem. Going to replant later today in a 3 gallon finisher, the largest pot I have, invest in a moisture meter (actually already ordered the one they suggested and it's on its way), and get some PH down chem, using vinegar if needed until arrival. Definitely a learning experience. That is why I'm growing ONE first.

Hmmm if it’s only isolated to one or a couple leaves, don’t stress it👍

Hi @BlackThumb! This is weird, it looks like your plant is re-vegging, are you sure you don't have any light-leak in your grow room? Nothing disturbing plants at night? Timer is working as usual? In this situation I'm afraid I would proceed to harvest now, because if this diagnosis is confirmed, your buds are going to loose their potency day after day. Keep us up-to-date, good luck with this 👊

Vinegar is also a good way to kill a living plant. If you have PH conecerns....check into the Advanced Nutrients PH Perfect nutrient line-up this has helped people I know and I started to compare it to my Humboldt Naturals with no complaints so far.

She's a beauty ;) Green and healthy, good job ;)

Good luck with the grow ;)

Damn dude this is disappointing to hear. Ultimately it’s still a haul dude so weigh it out and most importantly test er 😉 for experience sake. Congrats on the harvest dude - even if early.

Hi @BlackThumb! The trichomes onto the buds (don't look onto sugar leaves) should have changed from thin & clear / transparent to fat & milky / cloudy / opaque. Once you'll get only milky trichomes, the harvest window is open! For an energetic high, harvest before the first amber trichomes appear. For a couch-locking high, you'd rather harvest once 20-30% of the trichomes have turned amber/red, you'll get more CBN/CBD but less THC. From what I see on your last pictures, I think you still have 3 to 4 weeks to go. Hope this will help, keep us up-to-date and enjoy your harvest 👊

Runn’n good dude👍 Steady as she goes😎

Still works it! She’s looking quality!

Looking good 👍🏿

Looking very nice, good job ;)

Gettn er done dude 👍

Nice plant. That cotton candy put me on my ass. Careful with it at first. It's a super powerful head high like purple trainwreck.

That's a lovely lady ;)

👍🏿 Good job

Lookn good!

Coming along nicely ;)

Congrats on the harvest ;)

The harvest, a pitiful one, weighed in at a mere 24g dry and deseeded. Seeds were EVERYWHERE. So many seeds! The harvest was very early and all girls started to reveg due to a timer malfunction. After curing 30 days and testing. It smells off, still like Bengay. It is so very weak. Potent enough to relax but does nothing, absolutely nothing for pain, which is the biggest bummer. Not knockin those of you who like/love the smell/taste, I do not enjoy either. Aside from an IV drip of Dilaudid, it's the only thing that kills my back pain and Dilaudid make me feel like bugs are crawling all over me and starts shutting down my kidneys after a while, My doc has no problem with that but I do so I thought I'd give growing a try because I don't trust a lot of people and want to know exactly what I'm using. I used only 1 seed to grow all of my girls. The timer malfunction is what I assumed to be the cause of the herm, but after two more grows using clones from the same seed and otherwise near perfect conditions and no malfunctions did the same thing, I've concluded that the seed was the cause. I'm very disappointed. I'm angry. I'm hurting. I want to give up. I don't want to invest all the time and funds into this all over again, in case it happens again. BUT I have 4 more seeds and I'm also determined. This time I'm going to take the first two viable clones from seed 2 and force flower ASAP just to see if they herm as well, and possibly get me to a pain free "full" harvest. I'm not a praying person but I'll pray to Ra, the sun god, if that's what it takes at this point. I just want the pain to go away without having to resort back to Dilaudid.