Indoor OG Kush

Four seeds planted, one failed. The others doing well apparently. Have been very conservative with nutrients and water so far. Watering every 4-5 days but increasing quantity. So far, so good. Started seeds in Park seeds biorooters, something that I have been using since the 90's to start all sorts of plants. I plan to start nitrogen rich nutes very soon but not quite yet.

Things were slow between weeks 2-5 so I didnt post. However everything is looking up. Even the runtish plant is starting to catch up. I gave then two shots of high powered chemical fertilizer just to give them a push in early veg, which seems to work out just fine. I plant to transplant them right after the new moon, April 2 or thereabouts and start organic nutrients. Will repost then.

Yesterday was transplant day-first quarter, moon in Taurus (good day for that if you follow lunar cycles). Went very well, girls were topped last week and placed in 7 gallon grow bags filled with Fox Farms Ocean forest (60%) mixed with compost, perlite and coco coir (40%). I need to think about new lighting--a viparspectra 2500? To replace a Mars Hydro 600 and an old 600 blurple light? 4X4 tent.

Growth spurt after transplanting. Was having very high levels of humidity, but I did not want to turn on the exhaust fan just yet. I find that leaving the top corner of the tent unzipped helps with that. Apparently humidity rises to the top. No nutrients this cycle since the transplants are in hot soil (FFOF). Maybe in a week, start them on grow nutrients. Am removing some fan leaves to get the lower buds to grow out. Will scrog net them soon, wait another week or two. Still thinking over a new led light to replace the three that I have now (mars-hydro 600, blurple light also rated at 600, an another LED light, very cheap 300).

Preparation for scrogging these plants. Found these clips on ebay to bend some of the branches into place. Watered (rainwater from barrel) with added CalMag only, will not add nutes until next week, since the nutrients from the hot soil (FFOF) have not been depleted yet. Everything going smoothly so far; the runt plant is now outpacing the others.

Big week for our girls: scrogged; nitrogen fertilizer and now ready for the flip. More good news; decided to order a Viparspectra xs 2000 to replace the two 600watts, one of them an old higrow blurple. Being delivered tomorrow! Can hardly wait. The current lights are fine for veg but the yields in the past grow have been disappointing.

Big milestones this week--flipped to flower and shiny new Viparspectra XS 2000 to replace two older lights. I took the plunge! My mother's day present to myself-sure beats a box of chocolates. As for the plants, I detected preflowers today.

Turned the power all the way up on the new Viparspectra XS200. Still selectively removing leaves and larfy stuff underneath the scrog net. To control humidity, I open up the tent during the day, and close it when the lights go out. I set an alarm on my mobile phone to remind me. Yes I do have an exhaust fan with a charcoal filter but I am trying to conserve power (current, hydro) and putting that off as long as I can. Humidity not terrible yet as it is still cool outdoors. So far, everything looks great, have not seen so much as a single fungus gnat, quite the contrary from last year. Plants have had a noticeable improvement since the new light was installed.

I broke down and activated the exhaust fan. 85% humidity overnight simply won't do now that they are in flower. However the exhaust fan is on a timer; turns on for an hour every three hours. Hope that's enough. During the day, I open up the top flap of the tent. Ventilator fans, one fixed, one oscillating are on 24/7. Dimmer now up to 100% and I still selectively and carefully remove leaves that block light from the buds now cropping up all over the place.

Growing nicely; may have to raise the light by the end of this week. The weather outside still on the cool side which keeps the tent humidity low; well, except for a brief spurt into the 90's. Am keeping an eye on it--if I have to run the exhaust fan 24/7, then so be it. But everything good for now. Update: three days later I find one plant is exhibiting a bronzy margin around the leaves. I wonder what this is? I hope its not a deficiency--this is only on one plant.

Humming alone. Biggest challenge right now is controlling humidity levels. Outdoor weather is favorable right now, with low humidity. But that may change quickly. The light was raised-incredible the difference the light upgrade made. Previous grows were on the skimpy side by comparison.

Getting very close-I see some amber here and there. My guess is another ten days to harvest. Decided to run the exhaust fan through the night, as humidity levels are rising. Not risking losing these buds to mold at this stage in the game. During the day, I open the top half of the tent, which brings the humidity levels down to tolerable levels.

This is the last before harvest: this morning, I shut off the Viparspectra and removed the timer from the exhaust fan and left it on. I noticed a spot of mold last night--time to chop them down before there is nothing left to harvest. In a few hours, will cut them down and begin the drying/curing process. I was going to harvest by the weekend anyway; I checked trichs and they were at 25% amber. This is fine for us.

Drying cycle finished; now rushing to jar them up before they get bone dry. Hygrometer read 45%. I place a piece of a corn tortilla in the jar and it rose to 75% I don't leave it in there do I? I will pull out the tortilla pieces tonight and see what it reads after an hour. Overanxious relatives sampled a bud; said it was very stoney but a bit harsh:)

Not much stretch on this one, stayed very bushy and compact. Towards the end, found a very small amount of mold but in terms of quantity, very insignificant. Very pretty colors near harvest. Well worth my efforts.