First grow ever!

GrowFanatic Today is day one. Seedlings are in Fox farm Ocean Forest soil. Very first grow. Feeding fox farm big bloom nutrients at 25% strength. At day 7, plant 2 seems to be growing well. It is working on its first set of leaves. Not sure if it is a little behind or not. Plant 1 is mott growing very well. Both are in the same dirt, and getting same nutrients.

GrowFanatic The start of week 2! Plant 2 is looking healthy. Not much growth over the past day. Plant one is slowly catching up. Starting to introduce CalMag. I'm using distilled water. The city water here is terrible for plants. I lowered the light from 6" to 4.5". With the lighting being CFL T5HO I am hoping the plants with get a little more intensity. Plant 2 is starting on its 3 node. The plant is staying short. Not much vertical growth. If I get close to it, it has a really nice smell. Plant 1 is catching up. On day 12, I think I have plant one too much water this morning. Her leaves are drooping a little. Today is day 13. Plant one is catching up quickly. Not sure what is going on with plant 2. Any advise?

GrowFanatic Made it to week three! Plant two became root bound and slightly under watered. I think that set me back a couple days. She was moved to a one gallon phat sack. She looks much better now. I'm surprised at how short they are. Both are working on their third node. Both were topped after third node. Day 21. Plants really haven't grown much since they were topped 4 days ago. Leaves on plant 1 have some yellowing, not sure why. I've been feeding them distilled water ph'd to 6.5. Any idea what's going on?

GrowFanatic We made it to week 4! Everything is looking well. The girls seem like they are starting to recover from being topped. I'm trying two different training techniques on them. Let's see how it goes! I took some advise and gave her the recommended feeding from fox farm at 25% strength and they loved it! Update day 26: plants showed slight nute burn. Watered today with straight water ph'd to 6.5. Last feeding was a little much. Didn't hurt them much but did show some signs of slight nute burn. I was hoping that they would be larger than they are by now. But it looks like it might be a long veg...

GrowFanatic I decided to make this grow a micro grow. With the scale I have available and the light used I feel that it is going to stretch up quite a bit. I gave her a little clean up pruning and flipped the lights to the bloom lights. Set her to 12/12. Wish me luck! Day 33, plant plants are looking amazing. Plant 2 is stretching like crazy. I have the raise the light an inch every other day. Hopefully it doesn't keep it up. The nodes are like 3 inches apart! Plant one is staying nice and bushy. She looks amazing. For some reason the very top of the main branches is getting some yellowing. Looking at pictures of first flower it appears to be normal. Any advise? Day 35, today is the last day of the first week of flower. Still no preflowers yet. But I think I had a decent light leak where I had to run the cords out. Got that taped up nicely so hopefully no more leaks. Any advise?

GrowFanatic We made it to week 2 of flower. I forgot to water yesterday, they were a little droopy this morning. Still no pre flower. Hopefully soon! I'll update as needed. Day 37, plant 2 has pre flowers at the top but none on plant 1 yet. Day 39, I gave the plants sledgehammer to rinse out some build up. Plants were showing signs of nutrient burn. I just got a new kit so come Sunday these girls will be going under hps for the rest of flower. Still no signs of any buds anywhere. Day 40, still no bud sites anywhere. Plant one finally has preflowers. I think starting next week I'll move it into the hps tent.

GrowFanatic So finally starting week 3 of flower. The plants are looking well. I decided to take them from under CFL to HPS. Right now it is set at 600 but can go up to 1000 watts. Day 46, we have buds starting!

GrowFanatic We have made it to the beginning of week 4 of flower. Both girls are looking great and are stretching like crazy. They weren't into flower at 8 inches tall and now are almost 30 inches tall! The smell is excellent. We have trichromes starting!

GrowFanatic Day 57: We are making progress. I'm keeping the nutrient amount the same as week four. I feel like I am a week behind at least. Everything is looking good. No issues besides slow bud growth. Tricrome production is going well. Day 61, leaves on plant two are curling. Not sure what is going on. I'm thinking maybe heat stress.

GrowFanatic I'm surprised I've made it this far. Both plants look good. Buds are still super small. Maybe my expectations for bud size is wrong but I could cover most of them up with a quarter. Especially at this week. Any advise?

GrowFanatic Made it another week. This week im going to feed week four nutrients. I'm starting to see new pistil growth. They look like they are getting fatter. There's still hope!

GrowFanatic This has definitely been a learning experience. I've been feeding way too much nitrogen, way too small of a pot, temps too high. But I learned. Here we are on the next week. Hopefully they both start to fill up a little. Looks like they are. Cheers!

GrowFanatic We made it another. Wow did I screw up last week! But we made it thru that and we are still going! The girls are still showing a little sign of nute deficiency but much better than where we were. Not sure how much longer is left on these two. I'm assuming a couple weeks. I think after this week I will go to water only.

GrowFanatic We are on the tenth week of flower! She is definitely finishing up. No nutrients, only water ph'd to 6.5. I think at the end of this week plant one will be getting the chop. Plant two I believe still has a couple weeks. Not very many red hairs on her and trichomes are clear.

GrowFanatic Here we are again. Girl number 2 is making a great come back. Girl number one was harvested. There was nothing there but larf. It wasn't worth dragging out. Number 2 tips are actually filling out and the buds are really dense.

GrowFanatic Another week! Waiting for this last girl to finish up. The smell has changed in the past week which I thought was interesting. Definitely a positive for me. The bottom half of the plant is mostly brown hairs, the top idea mostly white hairs. Just giving ph'd water.

GrowFanatic Can't be much longer now. 3/4 of the plant is brown pistils with cloudy trichomes. The top is still mainly white pistils with cloudy trichomes. I think I started water only a couple weeks too early. I'm about 3-4 weeks of only water now but she still looks good.

GrowFanatic I will update more once dried. She smells amazing. The first girl produced just over an ounce. I believe the second girl will double that. I have tried a sample. It was rather harsh due to not enough cure time. The taste was great. Energetic feeling.