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I take care of my plants more than I take care of my wife. Her words. But loving life. No longer an addict to the streets. Cannabis saved my life. 100%

Well this week was very interesting. Me learning new things along this journey to growing cannabis. I don't grow cannabis just a grow cannabis this is my actual medicine. So me learning a new transplant method of adding more potassium before you transplant. And it helps the plants not to be in that much shock if you add more potassium when transplanting. And all I water is with one gallon for all three plants. But all three plants won't get the whole gallon I'll throw the rest to the trees outside.

I'm still new to growing and even though you shouldn't be feeding your plants nutrients. I still did because my soil didn't have no nutrients to start off with. Calling it charging the soil.

So this week I decided to try this new technique I learned. Called the main line topping. It involves cutting half the plant, and leaving the bottom half exposed to the light. I might say I'm quite impressed with other people's results. So many tops to look forward

This week was kind of tricky for me because I started to notice some rough spots on the leaf of my plant. It can mean a couple things. One being a cal-mag deficiency, or it can be from over-watering. But the culprit is over watering. Because I like to check my runoff. And with that you have to overwater your plants so water can drain from the bottom.

So it's getting to that point where the pots are starting to look very small for my plants and I can also see the root system coming out the bottom of the pots. So that is the big sign of needing to be transplanted to bigger pots.

Well after transplanting my plants into 3 gallon bags. I decided to wait to switch my lights to 12/12 and I decided to monster crop my plants. Plants are so much like us it's crazy. Just like we lift weights to break muscles so they can grow bigger. Once we break their stems they grow twice as big.

This week was exciting. Because come on now who doesn't like flowers. LOL but in all seriousness I see pistols starting to come out and I think one of my plants is starting to turn male. I think I'm seeing some ball sacks but not sure yet I wait another few days until I can see more. But I noticed that in one particular plant. It was more stressed than the other two. Due to checking runoff and drowning the root system a lot. A lot of the times I checked the runoff once a week. So I am definitely drowning The Roots. Also the past week I tried a method I read up on called bud back bulking, so my dumbass decided to pinch all the new growth and didn't know about the newer growth that was going to pop out of the flowers. So it's a good method to try and during week four and five when the flowers are already out.

So this week for The learning experience on what not to do. And plant 1 (P.1) was the only plant that was stressed out a lot during veg. This is why it turned male. Between putting an air stone in the soil, over watering and bud back bulking method some might say I'm a little bit impatient and like to over love my plants. Still a lot of learning to do. And the purpose for me mainlining my plants is to expose the bottom half that people usually lollipop. Also P2 got a different feeding than p3. Due to high PPM runoff. So I fed P2 1200 and P3 got fed 300 ppms.

All I can say is things are starting to fill out and look pretty good. The smell is starting to get more terpene like. I'm loving it. P.2 got a watering with 1.9 mL of explode and 1.5 ml of silica which added to zero ppms and a pH of 6.3. P.3 got 950 ppms

I'm getting more into seeing what my plant needs as far as water and nutrients. Each plant doesn't need as much watering just enough for it to last a couple days until it's dry. But one thing I'm trying to learn is how much should you feed per week and how much should you put in your watering. Because you're essentially watering twice a week one with food one without. Or me I use a low PPM watering . About 200 ppms with or without cal-mag.

So in the morning I noticed my plans were dry and drooping so I decided to water them with a half a liter per plant. With 1.5 ml of carpinator making it 240 ppms in the a.m. and at night I watered with 2.5 iters. For two plants. I'm still trying my budback bulking technique. But I am doing it her branch every other day. And I noticed on one of my plans is having nutrient lockout. So I will be watering it with zero ppms for a couple days. I really don't like to flush.

2.5 L per plant. Then I'm going to be watering them with 200 ppms of purpenator. This is Day 36 of flower. Day 92 in general. I also purchased a oyster mushroom grow bag. It gives off CO2 because the fermentation in the bag I thought it was pretty cool and cheap to buy.

So this is my second grow , officially. And each grow I learn new things. Learning from my mistakes and being patient are my keywords for this journal. I guess there is a system where cannabis can only intake less than $1,600 ppms anything more will burn your plants and understanding that if they eat as well so the only way I can check my runoff is if I flood my plants with about a gallon depending on what stage they're in to get about a half a cup of runoff. Each time they show signs of toxicity. I don't buy any flashy soil. I like fox farm. I make my own soil with peat moss, perlite, vermiculite.

So tricomes were checked I like the way they looked Amber coming in. Trying the method/ bud-back bulking. It didn't work too well because I think I tried too early on week 2. Doing a little research I should have tried it in week four or five. But lesson learned more to come. FLUSH TIME!

This is my second official grow. I loved every second of it. My wife says I take care of my plants more than I take care of her. LOL but cannabis has saved me in so many ways. I no longer take mental health medication because of this medicine. And me growing it service of purpose in my therapeutic mentality. It keeps me busy and my mind occupied. I'd rather do this than be homeless again.