2022 Outdoor grow, zone 5A

Planted seeds in dirt at the end of February. Planted 11 seeds, 9 popped.

Planted seeds in dirt at the end of February. Planted 11 seeds, 9 popped. After a month, the remaining 5 GDP sexed out. Two were male, so I relocated them to different friend's houses. The three females are pictured in the crappy pic I uploaded.

Started giving plants both blue and red light during the day and just red light during night. Before this point, I was only using blue spectrums to increase root growth. Bigger roots equals bigger fruits, right? Lollipopped plants and did some LST along with a little defoliation.

Still training branches. Haven't trimmed the bushes in a week and starting to see good inner branch growth. Deciding if I should do sea of green, SCRog.. I have to decide soon to know if I'm going to clone or not.

SCROGging all the plants once I put them outside. Had to remove some shade leaves to open up inner nodes so they can stretch.

Another light defoliation along with rotating the plants. This week marked the start of the second week of May. I grabbed some 3 gallon pots and made some more soil to transplant next week and hopefully move them outside.

Did some more pruning to open up more sunlight on fresh nodes. P2 looks like the phenotype that will bush the easiest. P3 also has no trouble bushing out, but doesn't shoot branches as well as P2. P1 grows tall and has big gaps between branches, so it's probably best for mainlining and planting outside. P2 is developing chlorosis. Further inspection revealed that the soil was holding too much water, but just with this one plant. You can notice which one in the pictures. I repotted it in new soil and didn't water it for almost a week after I transplanted it.

Up-potting successful! Plants were left outside over the night all week long and got their first rain. Looking like they loved it and each plant grew a noticable amount. P2 is still recovering, but looking much better.

Up-potted again and placed them in their forever holes! I cut the bottom of the pots off so the plants roots can keep growing. I also trellised them in. It's a bit loose and I have it kind of high up on the plants, but I think it will work out just fine.

P2 is the size of P3, again. It really took off after it healed up. I'm pretty sure these 3 plants are going to fill the whole 5'×15'trellis. if a 3'×3' area on an indoor grow can yield a pound, this should yield close to 9lbs. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures this week, just recorded a couple entries in my written journal.

End of June-July 2nd: They are growing into the trellis quite well. Each plant gets, quite literally, full sun. From twilight to twilight. P3 has fallen behind. It doesn't seem to want to grow out, only up. Each time I need to train a branch, I have to supercrop it due to how thick and rigid the branches are. It has the most foliage on it, as well. It's a pain to trim off shade leaves that cover potential bud nodes. The other two phenotypes are fantastic, though. They don't care how they grow, which is really nice.

Still alive and kickin'. Not much to report, other than they are filling the canopy very nicely. P2 is going to put out a fat yield, along with P3. P1 has potential, but isn't filling the center of her canopy very well. Due to how high up the trellis is, maybe?

July 16th: They are starting to shoot hairs from different nodes and not just from calyxes. I think they are entering flower! Next entry might be the first flower entry. Powdery mildew found it's way to the center of my plants, even though they are pretty opened up. I think it is due to the insane humidity that has been in the air this month. I'm going to make a batch of apple cider vinegar, non-detergent soap, and water. Hopefully, it will nip this PM right up. Oh, the trellis squares are 3" that have been stretched to 4". Just mentioning it for a size reference.

July 22nd: Decided to do some serious defoliation along with more training. I finally took some pictures that don't suck all that bad, but they still kind of suck. P2 looks like it's in pre-flower, getting pretty bright at bud nodes and on fresh growth.

July 30th: Once again, I'm really sorry about the crappy pictures. I'm working on finding a camera to use. Still low stress training every day and starting to do foliar sprays of Dr. Earth and silica blast. I'm finally starting to feed the soil as well as the plants, as well. I've been wanting to do that ever since I put them outside, but hadn't found any good molasses or bio-force. Well, I finally got my hands on them just in time for flowering! I really hope to see a big jump in the next couple weeks.

August 6th: Did a lot of defoliating to get ready for flower. I opened up most potential bud nodes to get sunlight all day long. I accidentally broke a couple very small branches, but it wasn't a big deal. I only lost two buds, potentially. Did some more lollipopping, as well. I'm going to wait until they slow their stretching down a bit before I completely finish up lollipopping. I put worm castings over the craft blend (2 cups) top feed to help break it down to become soluble faster. This is the last time I'm going to feed them this. I water with molasses water(I add bio-force every three weeks, too) and foliar spray with BuildABloom and Silica Blast. The plants love getting that foliar spray and it always looks like they grow inches by the next day.

August 12th: Still stretching, it seems. On the plus side, I actually got some decent pictures of my plants! Sprinkled a tablespoon of BuildASoil's BuildABloom on the top of the soil of each plant and watered it with molasses water. Did some light defoliation, as well as low-stress training.

August 19th: They are finally done stretching and starting to make more calyxes and pistils. I'm loving the tye-dyed leaves that are starting to show!

August 27th: Haven't been doing anything but watching. She's growing fast and popping out little buds all over. I could have filled the trellis this past week, but decided to see if I could get some big buds instead.

September 3rd: Birthday weekend! Still just, well, watching the canopy grow. It's about 8"-10" above the trellis now and looking like it's going to push out a LOT of buds. They seem a little behind a friend's phenotype by close to a week, but I chalk that up to my defoliation tactics and how many buds this plant is pushing. They turned into seriously heavy eaters. I'm giving them a 1/2 teaspoon/gallon dose of BuildABloom every other day. It gave them their color back, so I'm going to slow down on the nutes and see if they are caught up, or if I need to keep feeding them like that for the next few weeks.

September 10th: Still just... Waiting. I'm pretty sure they are going to start packing on bud weight now. The last week and a half has been bordering on 100% humidity the whole time. It was either raining, or misting. So, of course, powdery mildew is now showing it's stupid spores. I have everything thing I need to fight it off without stunting my plants, so let the treatments begin. Effin' sigh, Cotton.

September 17th: It's been super-wet. Still. The buds are doing good. Most of them are around 6"-10" tall from the trellis and bulking. They are covered in trichomes to the point where I'm wondering where else they can grow. Even the fan leaves have trichomes growing on them, which I think is really cool. I still have powdery mildew. It seems like every time I spray, it rains immediately after or before I'm done spraying. This weather has been terrible throughout this month. I really hope it shapes up over the next month so my plants can finish comfortably.

September 24th: It's been getting colder and colder out. It's starting to make some color creep out. P3(middle plant) is going to be nice and purple. Every bud has calyxes that are turning purple, sugar leaves that are streaked and covered, and bright violet and fuschia hairs. Each plant is getting nice and frosty. When I check for botrytis invasion signs, I'm always amazed at how white the buds are getting. Hopefully, only a few more weeks until they are fully finished.

It took forever to trim off just the big fan leaves to get the branches ready to hang. Each plant had at least 8 main branches, so I chopped them in as few pieces as possible.