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My first grow!
24 hours in a glass of water. Transferred to moist paper towel on seed starter map. All popped. Planted 48 hours later in 5 gallon per-soaked fabric pot.
Soil is Fox Farms Ocean Forest
So my first grow hasn’t come without its struggles. All seeds popped out of the ground 2 days after being planted, and I proceeded to overwater them.
At least that’s what it appears based on my research and how the Critical+, and to a lesser extent the wedding glue, are showing with their downward curled leaves and the soil being quite moist for several days after their watering.
Despite being watered the same amount, the hulkberry appears to be thriving and you can even see the soil looks a little lighter/dryer, which further makes me think that overwatering was the issue.
Wedding glue recovered nicely throughout the week, but the critical+ still appears a little flimsy and twisted, but hopefully she bounces back as well.
Now that we’re officially in veg I’ve turned the light up to 75% and moved the target humidity from 70-75% to 60-65%.
Week 2 in the books. I’m going to start low stress training soon but not sure exactly when, likely this week. Let me know what you think in the comments. This is still my first grow and I’m working on getting the hang of things.
I noticed the ph of the runoff of my plant was consistently coming in 6.4-6.6 and from what I read should be more between 5.9-6.2 at this stage so I used ph down on the hulkberry on her most recent watering. New ph was 6.2-6.3.
Hulkberry is still appearing to be thriving the most with the largest leaves and longest stem, but critical+ 2.0 appears to be coming back strong. The wedding glue is a little on the small side, even compared to the critical+ and I think the critical is larger now than the wedding glue.
I’ve started watering every 3-4 days, just based off when the first inch or so of soil has dried up.
Let me know what y’all think of the yellow dots on that one hulkberry leaf, when I should start LST, and just how the grow is coming along based on how it should be looking at this stage, any comments help!
Applied LST to the Hulkberry yesterday, and today to the Critical+ 2.0. Will do the Wedding Glue tomorrow. I bent the critical more than the hulkberry, let me know if the hulkberry bend wasn’t enough to have the desired effect of exposing lower growth to light. In my opinion, it may be helping but not much. Just not sure if I should bend it more or wait for it to grow and apply a second round of LST and bend another direction.
Overall the plants seem to be coming along nicely. I’ll introduce their first nutes at the end of this week one they’ll have been in the soil for 4 weeks.
Big growth this week, particularly from the hulkberry and critical 2.0. The wedding glue is developing a yellowish color on some of the larger lower leaves. Will make sure I’m not lowering the pH too much and will begin adding nutes this week as they’ve been growing purely off the soil for almost a month now.
Now that the hulkberry is transitioning into flower I’ll be leaving the humidity between 50-60.
Defoliated the wedding glue and critical 2.0 mildly to improve airflow down low. Also started feeding them their first nutrients.
The hulkberry is maturing faster than the other 2 and I’m hoping for a good harvest on it. I think I’m done with LST and we’ll see how flowering goes!
Well, the name of the game went from thrive to survive these past 2 weeks. I got called away for a work trip and my girlfriend was only able to come and water once a week so these girls only got water once every 5 days. The hulkberry struggled the most with this and she’s the most thirsty, and when I got my first update pic I thought she was dead so many of her leaves were shriveled up and brown. But she recovered but you can still clearly see the scars of underwatering.
The buds are looking fantastic despite this, they smell fruity and dank up close and are extraordinarily sticky. The other 2 plants handled the lack of consistent watering better and experienced drooping but are back to normal.
My question is, do I defoliate the remainder of the yellow-brown leaves on the hulkberry, or are they still functioning and not harming the plant?
Should I defoliate the remaining primarily yellow-brown, water stress damaged leaves on the hulkberry, or are they functioning and contributing to the growth of the plant and not harming it?
Believe it or not they are contributing to photosynthesis. The green parts at least.
What I like to do is just take my snips and clip off the burnt edges.
Hope this helps.
Good growth this week it appears. I trimmed off the brown tips from most of the dehydrated leaves like the commenter last week suggested.
Hulkberry is THICCC. I have skinny forearms but the bud is almost as wide as them, great genetics!! They smell delicious as well.
The wedding glue is a step behind the critical 2.0 which is a step behind the hulkberry. I’ll likely harvest the hulkberry a week at least before the others, although I would have liked to harvest them all simultaneously.
I didn’t defoliate this week but I have good airflow, hopefully mold won’t be an issue in this flowering phase as humidity only creeps above 60, 65 tops briefly after waterings.
WE GOT SOME PURPLE LETS GOOOO
Been waiting to celebrate but the hulkberry is coming out with a nice purple color mixed in! I love colorful bud and she’s smelling delicious. Trichromes still look clear so at least a couple weeks until harvest.
The critical is smelling very fruity and dank, and the wedding glue is chugging along slowly but surely. WG could end up yielding the most in the end by the looks of it.
Only minor defoliation this week. They’re coming along very nicely for my first grow. By the looks of it I will hopefully hit my goal of producing at least an average of 50g of quality bud per plant.
Schmooze
