My first grow -autoflower - indoor

Mainly watering and checking if the temperature and humidity doesn't swing too much. The water boxes definetly help getting that about 5-7 percent higher. I also have a small fan but haven't used that yet because it lowers the temperature and humidity too much for now. Will start using it once the plant is a bit bigger. I do have the carbon filter on 24/7 to have some air circulation.

Not much to mention except it's growing more leaves and slowly getting taller. You can clearly see it evolve in just a few days. I gave it about 0,5-0.7l of water 3 times this week, but I did spray water 1-2 times a day in the tent to keep the humidity up. Just FYI, I started growing a bit before starting this diary so I'll post about the upcoming week in a few days to keep it more 'in real time'. I'm now near the end of week 3 growing (that will be week 4 in this diary since the sprouting was a seperate week.). That week includes temporary moving the plant and a potential issue I'm trying to solve. But in general it's going very well.

In 7 days I got a totally different plant. Almost double in size, 2-3 times as much leaves, wonderful to see. But there are a few issues which I consider lessons learned for my next grow. -I noticed the bigger leaves started to show some curl (3rd photo). Not in a terrible way but I assume this is because I overwatered in the days before. Stopped watering for 2 days and no significant improvement, but not worse either. -Since we're in week 4 and the plant is over 15cm I wanted to try LST. Experienced growers will probably laugh at this but I quickly realized my pot isn't easy to poke a hole in, and because I didn't fill it up entirely with soil, the plant is still largely within the pot, making it hard to bend by tying it to one of the sides of the tent. Long story short: I did it, the plant bends a bit sideways now, but probably not as well as it should be. Lessons learned: fill up your pot high enough and think ahead about this. What did strike me was that the humidity has gotten slightly higher now that the plant is bigger. It was around 35% at the start, 40 when I put some water in the tent and now it's mostly around 50-54%. Unrelated to the growing process, but maybe interesting for some: I had to move my tent for a day. Someone who doesn't need to know about my little project was coming over and needed to be in the grow room. Luckily I realized this in time so I moved the entire installation to my bedroom on a different floor. Nothing too hard, but getting a 70cm wide tent up the stairs, even largely empty, is not something you wanna do every week. Because it was in the bedroom I turned off the carbon filter at night, resulting in a humidity level that went up to 80%. I did know that the filter would take some of the humidity out, but I didn't expect it to rise that hard. This was while I stopped watering for 2 days because of the curled leaves. Near the end of week 4 you could clearly smell the plant in the tent, but not as a typical weed smell, more like 'there's a (regular) plant growing in here'. Outside of the tent there's no smell at all at this time (with a carbon filter on 24/7, but only at 20% speed to have some airflow) My main concert for now is growth & density. Quick One is advertised as a plant that grows in 8-9 weeks and gets up to 100cm so I expert it to start flowering in 2 weeks. But currently its somewhere around 20cm in size. Similar diaries on here show taller plants. On the other side there are plenty of leaves popping up, which is nice but they also overlap a lot, so a taller plant might be bettter to give the leaves more room. This is just my own reasoning, feel free to let me know if I'm seeing this wrong. Happy to learn and happy to hear what other growers think of this first attempt!

Tl;dr: all good, with some minor experimenting and some stupid mistakes without bit impact. In general still very happy with the development of my first plant ever. I asked some people if I should worry about groth and in short: no. The curling of the bigger/older leaves seems to have gotten better. A few of those show some damage (5th pic), but since it's limited to the oldest leaves I don't really worry about it. Could be because of overwatering first, or by something I caused while checking the branches and leaves. Biggest evolution is that there are now pistols visible. With all the extra branches and leaves it was hard to tell, but the stem has gotten a lot thicker and the plant in total is now a lot more 'bushy'. Near the end of the week you could clearly see several tops preparing to develop so I'm super excited to see how this will evolve in the upcoming weeks. As for watering, I gave it around half a liter a day on average. LST: my first attempts were terrible, pressing with tape and regular cord., or a metal wire to keep the top closer to the ground. Most of those attempts ended up with the plant ripping the tape off. I got better tape, making sure the top still bends slightly. But still remarkable how quick the stem takes on the new bended form and curious how it would look if performed properly. Because everything looks so packed together, and 80 percent of the plant is still surrounded by the pot, I decided to spread some of the side branches a bit (10th pic, upper side), hoping to get more light on the lower levels of the plant as well and generally making sure that ever future top has room to develop. But this is my first time growing so I do need to stress this might as well do nothing. Still performing (minor) LST on the main top to make sure all tops get enough light and space. Humidity keeps rising slowly. Last week humidity would go up to 50-55%, this week it's more towards 60-65%, one time even rising to 90% (I'll tell the story below). Therefore I removed the plastic pots with water in them and that seems to lower humidity by about 5% give or take. As for smell, I marked week 5 as 'weak', but that's inside the tent with high humidity. Outside of the tent (a small closed room) there's just the smell of 'a plant' and outside that room you don't smell anything. I must stress this is because the carbon filter is on 24/7. I turned it off for an hour this week and you could definetly smell it, not hard, but if you're plant is in an odd place, that might give it away. Also: touching leaves and branches will get the smell on your hands. I will get more into detail about smell when flowering starts because that is my main worry while growing at home. I do not want my neighbors or visitors to find out what I'm doing and I deliberatly picked a strain that was advertised as a low smell strain. Now that you've read this far I'll gladly tell about another stupid mistake that luckily had no impact since It's with autoflowers. First of all I was messing with the timer and I accidentally switched the timer off, giving the plant 24/24 light for about 2-3 dayys. Because I never check on her while dark I didn't realize it immediately. I do know autoflowers don't need an strict light cycle, but still a mistake I should have avoided. During this time the humidity also rose to 90%. No idea if those are related, but I also adapted the airflow of the filter. Everything is now more stable, with the filter fan getting air out of the tent and a smaller fan placed near the plant to have some circulation. To close off I do want to thank everybody who responded about my question in week 4. You can only pick one as the best answer and you can't seem to comment on the comments you get, but I do wanted to say I appreciate everyone's advice or insights a lot.

It's going strong. The Quick One is definetly flowering now with a lot of small buds developing. The plant also grew quite bit, around 15cm in the last 7 days, sometimes seeing a clear difference in less than a day. I continued doing LST, mainly spreading the branches with starting tops to give about half of them a decent place in the light (all of them would create a web you can't maintain). Beginning of the week I was giving about half a liter a day, with now 1 liter in the last few days. Things to notice: -Buds on branches of all different lengths, unfortunately not giving full light to all of them at once. -Some of the tops have clearly darker leaves, leaning to blue/purple in the last 2 days. Don't think I should worry about this, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. -The oldest leaves have looked more dry and damaged for the last 2 weeks, but this hasn't worsened, they're not dying or falling off. I suspect this is due to them being the oldest, often not in full sunlight, and first being limited by the pot and later leaning on the side with higher branches pushing it aside. I worried about this a while ago, but it's not spreading or worsening. Smell and humidity Humidity was mostly around 55-60% in the tent and even higher in the room (65-70). This is due to bad ventilation. I started opening the window for a few hours every day and the humidity in the room and the tent dropped by around 10%. Putting the exhaust pipe of the tent in the direction of the window also helped getting the moist air from the tent from building up in the room. For future grows I might work on this, ideally the exhaust would go straight outside, but that's a long term project. Smell and humidity go hand in hand. On moments where it's higher, you can clearly smell the plant, but still no specific weed-smell in the room. But on moments where the humidity was at 50% or lower, I'd smell nothing in the room, and only a limited, not penetrant, scent in the tent. I'm expecting the smell to rise in the upcoming week as the flowering continues. By using a carbon filter I hope to keep that smell mostly limited to the tent. I'm not even near harvesting or smoking, but after 6 weeks I have to say Quick One has been a perfect seed to start growing with. I had no prior experience with growing and the plant is developing very well with little efford or too much extra tools (except for the tent and lamp). Hoping to update you next week on the flowering!

So... things were great in week 7, but I'm also gonna talk about the start of week 8 because I think the plant might be in trouble. Plant kept on growing and developing tops very nicely, getting more tops and them growing better than expected for a first grow. Following a few guides I upped the water supply from around 600-800ml to 1L or a bit more on a daily basis. I'm growing in a tent in a small closed room so i try to vent it at least a few hours a day to keep the humidity at 60% or less. I've continued some minor LST, just on 3 of the smaller outside brances and not too hard. They were still flexible and I assume giving them more room for light and growth would be good. I've noticed for a while the bigger lower leaves are going bad, yellow or dry. one older leaf even just breaking off by touching it. But near the end of week 7 some of the younger leaves on the outside of the plant started to go from nice healthy green to light green and yellow. This is on all sides of the plant on the outside. I was out of town for 3 days while my partner would take care of the plant, but given the color and because the soil was still moist, it was watered just a bit in 3 days. After coming home the soil was still moist and the leaves seemed worse. I waited another 48 hours and just now (almost end of week 8) I've given it about half a liter of water again. The soil was definetly dry now. Given that I don't use fertilizers, there are no big changes in temperature (lowest was 16°C, highest 24°C) or light cycle, I suspect I overwatered her last week. I assumed growing the tops and overall size, it would need more water. It's still too early to notice if cutting back on watering would do helpt, but I definetly hope so. Any comments or advice is welcome. Does this look like overwatering, or another issue to you? Can the plant still be saved or should I remove it, or just not expect too much yield now? I'm a bit worried but also very curious to learn, hoping this will just be a good lesson. Everything has been going so well it would be a shame to see it die just a few weeks from harvest. UPDATE: I put the yellow leaves up as a question and some people pointed out it needs nutrition. One person pointed out that my soil was probably fertilized to start and that will probably have worked out. I had some fertilizer around from my (regular) plants so I used it carefully, hoping to see better leaves in the next few days. I can't reply to questions but if you're one of the people answering: thank you very much for taking a look and sharing your experience!

This was quite the week. As you might have read last time, my plant started to turn yellow, with the oldest biggest leaves at the bottom drying out. I posed this as a question and someone suggested I needed nutrients, since the soil I used might have run out by now. The plant was in a bad shape so I picked the only fertilizer in the house, something for house plants wih an NPK of 7-3-5. But after adding that with water, and watering again the day after, I stopped giving it water for about 2,5 days untill the soil was very dry again. The 3 days after I gave her water once every two days. Oh and I continued LST, but just on 2-3 of the outside branches, pulling them mildly away from the main branch to get more light on them and the buds below. Nothing too intense, just a way to make room. I'm a bit behind on posting so I'm covering week 8 while actually being near the end of week 9, so I can now definetly say this was an overwatering issue. Lessons learned: only add water when the soil is dry, even if it's only a bit moist, leave it for at least half a day or longer. This does however not seem to hurt the buds that much. They kept growing and about half of them had trichomes by the end of week 8. As for smell: when the tent is open, you can clearly smell the flowers, but softly, not too penetrant and just when you're in front of the open tent. Outside the tent, but in the growing room, there is basically no smell except more humidity in the room. I do like to keep my growing project private, so low smell was a priority. Glad to see that Quick One (for now) delivers to its promise of being a low smell plant. As I said, I'm al most at the end of week 9, hoping to post that in a few days. I don't wanna jump ahead too much, but things are definetly going better now, and the plant seems to start it's final phase.

Tl;dr: My plant seems back on track, heading into it's final phase before harvest. After a tricky week with leaves turning yellow and exceptionally adding some nutrient, I went back from about 1l/day to 1L every 2-3 days. I'm 90% sure it was an overwatering issue with the leaves looking a bit better, but most importantly: not getting worse. Luckily this did not affect the growth of the flowers much. In week 9 the buds got bigger, forming one big cola on the bigger branches. All of them have white trichomes on them and halfway this week the first pistils started to turn brown. The plant is clearly putting it's energy in the flowers, with almost no change in length or branches and leaves. Overall everything seems to evolve as it should be. I'm expecting to grow for at least another week (10) and probably harvest in week 11 once the trichomes turn amber. As for smell: you can smell the plant in the tent, but in the room or the room next to it there's no scent at all. There is however an important caveat: I usually have the charcoal filter to around 1/4th-1/3rd of it's max power (The filter that came with the Mars Hydro tent can do 200 CFM, but that's overkill for one plant in a small tent). This afternoon I wanted to test the difference if I lowered the power of the fan (to cut down on the noise), and about 2 hours later the hall next to the grow room had a very clear weed smell. Important detail: this was right after watering, so humidity was very high afterwards, probably partially causing more smell. I repeated this a few hours later and the scent seemed less intense. I admit this is not really scientific, not even sure if it's different, or I just got more used to the scent. So setting the filter fan at the right speed is crucial to keeping the scent under control, especially when you can't have a window open all the time. But knowing that the plant is well in it's flowering phase, it's still a relatively light smell. Next update will take at least a week. Hoping to see more brown pistils and keeping an eye on the color of those trichomes in the upcoming week. Very curious if the buds will still continue to grow.

This might not be the most interesting update. Everything is gong well, but no harvest time yet. Pistils got more brown, trichomes are now very present and milky. I bought a small magnifying glass and tried to combine it with a smartphone camera on the first 2 pictures. I don't really see any growth in the plant or the flower, but overall it looks healthy. I do notice the leaves are still yellowish so I'm careful with overwatering, but given that it's almost time to harvest I consider it normal. Near the end of the week some lower leaves would fall off automatically or as soon as I touched them. I'm giving her about 1 liter every 48 hours so the soil can dry and breathe. I do notice a more significant smell compared to previous weeks. Not annoying, but my partner said you can clearly smell it in the room next door when there's no fresh air coming in. Things to notice: the temperature and humidity seem much more stable compared to a few weeks ago. At night it's around 18-19°C, during the day 22-24°C. Humidity is usually 45-55%. I'm still doing a mild form of LST on 3-4 branches to make sure enough light reaches the smaller buds on the inside of the plant. Also tucking away leaves so all tops get as much light as possible. This report is week 10, while writing it I'm halfway week 11 and no amber trichomes yet. I was hoping week 11 would be my last week before harvest but that's gonna be a close call 😬

As for the photo's: No major changes in growth, so a bit more photo's from the flowers in detail. I took the close-ups with my phone through a magnifier glass, so the sharpness might not be best, but I do like the view of those trichomes. The plant itself is starting to lose leaves. Some fall off, others snap as soon as you touch them. Took some bad looking leaves away myself to give the flowers more light. Watering: about 1L every 2 days. LST: still on 3 outside branches, nothing new. Smell: definetly present. If I don't open the windows, you can clearly smell the plant in the room and even in the hall next to it. Still not very strong, but clearly recognizable. Same goes for working with the plant, it leaves a smell on you for a while. Trichomes/harvesting: The last 2 days I notices a slight change in some trichomes on some plants, getting more cloudy and tonight clearly a few have turned amber, but I'm guessing only around 5% of the total plant at this time. If this continues I'm guessing I will be harvesting in a few days, once all tops have some amber trichomes. I hope my next post will be on the harvesting/drying chapter.

I harvested halfway week 12. That's 76 days after putting the seed in a wet paper towel and 74 days after putting the seedling in soil. I cut away all leaves and branches, except for a few parts to hang them easier. That generated around 149 grams wet weight. Put all of them spread over 3 lines in the Mars Hydro tent with a fan in low setting aimed at the floor, and the carbon filter on the top, hoping this would generate some airflow, without blowing at the branches directly. I let them dry for 9 days and then removed some more parts of the branch that have no use. I kept the smaller sugar leaves since they had quite some trichomes on them as well. While harvesting, wearing plastic gloves helped me from getting my hands too sticky, smelly and dirty. I know because I forgot to do the same when going from drying to curing 😰 Overall I am very happy with the entire grow. It was easy, entertaining, and I learned a lot with a very easy plant in a decent but not too refined/high end setup. Main lessons learned for a next plant: -Fill the pot almost to the top -start LST sooner, getting tops at the same heigth/better light coverage -Less water, only when the soil is dry -Humidity evolves as the plant grows. -It will take a bit longer than the 9-10w advertised, but not a lot. One thing I noticed was a perception difference in weight Vs. volume. Of course I knew my 149 grams wet would end up somewhere around 30 grams dry. Eventually ending with 36 grams is the best possible outcome I would have hoped for. But putting it all on the scale, on sight, I would've expected this volume to be around 50 grams. The 9th and 10th picture of the 5 grams and 2.8 grams on the scale illustrates this. On sight I would guess this would be 8 and 4-5 grams but it's way less in reality. I'm not complaining, I guess drying, trimming, seed kind and other stuff affects the density. And maybe I should not compare my home grown plant to what I get from experienced growers. But it was something I wanted to point out for others who are just starting to grow. Now I will start the curing process. Hoping to file a good smoke report in a few weeks. I will probably grow a second plant, also with a Quick One seed, so very curious to see if it will perform similar. Thank you for reading my first journal. It was a lot of fun growing and writing about it. Growdiaries is a great place to document my growing project and it'll come to use later when comparing to newer grows. Also a big shoutout to everyone that has liked my posts and commented. Same for the people who were quick with advice when I needed it. I enjoyed sharing this and I hope this journal may be of use to others who are doing the same thing!