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First off, very excited to attempt my first grow. Ordered seeds from MSNL, went off without a hitch.
Being that I'm an amatuer, I want to keep it simple and play it safe by growing an autoflower in organic soil and with minimal nutrients and some LST.
So far I'm at day 9 of the first 2 plants, with the other 2 having been germinated at day 8 of the first 2. 100% germ rate from MSNL so far. I am choosing to use LED lights for obvious reasons, 2 lights, one 600w full spectrum, one 400w full spectrum, combined ACTUAL wattage = 400.
Please let me know what you guys think. Any feedback and advice would be welcomed. Love the community, we should all be able to have great medicine!
Day 17, everything looks good, maybe a little light burn on the largest one. Please check out my video with full audio! Let me know what you guys think. Open to all tips and suggestions!
it's been pretty rough, although this was to be expected on my first grow. the largest plant and the yellowing runt are on day 21 from sprout. I started them in smaller cups and did the unadvised transplant of an auto. the smaller runts root ball came apart and I almost dropped it, I kind of saved it however the roots landed kind of sideways, which I believe was one of the reasons that caused this issue.
the second 2 plants, the small one with yellowing cotelydon leaves and the much larger healthy green seedling sprouted at the same time 10 days ago, obviously one is exceptionally healthy and the other is yellowing.
Overall, I have a few questions and concerns from my fellow cannabis green thumbs out there!
I know I've over watered all of them except the largest one at some point. now I'm kind of an underwaterer lol. I have not used any ph meter or water and I've only used big bloom by ff. In about 3 days I'll have ph solution, digital tester, and fox farm grow big for npk nutes.
that being said. please give me some advice, Insight, and closure because I'm worried I won't have anything but 5 grams dry weight! I even feel like the nice healthy large one is going slow and is short for 21 days. what do you folks think?
thank you!
finally got my ph solution with digital meter and some Grow Big by Fox Farms and everything is looking pretty good. I'm not sure if the plants are starting to naturally stretch or they are so happy because of the nutes and ph'd water ( my tap water PH was at 8.8! ) because the largest two literally grew an inch in less than 24 hours after watering and the largest started flowering a couple days ago and it has about 4 times the pistils and bud sites.
I am still wondering how tall the largest one will get, it's at day 28 from sprout and only about 8 inches however very bushy. the smallest plant that looks bad is actually as old as the largest. however during transplant the rootball came apart and the plants roots landed somewhat sideways in the final pot, then i overwatered it :S so i topped the runt because it finally started growing new leaves quickly and i want to salvage what i can. I am also wondering if it's too late to LST, I've been scared to since this is my firs time, however I've been leaf tucking which has been quite effective. I just want some more height and to maximize bud sites.
the pics the white spots are water stains not deficiencies, gonna mist the leaves with weak vinegar solution to make them look pretty.
let me know what you guys think!
plants have been looking great, the one that's in full in flower is only 8 inches high.... very busy with multiple bud sites developing, did mild lst on main stem for more bud sites to get like really responded well to that.
the slight smaller plant I believe is only at week 3, cannot remember exactly though, growing nice and fast, think they might have a little nute burn, just gonna give them 25% nutes from now on and slightly less water, my soil dries out quickly however I water until runoff and nothing more, but when I check on them later they look slightly overwatered, so idc about runoff anymore, gonna only water them by feel...
If anyone has any insight on why this 6 week old is still so damn short or if it's gonna get continued height lmk because it's puzzling.
thank you all!
plants are doing great for my absolute very first grow. they are a little short because I've stunted them via wrong ph, overwatering, and nute burn... typical rookie mistakes. however, I've gotten it down now and they are maximizing on production for being so short.
the largest which is 3 weeks ahead of the other 2 is getting so dense and full that by the time the last 2 weeks go by I'll get considerably more yield than I though after all my mistakes.
I am started some reg strawberry cough seeds and I'm excited to see what I can do now that I've gotten over the newbie obstacles.
thanks for all the advice and comments!
Even though I've made virtually all of the rookie mistakes things are turning out better than I thought. I've stunted them by overwatering and underestimating the importance of ph levels. however, even though they were stunted, they are making up for it by density. nice looking trichomes and smells very lemony, with a slight funkiness to it.
If anyone could give me advice on how much longer I should wait on the main plant to harvest. trichomes have about doubled in the past 3 days, I was thinking another week? I will welcome any advice lol.
I've learned so much from my first grow that I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do on my second!
looking forward to trimming and hanging for the dry, probably only cure for a few days before I try it out lol.
had a great time starting a strawberry cough reg diary soon!
I've made a lot of mistakes on my first grow, pretty much everyone you can think of lol, however I've got a very nice setup so I will keep trying, my next grow will be photoperiod so I will have more room for error.
With that being said... The finished product of the auto lemon haze was fantastic! so much so I am very eager to get better st growing so I can a yield that is more worthwhile. I am DEF a sativa guy... The high was great, energetic and happy feeling which is huge for me since I use cannabis as an antidepressant and I've never had a strain that worked so well at doing just that. The flavor and aroma was also fantastic, I managed to have a good flush and boy was it lemony! both in aroma and taste!