My first outdoor/indoor

Gromatic Just transitioned from outdoor to indoor. Starting the flowering stage. Sun 9/22😬

Gromatic This week, started using Advanced Nutrients: micro, grow, bloom. A few days after I first used, leaves are starting to yellow at the bottom of all plants. This is a concern for me, each day there are more and more and they are starting to fall off. Will monitor and also test the pH. Wishing I would have used bigger pots...next grow

Gromatic Still in the stretch, had to move the lights higher in the tent. Starting to give off a distinctive smell. I am having a hard time controlling my humidity, get really high when the lights and fan are not on. Considering switch fan to 24/7.

Gromatic So I made a basic noob mistake and used Miracle-Gro as a medium for my first grow. The nutrients in the soil is cause my plants to get too much nitrogen which as a result has several plants experiencing nitrogen toxicity. It was recommended that I continue my grow with adding too many more nutes in the plants that are experiencing severe clawing. I flushed the plants really well and hopeful that will correct some of the issues. I do still have 4 plants that are doing very well even in the same soil type. Those will continue to be feed during each watering.

Gromatic The stretch is complete, finally starting to see the blooms fatten up some. Still struggling with nute because of miracle gro soil. Making the best of it. Four of the seven plants are getting full nutes with very little signs of trouble. The remaining three I am supplying with half the nutes every other watering, the soil has affected those the most. I am looking forward to how much the plants flowers mature this week.

Gromatic Entering week 6, buds are starting to fatten up and the smell is getting stronger. All week I have been working on an infestation of white flies, aphids and spider mites, caught me by surprise. Had no choice but to spray with a store bought insecticide. Always used defoliation to remove what I will say seemed like hundreds and hundreds of bugs and eggs. I will have to keep an eye out this week for any remaining critters. Also, the three plants that was on limited feeding because of the curled leaves, the became very discolored so I am not feeding the same as the others, will have to watch for any progress there too. All in all, they look pretty good.

Gromatic This was a heck of a week for me. I am now down to 4 plants and a possible, lol. A majority of my plants grew bananas and I kept removing the bananas to prevent pollinating the grow tent, unfortunately, I believe 2 plants were pollinated. One plant I left to finish out, the other I removed but the buds were pretty big so I haven't did anything with it yet, it's in my dining room (gets no traffic) getting natural sunlight. It currently has 20+ bananas on it so I will not put it back into the tent. The other plant that I removed also had bananas but really small buds so I cut it up to dry to see what happens to it. I do still have on plant remaining from the three that I did not feed just gave water (the discolored ones), I had to cut off most of the leaves because they were infested with aphids and white flies. The buds were and ok size and didn't want to discard so I put it back into the tent, that's the one I considered the possible and actually, counting the one in the dining room, there are 2 possibles. I just started the flush process for the grow and hopefully will harvest in less than 2 weeks. I will check the trichomes on Wednesday to see where I am in regards to harvesting. All of the pistols are orange/brown on two plants. Stay tuned for the next update...

Gromatic Finally feel like the aphid infestation is all clear, took a lot of work but learned some pretty interesting things in the process just because I had to thoroughly inspect the plants several times. The 4 remaining plants are looking really good. I have two plants that have 100% orange/brown pistils with clear trichomes and two plants that are at about 70% orange/brown pistils and clear trichomes. I am waiting for the last big swell from the buds and then harvest time.

Gromatic Finally able to harvest, definitely did not get the yield I wanted but overall, it was great for my first grow. I learned a lot on this journey and that knowledge will make the next grow so much easier and get more yield.