First grow!

First week Transplanted into final container directly after successful germination. Left plant took off fine. Right one became stunted possibly due to too hot of soil, too hot of lighting or overwatering. No nutes. Just ph balanced rodi water.

Week 2 veg Left plant great, right plant is showing signs of distress that were discussed in week one.

Week 3 veg Same story as first 2 weeks. Left plant looking good. Right one, not so much. Because of that I opted to only top the left plant, knowing that an equal canopy height down the road may now be an issue.

Right one started to recover from early life soil shock. Will keep alive to see what it does.

Lightly trained healthier plant. Will train more during the week and eventually put up trellis when plants are higher than the humidifier

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Originally the right plant was stunted and I was concerned that topping it would stress it too much. As such, the left plant was topped during early veg but the right plant was never topped and it shows. The main cola on the right plant gets more ppfd (around 1000) than the left plant so I’ve been bending it down once or twice a day so that maybe the left canopy can catch up. Are there any other techniques I can do to my plant (2nd week of flower) to allow the canopies for each plant to be equal? Last week I did a very light dose of bloom and they responded very well. I will continue to supplement lightly until the sohum soil prepackaged nutrients run out. I would imagine it will be any week now that it’s depleted? I am very happy with the grow so far since it’s my first ever real attempt. Other than the right plant getting shocked from the living soul or overwatering the grow has been going great! I can see baby buds and pistils forming! 😀 So excited for the day I can open the tent and get bombarded by the smell of the buds.

Week 3 of flower update: So far left plant is still looking great. Right plant is doing "okay" but remains not as healthy as the left plant. I'm focusing the lighting strength on the healthier plant and ignoring the light burn on the right plant. PPFD for left plant main colas is around 900. Right plant is like 1200 on the cola that is burnt. The difference between topping is really apparent at this time but since at one time I wasn't even sure if the right plant would make it, I'm okay with losing some final yield considering at one point there may have been zero yield from the plant. I'm wondering if cutting it off would help the plant divert the energy to the rest of the plant or would that be too much stress? I'm still thinking it was the soil being overly hot when I started which caused the plant to be stunted enough to where I wasn't sure if it would survive being topped. Next grow I'm gonna have to start in solo cups with "colder" soil. Regardless, I'm ecstatic at how the plants are doing. I finally had some time to get in there and take some quick macro shots with my dslr. I'll try to take dslr camera shots every weekend and maybe update with cell phone pics throughout the week as I water, feed and take care of the plants. Shortly after I took these pics I did some pruning/defoliation/lollipopping to the left plant to quit wasting vital plant energy on low producer branches and leaves blocking bud sites. Hoping for more smooth sailing for the remaining weeks before harvest!

So far all is well. Left plant is looking great still. Right plant is still the same as it was, kinda "off." I cut the top off the main cola due to light burn. There's just no way that the plants energy it was directing to it was being used well. I'd rather it go to the rest of the plant because there's just no way that initial top was going to produce anything. It was gnarled. I've also noticed something odd going on with a couple of the buds on the stressed (purple) plant. I posted one of the pics in the pics for this weeks update. Looks kinda like bud rot to me but this is also my first grow so I could be wrong. It looks like it's only affecting the pistils. I may ask a question in the question forum just to be sure. It's odd though because conditions in the tent seem to be too dry maybe for bud rot (averaging in the 50-60% RH range and there is plenty of air circulation in that part of the tent. I'm thinking it could either be the plant negatively reacting to me cutting the main top off the other day or it's just the fact that due to the plant being stressed out for the entire grow that it's lost resistance to things like bud rot, etc.. essentially, I'm not sure at all lol.. Both plants are already showing a good amount of trichome production as the plants have almost switched from stretch flowering phase to pure on flowering/bulking phase. I can't wait to see the buds really start to mature and grow and get stinky. Carbon filter so far is working flawlessly. A week ago I was thinking it wasn't keeping up because when I'd come home from work I could smell pot but it turns out it was just my cannabutter supplies that I left out lol. D'oh. I've also been monitoring conditions in my basement over the past few weeks and have noticed that rain or no rain, the conditions down there are an average 66 degrees and 60-64% RH. With my dehumidifier if the conditions down there remain in that range, I should be able to achieve perfectly optimal drying conditions for when I harvest in 4-6 weeks or so. :) I am having a blast so far and can't wait to harvest and then really apply what I've learned online from youtube, here and reddit combined with my hands on experience from this grow to really fill out the canopy next time and also ensure both plants are the same height for some great yield. I'll probably mainline 2-3 plants for my next grow. I also want to eventually get into building my own soil and amendments but for now I'm just focusing on not learning & applying too many things at once. I just know that at some time I'd like to switch from synthetic nutrients to organic. I'm hooked for life to growing though!

Been busy so I’ve been slow to update. Thinking 3 weeks until I can chop. Gonna be a much smaller harvest than I’d like (thinking/hoping for at least 2-3 ounces) but from what I’ve seen just getting to your harvest on your first grow can be considered a success. Just gotta keep them alive for 3 weeks then I can focus on the scary task of drying. I would imagine small yield is due to beginner lighting equipment, shorter veg time (coulda gone like 3 more weeks to really pump up the roots which I’d imagine would equal bigger buds), mistakes I’ve made and uncorrected nutrient deficiency. Really hoping that they put on some more size in the final week when they ripen. I dialed back the nutrients by half for their last feeding. I think I mistook the normal senescence for nutrient burn and I got worried. EC last night when I made my nutrient mix was 1250 I think. Regardless the quality is there, just not yield. Reallly looking forward to when these are fully dried and cured to test them out. Lots of trichomes starting and the smell is great!

It's officially day 1 of week 6! They are getting CLOSE! Around 2 weeks I'm thinking? I feel like the plants are maturing quickly compared to some other runs I've seen of GSC from Humboldt Seed Company? I know I've seen some diaries where people are in flowering stage for a good few weeks longer than 8 weeks. With my two plants I feel like 8 weeks will be perfect for harvest unless the trichomes are saying otherwise. Running 78-82 during lights on phase, humidity around 50-55%, VPD is ranging from 1.5-1.7 during lights on and similarly when they are off. No signs of pests, PM, bud rot etc. The leaves on the right one still are showing a possible deficiency? I'm thinking I should have ran a custom nutrient blend for that one. I use RO/DI water for my plants because of the chloramine in our water supply. I bet my calcium and magnesium have been low for a while, especially since there is none in the water I am feeding them despite using calmag on them (but just not enough). I'll post some more pics later this week and maybe a quick vid. These were some real quick macro shots I took this morning. Shallow depth of field, no focus stacking for these. f4, iso100, around 1/200s.

The buds are looking soooo good. I think the purple pheno is likely ready to be cut but since I only have one tent I will cut all plants when green pheno is done. I will review trichomes for purple and green plant tomorrow. Green plant still has another week or so. Harvest will be small but the quality looks exceptional. Hoping for 2 ounces dried for my first grow. I can't wait to have these fully dried and cured! My Hella Jelly seeds arrived a few days ago. Once these two plants are dried and put in grove bags for curing I'll immediately be germinating 2 or 3 of the Hella Jelly and will do much more LST, maybe even mainlining.

Week eight is here as of yesterday! HSC states these are around 55 days for flowering period. Hopefully the next update I make here is a harvest update but that's only if she's ready then of course. The purple pheno has made some really beautiful and frosty nugs. All trichomes are milky on both with a few ambers starting to show but I'm gonna wait for more widespread amber trichome coverage until I'm seeing 10-15% or more on both plants before harvesting. :) I finally did some deep focus stack macro shots of the nugs. All images were 20-60 image stacks with the image of the 3 nugs on the green pheno plant being 65 images and 14 gigabytes of data at one point. I might take some more full canopy shots tomorrow or Monday. My macro lens works great for zooming in and checking on trichome development.

This was my first ever serious grow ever. About 12 years ago I grew in a little PC grow case but I picked it early and didn't dry and cure it right. Tasted like hay, ha! So for my first ever legit grow, I was super happy with these genetics. On the whole they were relatively easy to grow. There were never any bud rot, PM, disease or insect issues at all. I had two distinct phenotypes from these 2 seeds. One was the normal green pheno. It grew extremely easy and showed no deficiencies whatsoever the entire grow. The nugs it produced have a very funky smell to them. Lots of orange and green on those ones. My cell phone pics I attached were desaturated from my cell phone. I'll take better pics of it after it's done curing. The purple pheno on the other hand was a little more temperamental. Right after germination it kinda of twisted a little. I nearly cut it at one point because I didn't have enough experience to know if it would make it. Thankfully I didn't cut it! It had what appeared to be a calmag deficiency the entire grow despite the green pheno doing perfect with the exact same parameters/nutrients/water. In the end though, I think the environmental stress the plant had throughout the grow was possibly what caused the purple pheno to come out and maybe was also the reason there were soooo many crystals! They smell very floraly, spicy and perfumey kinda. And they are SOOOOOO beautiful. They smell incredible too. Green pheno yielded 41g. Purple yielded 37g for a total of 2.75 ounces dried. I dried the green plant for 12 days and the purple plant for 16 days. Whole plant dry. Average conditions were 62 degrees, 58% over the dry. My basement is great for drying due to the year round low 60 degree temps in there. Gonna cure them for a couple weeks to see just how much more sophisticated the smells develop. I will upload some more high quality, non cell phone pics after these are done curing. So I can only compare these genetics to nothing as it's my first grow but I was extremely happy with these. For my next grow starting tonight or tomorrow I'm gonna focus on more training, better nutrient feed and a slightly longer veg time so that I can really up the yields for that harvest. I'd like to get 8 or more ounces. We shall see!