Newbies on the Block

The girls have started their first week of flower. Lemon Haze is really rocking along with beautiful, healthy looking leaves and tops. Purple Haze 1 is still somewhat sick, too many yellow/light green leaves, but we're going to nurse her along and hope for the best results. We're now on a 12/12 schedule. Lights are on at 7:30pm and off at 7:30am. The netting is up and helping to spread out the canopy. We'll need to do a serious pruning on Lemon Haze as she's pretty bushy right now.

We started our beans in water and transplanted to Happy Frog after the tails appeared. Being new growers, we were a bit too excited, but we had babies sprout within 3 days. Purple Haze 1 showed up first, followed by Super Lemon Haze 1 & 2. Purple Haze 2 sprouted the next day but she is the runt of all four. After growing under an LED plant light for a week, we then transferred them to 5 gallon fabric pots with Premium Coco Coir 60%, Worm Castings 20% and Perlite 20%. and placed them into the tent. LED lighting panel is 18" above the tops and set at level 4. We run the lights from 6:30pm until 12:30pm the next day then lights out. Everyone looks super happy and are thriving in the grow tent! We are having an absolute blast with our new hobby! We have so much more to learn and we're looking forward to hearing your feedback. Love the AC Infinity app, just trying to learn more about the features, but it's really easy to dial it in to achieve the results you want inside the tent.

See photos. Worried about some leaf wilt. Any ideas? We're planning on topping Purple Haze 1 and Super Lemon Haze 1 on Thursday. The other two, with the wilt, don't have enough nodes yet (3 0r 4). The ones we're topping have 5 nodes today.

I'm pretty sure we've been overwatering. We were going to top 2 girls yesterday but decided to hold off. Huge mistake when I discovered I had bumped up the light intensity to 7. Yikes! Reeled it back in and keeping an eye on them. Going to carefully feed and water today. I still think they look pretty happy. Purple Haze 2 looks like she's recovering from the overwater and has increased her size to catch up with her sisters. Super Lemon Haze 1 is still the rockstar with Purple Haze 1 coming in a close second. Ran into some major issues. Had white powder everywhere from using hard tap water in the humidifier. Big mistake. Cleaned everything up and bought more distilled water. Then our VPD was soaring. I thought I had the controller set up correctly but damn, I was wrong! Finally found the info I needed for the settings and everything has been running excellent ever since! Shout out to MNgrower22 for their support! Our VPD has been a steady 1.00 +/- and the girls are happy again. Purple Haze took a hard hit when this happened but she's recovering nicely. Fed them well with all nutes last night and they are really doing good.😀

We pruned and topped on Saturday 11/25. Fed water only. They are showing yellow leaves and brown patches this morning 11/27. I don't think we're giving them enough water. Fed this morning with 1/2 gallon water with cal-mag. Checking them at 12:30pm this afternoon before lights out for 6 hours. Hopefully the soaking and cal-mag will help. 🙏

We thought we had nute deficiencies. Tried Recharge. The girls seemed to pick up a little but after inspection, we think they're getting light burned. Followed advice of little brother who's never grown under LED. He told us they needed to be at 80%. Big mistake. We raised the lights and turned them down to 70%. All the new growth is green. I just removed the orange curlers this morning. Thinking we will start using the scrog net next weekend. Tonight they get a good drink with cal-mag. This journey has been fun but frustrating with so many variables. Thinking about switching to a different nute brand on the next grow.

We have been trying to help our girls recover. We flushed the pots and then fed them a day later with cal-mag and recharge. They're already looking a bit better today. We think we've been seriously under watering and feeding. The good news is they aren't dead yet. Two of the girls have broken main stems but we've patched them up (wire & tape) and they seem to be okay. We are staying in veg until they are feeling better, then adding the scrog net to even out the canopy. We also raised the lights and are keeping them at 60%. We feel pretty bad that with all the awesome equipment that we have, we really messed this grow up. Rethinking about using coco on the next grow, or we might add grow dots. One thing we have learned is that coco needs a lot of water and runoff.

Starting week 5 of flower tomorrow. Added Recharge to the regimen and it has really helped! This is a very exciting stage. Opening the tent you get a blast of danky sweetness. Still struggling with purple haze 1 but she's coming along. The lemon sisters are starting to show their powerful genes and I expect a huge stretch this week.

Lemon 2 (Lucy) still has too much lower foliage. Thinking about really trimming her down. We think we have about 2 weeks of flower left until harvest. Reducing nutes next week then just water until chop. We'll be using our growing tent to dry using the hangar method with all 4 of the girls. Crossing our fingers.

We stopped feeding nutes and the girls are only getting water. Preparing for harvest within the next week. Starting to see some cloudy trichomes but most are still clear. Dropped our new seeds, Lemon Orange, into the water on Monday and tonight they have tails!

Yes, trimming is exciting at first, but then becomes a chore, especially when you're trying to jar them up as soon as possible. The odor from the garbage bag is overwhelming with dank! It's hard to chop them up when you've spent so much time with them.