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Hey guys, thanks for taking the time to view my diary of my first cannabis grow. Myself and my wife have been smoking for 8 years and I'm a very hands on, restless leg bloke and love to keep busy. We had a scary situation collecting one weekend so I decided to turn my hand to our very first grow.
To know its made by us, for us, under our care is really exciting and I love the thought of self sufficiency. We have pooled funds together and I'll be taking lead getting us to our first harvest, so any helpful tips or advice you'd be willing to spare would be so valuable to me, I can't thank you enough in advance!
On to the grow! I did many, many hours research on Google, YouTube and the likes to settle on a setup for home. Went with an 80x80x170 tent with a 100W LED light that I picked up second hand. Came upon Royal Queen Seeds and their website is really good for a newbie like me, and my searching led me straight to their titular Easy Bud. I was sold along with a pack of their Easy Start germinator plugs, and they even sent a free Special Queen along too. Excellent service and I can't recommend them higher so far!
Seeds went in to their plugs on Sunday 19th November at mid day. They showed first signs of life (as pictured) on Tuesday the 23rd November. I gave them a quick check before work and was pleasantly surprised to see life! The plugs seem to have done their job faultlessly for my first germination, 100% success!
Hi guys, first time grower here and I'm a bit concerned about one of my two plants. One has entered preflower 2 days short of week 4, but my second plant hasn't shown any signs yet. Noticed these pods near the main stem, is this the sign of a hermaphrodite?
@James, I'm going to try my very best! Thank you for such a great website over at RQS, really took the guess work out as a new starter, and the reviews are really helpful too! I hope I can do RQS justice with my first grow 😁
@gottagrowsometime, hey man thanks for that, I've decided to document as much as I can as a novice because it'll help lots of people who pick this strain as their first go. By no means am I saying I'll be successful as this is my literal first ever experience with anything like this, but either way if it succeeds or they both die I can at least hope with me being thorough, at least one other person may find a benefit in that tiny bit of my experience.
Good luck! You need to be careful with the light schedules in the flowering phase. You will have adapt to 12:12 after the vegetative phase for your Special Queen 1, because she is not an autoflower. That may restrict the harvest for your autoflower a little. Ideally, you would only grow autos or feminized seeds in the same tent.
@Sejanus21, hey man thanks for having a look! I haven't planted the Special Queen, just x2 Easy Bud so I can do a nice, steady auto grow as a first timer. The Special Queen can wait until I have more experience, going to order more autos to get started and comfy as a grower 🙂
I swear, reading all your journey with your girl felt like reading a novel... With the pug/plot twist too! Keep up the good work! (I'm currently growing a little easy bud baby outdoor, but I'm short on fert and such things, so I'll go with love, water and sun :P)
I would not move them from the 7l to the 11l pot. You might risk to put them into a shock for days which will restrict their growth maybe more than the 7l pot. The plant is rather small anyway, so the 7l might even be fine. Just my opinion, and I am a first time grower, too.
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Crystal Candy F1 Fast Version
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