Dirty's First Grow

Transplanting my seedling into a 5 Gal pot with HappyFrog Soil Tomorrow 2/14/2024. Left Soil sitting/brewing for 24hrs before transplanting. I will also be moving plant to Tent and placing a humidity dome over the plant once moved.

I was out of town from 2/19 to 2/22. I watered my Pot slightly before leaving. Since it was Transplanted about 5 days before I left I felt it was fine with water. My wife was checking it every morning and evening for me. She did add water a few times but only enough to really wet the top layer of soil. I gave the plant 1gallon of water this Morning 2/23/24. 2/27/24 - Today I checked on my plant and saw it is growing its 3rd node. I plan on topping 3/1/24. I also am mixing my veg juice tomorrow. I think ill be watering the plant Saturday 3/2/24. My plant has some yellowing on the new growth. I am not sure if this is because of needing nutrients or if its normal for the fresh growth to show a little yellow. The camera make the yellow stand out way more than I can see with my naked eye. I cant feed nutrients just yet as my soil is still pretty moist. I also removed the Dome on the plant as its getting too big for it. My humidity is a little around 43 percent and Temp is 82 most of the time in my tent. I am hoping the removal of the dome will dry my soil out a little faster for my feeding.

3/2 I gave my plant its first feeding. Gave it about half a gallon of water with a PPM of 500. I also thought about topping my plant but am not really sure where. I am not sure what one is the top spot as this is my first time every growing. I also finally received my ACInfinity CLOUDFORGE T3. This has allowed me to get my Humidity levels more under control. I was okay before because of the dome but for the last week or so I have not had a domain and my humidity has not really be regulated. 3/2 A few hours later I said fuck it and just cut the plant where I thought the top was. I cut off a few lower fan leaves. Not sure If its too early to do it or not. 3/3 Finally got my ventilation setup. I am not longer venting into the room my tent is in. I now have the exhaust being vented outside. This has allowed for better temps in tent. I am not longer being baked alive. I have also noticed a lot more stability with my temps/humidity now. Temps are sitting at 78-80ish and my humidity is sitting around 60 percent. 3/5 I started LST as my gardening ties arrived this day as well. 3/6 Today I gave just shy of 1 gallon of RO/DI water with a pinch of Epsom salt. I was waiting off as I forgot to added to my first feed on the the second. After the watering I also saw my rapid rooter exposed as the soil seemed low. I think I didn't fill the pot enough. I also added some extra soil to top up the pot and make sure the rapid rooter was buried. I also collected my run off and checked its PH and PPM. PH was 6.2 and PPM was 863. Plant also seems unhappy this morning.

3/9 - I was unable to feed with nutrients as I just gave water on 3/6. I was letting my pot dry out before feeding. I also think I was letting my pot dry out too much was my issue. I am not exactly sure and fingering the soil does not seem to be working for me. I purchased a VIVOSUN Soil Tester, 3-in-1 Plant Moisture Meter Light and PH Tester. 3/10 - I checked my soul moisture and it was getting dry so I decided to feed with 330 of my nutrients along with a pinch of Epsom salt to help with my mag levels. If i am still seeing my leaves yellowing and the new feeding schedule does not fix my issue I will add some cal mag to the feed. I gave about half a gallon of feed water and slowly gave it to the plant. I think I spent around 10-20 minutes just slowly syringe feeding. After an hour of so I still have no run off. I did happen to get feed water on a few leaves but they are hanging lower in the canopy and close to the soil. I think I might prune them off sometime this week or next week. My 2 tops are finally growing in. I think they were delayed due to watering issues. I think I may have stunted the plant but am not sure. 3/13 Watered a gallon of water with Mosquito Bits as I had started to see gnats. Most of the gnats were from my Hibiscus plants that were inside the tent as well. I have removed them and placed them outside. So far I am not seeing gnat on my cannabis plant.

3/16 Watered along with nutrients a full gallon. Plant is very small and am pretty sure its because I stunted the growth by letting the pot dry out too much. Keeping a more closer eye on my soil moisture with my meter now. 3/18 Plant was getting dry and I watered it with a full gallon of water. I am still just taking my time adding my water with a 50 ML syringe. I am not in a rush and rather not deal with run off. Plant seems be taking the full gallon in about 2 days. 3/19 Checked on it this morning and saw that it was pretty full with leaves and cover a bunch of the bottom. I did a heavy defoliation. My 2 tops are finally starting to grow after the first topping back in week 3. At this rate I think I am going to veg for 8-10 weeks is my thought. 3/20 Checked on growth and did some more LST. Tried to open the middle of the canopy. Checked Soil moisture and it looks good.

3/22 Checked on growth and saw some but was wondering if my PH was maybe off. I checked my Soil with BlueLabs Soil Pen and it said my soil was extremely. I PH up my feed to fix this. Will update with Photos in a few Days 3/24 Checked on plant and saw my 2 tops finally growing. Will leave it alone for a few more days and then top at least one more time is my current thought. 3/26 Plant was looking a little droopy. I figured it needed water. I also did a heavy defoiliation as the canopy was covering all kinds of stuff. I also cut off all the lower growth that would not really be worth time and energy. 3/28 Watered in nutrients with todays watering. I am not exactly sure what my PPM was as my meter broke during this session. I was around 200 PPM just before my meter broke and shot all the way to 900ppm. I knew this was incorrect as its normally 2-3 full 50 ML syringes before I even get 200-500. I decied to not add any more feed until I get my meter replace.

Kind of just letting the plant do its thing. Not really do much beside just watering plain water and giving Nutes once a week. Plan is to let it just be for a few more weeks before I flip. I know my yield is not going to be great but its all good. First time every doing this so I can complain.

4/15 I installed a Wyze Cam to get a timelapse of this. I honestly do not remember much of this or what was done if any was even done at all. I am pretty sure I skipped a Feed 4/12 because I saw nutrient burn. I will feed on 4/19 during my next feed cycle.

4/19 Watered half of Gallon of Crystal Geyser ph6.5 and 600ppm of feed water and also another little bit of Cal/Mag as I was seeing the brown spots and thinking I have some kind of Calcium issues. 4/20 Plant is looking a lot better. I think my issue had nothing to do with Calcium but rather a nitrogen issue. I think skipping that feed was my issue. 4/21 Watered a gallon of PH 6.5 water and had a decent amount of run off. I think I am going to start watering every other day half a gallon to 3/4 a gallon of water. 4/23 Took photos and also watered about half a gallon of RO/DI water PH6.5 . I gave about 200 PPM of Feed just to see what happens and if maybe i need to start increasing my feed amounts. Not really following my guide anymore. After I stunned my plant and then neglecting I figured why not test out other grow methods. So I plan on vegging this plant way way longer than needed because I only have 1 Tent and I plan on growing at least 2 more grows along side this one. I plan on doing a Soil grow where all I have to do is water my plants. I am too lazy to keep worrying about feed schedules. I just want to grow some flower for myself and enjoy it. I plan on continuing my original plant with my Nutrients until fully flowered. Right now I am just learning and experimenting with what I find more attactive of my lazy life style. lol 4/24 Watered again another half gallon. I gave 500ppm worth of feed as well. Plant is starting to drink up the water quick.

4/26 Gave plant another half gallon of water. Its looking more healthy now and growing. I think my issue was just not watering enough. I am not giving about half a gallon per day. I also got my PPM under control and dialed back in. Plan after some more thinking I am going to vegs for 2 more weeks after this one and FLIP and let it fly where it goes. I already got stuff for my next grow stocked up and ready to start after this one finishes and I also plan on taking some clones just incase I really enjoy this plant. 4/29 Just keeping with watering half a gallon a day. 4/30 watered and did a slight defoliation just to get some light into the canopy.

I am about 3 weeks into flower. I got lazy and didnt record much info or really remember what day I Flipped to flower. I think its about 3-4 weeks so far. I also got Lazy and stopped adding liquid nutes and top dressed my plant with some Gaia Green. 6/14 Just watering my plant half a gallon every 2 Days

Just watering as needed. Plant looks like trash because I skipped a day of watering thinking it would be fine. It was not fine. Still pretty happy for what I have produced for my first time every growing. I got a few Autos I am going to try next.

I enjoyed growing and learning from this plant. I plan on refining my growing and getting better. I have another run going on right now. I was not worried about size so I ended up with mostly popcorn bud. I do not smoke at all. I use its for extracts.