First Grow

First ever grow! week 2 from sprout. Counting today as day 1 veg.

Just transplanted these girls 48 hours ago, gavem some gaia green 4-4-4 and some worm casting along with my FF OF. they are loving it....

Day 28 from sprout, these girls are looking healthy and loving life...as far as I can tell. Topped them back on Monday 1-22 and then did my first top dressing today with some gaia green all purpose 4-4-4. some glacial rock dust and alittle mineralized phosphorus. Been staying at 6.5ph for all waterings

Day 35 from sprout, wk 4 Veg for these girls. This being my first grow I obviously need work on my LST techniques lol. I Am am trying to let them grow naturally for the most part and just trying to pull them higher branches aside to allow the lower growths meet the canopy. Im not sure what to do with the sour diesel as it has become like a damn hedge and so dense that im just gonna let it go until after the stretch to defoliate since i like the natural canopy it has going. They been doing really well and they are drinking alot more water now almost double what they were drinking last week. But mostly just water every other day now. I am considering on a 6 week veg depending how this next week goes.

Day 42 from sprout. I been torn on if I'm going to transplant again. I know that since i am doing an organic grow its all about that soil and its microbes. I feel I been doing pretty good with these 3 gallon pots so far and only got a 2x4x6 to grow in. That being said I did top dress today 2-11 with my gaia green fertilizers and did a bit of defoliation. They lookin like their 60 year old blind Auntie cut their hair and look mangled but I just defoliated an hr before I took these pics. I am considering on transplanting to 5 gal before i flip to flower in about a month but not sure yet.

Good week, seeing alot of growth sites but they are all still short af. IM not sure if i should worry how short these girls are or not since they seem healthy??? They look healthy and seem to be liking what I been doin. Watering 1.5 liters per plant every 3rd day at 6.5 ph. IM still torn about transplanting to a 5gal a week before flower or just keep amending my soil with top dressing, I am open to opinions and or thought from anyone reading this on tips, what you would do or recommend

Another week down. I been watering about 1.5 liters each plant every 3 days with 6.5ph dechlorinated tap water. Keeping temps at 78 F and RH at 60% pretty steady. Then all the sudden I got a burr up my ass and transplanted to their final home in some new 7gal fabric pots. This made me verrrrrrrrry nervous as this being my first grow its alittle stressful transplanting again, especially since it is a 2 month old plant. Then I messed up my math and shorted myself on soil by about 2 gallons, as you can see in the pics. This freaked me out and I already got some more coming in a cpl days. But building and amending my soil is prob one of my favorite things to do so far. All that being said these girls are looking alittle sad they are going to bounce back in a few days. I am considering flipping to flower in about 2 weeks.

Week 1 of flower!!! im excited and nervous at the same time. I was going to Veg for another week but there were a couple factors that made me want to flip. Last week I did a final transplant into my 7gal pots, 2 days later I start to see pistils. I am a new grower and was like oh crap did I just force her into flowering and gonna herm them since im still on 18-6 light schedule??? I am in a couple discords that are growing communities so i posted some pics and confirmed they are in fact pistils. This is my first grow and not only was I excited to start flowering but also scared im going to ruin them if I dont flip so I did. From more research this is called pre flower and I could have stayed in veg from what I have found but flipped anyways and please correct me if im wrong as Im still learning. The pics you see are day 3 wk1 of flower, I flipped the lights to 12-12 on night 2-29. The girls are already starting to stretch. IM really hoping that my little sour diesel dwarf stretches to meet the Purp and northern lights canopy or else I am going to need to find something to prop her up to meet them. As you can see in the pics I added my trellis netting. My plan was to hopefully get these girls to stretch enough and start filling in the squares. My goal is to fill every square with a flower site. It might be a bit ambitious but still gonna try. This is 2 fold, 1 allow spacing to open up the inner canopy and allow light into the depths of these girls to encourage those lower sites to reach the top. 2 support for the flowers as they mature. Yea they looking alittle bushy and I know I should defoliate but my thought was to wait until the stretch is done then do my full lollipop and remove alot of those fan leaves blocking bud sites and also get better air flow in there. My plan for nutrients is to top dress with my gaia green 4-4-4. power bloom 2-8-4 and worm castings every 2-3 weeks depending on how they take to it. I just hope this is enough. So here's to week 1 of flower!!! any tips, advise or suggestions are welcome and thank you for looking!

Start of Week 2 day 2 of flower!! These girls are stretching and starting to stack bud sites. My little sour diesel is doing her best to reach that canopy with the others, she aint showing alot of sites at the moment but im hoping after stretch and defoliation I can get more to pop. I decided to upgrade my light and now have a SE4500 450w on the way. From what I had researched Id like to be getting 1000ppfd in the center and then around 600-700 on edges I picked up some stashblend and real growers recharge and added it to my water as a compost tea today and will be implementing that in the watering per the plant needs . My biggest fear doing organics is getting behind on the food for these girls. I plan to top dress with worm castings, gaia green all purpose 4-4-4 and power bloom 2-8-4 every 3 weeks during flower, and then about the 4 week of flower I will be using more power bloom than all purpose to avoid too much nitrogen. My biggest thing I been going back and forth on is when to defoliate. I dont wanna start removing abunch of leaves and force my plant to recover during the stretch rather than making bud sites. I figure once it is done stretching completely I am going to lollipop and remove all branches/larf and leaves under the canopy. feel free to comment, provide tips, suggestions im open to all as im still new and learning Thanks for looking and happy growing!!

Start of WK3 day 17 of flower. As you can see the sour diesel has not stretched past the others. I just bought a new light (SE4500) and been hanging it about 30 inches from the canopy and this has def influenced this stretch. The northern lights is my favorite structure so far, really tight nodes and are going to form some nice colas. The Grandaddy purp I think has the most uniform canopy and feel its gonna fill out nicely. Top dressed on 3-16 with Gaia green power bloom and all purpose along with some worm castings

Day 24 flower and holy frost! Sour Diesel is frosting up so much its crazy. The bud structure is abit smaller than all the others but man is it covered and look how much these girls stretched. Northern Lights isnt as frosty but has my favorite structure. Have alot of nice colas going and they are also starting to frost as well. Grandaddy Purp is surprising me in flower, this was the plant that's been the biggest and tallest the entire grow until now, it is the smallest. Its still stacking and prob going to be in flower longer than the others. I been hitting these girls with 800-900 ppfd at 18 inches from canopy and they seem to like it.

Day 31 flower wk 5 Welcome to frosty town. Sour diesel has shown up tot he party bringing snow holy crap. This was the plant that has been the dwarf the whole time all through veg and even the first cpl weeks of flower. This girl stretched and started stacking the trichomes. It smells like your in a tiny 5x5 room with ppl peeling oranges. Sour diesel buds are small but im hoping they stack on some weight in the next 30days Northern lights are my ideal bud structure, fat cone buds just stacking and also starting to get frosty as well. I think Northern lights is gonna be my big producer. Grandaddy Purp. I can tell this girl is slow grower. Shes starting to stack and has good internodal spacing but is taking her time and will likely be the last one in the tent This stage of growing is exciting but kinda on autopilot as im just watering every other day and just letting them do their thing

Day 39 flower!! Not a whole lot to report, just watering every 2-3 days ph 6.5 tap water Top dressed with gaia green bloom 284 with about 2 tablespoons per gallon and then about 2 cups of worm castings. I didnt use All purpose this time around as Im trying to taper off the nitrogen. Hopefully that doesnt come back to bite me Hopefully the girls are done come May is what im hoping for

Day 46 flower GDP is starting to show them purple genes and lookin great, The buds them selves look great but man she is a leafy girl. I either did defoliate enough or theses colas are just leafy af Sour diesel, shes still frosty as ever and has the most amazing smell I have ever smelled from a plant in my life, just straight orange peel with a follow up gas. stubby little dense buds, this is gonna be really good smoke Northern Lights, I mean they speak for themselves, this plant has done great at stacking. ALotta big colas and are rock solid. This one smells like straight gasoline. I been checking their trichomes and alotta of them are about 80%clear. I wanna see 80% cloudy and 20% amber. I really need to get these girls down in the next 2 weeks.

Day 53 flower!! I feel I have to be close, alot of the trichomes are still clear, Im looking fpr like 10% clear, 70% cloudy, and 20% amber They look about done but still got alot of green to them I will be just feeding water from here on out Hoping these girls will be done by May so I can getem drying and curing everything has been on auto pilot, watering every other day

Day 60 flower Man we are in the last week of flower (hopefully). Still seeing alot of clear trichomes and man Im ready to chop these girls down and put my first harvest in the books. IM glad they are all kinda on the same level of ripeness as I think once one is done they should all be done I gotta get a better camera and figure out how to remove that yellowing in the pics. I am starting to see some leaves on the SD yellowing and pointing downward. From what I had found its a sign of overwatering but I doubt that as the leaves are yeallowing and getting crunchy. I did just get a moisture meter and its saying moist and wet towards the bottom so I dont think thats it. I have top dressed in over 3 weeks since I am trying to flush, I expected yellowing as im tapering off the N but was not expecting to see them get crunchy so thats something im looking into. **UPDATE*** 5-1 CHOP Day!!! they look ready to me, I will be chopping them down today after work. I will not be posting updates during drying but will update when drying is done and an early cure I will provide my weight, tatste effect all that good stuff next time I update so it may be a couple weeks, see ya then!!!

First grow in the books but man I have ALOT of learning to do. Ya know they always say growing is half of it, drying is curing is the half and that is so true This grow diary is kinda weird as I have 3 dif plants so I will do 3 dif pages but Im going to summarize here Being a new grower is exciting!! Everything is new. New brings challenges that I urge for in everything I do. I picked these 3 strains just because they had nostalgia for me. I didnt research the breeders, didnt pay attention to flower time or any notes really from the breeder. I only knew the flower time that came with the beans. This grow was so fun, I built my own soil and wrote everything down everyday, temp of water, ph of water, how much water, when I top dressed and what my par and vdi was everyday. I worked hard and this was like therapy for me to get to harvest. Chop day was both exciting and abit weird at the same time. These plants that Ive invested so much time in with. I spoke to these plants each morning lol. So I chopped them down and realized I wont be able to keep them whole, I chopped them down by larger branches and hung. They hung in the same tent but I was able to get temps to 60-65 F, and RH was 55-65% at all times. I had my exhaust running 24/7 on low and a oscillating fan at the bottom of the tent just blowing air at the walls I was trying to go by the Snap test. I tested every other day and would test branches the size of toothpicks. I was at day 11 and still no snap so I was like what gives?? I took a whole branch down and trimmed to get an idea of how the buds felt. They were abit crunchy on the outside and still alittle spungy when squeezed so I thought ok theses are done. I then grabbed all of them and trimmed and bagged up in oz bags, Grove bags. I let sit for 48hrs and tyen peeked at them......To my surprise they were all under 55% most were at 50%. My NL smelled like cut grass, My GDP smelled like cut grass with gas on it BUT my Sour Diesel was an absolute gem SD smelled like orange peels backed with famous sour diesel smell to it I was excited. BUT WTF happened to my NL and GDP. They are huge buds and are covered in frost and sticky as hell but fuck they smell like grass, im so pissed. I feel I over dryed them and killed all terps and it pisses me off. I will never trust the snap method again. I tried several branches all were just bending no snap. Im really hoping that curing these buds will help get rid of that grass smell if not I will be converting these beautiful buds into cannabutter. All in all my goal was to just get to harvest and i achieved that, little did I know the hard part is drying and curing. Heres to the next grow! I will be satrting another diary soon, my current plants have been not so good but I will get another one up soon. Thanks to all who watched me grow, followed me and commented I appreciate it!

I summarized in my NL summary please see that

Please see the NL comment section, i summarized there