Weedshack - Fall Grow

2x Sour Diesel (left) 2x Sherbert (middle) 2x Strawberry Banana (right) Clones, transplanted 10/20. Started lights at 16on/8off. 10 minutes of watering each morning. Will watch temp and humidity. Rebuilt tent with proper (filtered) exhaust and added a heater filter to the intake (keep the damn gnats out). Rebuilt power to the tent (got rid of long runs of extension cords, added large power supply with a fuse, hooked all fans and lights to one timer (might move to two if needed). Plants look good. ETA is mid March, I'm guessing. Here's to grow #2!

Forgot to kick off week two. Plants are doing well, as of Tuesday this week (day 9 since transplant), all plants are now thriving (leaves perked up, roots seem to be gathering nutrients and water, new leaves forming). No pics this week.

Added second panel (cheapo Black Magic 45W panel) as a secondary light. Plants are all looking great.

They're growing like mad. Put in a screen above the plants so we can start to train, but haven't done much with it yet. All is well.

THIS UPDATE SKIPPED A WEEK! It's been two weeks since my last pics/update. I blame Thanksgiving. For the record, plants went in on 10/20. One completed week is 10/27. Two is 11/3. Three is 11/10. Four is 11/17. Five is 11/24. These pics are from 11/25 and the update was posted on 11/26. Plants are growing well. Not super happy about our scrogging, but it seems to be doing OK. Still need to thin the undergrowth a bit. They seem pretty happy with all three lights on.

Did some pruning out of the undergrowth over the weekend. Plants are all looking pretty good, though 2-3 are a little wilty and I want to keep an eye on them. Also upped the water budget from 10m/day to 15m/day. Lots of moths in the shed, but they don't seem to have set up camp in the tent thank god. Raised the lights about 8 inches. Switch to flowering soon? Likely next week.

All looks good. No signs of moths or gnats. All the plants are a bit smaller than grow #1, but perhaps that's just the fact that it's colder? Or is it because there are 6 and not 5? Anyway...Flipped the switch to flowering. Countdown is on!

Didn't take pictures this week. All seems to be growing well. Plants on the right are beginning to show first signs of flower-tendrils. Will try to add pics/details tomorrow.

Pictures from Dec 25. I think the plants are struggling a lot. We turned up the water and fertilized them (which helped). Still, it's cold. Very cold. Since we're not willing to pay for heating them, this crop is going to struggle. All the plants seem to have reverted from flowering back to vegetative - despite the lights being on 12 hour clocks for weeks so far.

Pictures from Dec 29. 3-4 weeks into flowering and it looks like the plants switched back to vegetative. One question we had was whether the switch to nighttime lights caused this...basically, if the lights run at night and if we pop in once a day or so (during the plant's "night") and turn the lights on, does that blow our flowering plan? The local botanist thinks it will. Changing our behavior to not do that any more. Might have to switch the lights back to daytime (and deal with cold nights). Plants look healthier after fertilizer and water increases. Still super cold, though... Additional consultation with an experienced grower suggested that with the roots this cold, the plants just might not flower at all. <sigh> We'll let them abide for a while to see what happens.

Pictures from Jan 8. The plants are showing signs of flowering again (I see white tendrils in the top nodes of most or all of them)...that's good. temp is still very low and we know we might have to write this grow off, but we're optimistic. Lights remain on a night-time schedule. Some bugs are landing on our stick square - more than I'd like, but orders of magnitude less than in the previous grow (intake filter on the air system helps with that). I suspect most of the bugs are entering when we open the tent for daily inspections. <shrug> We'll see.

Pictures from 1/13. Well, we're definitely flowering now. Slowly, but it's happening. Plants seem pretty healthy - the leaves droop a bit more than I recall from the previous grow but that seems OK. Leaves look pretty healthy. I just wish they'd get on with building up flowers. It looks like we're at week two or three of flower, not week 5-6.

Pictures from Jan 21. Flowering (slooooooooooowly) continues. At this rate, our forecast is harvest in first half of March, trim/dry/cure, and product is read in April. <sigh> Need a better winter grow solution as the electricity bills are punishing.

Photos from Jan 27. Growth still continues...slooooooooowly. It was a warm week and maybe that helped. At what point do I give up and wait for warmer weather?

Pics from 2/3. Slloooow growth continues. A fair number of dead leaves this week - I think a cold snap did some damage. Lots of flowers happening, but maturation is so slow that I wonder if we'll get anything out of it. Added fertilizer this week, too.

Slow growth continues, I fertilized last week and gave them a soak. Then we turned the water off on Weds night. They're drying out slowly. Still very cold here and growth is sllloooooooooooowwwwwwwww. <shrug> We keep going...

Photos from 2/16. Flowering is progressing...ever so slowly. I've started using the loupe to check to see how we're doing and this week noticed a decent percentage of orange hairs - so we're entering the final lap I think. A few more weeks, maybe? Flowers aren't super huge...moral of the story is that cold is bad.

Photos from Feb 24. I'd say we're getting a lot closer to harvesting now. I'll get the microscope out as soon as the rain lets up. Turned off the water on Saturday (bags were quite wet). The flowers aren't huge and next time I'd sure like to step up a notch in terms of lighting, but we're OK for now. Already pondering the spring grow...