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TheFairyBudMother TheFairyBudMother
7 years ago
OVERALL OBSERVATIONS: Tried taking photos with flash,but I plan to add a clip light for photos. Platinum Girl Scout Cookies have had an mild scent so far that's mildly hoppy. Buds are fattening and stacking up nicely with a little nute burn on Platinum Purple and Platinum Girl Scout Cookie (both in air pots). WATERING: Plants overall have been needing water every 1-3 days instead of every 5, so I have been giving nutrients on one day a week. I ordered General Hydroponics PH kit just to double check PH, which was below 5 with Botanicare bloom nutrients so I used their PH up to bring it up to 6. AIRFLOW: I just added a second fan today to tickle this plant, because it's really effin obvious that cannabis likes a breeze based on the floofiest buds happening nearest the original fan. While this plant looks really healthy, the pistils aren't as perky as on my other two plants, possibly because it's the furthest from the fan. LIGHT: Raised my two 300 W equivalent LEDs about 1" even though most height has been trained down by gentle bending under the net. Still a fair amount of stretch. PEST CONTROL: Sprayed 2 more times this week 3 days apart with water/soap only and once with water but still seeing minor pest issues. Still running swamp cooler on and off as ambient RH has been high and the temperatures have been pretty mild this week. CATFUR: I have an 18lb well groomed fuzzball cat so cat fur is an issue I accept, but note this is not spider mite webbing in my photos. This is for personal use, now fortified with extra keratin. Fluffball doesn't go in the grow area but his fur is as ubiquitous as air. STYLE: My boyfriend sent me unicorns via Amazon to add more magic! -- BTW: Formerly here as "TheFBM," I want to clearly reprazent as a woman grower. I didn't want to call myself TheFairyBudMother until I helped mother nature by midwifing out a harvest of sticky bud. So I hope coming out now doesn't jinx my grow! My boyfriend said "You've been TheFairyBudMother your entire life; own it." You can't fight destiny, folks. A little about me: I live with chronic neuropathic pain from a spinal cord injury and also experience endometriosis symptoms and am currently in perimenopause. Cannabis has helped me get off Suboxone (bupenorphine) after being on it for 7 years, after coming off of another 7 years of long acting opioid treatment (Fentanyl patches, lozenges, morphine) and 15 other prescription medications. I got a California medical rec in '13, and tapered fully off of Suboxone over the next 2 years. Since growing cannabis, I now have an outdoor vegetable garden and haven't gardened in 19 years. So if you're worried growing or using cannabis will turn you into an amotivated pothead, you've been sold some reefer madness bs. This site has been super supportive and inspiring.
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JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSweek 12
Lil tip : usually they're ready when they stop drinking ๐Ÿ˜‰
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@WhiteWidow, I'm not looking at the quantity of water my plant takes in but whether the plant responds to watering. I.e., if the leaves look a little droopy and the top inch or so of soil is dry to the touch, if I water, does she perk up? I believe that's @JUNGLE_B4RNS was getting at.
WhiteWidow
WhiteWidow
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, i noticed that with my Bubba Kush, suddenly he is drinking ultra low quantities of water, like 3 liters in 4 days, in a 5L pot size. Is that a sign that my bubba is done? Shame since i thought.those buds could become more dense but they are standing in the same.place, and not much crystals to it.. :(
JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNS
@TheFairyBudMother,yes you will with a good joint ๐Ÿ˜„
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JieGrow
JieGrowweek 10
Buds are frosting up well, looking forward too seeing your end result!
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@JieGrow, I'm looking forward to baking some cookies!
JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSweek 13
@WhiteWidow,only when you're flushing it, at the end of flushing when your plant stops drinking this is where you can chop it.
JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSweek 10
Try the Royal Cookies to compare with this one .
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, much appreciated!
Book_of_Thoth
Book_of_Thothweek 10
They're frosting up now! Nice work :)
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@Book_of_Thoth, Thanks! I honestly thought there was something wrong with these buds but they grow like this.
Bigpun
Bigpunweek 13
Looks like tasty nugs! Great job๐Ÿ‘
That_Potent_Puff
That_Potent_Puffweek 13
@TheFairyBudMother.. def look like sum pleasant smoke gj...๐Ÿ‘
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMotherweek 6
Using MaxCurve app on iPhone to adjust color/edit out LED magenta. I need to get a CFL clip light in there for pics!
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMotherweek 3
Some FIM, topping and LST.
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 9
Looks very dark, and potent , should be a lovely smoke if you can flush it out . ๐Ÿ‘
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@BigDaddyK,Thanks! 3-5 more weeks to go
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyK
@TheFairyBudMother,ahh I see , they are more costly , you have done well for a first effort ๐Ÿ‘
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@BigDaddyK,A friend tried to convince me to use a sodium light instead but I didn't want the electric bill and my ventilation has been the low tech method of opening the curtain. I could lower my lights if you believe they're not getting enough. This is my first experience growing anything indoors as well as growing weed. Things are looking really gluey in there today๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿฝ.
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GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruidweek 6
Very cool dude. Interested to see how this turns out. Good luck. Also what is your take on those air pots?
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@Grimbol, The air pots are awesome! I kept the Lemon OG in a regular plastic pot as my third air pot hadn't arrived when I planted and it's not doing as well though there may be other reasons. I was worried water would squirt out the sides, but it doesn't. The soil has stayed nice and loose. They keep the plant raised too so it never sits in water and they unpeel from around the plants so removal should be easy. $20/pot though!
BreakingBud
BreakingBudweek 9
wow
ClubRiot
ClubRiotweek 7
looks good! ๐Ÿ’ช
CaliGrown
CaliGrownweek 7
Looking good this week! Keep up the hard work
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruidweek 6
Damn the ones on amazon were more than $30 so I bought some fabric pots. I 'm going to try coco next round I believe.
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@TheFBM, Thanks dude! Much appreciated! I do want to run the experiment with clones though at some point soon.
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@Grimbol, I've been following your Fox Farms vs Advanced Nutrients experiment on GDP. I think it's important that we do lots emperical studies for science!
GrimbolTheDruid
GrimbolTheDruid
@TheFBM, For my next grow I think I will try one air pot and one canvas pot and see what I notice.
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BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 13
You could probably benefit with a bigger led
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyK
@Mr_Di,MEIZHI are the brand you want 1200 watt $300 LeD - people are telling me good things about it ๐Ÿ‘
Mr_Di
Mr_Di
@TheFairyBudMother, absolutly ๐Ÿ’ช, if you can bro, i suggest you same thing....use hps for bloom phase if you want maximize potential harvest of your strain. At the beginning i insisted, i have come to do 3 continuous cycles with my 280w led (420โ‚ฌ.............) ..... but the result compared with an hobby friend who only uses hps ..... i have to admit that there is no comparison .... Ah.....! sorry guys for my english....๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…
Mr_Di
Mr_Di
@BigDaddyK, yeeeeeesssssss big daddy, I agree, in my opinion the LEDs still have too little penetration. After 1 years of continuos cicle, i've same convintion. Led, is good for all veg period, make short internods and a great foliar production, the best think in veg time. In bloom phase, penetration of hps.....is not yet equiparable to led. Now, are there in commerce new led COB that increase penetration, but its spectrum is only white.....aaaaaaand.......alway only good for veg opinion......my set up now is, 280w led for first 3-4 week, after, hps 400w or 600....its depend by season.๐Ÿ˜‹
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Mr_Di
Mr_Diweek 13
wow....very interesting bro!!! anyway, caution my friend!!! often, market indicate watts compared to the hps ... my 280w led sold by comparing it to a 600w hps .... quite unreal. (Tested) ads: 580w led 5 bands full spectrum ... .the true? 280w ...... for my opinion .... Comparable max to a 400w ... Even on amazon, find ads like 1000w led ..... then reading well, find that they consume 400w and are compared to 1000w hps ....... no worse thing to spend cash to have a What and then find another ..... under your expectations ... I speak for doh experience !! : D But if you had a real 1000w led (power absorption) it would be a good buy for future :) I hope my English is compliant
Bigpun
Bigpun
@TheFairyBudMother, nice! Yeah i agree. the light penetration argument with LEDs is moot with white LEDs so I believe the only thing holding LEDs back is the price it's hard to beat a thousand Watts for 300 bucks.
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@Bigpun,Yeah your grow is pretty impressive! I would look into COB lights. When I read that places like this https://www.heliospectra.com/blog/grove-nevada-experiences-unprecedented-positive-results-their-grow-using-heliospectras-led-grow use LED (albiet insanely customizable light systems), I believe that much of the problem with perception of LED is that people don't have enough experience with them and they have improved vastly for the cost in only the past 2-3 years, which isn't long ago if you recently did your own experiments to learn the best method for you. I cannot in good conscience or economy justify the energy costs for light and cooling if I can figure out how avoid them.
Bigpun
Bigpun
@TheFairyBudMother, my viparspectra 450 "200w" draw has grown my cheese auto pretty good. Although in my 4x4 space 2 would be more effective.
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BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 13
The bud looks amazing , the only shame there isn't more of it ๐Ÿ‘
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyK
@TheFairyBudMother,it's all a learning curve , best to underwater than over , early doors they get watered every three days , only in full flower do the get more often from me in soil but a bigger led will give more yield ๐Ÿ‘
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@BigDaddyK, I bet you were disappointed! 10 g is a lot for me. It would likely last me 1-2 months. This was a house clone from Buds & Roses LA which won a Cannabis Cup award for this cut. It's not a high yielding strain, and they did not recommend it as a first time grow. I wanted 3 different plants and since I have to drive an hour each way to buy pot or clones because of stupid zoning laws, I took 3 plants I thought might grow cannabis that would most likely work well on my pain. I figured worst case, I would learn a little bit about growing pot and in the best case, I would have lots to share with friends. Mostly I should have vegged the plant much longer for a higher yeild but who knows if it would have survived a longer grow given that I wasn't using a ppm meter and got spider mites partway through my grow. On this next grow, I did put some bagseed in there, as well as using seeds from Bomb seeds. I currently have 6 seedlings, but I expect to have to cull a few of them because the bag seeds are regular, and some might be males or bisex.
BigDaddyK
BigDaddyK
@TheFairyBudMother,if I showed you the first plants I ever grew , they were bag seed and I got 10 g a plant ๐ŸŒฑ
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BigDaddyK
BigDaddyKweek 9
Man tap water is 700 ppm ? What's in it ?
TheFairyBudMother
TheFairyBudMother
@BigDaddyK, I need to calibrate the TDS to be sure, and if it remains that high, it's going to a lab.
LongJohn420
LongJohn420week 13
Good job! Sweet buds you got ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ™