OG Fun

Isn't she beautiful! I love every single stage and I can't wait to see what this plant does! As you can see, my grow setup is fairly humble. The platform is made of 2x4’s, plywood scrap, and a few screws. I placed a plastic washing machine drain pan on top to catch water. The containers are paint bucket liners with a bit of clear packing tape to clamshell them together (allowing me greater control over heat and humidity) and holes poked in the bottom to allow excess water to drain (there is also some gravel at the bottom of the container to improve drainage). The container has a brown lunch bag covering it (to block the sun/heat), with the bottom cut out and taped to the sides to ensure it doesn't interfere with drainage. I have a digital humidity/temperature gauge (which I normally use for curing) taped to the side to monitor conditions. I am growing inside my house to avoid using a space heater to grow in my garage (I can get away with this as the plants will be placed outside for flowering–I would never keep a flowering plant inside my house without a grow tent and carbon filter, lol). The light is an HLG RSPEC 100, and I have it plugged into a WIFI smart socket scheduled to automatically turn on the light at 5:59 am and off at 11:59 pm. I am running the light at about 50% for the first week and will increase it from there.

What can I say, OG Fun is a lot of fun to grow! And what a sun / grow light-loving beast! Lighting Update: I noticed the intense 12:00p sunlight (peak intensity) pouring through the window onto her while the LED grow light was running–probably too much light for a seedling, although she was fully upright and the leaves were green and tilting toward the sun. I knew from my Bannizzle experiments (my past grow) that higher light intensity during vegetation and flowering produced bigger yields. And that notion was reinforced by this study (for flowering): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8144505/ But I hadn’t checked to see what light intensity is best at each stage. I downloaded the Photone app (a well-reviewed grow light meter app) to measure light intensity (in Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density, or PPFD, which is how many photons of light the plant can actually use every second). Then I made a homemade diffuser out of printer paper (per the instructions inside the app) and found that my light intensity (1,000 PPFD with the grow light and sun combined and 765 PPFD with the sun alone) was well above their recommendations for a seedling (100-300 PPFD) as outlined in one of Photone’s well-written article: https://growlightmeter.com/lighting-requirements-of-cannabis-over-the-full-grow-cycle/ And also discussed here: https://growdiaries.com/journal/how-to-increase-the-dli-in-the-cannabis-grow-room-for-better-yields I decided to schedule my grow light to turn off from 10:30a - 12:45p while she receives direct sunlight (on cloudy days I override the WIFI socket and run the light during this time). I also decided to change my WIFI socket to shut off the grow light at 9:59p (it turns on at 5:59a) so that total light hours are kept to 16. I think this combination will make for the easiest transition for her to move outdoors. I do recognize that the total DLI from the sun added to the total DLI of the grow light for the remaining hours is a bit higher than recommended, but the plant seems healthy and I don't want to make too many adjustments at once. I also became curious how much DLI she would receive growing outdoors (so I can prepare her for similar DLI before I put her outside). This is a cool tool for that: https://dli.suntrackertech.com/ Finally, I implemented a container rotation schedule (with the Fruity Freak plants I am growing) and now move the plants one position counterclockwise every day. After four days I will turn all containers ninety degrees. This should promote more even plant growth. Water I am watering her once a week (my native soil is dense and retains water) using about two tablespoons worth. She only gets melted snow warmed to room temperature or captured rainwater to keep soil pH and conditions consistent with the outdoors. Airflow The clamshell is now removed. I am running my ceiling fan during daylight hours. I am also using an oscillating fan while she receives direct sunlight (I am using a WIFI socket to turn it on and off automatically for me) to help cool her and begin strengthening the stem before the transition outdoors. Two interesting articles on the subject: https://growdiaries.com/journal/ventilation-in-the-cannabis-grow-room-a-detailed-guide https://www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/providing-sufficient-airflow-for-plant-growth-environments Thanks for reading! As I am a newer grower, I am always open to suggestions and ideas–so don't hesitate to reach out!

It has been another amazing week of OG Fun growing and my skills in growing with her. She is growing fast and loves the light! I am simultaneously running a journal for three Fruity Freak plants, and it outlines all of the grow details, including how I pulled a soil test and what I did with the results. I definitely recommend checking it out!

I used native soil (which I have found to have a bit too much clay) to plant in, and unfortunately, it compacted a bit too much. When transplanting to a larger container, I mixed 50% native soil with 25% peat moss and 25% perlite to loosen up the soil and allow for better drainage and space for the roots. Hopefully, she will start taking off!

The tips of my leaves and in between the veins are browning. After transplanting this plant into a larger pot (and three others at the same time), the plants were further from the center of the grow light, and that decreased light intensity. Therefore, I lowered the grow light. This may be driving the browning. I am also looking into the pH and nutrients.