CBD Hash Plant SCROG

I'm back! Had to end my Raspberry Cough early due to life stuff unfortunately. But I upgraded a couple things and gonna give this new (to me) strain a try! Wanted to try a CBD strain because I had shoulder surgery and CBD products have been invaluable. Still very new but been trying to learn as much as I could during my "off season." Gonna have these two ladies side by side in a SCROG together with a screen about 4'x1.75'. I had some issues with an acid rain effect from a subpar pump so I upgraded and have about 21L/m total (10.5L/m/bucket) New seeds arrived from Seedsman insanely fast. Both seeds popped in under 48 hours. These pics were taken 5 days from germination, big props to Seedsman! I enjoy LEDs for the electricity costs but they make for awful pics. This week I am still setting up around the tent so no aux lights yet, by next week I'll have some not-shitty pics to share!

I think I had my small lights too close and assuming that's what the brownish-red color in the center is from (please correct me if I'm wrong!) Really hard to see those things with these ugly LEDs and damage was already done by the time I noticed. Swapped out the tiny lights for the big light but 31 inches away (have a bell pepper plant that's about done). I'm so far pretty happy with how these are both looking after week 1 and both seem to be growing at the same rate. Crossing my fingers for similar phenos!

Had an issue with pump getting real hot so tossed a fan near it but was making res temps exceed 73*F. Tried a couple more complicated methods but fan seemed to be the best (keep it simple I guess lol) Roots are doing... Ok. High temps took their toll but think I can turn this around. Leaves seem a bit pale and hoping this res change and pump fix will get my ladies to rebound. Harriet (left): 407ppm; 0.866ec (500scale) Lilly: (right): 391ppm; 0.831 Both pH stable at 5.8 I made enough solution for top offs with the intent of about 30% strength top-off and will pH dilution as needed to adjust plant buckets (no pH up/down directly in root zone)

Ladies seemed to have recovered root rot, not 100% but making good progress. Definitely seems to be slightly different phenos so I'm hoping it works out alright on the same SCROG screen. Both up to 5 and starting 6 nodes, waiting until the weekend to top so they have at least 1 week of rot-free roots. Lilly (right) seems to be more squat and struggling with pH being low and staying low. Wasn't drinking hardly any water, ec was stable and pH was low, so i lowered ec a tad and pH seems to level at 5.5, crossing fingers she starts eating soon! Initially was thinking of a 10 day res cycle but gonna keep an eye out to make sure I'm not stretching them too far. Comments and criticism always welcome, newbie here! 😗💨

Did a res change a few days ago with both plants looking pretty good. Both eating and drinking but Lilly seems a bit more sluggish. I topped Harriet (left) and FIMd Lilly (right) just to see the difference, but was also an attempt to allow Lilly to catch up. First 4 pics of immediately after HST 2 days ago, rest were taken today. Harriet rebounded with a vengeance and Lilly is chugging along. Haven't decided what distance I want my screen but will be flipping soon since the screen is about 4'x1.75' and won't take much to fill it during stretch. Both root zones have been under control and looking awesome. Also, THESE FAN LEAVES ARE FUCKIN HUGE!

Did some defoliating this weekend to clear up some space and get air flow. Both ladies seem to be doing pretty well but Harriet (on left, topped) is still out pacing Lilly (on right, fimmed). No idea what the stretch is like with these but giving them a couple days to recover from defoliating and then flipping. Last grow I waited and ran out of space so gonna try a bit earlier, even if it makes my SCROG more support than anything. Planning on a second defoliation 2 weeks after switch to make sure I have adequate air flow under the screen. Suggestions always welcome!

Flipped to 12/12 about 5 days ago. Lilly seems to struggle with pH but still eating and drinking and looking good overall. Harriet is doing extremely well! Included some pics of my res change so you all can see. I use a brewing auto siphon to pull old nutes into a dedicated carboy and usually takes about 10 mins to drain fully but doesn't stress or jostle the root zones. Then a carboy of 2x strength nutes and mixed, poured down into 2 buckets. Those are then topped up to the 4gal mark with a 60:40 ratio of Milli-Q (6ppb) and tap (130ppm) to get 30-40ppm. Each bucket is then individually dosed for bennies and then pH-ed for each plant. I typically make the solution the night before and let it degas. Once drained, new nutes are siphoned in. Still not totally sure about defoliating and know I should be clearing out beneath the screen but afraid to do too much!

Nearing the 2 week mark since flip to 12/12 (April 5th)! Starting to see some pistils poking out and still stretching a bit. First 4 pics are about 3 days ago. I was having moisture on the leaves and tucking didn't help so did some late defoliating. She seemed to take it great and rebounded insanely fast and full already. Lilly (right) still struggles with pH and stopped drinking so I drained about a gallon and put in a dilute solution to lower EC. Drank about a litre over night, so headed back on track. Harriet (left) is a champ! Pushing 720 ppm with no top burn and super healthy. I'm letting them grow through the screen and not tucking as much as I had in my previous grow to allow more vertical growth and just using the screen to keep tops spaced well. Not sure if it's a true SCROG at this point but IDC as long as my ladies are happy 😊 Roots all nice and white (sorry no pics!) Will be switching to bloom nutes this weekend. Stay frosty, folks!

Stretch seems about done and seeing pistils really start to poke through. Both are eating and drinking almost faster than I can keep up! Switched to flower nutes and running Harriet at 720 and Lilly at 550 since Lilly struggled with pH and trying to keep her drinking. See y'all next week!

Have to do a short week update. Gonna be out of state for a week so this is a 4-5 day update instead. Baby budlets are popping up everywhere and looking gorgeous! Harriet seems about 2 weeks ahead of Lilly despite identical timing and conditions so there's some genetic variance going on for sure. I was able to successfully clone (first time, woohoo!) two cuttings from Harriet without rooting hormones. Both are drinking about a gallon of nutrient every 2.5 days or so, roots looking stellar! See y'all in a week!

Back from my week off and holy cow these ladies did some work! Harriet (Left) is on Pace to be an amazing girl. Lilly is struggling despite showing no signs of malnutrition, just chugging along lol. Looks like she's about 2 full weeks behind. While I was gone she stopped drinking a bit so had my buddy lower ppm to kick start her. Harriet sitting above 800ppm and loving it, gonna try Lilly around 440 and see how she responds (crossing my fingers for a rebound!!) Smell wise they are starting to pick up but not overly pungent. Getting some trichome development pretty early but seems to be in line with the "hash" part of the name 🤣 Happy growing everyone! See y'all next week

Was a pretty odd week for these ladies. Lilly (right) struggled with pH for a couple days before settling in and finishing the week strong. Harriet, who has been a rockstar, had a stellar start to the week before having her pH plummet. Tried to correct it but was unsuccessful. Fortunately, I was due for a res change! Upped Lilly a tad and dropped Harriet in ppm to see if they get through the week without issues, so far so good. Some unfortunate news: I contacted @growdiaries because there are some weeks missing pictures, despite diligently posting many pics each week. Apparently the app is no longer supported (whoops, I had no idea and there was no notification) Looks like I'm SOL and lost a bunch of pics and don't have them elsewhere. Pretty bummed because i now have an incomplete diary and can't see the progress. Oh well, hope no more weeks get destroyed 🤞 Have a great week folks!

Had a good week so far! Both seem to be coming right along. Hard to tell if they are really fattening up since I spend time with them everyday but just need to be patient and trust the ladies to do their job as long as I'm doing mine lol. Both seem to have pH swings for the first few days of a res change and around day 4 really hit their root zone stride in nutrients and water consumption. Pushing day 9 on this res with my extra solution (diluting and pH for top offs) and both drinking like crazy and ppm staying the same (+/- 10ppm) The trichome development is pretty intense already on these girls, the name was no lie! Difficult to really get a picture that does them justice but it's like a winter wonderland of trichomes 😋 Gonna prep nutrients for a res change and let em settle for a couple days before I make the swap, but if these girls are liking the longer schedule I will likely just roll with it. See y'all next week!

Girls are about a week out or so! Girls are fattening up each day and trichomes are starting to go milky. Harriet (left) has been having trouble with pH dropping but she's still drinking. I ended up removing about 2 liters of solution and put pH'd water to lower the ppm. Seems to have helped bring the pH up to about 5.3 (up from 4.1) but will continue to monitor. I noticed the leaves are starting to discolor on the serrations, and got a slight tip burn, so thinking dropping the ppm a tad was good? Lol Haven't totally decided when and how long (if any) flushing I'll do. I see conflicting info and anecdotal evidence to it's effectiveness. Guess it's time for some soul searching 🤣 See y'all next week!!

Sorry for the delay in getting this week up, been a pretty hectic week! Ladies look and smell fantastic!! Harriet is almost ready for harvest and I've been topping up with plain RO water to do a slow flush. Once I figure out how many days out I'll do about a 24 hr final flush, my guess is she'll be ready tomorrow or Saturday. Lilly is looking great but trics are about 30% milky so she has some more time and will be chillin without her sister for a bit. My eyes keep trying to convince me it time to chop as I grow my impatient but trying my hardest to slow down and let them do their thing, the struggle is real! Next update will likely be a harvest update. See y'all soon (hopefully)!!!!

Went for slow cure and buds took about 10-12 days on the screen and into jars with Boveda packs. The strain is around 7%/7% I believe but it gets you high like a sativa for about 45mins to an hour, then mellows out to an easy, functional body high for another hour. For my purposes, it was perfect! Had shoulder surgery so I get high for a bit (woot woot!) And then relief for quite a long time after the initial high starts to wear off. I think I could have let them go a bit longer in the last week or so but impatience got the best of me and still a learning curve to figuring out when they are done. Nugs came out beautiful and purple tips and nice and dense. For a cbd strain that wasn't supposed to be a huge yielder I feel getting just north of an ounce each was pretty exciting for my 2nd full grow. Used a 1000w LED but only drew like 350 from the wall