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I live in a state with one of the highest dispensary prices in the US, so I decided to take the plunge and try to grow my own plants. I decided to start with autos and use Grow Dots/Recharge for nutrients. Honestly, my goal in all of this was to put in as little effort as possible and still end up with smokable product at the end.
I used the paper towel method to get the seeds going and that worked really well for me. Sorry I didn't take any photos of the seeds post germination. The photos here were taken after the seeds had popped and were planted. I planted them in 5 gallon grow bags and used FoxFarm 70/30 coco and perlite as the grow medium.
With the seeds planted, I adjusted my light to around 7000 lux and about 24" above the plants. I also added an app controlled humidifier with connected hygrometer to maintain a humidity level of 68% inside the tent. The hygrometer also allowed me to monitor temperature inside the tent. I used a smart plug for my light so was able to set the light cycle to 20/4 (20 hours of light and 4 hours of darkness). Everything seemed to be off to a good start.
Obviously, I'm playing catch up and documenting my first grow cycle after it's all done. In fact, I'm halfway through my second grow cycle currently and I'm planning to document it as well. I think I selected like week 3 for this post and the pictures should be mostly from around that timeframe. I don't think I mentioned what I'm actually growing here so let me take a minute and do that.
I decided to grow a sativa dominate and an indica dominant. Reason for this is because me and my wife are on opposite spectrums. I'm a sativa guy and she's an indica gal. I recreate while she medicates, and strong indicas work best for her. The Orange Sherbet is a 70/30 sativa dominate and the Gorilla Zkittles is a 70/30 indica dominant. I figured if I could pull off this grow, we would both have something we'd enjoy.
Anyway, by this time (week 3 or so) everything is going pretty well. I've added some wicking bases to help with watering the root systems of the plants. I've since learned to be careful with these as they can lead to overwatering issues. I've also started weekly treatments of Recharge at this point as well and both plants really do look great. Again, I didn't want to spend a lot of time on the plants and being 3 weeks or so into the grow cycle, it's been pretty hands off.
Since I'm playing catch up with documenting my first grow cycle, I'm going to combine weeks and just give updates. I mentioned in the last weekly comment about adding the wicking bases and how that can be potentially problematic. Well here's where I noticed the issue but mostly with the Orange Sherbet sativa. I started noticing changes in color and leaves that didn't look good to me. Fortunately, I have a couple of great friends who also grow and have been able to take advantage of their knowledge and experience along the way. I highly recommend doing this if you have friends who also grow. Anyway, I had one of my friends come over and it was determined that the issue was due mainly to overwatering. We decided that with the wicking bases in addition to the humidity level in the tent, that the plant was staying too wet. Catching this quickly and addressing it is huge with autos since they tend to be more delicate that regular plants (as I understand things anyway). To address the overwatering issue, I immediately stopped using the wicking bases and let the plants dry out for about a week. I did no watering at all for the week but kept the humidifier going. That really helped correct what was going on. I then decided that I was no longer going to use the wicking bases at all and only do top watering. You'll see as I move forward with documenting this grow cycle, that I changed my mind again on this once the plants went into flower. But hey, what do you expect, this was my first ever grow.
JsIndoorGrow
