SATURDAY
All is well in cannabis land. Added a little more light. A bodged together 30w cob, and some supplemental led strips in preparation to switch t he whole lot out for 330w cobs. This grow is being done on a VERY small budget because im still having tok buy cannabis , whicb i use as medicine. When i harvest this lot, then ill be able to start saving for better gear using the money iv saved. Its going good so far. I think cobs for flowering will definitely produce better bud than a cfl.Still no sure sign of sex on any plants, gotta be soon though.been on 12/12 for about 8 days now so should be soon. Would be lovely if they were all females but i doubt it. Ill be devistated if they are all males, but from what iv read they tend to show first and i cant see any definitive balls. We'll c, only time will tell.
UPDATE- MONDAY
ok so iconfirmed male pre flowers on one of the square pots and i suspect the beast is also male. Theres one spot that looks like it has a bollock but im going to give it another day or two to be sure. Its pretty dam upsetting having to kill 2 of my biggest plants. Bummer, i must say. I couldnt bring myself to kill the beast aswell as square pot 2. On the plus side, i think i also see a pistol on one of them. And its one of the bigger ones, but its one of the not topped one, which is a bit annoying. Im glad i have my flowering auto kush as 'backup'. Think im going to invest in some feminised seeds with decent genetics for next grow. For sure cut out a headache
UPDATE 2 - TUESDAY
ok so i just chopped another 2 today due to males. On the plus side, i have one definite female also which i was really happy about. It kind of softened the blow of having to kill half my crop - literally! Two plants left to show sex, really hope they're girls. I included a few more up to date pics. I repotted the one female into the biggest pot i had the beast in. Have another the same size so as soon as i see pistols on ang of the other two im going to relot into it.
UPDATE - WEDNESDAY
OK so lots of updates this week coz they r all starting to show sex. We have 2 females now and one last unsexed plant. Hopefully the last plant will show tomorrow and i can unclench my asshole a little! It would be nice and statistically correct to have exactly half males and half fems. Auto kush is looking wicked. Starting to put some though t towards my next cycle now. I know i want some fem seeds this run, probably lemony and probably a couple high cbd varieties.
Hard for me to know when to pop them though because i dont know how long gg will take to flower.should think itll b about another 6 - 8 weeks. Probably when my cobs arrive ill pop some more and use my old light to make a small veg chamber to pop em in for 6 weeks or so until my bud chamber frees up and the cycle starts all over again.
YAY 2 LADIES!
UPDATE - THURSDAY
ok,i think iv finally come to terms with having to kill my males. It was really only the beast i was wounded about killing. I was half considering learning breeding just so they didnt go to waist! Justkidding but yeh.
I think i am going to buy a better extraction fan tomorrow. Im using some crappy bathroo m fan and its not powerful enough to pullthrough the filter so thats y i put more pc fans in. Going to get a more powerful fan then i can hopefuly remove the pc fans and seal up the hole. Thats the plan, now i just need to source a cheap centrifugal fan and probably a speed control. Its something i meant to do quite a while ago and just managed without.
Also 2 out of 6 more cob lights i ordered arrived. Have mounted on heatsinks but im probably going to wait for the others be fore hookin them up.
UPDATE - FRIDAY
I kind of like the way i can edit this tex t whenever i want because i can write in it whenever i need then i can look back whnen im done and be able to accurately be able to know when iv done something good/bad.
Got home today and the rest of the COBs i ordered had arrived along with the reflectors and lens/covers. They look ok,just makes it a little safer and allows me to be able to touch them if i want or need without risk of elec trocution. They will also reflect a little more light and focus it a little more to make it more efficient. I am plotting to remove the 300 cfl, reflector and 30w cob i have in there and replace them with 6x '50w' cobs wired to a dimmer. 4 of 6 chips are 'warm white' think it was between 3-4k kelvin and 2 of them are full spectrum so it will go a little more 'blurple' in e photos soon, but not totaly and i can cut em off if the girls dont like em. I then plan to use the lights i ripped out to geta small veg area going. Thhis is where i will put my awkward but beautiful kush auto plant for her final few weeks. She is looking gorgeous actually, sheis starting to get pretty smelly and im starting to be able to see some trichomes on the edges of leaves around the buds. She smells really quite fruity. Mmmmmm!
Good luck on this grow adventure! Hopefully it will help you save the money you need for your desired setup 😊 I got a grow tent kit from Amazon which came with 600w HPS, 1.2m x 1.2m grow tent, carbon filter, extraction fan and that saved me a whole load of money than buying each part individually!
May be the best solution for you to save some dollar! Have a look around as there are some pretty good deals for HPS especially for beginner growers! Best of luck!
Iv been brewing some compost tea over the past few days. It’s Absolutely incredible how fast they have grown in the short amount of time it’s been since I gave them some some. Really happy with that! Trying to add photos but I’m on my phone and can’t figure out how on the mobile version of the site! I’ll do it later though
Anyone got any ideas whats wrong with my kush auto? Iv increased feed from 2ml/l to 3ml/l over the past couple of days and it doesnt seem to be lessening massively. I also fed it dilute epsom salts once which didnt hurt but didnt help.
Do i need to increase my veg nutes even more than i already have? Is it that simple? Iv already plucked the first 1 finger leaves, should i pluck them and then i know if there is any more yellow its new growth? That would make sense to me actually, i may have just worked out the solkution by typing to myself.
Iv increased feed but didnt pluck the old yellow leaves so i doknt actually know if either of the things i did worked.
Please chime in anyway if u cab help!
Thanks for the kind words. Yeh 5 girls would be ace. That would stretch me to maximum capacity...atleast. Am imorre liky to get herms growing bagseeds? Iv only done it once. Got some. Eautifuk fruity bud but it had some seeds. Have a feeling these might br the same , hope not.