First Time Grow

Monday: Started the Germination Process. Soaked seeds in bottled spring water from 7AM till 9PM - then transferred seeds to moist paper towel. Rookie mistake, let the paper towel dry up overnight; thankfully none of the seeds were cracked open. Tuesday: Originally put seeds on paper plate, a concern for mildew transferred to normal plate in mid afternoon. Had warm fan blowing hot dry hair, closely monitored to make sure paper towel did not dry out 2 of the White Widows have a tap roots, None of the others have tap roots yet. Wednesday: Had about a 90% success rate on the germination process. We planted our seeds into their first home; A plastic cup with holes in the bottom. Watered with bottled spring water Thursday: Watered in the morning

this week the weather was not so great. They were looking for the sun through the window so got a little tall. watered sparingly, about 2 or 3 times that week & no nutrients

the weather improved this week, plants started going outdoors but we noticed some problems with wind being too strong so added some sticks to help prevent them from bending over. lots of leaves growing now. Did a root booster mid week but didn't PH balance the water after adding root booster, noticed some what we think was nutrient burning so did a flush 5 days later. Trimmed some of the lower foliage to help the leaves grow. lightly broke up the top soil to allow more air

we transplanted them this week from cup to pot. We had originally thought that the white cups would allow us to see the roots and when they are ready to get transplanted. It did aid with this but we ran into a green mold/algae problem which made the transplant more urgent. All were successfully transplanted. Waiting till root bound again to transplant to there new homes.

transplanted into bigger pots because we noticed it became rootbound again. all were succesfully transplanted

some of these plants stunted after the transplant. 3 of them are an auto pk that began to flower shortly. We decided to cull

they shot up after this week, been keeping with the feeding 2 times a week.

loving life in the sun, have been moving them around the yard to maxamize shade and sun combo, still giving bio root and general once or twice a week

watering every other day, having decent weather. A few cloudy days. Starting to notice problem with bugs

noticed rootbound again, but these pretty ladys are going through a growth spurt! Decided to transplant one more time, to a 10 Gallon pot for 4 of our best. another 4 of them are stunted, so we are keeping them in the 5 gallons for the remainder of the season. Bugs have become a problem that we are trying to naturally remedy by bringing some big spiders on to them. Still have only been feeding them once a week. When we transplanted them we put some feed water into the soil, its been less than a week and we already see more roots coming out of the bottom. One transplant was not super successful as they were we kind of too big to transplant (we did it anyway) has left some of roots exposed on the top. The other 3 girls are liking their new homes just fine. Had to cull another one of the PK's this week too. The hairs started to turn brown so we figured its time. Had been flowering since around June 15th. They're almost as tall as us!

Been going pretty well. Were doing this super old school in the sense that we don't have a green house and are moving the plants around according to the weather. Already been mentally designing a greenhouse for next year, as moving them around has become quite the chore. Our climate has been amazing for growing. Though some movement into the shade is needed as daytime can reach 30c and at the plant level temperatures have read 35c. Also, near the mountains were subject to the odd thunderstorm, hail shower or west coast classic 25mm of rain within a 24h period.

We used a 200L rain catcher to brew feed using General Hydroponics. Worked well, we just needed to add some PH solution as it was slightly acidic. We definitely made a few mistakes when transplanting last week, next season we will be doing things alot differently in terms of homes so they don't have to get transplanted so often.