Easy Bud Auto Outdoor Grow - Rookie

scupbucket Back and forth between outdoors and indoor mini grow light. Spritzed with a little water throughout the day... Doing a LOT of reading and already found a lot of steps where I've made mistakes just in the first week. Awesome...

scupbucket No nutes yet... just light and occasional watering. Keep running them back and forth from indoors to outside like some kind of idiot... Grow light doesn't seem to be strong enough. These things are gonna die and I'm not gonna have weed.

scupbucket Transplanted them to 3-gallon pots... Totally fucked up the transplant trying to wrestle them out of these dumb pop bottle starters, so they got a bit manhandled.

scupbucket Took a bit to recover after transplant but doing ok. getting about 8 full hours of sun. Living in the woods so a lot of chasing the sun all day. Heat wave hit this week... picked a shitty time to do an outdoor grow but let's see what happens.

scupbucket Buds are showing up... still really hot and humid out. Few times they looked stressed out with taco leaves, so I moved them into the shade during peak heat hours... Overall though not bad.

scupbucket One plant stretched to almost 2.5 feet! One got pretty stunted... and one kinda in the middle. I'm guessing the transplant had a lot to do with that. Growth took off this week... something was munching on the leaves. Turned out to be soybean thrips, those little bastards... but thankfully only a few. Gave em a neem oil spray and haven't had a problem since. Buds looking ok... kinda small. (Ignore that blue potted one... little test gone bad).

scupbucket Still hot but the humidity finally went away... Rained like hell the other day and I didn't have a chance to cover the plants... soaked the pots so it took a few days to dry everything out. Trucking along though. Growth seems to be slowing down, and buds are getting a bit bigger but still seem really small... figure I have about 5 more weeks though and these girls have been through a lot so probably a lot is stress related. Starting to see where LST might have been beneficial, not to mention starting off in a better seedling cup. The one that isn't the biggest but also not stunted has the bigger buds so far. They smell delicious and I'm starting to see some frosty goodness.