8 Ball Kush

Canada for the win! (Yes I'm using Miracle Grow, I've had lots of success with it and it's super cheap! When I get 2 weeks into flowering, I'll use some of the more expensive purpose-specific stuff rather than MG, and then will flush at 6 weeks of flowering so the plants use up their internal nutrients). My soil is some local grow medium from a nearby farm. I've found chunks of horse poo and twigs in it (I picked out most of the twigs). I used the same soil this past spring/summer to grow an awesome garden to test it out before growing cannabis in it. Since I'm doing an indoor grow in a 2x2x5 Secret Jardin DS60, I sterilized the soil in the oven by pre-heating the oven to 275F, filling a big turkey roasting pan with the soil (lots of water in it, but not muddy!) with a BBQ thermometer buried halfway down in it and covering with the roasting pan lid... Got the soil up to 190F and then turned the oven down to around 190, opened the oven door for a minute to let the main heat escape and stabilize the inside of the oven a bit... then kept the soil between 188 and 192 for 30 minutes. Let it cool naturally. It took many times of doing this but I'm patient. I also boiled some rocks from the driveway to line the bottom of the pots to keep the dirt from flowing out the drainage holes. I have a 300-watt-equivalent LED setup with heatsink and fan, and a 189 CFM-CAPABLE (have a rheostat set to about 30 CFM, that's all this tent needs) fan pulling air at the bottom of the tent and pushing it out through a carbon filter, with a blackout/filter screen over the air inlet hole at the top. Climate control is performed via an air conditioner during the day and an electric space heater at night. Light cycle is 18/6, running from about 4am til 10pm. In the previous week, they had stopped growing and were starting to yellow between (but not including) the veins and the edges were "tacoing" slightly. Normally I water with distilled water, but we're on a well (live on a farm) whose pH just happens to be right around 6.6, so I completely flushed both plants until about 2 gallons of water had poured out the bottom of each one, there was some nasty reddish orange water coming out. May have been nutrient or salt buildup. Then I fed with the CaliMagic, Miracle Grow, and pH down to 6.3 in distilled water combination listed in this week's grow diary. By the end of this week (week 3) the colour had returned and they were growing like, well, weeds. When I planted them, I purposely planted in less soil so they'd start sprouting about 4 inches down from the top level of the pot. Today at the final day of week 3, I pruned off the lower 2 sets of limbs and filled with dirt, then watered with a mixture of half-strength CaliMagic and distilled water, pH downed to 6.3 -- not a normal watering, just enough to make sure I soaked the new soil on the top layer. Now I have more stem support in the dirt, only 7-leaf pattern (yeah call me picky), and the stem part that got buried will grow roots! So technically the plants were about 8 inches tall and I just halved that. Which is fine with me, because a patient older person who is in it for the long haul, at least 10 weeks of veg before flowering! I noticed some slight clawing in the leaves, so I'm going to hold off on giving them any more Miracle Grow. They may stunt for a few days while they adjust -- but now I'll just let them grow in peace, other than some fimming, topping, and/or defloration at some point. I eventually want to try LST, but I'm really looking forward to this harvest as I recently fell in love with 8BK and don't want to try anything too fancy this time. I plan to create two clones out of the best one of these two plants and then grow those next -- one of which I will try LST.