Sweet Nurse Auto CBD

Planted 8/23 in jiffy pellet came up 8/27 Watered with bottled water and used 2 5500k cfl's about 8 inches away for first week. Grew well and quickly

Moved jiffy pellet into buffered Coco perlite mix in 3 gal soft pots. Kept using CFL's until mid week when I switched to just Veg lights on LED. Running Bloom lights raised tent tent to over 90 degrees. Tent is venting into small space and basically recirculating hot air, need to vent outside of small room. Overall plant seems healthy.

Still growing good. Waited to day 20 to start LST, should have started early. This is my first grow so the LST was just guess work on my part. I did a lot of reading and then gave it my best. I tried to expose as many bud sites as I could. I didnt clip any fan leaves although I was tempted. I just tucked more than a drag queen. I had the exhaust fan on the timer with the lights but the smell is very noticeable in the closet so I'm going to 24 hr on for the exhaust fan. Saw some pistils today to while I was doing LST. Day 25, did more LST lots of growth this week.

Starting off rough this week, was moving plant to rotate them under the light better, main stem snapped where I had it tied for LST. Branch didn't break completely. I put some tape on it to try and save it. Plants are healthy and seem to be growing well even with my rough handling. I have a cheap 1200 watt LED which actually pulls about 250 watts. I purchased another one so there would be more light and I wouldn't have to turn plants. Added a small amount of bloom to my nutrients this week. Have been doing drain to waste in coco, but my travel schedule doesn't allow adequate time for me to water. I am going to set up a recirculating top feed system on a timer so that I can fertigate them 4 times during lights on. Checked runoff ppm and it was about 120 ppm different from input ppm.

Plant is still trucking along. Doesn't seem to be effected negatively by last weeks stem breaks. The accidental topping that I taped kind of healed itself, the two branches next to it started to become mains but the main grew a big knuckle and seems like it's ok. I put in another cheap LED because it was crowded in the tiny footprint one light makes. I also did a DIY recirculating top feed system, this will help water more often. I am a little concerned about PPM and EC of reservoir water with a recirc system. I have it set to water 5 times during lights on and hopefully the coco will stay wet enough to not mess up ppm and Ec of my reservoir water, if it does I will switch to drain to waste and figure out how to deal with waste water. It seems like there is a fair amount of bud sites and she is spread out enough to let light get to most of them. I removed about 5 leaves today that we're blocking light to buds, I tucked what was tuckable and snipped if I couldn't tuck.

Still doing good staying low and bushy looks like shes going to make lots of buds. The recirculating system seems to be working very well. PPM went up about 50 and PH went from 5.8 to 6.1 after a week of running. No signs of deficiency or burn. Shes smelling very lemony and skunky. Buds and leaves are starting to get sticky. Tucked lots of leaves and removed about 4 or 5

Recirculating system still working well. Dumped reservoir and refilled once and then topped off later in the week. Temps in tent with bloom light are getting up to the mid 80s even with inline fan cranked and all the tent flaps open think I have about 10 to 14 days till harvest. This plant has been a joy, germed fast, grew strong, rebounded quickly from accidental topping, responded well to LST. She is super sticky and smells like a lemon. I can't wait to try some cured bud.

Plant starting to yellow a bit, not sure if it's a nute issue a recirculating top feed issue or just an age thing. I dumped the reservoir and gave some calimagic and bloom. Will run that for 5 days and then check trichomes, if cloudy I will do a PH'ed water flush for 5 days and then chop chop. I hope she's ready soon I have another autoflower plant in the tent that started at the same time but never flowered, and I want to go to a 12/12 light schedule to see if I can get it to flower.

Checked trichomes last Friday, some clear, most cloudy and one or two a nice amber color. Decided not to harvest yet because lots of white pistils still. Her big fan keaves are yellowing and her buds are gettubg nice and fat. I switched out the nute tank for plain PHed tap water at 6.0 I plan to flush for 3 days and then harvest. She is sharing the tent with another plant that was supposed to be an auto but hasn't flowered so after the harvest I can flip to 12/12 and see if I can get the other to flower.

This plant was a more than I could have hoped for for my first grow. But was hardy and resisted my newbie mistakes. It grew well, went to flower quickly and did nice sized buds it did well with my homemade recirc system. It survived my accident talk topping and limb snapping LST it had a good bowl shape with lots of good colas. Glad I have 4 more seeds!