1st Grow: Purple Punch Fem

The first week of my first grow. Damn, what should I say. I was quite hesitant to start growing for my own supply, but since the lockdown I thought F*** it! :) I tried germinating some fem. purple punch and gorilla glue auto's. The auto's all failed to germinate, so I won't be growing those. Since this is my first grow, I've searched the internet alot. I have watered the plants and that's about it.

This week I started adding nutrients to the mix. I also started some LST and topped the plants. Seeds germinated the 27th of March, the 12th of April I topped.

I did some defoliation because I thought that the lower branches didn't get enough light and there was no air movement. The plants are pretty small in height, 11 - 15 cm's to be exact (Plant 1 is the largest, plant 3 is the smallest). Plant 2 tipped over in week two, so I added a fan and put a stick next to the main stem. Since then it's no longer the problem child but actually one of the largest. My grow closet is not so big (in height) so I will have to decide soon on when to go into flowering. I'm quite hestitant because it feels much to fast to start flowering in week 5 or 6, but I think I'm going to run into problems otherwise. I am thinking to repot them next week to their final containers. But because I just defoliated them on the 15th, I might wait a little more. This week I only watered with pure water because I lost so much of my nutrition because I did something stupid. It said to dilude the nutrients with water. So I grabbed a 10L bucket, put the necessary nutrients in, but I'm too scared too keep using it because it really started to smell bad after two weeks. I've used about 5L of water with added nutrients, all the other waterings were pure demineralised water. Also, this week my babies started to smell real hefty! :) :) :)

This week was very busy for me, so I only had time to transplant my plants to bigger pots on day 31. I wish I was able to do it sooner, but alas. Anyway, they are looking really nice in my opinion and the smell is very pungent and strong. I would like to defoliate them some more, but I'm quite hesitant because I'm not really sure how much I should take off and which ones. I might do some more research on that this week. In the following week I will be flipping them to flowering because of my height-issue and probably find a way to fix a scrog-trellis of some kind in there.

After the repotting at the end of week 4, I watered my plants for a couple of days only using water (day 31 - 34). On day 34 I added some small LST cords, and watered. On day 35 I switched my lighting schedule from veg. to flowering, and watered. On day 36 I watered with nutrients. On day 37 I watered. On day 38 I defoliated and watered with nutrients. (The amount of nutrition used this week is combined at the top for the 3 plants.) During defoliation, I cut the inside looking leaves, and the big overhanging sugar leaves. Here and there I also cut some new growth on the inside of the canopy because it wasn't getting enough light. I noticed a very small amount of leaves which was yellowing on the bottom of the plant and cut them aswell. These we're from when the plant was just growing. All in all, things are looking good. Still searching for a solution for the trellis, because the things I came up with weren't cutting it. Probably going to fix one from PVC-piping. See ya!

This week I tried solving the problem with my height. But because all the stores were closed, I used some duct-tape to attach a rigid net above the plant. Besides that I defoliated all 3 plants and also gave the plants a topdressing with fertiliser at the end of the week. I had one plant which had droopy leaves for 1 day at the end of the week, but after watering her she rose back to normal. I think I might've forgotten to water her a day. From time to time i retuck the leaves and branches underneath the net, because now they're still pliable, I fear that some will become more rigid soon and I won't be able to tuck them under enough. See ya! 👽 Stay green!

What the hell happened? My plants skyrocketed through the trellis as if it was nothing. I kept retucking the branches and leaves underneath, but eventually the branches became rigid and I just let the plant do it's thing. 😇 On the last day of this week I also defoliated my plants some more. I even cut some branches which were still beneath the trellis, as I didn't think they'd get enough light. Next grow I'll be customising my closet further, because now I've found some things that I would like to change because they would make reaching my back plants easier. My plants also started to drink alot more, they now like 0.5L a day. The smell has gone down a bit though, but it could also be because the closet stays closed more now (because the temperature is lower outside) than before.