Laughing Buddah - Small Tent LED

Metalhead_Literally 12/28 - Day 4 - my first attempt at growing a photoperiod! We'll see how it goes! Battling super low RH so I think she'll be slow to start. Hoping to ramp up the RH once my auto finishes next week and I take her out of the tent. Wish me luck!

Metalhead_Literally 1/22 - Day 28 - my seedling was stuck at the week 1 phase for like 3 weeks due to my super low RH. It was still alive so I decided to move it to a smaller container for now and made a little humidity dome. That did the trick! She's as actually growing now and I think I'll be transplanting her back to the 1 gallon pot soon. Let's hope the delayed seedling state doesn't fuck her up too bad, but I have plenty of time to let her veg. And now that I harvested my other plant, I can add a humidifier in the tent as well. 1/24 - Day 30 - plant was more rootbound than I expected. So I transplanted her from the solo cup to a 1 gal smart pot, and watered with a little bit of nutes. I plan to move up to a 3 gal or 5 gal eventually. 1/25 - Day 31 - one day after transplanting. Seems to be doing fine, a little droopy but I'm sure that's just part of the adjustment process.

Metalhead_Literally 2/3 - Day 40 - alright, she's taking off now! Got a humidifier too and that's making a world of difference. She's looking great, although a bit compact, but with my lack of room vertically, that's not a bad thing. Will probably top her real soon. Sorry for the sporadic updates, life is just hectic right now!

Metalhead_Literally 2/6 - Day 43 - decided to top her. My first time ever doing that (since this is my first photo grow) so we'll see if I did it right!

Metalhead_Literally 2/12 - Day 49 - repotted her to her final pot, a 4 gallon smartpot. She seemed to have responded to the topping well. However, as is clear in the pics with the dark shiny leathery leaves, I think I upped my nitrogen too much. So I will just be giving plain watering for a bit. The fresh FFOF soil will have plenty of N in it anyways. But the extra nitrogen might be why she's not growing as rapidly as I had hoped. But overall she seems to be doing good. 2/15 - Day 52 - really starting to take off now! Trimmed a few big leaves from the top to get more light to the bud sites. The topping worked great and she's really flourishing in her new pot. Will most likely do another plain watering next cycle, or 1/8 strength nutes at most. Excited to see her really take off now, a few more weeks and I'll flip her. Can't wait too long because I just don't have a ton of room once she stretches.

Metalhead_Literally 2/21 - Day 58 - She's doing great! No issues at all at the moment. I gave her a tiny haircut again but I think will let her recover for a few days and then flip her. Not showing preflower yet but I gotta flip soon or I'll run out of space once she stretches. But so far I'm a big fan of the photo grow, I like not having to stress about defoliating and topping, vs with an auto I'm always paranoid of stunting the plant.

Metalhead_Literally 2/26 - Day 63 - Plain watered yesterday, gave her one last haircut today. Will let her recover for a few days and then flip her to flower.

Metalhead_Literally 3/16 Day 81 - sorry its been a while. She's doing great. Flipped her a few weeks ago and she's really starting to flower now. Still doing minimal nutes, just a tiny bit of cal-mag last watering and plain before that. Really want to make sure I avoid the N tox I've dealt with with my previous grows. But overall no complaints, might defoliate her soon but I don't want to stunt her. Haven't decided yet.

Metalhead_Literally 3/26 - decided on the haircut, and it worked out perfectly. Definitely got some more light to lower bud sites and they've perked up significantly. There will still be a lot of popcorn nugs as a lot remained buried, but I didn't want to cut too many leaves off and I think the one time haircut will be enough. I'd rather have some wasted popcorn nugs that I can hash up rather than keep stressing the whole plant. I'll get enough yield for myself most likely anyways. But overall she's doing great, still going very light on the nutes and she's doing well. Starting to get a skunky smell to her too with is nice.

Metalhead_Literally 3/31 - Day 96 - everything seems to be going great. Just chugging along. Unfortunately my tent is a bit crowded at the moment, but that's the only complaint so far.

Metalhead_Literally 4/10 - Day 106 - still bulking up nicely. Showing a small deficiency now though. Not sure if it's a cal-mag situation or maybe a phosphorus deficiency. Might be PH related too. Watered with the trio and a little bit of cal-mag, let's see if that stops the bleeding. But besides that she looks great and is really starting to smell now. Super sticky too!

Metalhead_Literally 4/23 - Day 119 - I think she's close to done. I think whatever caused the leaves to get all fucky also stopped her from bulking up too much more. Not a huge change from a few days ago. So I think I'll chop her soon, a few calyxs has a little bit of amber. Did plain watering today, will do one more of those and then either chop or one more watering after that and then chop. Either way, pretty disappointing that she got messed up when she did because I'm sure it greatly affected my final yield. Oh well, it'll still be plenty for me I'm sure.