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Week 1. Vegetation
5 years ago
16 hrs
20 °C
20 °C
1 L
20.32 cm
Hello to all my fellow growers. This diary won't be quite as scientific as some, more like a guerrilla grow. I have grown a few times before, once in northern Michigan and twice when I was out in Cali. Both times I used bag seeds and my success was average. I am back in Michigan now and weed is legal so I am putting a bit more effort into it. I am starting my grow inside and will move my plants outside when the weather permits and use pots so I can move them around and put them under cover when the weather gets bad. I am starting the seeds in Miracle Grow potting soil. I read that this isn't good for the entire life as the nutrients are time release and would be bad for the flowering stage of the grow. I am going to get some neutral soil and use nutrients as required. The soil won't be high priced, I am trying to keep this simple and keep costs down. I know there are others who would appreciate a success story without having to be a professional grower. We'll see how it goes, hope for the best, I am. 😎 My lights are inexpensive led lights. They work fine as I will be moving the plants outside and I was able to give my mexhaze plant a good start while the snow was still on the ground. Mexhaze has a long flowering phase and the season is short here. I will top the mexhaze next week and start getting it some time outside in about two weeks. The autoflower plants will be mostly under the lights for the first month. The last frost around here can be as late as June 10th. I will keep everyone updated on my progress. 😎
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Week 2. Vegetation
5 years ago
5.08 cm
16 hrs
20 °C
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20 °C
1 L
10.16 cm
This is the start of week 2. Plants are still inside as the weather isn't cooperating yet. Having another cold snap, it's going to be in the 30's for the next four days or so, and the forecast is calling for some light snow tonight. Man, it's May! Had a 60 degree day last Friday, tomorrow the high is suppose to be 33. I have a project going, building a small greenhouse, should be done by the end of the month. I'll post some pics when it's done. The plants are doing well. The Candy Kush are stretching more than the Northern Lights but not bad enough to worry about. I keep a fan going the give the stalks some strength. The CK are at 2.5 inches and the NL are at 1.5 inches. I had one CK seed that did not sprout. Growers Choice Seeds has a guarantee. I have two more of each strain that I will start after the new moon this month so I will wait to see if the last four sprout then I will contact Growers Choice. I'll keep everyone posted on that too. The Mexican Haze plant is doing well, I topped it 6 days before I took the pictures. The topping slowed it down but that's ok, I can't transplant and move it outside for a while yet. The other plant is a bag seed I germinated after the Mazar seed failed to germinate. I have no idea what it is, it is from a bag I had about 3 years ago. I FIMed it the same day I topped the MH. I have never done this before, I hope I did it right. Maybe someone can let me know how it looks to them. The plant is doing well too. I added some nutrients to the MH and BS. The brand is Expert Gardener, a Walmart brand, and is very high in nitrogen and potassium. I went very light on the mix, I mean very light, I'll strengthen the mix as the plants mature. I'll put more information on the nutrients and soil later in the diary. That's it for now. Enjoy and keep growing. 😎
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Week 3. Vegetation
5 years ago
10.16 cm
16 hrs
20 °C
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20 °C
1 L
5.08 cm
The plants are still inside but they should all be in the large pots and outside by the end of the week. I transplanted the two bag seed plants and the MexHaze plant today and got them outside. The greenhouse isn't done yet so I will move them around and put them inside at night until then. They are looking good though. I will try to get some pictures of them next week. I will be starting the final four seeds around the 25th of this month, 2 more CK auto and 2 more NL auto, hopefully they will all start. If all goes well I should have a harvest around Aug. 1, and Sept. 1 for the auto flowers and another harvest sometime between Sept. 15 and Oct. 10, depending on the weather. Hope for the best. 😎 Finally got all of the girls outside. We have been having some wonderful weather, I hope it holds, I am going to start on the greenhouse this weekend. Start with the foundation work tomorrow. Plants are loving the outdoors. It's been in the 70's with what I call a Sacramento sky, not a cloud in sight.
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Week 4. Vegetation
5 years ago
20.32 cm
15 hrs
27 °C
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20 °C
11 L
Summer's here and the grow is on. All the plants are doing well. We have had some beautiful days, temps in the eighties and lots of sun. That is suppose to change, tomorrow will be in the sixties with some rain.The greenhouse is under construction so I have been putting the plants in the garage at night. The Candy Kush has reached a height of 8 inches and the Northern Lights are at 7 inches. I gave all the auto flower plants a dose of nutrients and have since watered with plain water and will probably use plain water one more time before I use the nutrients again. The plants tell me when they are thirsty and I use water from my artesian well. I should have the greenhouse constructed and closed in in a week or so. This is my first try with auto flower plants so I am learning as I go. I added a photo of my Mexican Haze plant for interest. This is a feminized, photo period plant and was a free seed from Growers Choice. It is a beautiful plant and grows great. I topped it on 4-30, four weeks ago. The MH is one moon phase ahead of the auto flowers. I start my plants with the phases of the moon. Germinate just before the first quarter and the seeds usually sprout and are growing before the full moon. I seem to get good results when I do this. It's all fun. I started four more seeds, two Northern lights autos and two Candy Kush autos. I now have the 12 plants this state allows me to grow legally. Nine of the ten seeds I got from Growers choice germinated just fine. One Candy Kush auto failed and one of the free seeds, a Mazar seed, failed. Not an issue, I have 8 gorgeous plants growing and I'm hoping for a good yield. 😎
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Week 8. Flowering
5 years ago
92.71 cm
16 hrs
27 °C
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16 °C
11 L
It has been a while since I checked in, sorry. Summer is finally here and the plants are growing well. They are in the greenhouse pretty much all the time. The photo period plants started 13 weeks on 6/26. No flowers of course, it's too soon. The sun in still in the sky for about 16 hours a day right now. I am going to wait until the middle of July and if no flowering starts I will try to fool the plants. Wait and see on that. The PP plants are doing well, very bushy, large leaves and pretty to look at. Auto flower plants are flowering nicely. They have been flowering for about 3 weeks now. If all goes well the should be some yield. The auto flowers are at the end of week 8. I'm figuring about 5 or 6 weeks until they are ready. Enjoy the pics. Take a look at CK1 and CK2. From the same vial of seeds but these two don't look the same. I have include a pic of the top from each plant. CK2's top looks like a single long top, all the buds are so bunched together., different from CK1. I am growing outside. I know my diary says inside but that's where I started them. They are outside now, in my newly built greenhouse. Sorry again about the lapse in my reporting.
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Week 10. Flowering
5 years ago
92.71 cm
16 hrs
27 °C
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16 °C
11 L
Hello all! Still growin, don't ya know? Plants are doing well, some inconsistencies but they are growing. I have included some pictures, WOW! Amazing! Enjoy the photos. I will go thru them... The greenhouse, I said I would update on the greenhouse, so here's the update. Got it built, filled it with what you see. I hope the future holds many successful seasons. NL main top and main top close up... so this Northern Lights auto and two others are 10 weeks since sprouting. They are five weeks into flowering. The seeds are from Growers Choice if you want to compare results. The buds look different on the site. I think we can better identify our strain if we include pictures. These are pretty buds and they do have a very nice smell if you accidentally bump into them. I seriously try to never touch the buds. Any accidental bump or touch that leaves a most excellent fragrance on my finger tips is a reward, for sure. Pretty huh? The Candy Kush plant have a different type of top. They are very large, lots of leafage in the tops. Lots of white hairs, but lots of small sugar leaf stuff, and the main top is probably 2 inches in diameter, big! Again, smells way good. I had to pull something out of the buds, smelled almost like Thai stick back in the day. A note on the Mexican haze. The plant is growing gang busters. I think it may finally be starting to flower, I hope so, I am running out of time. My bag seeds are doing well. One of them will probably be the strongest bud I grow, I hope it matures, it's a photo period plant like the Haze is. Enjoy the pics. That northern lights bud looks soo good.
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Week 11. Flowering
5 years ago
92.71 cm
15 hrs
27 °C
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16 °C
11 L
The mexhaze has not started to flower and is at 15 weeks. My auto flower plants are in week 12 now, getting close. I have to remember to be patient. Enjoy the pics and message me if you have questions or comments. 😎 I added a couple of pics of one of my northern lights plants, 7-22. This one is the closest I think. Any comments, how much longer? They look great and smell super. Very sticky too.
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