Orange Sherbert Auto - First Grow

@GWSD82, Yeh, I'm the same and being at home has allowed me to have more control over shit and adjust if need be!! 😊. I'm liking the whole Coco thing too and the fact that you can't really over water and no pests is a huge positive for me, like you say we have to water more but I'm cool with that to be honest!! It's almost like a gentle flushing a lot of the time during growth...... For the future grow check out 'growell.co.uk' for the Canna Coco Plus bags....very good value!! All the best buddy 👍😉

@Bushbaby808, Yeah, I'm determined to be patient :) I'm sure I'll be dipping into it a little once it's dried for a bit of taste, but then it's into the jars with boveda packs for another few weeks at least. I think I paid £26 for a 50l bag of Ecothrive Coco/Perlite 70/30 mix (admittedly that did include £6.50 shipping), so it's not a vast expense, I just thought it would be nice to re-use it...... I'll use it again for my next grow, but will probably stick with fresh after that, it's worth the price to skip the hassle. Will definitely be sticking to coco though. It was lot of effort when I was fertigating 4-5 times a day in the hot weather, but damn, it's impressive stuff. Will definitely be investigating in some form of auto-irrigation / self-draining system, because dealing with run-off and constantly having to make up new batches of nutrient solution is fairly time consuming. It's not been so bad since lock down as I'm working from home, so I can keep up with that many feedings per day, but at some point soon, I'll have to go back into work, so I need to have something automated.

@GWSD82, Remember to allow them to dry out properly buddy, I messed up on my 1st grow because I didn't give them enough time and that can ruin perfectly good buds during the cure!! 100% waiting for some snap this time round!! 👍 I'm surprised your re using your Coco, that must of been grief man.....I can pick up a 50L bag of Coco Plus for about £12 so I'll be using fresh stuff on every grow!! 😊

@GWSD82, Nice one buddy and hope it all goes well for you 😉. Look forward to hearing your views afterwards and it's great to have the comparison between the two.....🌿🌿

@Bushbaby808, thanks man! First time, so I had no idea what to expect, and it's looking much better than I could have hoped for. Can't wait for a taste, the drying stage is going to seem like forever! I can't see any harm in flushing just with zym and a little boost. If flushing does have any benefits, I think they are less relevant for coco than they are for soil. Certainly the zym will help keep the coco in good shape to be re-buffered and used again. Coco is fairly expensive (relative to soil at least) so it's worth keeping it for the next grow. I'm certainly interested to see if there is any difference in the quality / flavour of the smoke between flushed and unflushed. Going to see the weekend out, then give them the chop on Monday. Super excited! Cheers!

@GWSD82, your seed dyeing would have been from damping off. Young seedings are susceptible especially if their to wet. Great way to assure of no damping is to sprinkle a little cinnamon on the soils and water in...hope this helps for future babies...Cheers

Wow, that's harsh. I feel for you! The other seed of my 3 is definitely dead. When I dug it up, the taproot had come out about 1/2 cm and then just stopped. Possibly my fault, may have made it too wet perhaps? I have some more seeds, but I don't think I'm going to replace the one I lost this time round. Looking at some diaries of this strain, it looks like they can get pretty big, and in the space I have, I think 3 of these would have been a bit too much anyway, so I'm happy that 2 are healthy and looking well, I can focus my attention on them.

@GreenCasual, thanks man! Hope it helped! This is a beautiful strain, taste is out of this world :)

@LeafTucker, ah, such is life! Mad props to the winners though, they all looked good :) I've still got plenty of my harvest to keep me going, and just started my second grow. Started growing more as a side hobby just to get some nice free weed.... but, it's er, kinda taken over a whole room of my house... the wife doesn't seem to mind as much now she's sampled what we grew at home compared to the stuff we used to have to pay £180 an ounce for from the shadiest guy in the shadiest part of town. Happy days, my man :)

@JBgrowing, fresh wet weight, yes :) I'm hoping for a dry return of 6oz once all dried and trimmed, which I hope should be realistic? Not sure how much weight gets lost in the drying process.

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