First Grow: Here We Go!

New Clones acquired, approx 2 weeks from mother plant. First week just acclimating them to new environment (tent, light, temperature, humidity) before moving from solo cup to 3 gallon smart pots. Watering in solo cup as soil drys out.

We transplanted our clones from the solo cup they were cloned in into 3 gallon Smart Pots filled with Fox Farms Ocean Forest and about a teaspoon of Epsom Salts in the bottom of the hole. Watered with nute mix without Epsom for transplant feed. Began LST with pipe cleaners for first round and added garden staples to keep lower branches low horizontally without pulling on them vertically to allow for growth outwards. Feeding 1/2 gallon per plant about every 3 days with current nute mix.

Continued growth, feeding every 3 days as soil dries out. Nice growth spurts noted and apical dominance broken via LST as limbs/new growth reach skyward. Minor fan leaf removal to permit light saturation and airflow to lower areas. Feeding 1/2 gallon per plant about every 3 days.

Continued growth, feeding every 3 days as soil dries out. Nice growth spurts noted and apical dominance broken via LST as limbs/new growth reach skyward. Minor fan leaf removal to permit light saturation and airflow to lower areas. Getting a little crowded! We will let the canopy grow towards the light another inch or 2 with minor LST adjustments or at 2 weeks from now (which ever happens first,) before we will make the decision to flip to flower cycle. Feeding 3/5 gallon per plant about every 3 days.

Continued growth, noticed some brown tips on the Meatbreath, so we added a small RO water flush to start our first feed of the week to pull down/dilute some of the nutes that might have built up mid pot. Nice growth spurts noted next day and apical dominance broken via LST as limbs/new growth reach skyward. Minor fan leaf removal to permit light saturation and airflow to lower areas. We are still watching the canopy grow towards the light with minor LST adjustments before we will make the decision to flip to flower cycle. Looks like we will probably make that choice by end of this week. Feeding 3/4 gallon nute mix per plant about every 3 days. Excitedly looking forward to the flip!

We made the choice to flip to flower after considering the space left in the tent and confirming that the amount of viable bud sites were satisfactory to our hopeful yield goal. We are using the major defoliation at flip and then again at 3 weeks into flower technique. This being our first grow, we cut a little on the conservative side this time to make sure we didn't over do it and hurt our progress. Rested them during the first day/night cycle of 12/12, then gave a feeding of above nutes. Fingers crossed!! Between day 2 and 3 of Flower, early pistils have been seen on the stalk and node areas of KL, MB, SR, and on the new growth tops of SS. Day 4 of flower gave last veg formula nute feeding, will be moving on to a new fluctuating flower formulation for nutes for next feeding and on until harvest.

Gave the girls thier first Flower Nute mix (Day 43), they seem to like it and have perked up quite a bit since. Noticing lots of pre-flower pistils now on both stem tops and stems.

Had a good 3rd week of flower, the girls are coming along nicely. Fed on Day 51 (F15) and Day 55 (F19) with the noted nutes. Will be giving a new concentration next week for week 4 of flower. Did our second and last major defoliation during flower on Day 56 (F20) as we are following the flower flip defoliation and the 3rd week of flower technique. Went well and we are excited for the next 5 to 7 weeks before a hopefully bountiful harvest.

Another good week for Flowering. Ladies are starting to get their frosting and are plumping up nicely. Good bud formation along most stems with lots of sites getting denser. We have a little bit of undergrowth forming on a few lower branches, but we are going to just let them be for now. We fed the above formula on Day 59 (Flo 23) and same for Day 63 (Flo 27) but omitting the Epsom Salt. Looking forward to the start of Flower Week 5.

Another great week of developing trichomes. A little over halfway there! Will be giving a new nute concentration for the next upcoming week, then we watch for the ladies to show us they are ready to be harvested. We are planning a nice week or so flush for pre-cut. (Shorter or longer depending on trichome maturity.)

On day 71 (Flo 35) we had to use a few plant yo-yo to support some of our colas due to the weight of them pulling the branches down. Seems to be a good fix and all bowing heads are pulled back up to face the light, ready to continue maturing.

So very close, we made an executive decision to start our pre-harvest flush on Day 82 as the trichomes have begun to turn milky. Looking to harvest end of Week 13 if the trichomes don't flip too fast. If they do progress a little quick we will be harvesting sooner.

Had a great week of ripening, but we think we have come to the end of the road as far as allowing anymore maturing of the flowers. Our trichomes have gone mostly cloudy and we have seen a few ambered ones as well. We will be pulling them and harvesting tomorrow (Day 96/Flo 56.) The wait is over!

Overall a good grow, no major mishaps and were a good strains to LST train easily. Harvested and will update after dry cycle for final weight yield and cure jar photo. UPDATE: After drying and trimming we ended up with 6.7oz for our full 4 strain grow. (Dry - SS 44.2g, SR 49.2g, MB 40.8g, and KL 54.6g)

Overall a good grow, no major mishaps and were a good strains to LST train easily. Harvested and will update after dry cycle for final weight yield and cure jar photo. UPDATE: After drying and trimming we ended up with 6.7oz for our full 4 strain grow. (Dry - SS 44.2g, SR 49.2g, MB 40.8g, and KL 54.6g)

Overall a good grow, no major mishaps and were a good strains to LST train easily. Harvested and will update after dry cycle for final weight yield and cure jar photo. UPDATE: After drying and trimming we ended up with 6.7oz for our full 4 strain grow. (Dry - SS 44.2g, SR 49.2g, MB 40.8g, and KL 54.6g)

Overall a good grow, no major mishaps and were a good strains to LST train easily. Harvested and will update after dry cycle for final weight yield and cure jar photo. UPDATE: After drying and trimming we ended up with 6.7oz for our full 4 strain grow. (Dry - SS 44.2g, SR 49.2g, MB 40.8g, and KL 54.6g)