First time grow

Here we go. I've decided to grow a few plants to help with my medication. Having suffered for many long years from a bad back and horrible side effects from the meds i've been on, I decided enough is enough. Try something new. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm a complete novice so I do expect to make mistakes (hopefully not many).

Made it to week 2. So far so good. Plant 1 seens to have stretched a small bit but i'm not too worried about it. brought the lamp down to 70 cms. Seems to have worked. Plant 2 is doing alright. Plant 3 What can be said, doesnt look happy but maybe in a few days or weeks I could be very surprised. Plant 4 is looking a bit small but this may be to do with her genetics (northern lights auto) If anyone has advice please feel free to help.

Week 3. Getting there. Plant 1 looking fairly healthy Plant 2 looking good too Plant 3 is holding her own, getting there with a bit of tlc Plant 4 Looking good aswell. All in All doing fairly well. A small bit slow in comparison with other plants but good things take time;

Week4 Doing nicely. No visible trouble yet, and hopefully none in the future. Plant 1 is doing fairly well but in comparison to other plants on the Growdiaires site, I think mine are on the small side. Plant 2 is also doing fine. Plant 3. What can i say. I'll just let nature decide for this plant, but hopefully maybe one day she will come good. Plant 4 is also healthy. I also accidentaly pierced a leaf with a piece of wire. Hopefully no long-term drama there I started LST midway through last week, hopefully not too early. Fingers and toes still crossed. Any help from anyone would be very much appreciated.

Start of week 5 Plant1 Part of it broke because of an electric wire falling on the plant exactly where the bend was for the LST. I dont know if the plant will do much now being so much damaged, or maybe it might just recover. Plant 2 is doing good Plant 3 is doing way better than expected, starting to grow strong. Plant 4 is also doing well. All plants look healthy and looking forward to the rest of the adventure ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Half way through week5 and the flowering has started. All the plants are doing fine especially plant3, not very big but growing very fast at the minute. The broken plant is doing fairly well considering she lost her head a week ago. Plant 2 is getting bushy Plant4 same as plant2. there is a lovely sweet smell every time i pass by the grow-tent and really looking forward to the harvest. So fingers still crossed and hoping for the best.

Week5 Flowering has started in all plants. Plant 1 Is 30 cm high and even though it broke 2 weeks ago seems to be doing very well. Plant 2 is 44 cm high. I'm just wondering is she stretching. I dont think so. Plant 3 is 25 cm high. Also doing very well. Very unexpected cause of her very late start but she is going very strong. Plant 4 is 32 cm high and also doing very well. For now the is no sign of root burn, root bound, overfeeding or bad watering.. I probably will start feeding for the flowering this week.

Week 7 Plant 1 is doing very well. 44 cms high but with a run-off pH of 7.5. Ive been flushing every day with corrected water and stopped all nutes. Plant 2 is growing very well. 68 cms high and a run-off pH of 6.9. Flushing the plant and stopped nutes. I've discovered some leaf tips burnt, I can only suspect nute burn. Plant 3 is the surprise of the week. Doing exceptionally well. 60 cms high and no signs of nute burn. Run off pH is 7.0. Plant 4 is doing ok too. 50 cms high with very small signs of nute burn. Flushing at the minute. Run-off pH is 6.9 All in all fairly happy up to now.. Hopefully in 3 or 4 day i'll re-start feeding. If anyone has other ideas than nute burn, please tell me. Its just that some of the new leaves are slightly burnt at some of their tips for plants 2 and 4. Plant 4 new leaves are curling slightly along the axis of the leaf.

Week 8. Plant 1 45 cms. Doing way better than expected considering her decapitation a few weeks ago. She is growing several large buds. Plant 2 70 cms. Doing good but with a several of her leaf tips burnt. I flushed her out a few days ago but I dont think that stopped the nute burn. Maybe its something else???????? Plant 3 88 cms. The runt of the litter. She got big very quick. Plant 4 63 cms. She is doing well. Northern lights auto. Growing a bit slower than her neighbours but not too worried about that. Some of the pistils are starting to turn yellow and brown, a very good sign, I hope.; Generally happy overall

Week 9 Doing ok. Signs of yellowing on the 3 Fast Eddy plants. My gut tells me that harvesting is not too far away, maybe in 2 weeks. About 30% of the pistils are turning amber and as far as i can see the trichs are starting to change colour too. I'm using a very cheap kids microscope to see the trichs. As you can see from the nutrients i'm not using too much, I know that I can probably double the intake. Too late now anyways. Its all part of the learning curve. Plant 1 is doing really good. 45 cms and her buds are just getting thicker by the day. Very happy with her, even after losing her head. Plant 2 is doing fine too. 72 cms and her buds are getting tight too. Next time I grow ill concentrate on the LST a bit better than I did on this plant. Plant 3 is doing as expected. 91 cms. The runt of the litter surprised me by growing this high. I will admit that she is very scrawny looking, but thats her character. I dont expect too much from her. Plant 4 is doing very good too. 65 cms.Northern lights Auto takes a few weeks longer to grow, but for me she is fairly healthy. Her buds are tightning up too. Next grow ill only put 3 plants into the tent or maybe just 2. They need their space to be happy.

Week 10. The last week, or even the last few days before the harvest. Plant 1 is ready to harvest. I think so anyways. In 2 or 3 days. 60% of the pistils are turning brown. Plant 2 is also ready to harvest. About 60% of the pistils are brown. Plant 3 I might leave for 1 more week as she has about 20%brown pistils yet. She made it this far.. Plant 4 isnt ready yet. Still feeding her a small bit. Not too much. Still has all white hairs. (Northern lights auto). Flushing her out this week. Ive been flushing out the 3 ready plants for almost 1 week now. The run-off pH is about 6.7-6.9 for the three.

As a first time grower I found that Fast Eddy lives up to its name. No particular difficulty in growing it, maybe next time only 3 plants instead of 4. Overall I think i will be growing this strain again and very soon.