Practice Run

UncleDale I used to grow back in my hippie days. (About 40 years ago) I am 65 years old now and have severe arthritis in my spine and hips that causes a lot of pain and greatly limits my ability to function. My sole income is Social Security so I am very limited as to being able to afford fancy lights and seeds from seed banks & etc. These are mystery bag seeds that my Son sent to me from Illinois. I have no idea how old they are. I thought I would do a practice run with these and I hope to be able to purchase some White Widow seeds for my next run. If there are any Good Samaritans out there that would be so kind to send me a couple seeds I would be so grateful. Email me at [email protected] for my address. Thank you and God Bless you and your crop. Any way I soaked these seeds in bottled "spring water" for about 5 days before this one popped. It broke through the soil about a week after planting in the jiffy pellet. I have about a dozen more seeds that popped 4 or 5 days ago and they are planted in Jiffy Pellets. As of today none have sprouted. I rigged up a string of 8 - 100w cfl daylight bulbs 1600 lumens 6500k for the veg stage. I plan to switch to 100w cool whites for the flowering stage.

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UncleDale Had a lighting mishap during the night. 2 bulbs held up with tape came loose and fell on #1 plant. I discovered this A.M. Severely burned one of the new secondary mains. I trimmed away the affected parts. I hope she wont be stressed too badly. Lesson learned...No more tape!!! Plants #2 & 3 were both topped yesterday (3/23) #4 (the late comer) is finally starting to grow. still feeding only water. any suggestions for organic flowering nutes? anyone? Also considering defoliation on #1. Any advice on that would be appreciated as well. Hope YOUR girls are doing well!

UncleDale 03/31) Update.........Plant #1) this week she finally got over the shock from all the trimming and training and began a growth spurt. I may clip a few more leaves underneath but now I'm mainly just going to raise the lights gradually and let her stretch her new branches a bit more. I figure about 5-7 days of this and then I will flip her over to 12/12 photoperiod. I am pleased with her progress. And she has 10 mains! I cant wait to see those 10 frosty colas. My first successful FIM topping. The other plants have been having their ups & downs but they are doing ok. Will update their progress later. 04/06) Flipped #1 to 12/12 on Monday 04/02. She's looking good. Been trimming a few lower leaves on all 3 daily. Every thing going well, no complaints. The closet is beginning to get a skunky scent. Very pleased to see the indica finallystarting to grow. It was so tiny when it sprouted, I didn't think it would survive but look at it now. I am really pleased with the Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. I haven't needed any nutrients so far. I did purchase some Hawaiian Bud for the flowering stage though, just in case......