Indoor Garden of Northern California

sears13 Germinated seeds in rapid rooter plugs on a heating mat inside my house. My grow room is located in an outdoor closet so it can get a little cold out there for germination. Using a 300w Galaxyhydro (~135W actual) LED.

sears13 Started seedlings off into solo cups containing Fox Farms Happy Frog soil mix as to not burn my young seedlings. At the end of the 2nd week I transplanted the seedlings into 1 gallon fabric pots and included some organic fertilizers along with some homemade worm castings and compost to add a little microbiology into my soil and help break down my organic fertilizers. The amendments I used include bone meal, kelp meal, blood meal, sul po mag, worm castings, compost, and perlite. These were all added to Fox Farms Ocean Forest (FFOF). This may be a bit overkill but they way I see it the organic nutrients should be available after the seedlings get a little bigger. In my experience it is pretty difficult to burn your plants with organic fertilizers.

sears13 They're getting big! At there 3rd or 4th node now. About 4-5 inches tall. I started LST this week by tying the seedlings down to one side of the pot. Lastly, I've got a small humidifier in the grow closet attempting to maintain adequate humidity in the grow chamber, albeit somewhat unsuccessfully.

sears13 Growth has exploded this week!

sears13 One of the plants is showing a bit of yellowing at the bottom. This is actually a plant that I had left out organic nutrients but included synthetic fertilizers. It is getting more and more difficult for someone to try and convince me to turn back to liquid synthetic nutrients.

sears13 Early in the week I transplanted to 3 gallon pots, including the above fertilizers. It was basically the same organic fertilizer regimen I used when transplanting to 1 gallon pots but I removed the blood meal (high N source, quickly available...not necessary for flowering). I also switched added another light, 315W COB LED with 5x Cree CXB3590s. I added this in addition to my 2x 300w (135W actual) LEDs, for a total of just under 600W in my 6'x1.5' grow room. You can see that a couple of the plants look to be have some deficiencies...these were the plants I used liquid nutrients on (Fox Farm's Grow Big) at 1/4 strength and they did not like it at all.

sears13 Flower power! Hell ya. So all the plants are stretching like crazy and since I've given them all fresh soil and organic fertilizer they are extremely happy.

sears13 Smell is starting to come through. There are a couple of Pennywise phenos it seems-one with few hairs is a little frostier, with a sweeter smell, compared to the other pheno which has more pistils too. The pistil color seems to vary also, with the frostier pheno having almost yellow-cream colored pistils whereas the other pheno has normal white pistils.

sears13 The smell is crazy now! One of the phenos which was extra frosty ended up going hermaphrodite on me, but not of the other plants have shown similar signs. I had to remove the girl who hermed on me unfortunately, she was passed saving and had way too many stamen popping up everywhere. There were even pollen sacs showing up. I'm beginning to think that I was sent feminized Pennywise seeds instead of regular as I had ordered because none of my Pennywise plants were male. In addition, this hermaphrodite appearing out of nowhere when I have heard nothing about problems with Pennywise herm issues supports the assessment that these seeds could have been feminized.

sears13 You can start to make pretty striking distinctions in the strains! I've defoliated much of the leaves blocking lower flowers. My Mango Tango x Sugar Black Rose cross is looking great next to the Pennywise that didn't herm. Love plant genetics, it is so fantastically interesting. One of the reasons why I like growing cannabis so much is seeing the variations among strains and looking at how traits are inherited (I may or may not be a scientist...)

sears13 Stars are shining bright!

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