My First Grow

Both Critical Purple are growing great but it seems like the Blueberry Auto has slowed down with not much growth this week .Watering one gallon per 5 gallon pot every 3 days. Feeding nutes every other watering. Still waiting on my 320w LED from China.

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for some unknown reason I did not fill up my 5 gallon pot with 5 gallons of dirt. Today I lifted the plant out and put another gallon and a half of dirt in my pot. I'm hoping I didn't stress the girl out too much. Gave her a nutrient feeding after her travels.

Growing fast, adding bud sites.

Water only today. first day of LST.

It's truly amazing to watch them grow so much every day. The Blueberry Auto and Critical Purple 1 have both started flowering on time. I think I see a nine finger leaf starting on the Critical Purple 1! Added a second recirculation fan and ordered a charcoal filter because it's starting to get smelly. I'm wondering if I shouldn't remove the ties and just let her grow. Changing to 20 hours of light to hopefully get more growth.

Blueberry Auto wanted 2 gallons of water during the last watering.I've been giving it one gallon of water every 3 to 4 days.

Added a scrog net to see if it'll help spread out the Blueberry Auto. I don't know if it's going to grow anymore or not but I wanted to be ready. Also added a second 48 in LED. So I have 2 12 in by 48 in LED wrap type fixtures for a combined 80 watts.

Not much change to the Blueberry Auto this week. 2 Critical Purples put on a lot of growth. Still waterng 1 gallon every 3 days with nutes at every other watering. And still waiting on the slow boat from China with my 320w Kingngbrite LED. I've decided I'm not going to prune the fan leaves on the Critical Purples as much as I did to the Blueberry Auto.

Upgraded to "Kingbrite LED 320W QB288 Samsung lm301h 3000k LED grow light" direct from Alibaba!

My new 300 watt quantum board LED exposed some problems. I believe I have ph lockout on all 3 plants due to the brown spots. I hung the lights high but they are so bright the ph problem was exasperated. Flushed it today so I'm hoping my gals don't struggle too much. AND I have an infestation of mites. Forget about trying to keep the soil dry after just flushing it. AND my Blueberry Auto had powdery mildew on a bud. Fortunately it was right in front of the plant so I caught it and cut it off. Let's hope it doesn't move around too much. Besides the slow growth, which I knew was due to the poor lighting, I was cruising along so well...

Still having problems getting used to the new quantum board LED. I've got the light at the top of the tent about 30 in from the canopy with 8,000 lux at the edge of the canopy. Not much new growth on the Critical Purple but the Blueberry Auto buds seem to be getting chunkier. I'm hoping to harvest the Blueberry Auto next week all the triches are cloudy but none are Amber. I just realized I'll probably be harvesting that critical purple in week 19 LOL 11/27 I'm changing my lighting to 12/12 today to see if I can't kickstart the Critical Purple into flower.

Still having problems. Thinking the ph pen was not calibrated. Did it and fed 1.5 gals each of 6.4. Waste water came out 6.4, 6.8 and 6.9. Took most of the fan leaves off of the Blueberry Auto to prepare for harvest. Most of the trichs are cloudy, Some clear, a couple amber. 11/29 Lights back to 18/6 and 11,000 lux. Sprayed Neem. 11/30 I have decided that fungus gnats were one of my problems. I defoliated all of the ugly leaves.

Watered ea with 1-1/2 gallons of water with 1 oz of Neem per gallon. Needed watering 3 days later. Fed with bloom nutes, instead of being happy the leaves have Chlorosis. Now I think I'm starving them. Will start using a TDS pen as soon as it arrives. I also put down an inch of sand hoping to stop the fungus gnats. Was able to slowly work the light up to 100% intensity but the tent got too hot. Lowered the light to about 20" at 16k lumens and I'm slowly increasing the intensity.

Critical Purple won't flower at week 15! GCS suggested that the Ruderalis genes must be dormant so I'm to treat it like a photoperiod. Gave it the GHC flowering mixture at 50% of the bottle recommendation and it showed P&K excess so back to veg mixture. I may just pull them and start over.

Week 16 and my Critical Purple Auto's have reveged! Hopefully they start flowering in a week or two with 12/12 lighting. After another 11 weeks hopefully I can harvest. A 29 week Auto flower? Thanks Growers Choice Seeds!

Flipped the autos to 12/12; seemed to work. They're growing pistols and blooming again. Lowered the light way down to 13 in; don''t see any negative side effects of this. I'm using water from my dehumidifier now so I bet I have cal-mag deficiency; the cal-meg is coming in the mail. Patiently waiting for the blueberry triches to turn Amber.

For a first grow I can't say that the plant helped or hindered the experience. I would say it was a pretty good experience.

Blooming pretty well on 12/12. I'd like to go back to 18/6 but I don't want to mess anything up. After the reveg a couple weeks ago they've gotten huge. I started using a dehumidifier for the Blueberry cure and I'm now using that water to water these gals so I've started adding 4 mL of cal/mag per gallon.

Critical Purple 1 is drinking 1- 1/2 gals every three days while #2 needs 2 gallons every 3 days. The fan leaves are starting to get frosty! The leaves are so dense; it's tough to get in there and defoliate for air movement.

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Thought I would just be harvesting a couple of the larger colas but ended up chopping both plants down. In my head I saw Amber and not too many clear trichomes but I probably could have waited a week 😆. After 20 plus weeks I'm over these two plants and ready to start three different plants. In a couple weeks I will post the harvest.

Lots of huge long colas, which I expected after 22-week grow. Not too many fan leaves to trim. This was my first experience so nothing else to compare it to. After two months the smoke is very satisfying.