First grow ever in a Space Bucket

Thought I would upload my first diary ever!! grew in a illegal country in a space bucket on a very limited budget! Bucket had x2 8cm pc fans as intake, another x8cm pc fans and x1 12cm exhaust fans. All covered with porous carbon sponge to reduce smell as much as possible. LED strip with SMD5050 at 50W and a QB style LED with LM301H at 150W as lighting. Got x2 Amherst Sour Diesel clones from a friend and decided to give it a shot in a small space bucket I built.

After about a week when the clones have rooted I decided it is time to top them and start tying them branches down! Unfortunately I did not record the fertilizers dosage but I do remember that I used the "Bio-Nova Super Soil Mix" as base fertilizer and PK-13-14 as flowering fertilizer

You can see the LST and topping results. Growth was going well, started to worry about space for both plants so started to build a 2nd Bucket and reduced the LST frequency not to overcrowd the current bucket. A used flood light found in storage will be used in the 2nd bucket.

One of the clones were introduced to the new bucket and now there's room in the bigger bucket to keep vegetating while flowering will be induced soon in the smaller one. Continued with the LST, spreading the growth in the bigger bucket.

Nitrogen abundance on the smaller plant while had multiple deficiencies on the bigger one... Since it was my first grow it was quite hard to identify. Smaller plant was moved to a 12/12 schedule since the space in the smaller bucket was running out! A small desktop fan has been added to the bigger plant to increase air circulation.

The smaller plant growing nicely and currently stretching. Bigger plant recovered from her deficiencies for now and is growing nicely Since my space is running out in the bigger bucket as well flowering will start at the end of this week

The smaller plant looking pretty good showing nice progress with flowering and she's getting stinky! The bigger plant has been moved to a 12/12 schedule mid-week and started stretching and is showing some signs of deficiencies again.

Smaller plant buds are starting to get a nice cola shape and is getting really dense. Bigger plant started showing pistils and "pre-flowers" and has stopped stretching almost completely.

A Nitrogen abundance once again on the smaller plant but with great budding progress! Bigger plant buds are starting to get a shape and are maturing nicely

The bigger plant is showing deficiencies again but left untreated due to lack of knowledge back then. Smaller plant had to be cut down prematurely since the lights burnt out during the couple of days I was not near it, so I couldn't know how long she was in the dark and had nowhere to get a replacement for her. Although harvested early she had a total of 14.2g Dry/ half Oz Had a strong "head-high" effect full of energy, and with an earthy smell and taste. Trim was used to make hash (unfortunately didn't find any pictures of it).

The big plant has been kept in flowering until optimal time to harvest! Although suffering multiple deficiencies bud development is still pretty good. Signs of radiation/light stress started to show on the top of the plant, again this was a mistake I couldn't identify back then so it persisted until harvest.

Buds are getting denser and fatter by the day! stems are starting to bend a little under their weight! As mentioned in last week some deficiencies and stresses were left untreated due to lack of knowledge

Looking back I realized a couple more weeks or even one would've increased the yield substantially but results were still pretty good! God about 39g of beautiful buds and the rest in popcorn buds. Fan leaves were trimmed first then the plant was hung upside-down to dry for 14 days, then it was cured for 3 weeks in glass jars. The result was big dense and trichome covered buds with amazing taste and smell, they weren't harsh on the throat and the effect was a strong energetic "head-high" - it was very good for day use without the tiring effects of an Indica dominant strain