PW's 1st Grow

@PussyWagon6969,Anytime! 👍

@DudeGrowsWeed, phewww. This first grow is a bit nerve wracking because there's no real experience to know what to expect after experimenting. Thanks for checking in and helping me along!

@Jaindoh, thanks for the insight! Definitely feels a bit slowed down compared to other Auto diaries I see but but she seems healthy which is all I can ask for. Can't wait to see what she'll be like at week 10!

@DudeGrowsWeed, will do. Thanks for the advice, man!

@PussyWagon6969, I'd stick with veg nutes for now. Switch to flowering nutes once you can easily see the bud sites. I would wait for the bud sites to be about the size of marbles or dimes. Hope that helps!

@DudeGrowsWeed, Since your comment I've done one feeding and just last night did one watering with PH'd water. She's moving right along and looks happy (I think)! I added another close-up picture of today's (day 33) bud sites and am wondering if you think the next round of feeding (3 days from now) should still be veg nutes? Thanks for your input!

@PussyWagon6969, i only have one rule for myself about that, and it's in the vein of "when we win, we celebrate" there were a lot of ancient peoples and religions, but one common theme: harvest = feast =) your mileage may vary ;P

@Jaindoh, Thanks man, guess I'll be having a trim party around this weekend then! Damn, I didn't know people try to harvest within hours...that's some serious precision for the typical 'one week window'.

@PussyWagon6969, You're inside the harvest window now. If you want, you can take it cola by cola, or the whole thing. Some will be a little more up, some a little less. You could wait a day or two. The semi-cloudy ones will get cloudier, but some of those cloudy's might go amber. Sleepy pot isn't terrible, either. What you want is for the stems to be looking less glass and flaccid, more plastic and erect. Since you're in soil, you can flush more than one week as well. Good to remember next time. I use a 100x but mine is really really crappy and I get inconsistent results from poor readings. Not the best guy to ask about hitting that harvest within hours of 80% cloudy. I need to buy a tablet and a microscope, or a new phone and a microscope, I suppose. This is the guide I use: https://www.growweedeasy.com/harvest

@PussyWagon6969, I run a humidifier outside my veg tent, yeah. You can get a cheapo one even. All I know about the other thing is that I had several crops before I started really watching humidity. They were always dry and over-transpiring, I had not started using foliar when they are like that, yet. Since I have begun keeping an eye on my VPD charts, air temperatures, temperatures of the leaves, keeping it cooler and moister, my vegging has been much more vigorous. Particularly since I'm operating without central a/c, it takes up a lot of free time making sure the atmosphere is right. I'd say temp/humidity is more important than brand of nutrients, it's right up on the top priority list.

@Jaindoh, thanks for the link! I only have 17" x 17" floor space and not much room outside of the tent to duct humid air in either... I was thinking one of those small table top humidifiers on Amazon that I could just pop in the corner of the tent below my pot. Any recommended small humidifiers that could fit in my tent? Also, I read that if you start your plants in low RH you can effectively "harden" them to the conditions... what are your thoughts on that?

@Jaindoh, Thanks for the note! I'm definitely stoked on the recovery so far...currently abroad with my lady watching the plant... the anticipation to get home and check in is rough lol.

@Jaindoh, gotcha, so it’s no joke when they say these things are pretty resilient!

@PussyWagon6969, fuhgeddabout it. worst case is they get droopy during a part of their rooting or vegging or flowering waves. i always start real early due to this, get them used to it. even if they do, it's super minor, like LSTing them good, if even.

@Jaindoh, noted. What are the chances of herming on an auto after defoliating like this? That's what I'm worried about...

@PussyWagon6969, partial harvest is great, ive been told (and feared) shocking the plant that late but tbh any shock after it quits making leaves/veg growth *seems* to send it into "panic, mature now" mostly i have too many colas, too many plants, too many jars curing, and too shitty of a 100x non-powered microscope XD

@Jaindoh, I think the deficiency has slowed down since the flush but not 100% confident yet. I will feed her tomorrow morning and continue monitoring... I have another question for you about partial harvesting... My latest picture upload shows that the more mature buds are about 2 weeks ahead of the less mature ones... Ideally, I'd like to harvest all at once because I'm scared a partial harvest may result in herming... any tips/advice? Thanks in advance!

@Jaindoh, thanks for checking in! I noticed in my log book my runoff ph had been sitting around 6.1-6.3 for the last month... sensing a phosphorus lockout (thats what the leaves look like) and flushed tonight with 2 gals of ph 7.2. Runoff was still ph6.5 so I’m gonna feed in two days again with ph 7 ish again... I’ll let you know how it goes!

@PussyWagon6969, It was, she looks very happy!

@BucketBrigade, take a look at todays photo...very stoked the recovery was a success.

@BucketBrigade, she did! The bottom leaves totally fried off though... but she's reaching for light and has a lot of new growth. Won't be able to update for a week cuz I'm currently abroad... will post updates as soon as I'm back! *Edit* was able to get a few photos up showing the recovery... take a look!

@PussyWagon6969, Being patient is really difficult. The wait is killing me!

@BucketBrigade, thank you! Learning to be patient is really hard lol

@Purpdaddy87, thanks for the note! The trich pics in week 12 are from a handheld scope (100x) that I painstakingly took the pictures with lol. I wish I had a USB one to take better pics but oh well...

@Coopman, interesting...so maybe I'll just keep the eye on PH and give it another week before considering a re-feed. Thanks for the insight!

@PussyWagon6969, I can tell you that my TD does not like nutrients. I feel like every time I have given her some it is brought up a new weekly problem. With water only she is doing great. I was following fox farm schedule and hit her with a quarter dose of grow and bloom but it bleached out my leaves. Water for me the rest of my grow. Your plant looks great by the way. Much bigger than mine. Good luck