Since this was my first grow - I have nothing to compare this to. Overall I think it was pretty straightforward - learning points all around with this grow and for that I'm pretty happy to have made mistakes and learned from them. And hopefully put the experience I gained towards a second grow which will turn out "better". I ran into some deficiencies later in the grow and early on overfed which in turn made me reluctant to feed more. I feel pretty confident that going forward I'll have a better feel for this. One thing I have realized is that the use of cal-mag is a bit overstated (when I stopped adding it the plant seemed to respond better). I have no proof of this but it seemed to be the case.
The plant battled with fungus gnats in the late stages of vegetation and early part of flower. Due to watering issues, from my side. I was hoping to maybe get a few more days out of the grow before harvest (December 21st) but the plant started to produce male organs (is that the right word?). A lot of things going on - I assume plant was stressed and I didn't have many other diaries to compare to for this strain.
I was hoping to maybe run one more week, but pulled these all out with tweezers and decided after looking at pistil color and them pulling back into the bud and checking trichromes I decided to harvest. It was really towards the end of the cycle here that I started reading more about VPD etc and realized that here I was also having the plant in a stressful environment the last weeks. On this basis, I will definitely need to read a bit more and in general just learn from my mistakes in order to have a nice run the second time around. I am pleased with what I have, but understand I can do better!
