Back At It Again In The Closet: Fire OG & Whatever Else

hello once again, 420mag patrons! :nomo:

my first grow didn't end well as those who tuned in might know. losing a good chunk of our income paired with the california summer rolling in made it really hard to keep things under control. so now that it's august & i'm going to be 20 in 24 hours, i'm getting back into the swing of growing my own meds.
i visited a dispensary like an hour away and picked up a clone for the low low price of 20 dollars (WHEEZE)
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she looks nice & healthy. i took screenshots of the strain info;
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i'm going to let her stay in her rockwool cube for a few days to grow the roots out a bit more. later she'll be put in about a half gallon pot of clean soil that i have from the last grow, wherever i have an empty half-g pot :hmmmm: if i don't have one i'll move it straight to a 2 gallon pail with holes drilled in the bottom. i intend to train the plant like last time & get her grown to a good size if i can. in the last journal i said we were going to move, but some guy sucks at keeping promises LMFAO so we're still in the same closet
during veg i will definitely take clones so i can keep growing, AND, my mother wants to dip her hands into growing her own weed! her plant will def be talked about in the future if she does it
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this will be under the same cheap 600W LED as last time, hopefully with future additions, air circulation will be provided by an oscillating fan, watering with RO PH 5.5 water, and since this is happening thru the fall and winter, i will use the same old space heater.
veg time; 16/8
flower time; 12/12
nutes: GH FloraNova Grow, EN Flower Fuel w/ used coffee grounds when needed, hydrogen peroxide weekly, will write down whatever else i use when i use it
cloning stuff; jiffy pellets, rootech gel
pest control; cleaning the closet, spraying insecticide, wiping it back up later, putting down some diatomaceous earth. i'll get companion plants when i have that kind of money again
 
i'm sitting in bed, toking, reading short journals & thinking abt what to do for this grow. a scrog has crossed my mind & i'm really teetering on it because this time i want to work up a good yield of top shelf that'll hopefully have me too blasted to smoke it all up. i have worsening health issues coupled with the bad luck w/ income so all i can smoke out here is 20-60 bucks worth of bottom/lower-mids a week. it doesn't last well fr the money. honestly it would be better spent on food, but said health issues make it really hard to eat when i'm out of flower. i had to smoke the sugar leaves from the last grow one week, my lungs and palate never forgave me.
that being said, if anyone passing by has some low-budget pointers or tips, i'm open to anything :Namaste:
i'm on track to getting this closet up and running again, thinking of improvements and getting shit situated. it's been a week since i bought the fire clone & she's been enjoying her new pot. new branches are shooting out with a shiny lil' pistil here & there. some basil, tomato & bell pepper seeds are also being sprouted.
 
i moved my stinky child to her newly cleaned closet! it's still getting toasty in there so i set up fans to help, it's tons better than being under the desk lamp in the only chilly room in the house tho. here are some blurples w/ flash
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& here's a pan of the grow room in it's current state
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it's incredibly bare-bones. i have another piece of this mylar & thoughts of building a moveable wall for it so as to get light reflection on all four sides.
EDIT: thought i should mention the spots on the leaves came from some aphids, we live in a specific area with tons of the bastards. i haven't seen many of them around since but i'm keeping an eye out
 
if anyone passing by has some low-budget pointers or tips
Did someone say low budget?-Hell, that's practically my middle name !
Good to meet you,Doug -I might be able to save you a few bucks...
Central Cali,eh? Me too-for 65 years!
Let me know what kind of tips you're looking for,and I'll help you if I can.
I saw your username,and said "I've gotta check this guy out"...for simplicity's sake though,I'll just call you Doug, if that's ok... :)
Check out the first page of my journal,it might give you some ideas right there-you've already got the light,so you're 2/3 of the way there already!
 
Did someone say low budget?-Hell, that's practically my middle name !
Good to meet you,Doug -I might be able to save you a few bucks...
Central Cali,eh? Me too-for 65 years!
Let me know what kind of tips you're looking for,and I'll help you if I can.
I saw your username,and said "I've gotta check this guy out"...for simplicity's sake though,I'll just call you Doug, if that's ok... :)
Check out the first page of my journal,it might give you some ideas right there-you've already got the light,so you're 2/3 of the way there already!
thank you for dropping by, carcass! :passitleft: you're good callin' me doug. only been in central cali for a couple years now & i don't wanna go anywhere else ('cept back to washington)
i've peeked in on your journal a couple times and forgotten to watch both times (doh) & the dollar store reflectors were my fav idea, that's definitely on the shopping list for this friday
 
time for some at-the-desk pics
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pistil.

she reached over 10 nodes so i decided to clip her above the 6th node & try to make a clone
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shaved down the stalk a bit and put some rootech gel on it. i'll report on this one again if she takes off
 
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quick shot. the uppermost branch was trying on that apical dominance shit, i told 'em that this is a LST house with the use of......a twisted up piece of toilet paper. doug makes do. a couple of leaves kept getting a layer of powdery mildew-looking stuff so i plucked them off
 
i just remembered my ugly basil bush died & the 2.5 gal nursery pot it was in is free, so i don't have to drill holes in the plastic bucket. somebody's gonna try some hydroponics :surf:
the powdery mildew looking stuff was in fact powdery mildew, figures since the aphids here don't wanna get OUT. i sprayed milk (4 am edit: milk/water SOLUTION), & am looking for a thin breathable material to wrap around the bottom to keep the aphids & whatever else out. i oughta look for something to use as mulch too
 
long time no update :hmmmm: oh yea my plant can't type
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she's gotten really big & started growing all her 5+ fingered leaves again. i accidentally broke the trunk halfway thru above the first node a few days ago and she kept growing just fine, thank god. fire og's a real strong lady
 
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doing pretty good. the aphid problem went down a fair bit so i didn't have to do much besides mess with fan angles. i gave the soil a good drenching last night & the LST was done about 2 days ago
 
still growing very well so i took a second to FIM the tips of the large main branches so the smaller ones could catch up hopefully. discoloration on the leaves was still getting worse so i put a 1/4 dose of grow nutes in this watering, next waterings will be straight RO again.
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i made a bubble cloner for a new clone taken from the bottom of this plant a few days ago. the body is a dog treat container, and i'm using a scotch brite pad in leu of something i (think i) saw in one of @NaturalSpirit 's journals
AND
i found 3 seeds in an eighth of some moulin rouge i bought this week & planted one of them..
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