i am in the #ffswhereisit club too. !!! nearly as bad as the "are you a lady ?" phase and no way of doing the "cup'n'cough" check!!!Hi,VG-I'm doing alright-Thank You for asking !
Tomorrow is harvest day for the ugly one-I'll (hopefully) need the room for my 2 new ones...
Right now they're in the solo cups at the "are they gonna sprout,or did I eff something up" stage...
ironically written by a grower who "adapts the sunshine !" and creates a biosphere to do exactly that so well!!!.
watch and wait !.
Never done a journal before,so bear with me....
So my budget when I started this was $150,and I used all but 20 cents of it:
Northern Light x Big Bud feminized seeds ...had 'em already
Low Ryder#2 auto seeds................................. "
Bagseed#3 seeds.............................................. " ( from bagseed#2,she was a beast)
Oneo LED grow light from the zon .......$100.00 (1000 watt claimed/200watts at the wall) (not blurple)
Home Depot 2'x2'x44" wardrobe box ... $18.00
1.5 cu.ft. Black Magic organic potting soil...$18.00
x4 reflective windshield shades................$4.00 (Dollar Tree)
x3 - 4" USB fans ............................................$6.00 ($2.00 each,99cent store (wtf?)
Mega Crop 750g free sample....................$3.80 (paid for shipping)
Total:...........................................................$149.80
I already had everything else-packing tape,material for drip tray,ph tester,etc
So here's a few pics of what's going on up till now:
The Box
The light
View from the top
So here's where it all started: (My custom seed warmer,which doubles as a stove)
Only one popped,so the next step was:
Now here's where it gets interesting (to me,at least)-On Feb.1 ,I stuck 4 seeds in the ground outside my kitchen window just to see if they would pop in this cold,wet environment -the daytime temps were in the high 50's,nightime was low to high 30's, and it was raining,which it did for 20 of the 28 days in Feb.
So,I was a pleasantly surprised on the 11th when I found this going onya gotta look close,there's 2 seedlings there-NlxBB on the left,Bagseed#3 on the right)
It took them 10 days,but they actually popped! (didn't really think they would)
Well,I couldn't just leave them there,so,after a day or 2, I brought them inside in solo cups and put them in "the box" with the Low Ryder#2,which got off to a very slow start:
A day after I brought them in,another Bagseed#3 popped...I left it outside to see what it would do, There will be more about that one a little later...
Fast forward to Feb 3 -topped NLx BB, fimmed Bagseed 3,and started LST on the Low Ryder#2:
Here's how they looked 2 days ago (15th):LoRyder on the left,NLxBB bottom right,
Bagseed3 top right.
That Northern LightxBigBud is rapidly becoming a monster,and I'm rapidly finding out just how small a 4 sq. ft. growspace really is....
It's soon going to be like trying to stuff 2 pounds of $hit in a 1 pound bag,as my dear old Dad used to say....
So that's about it for now,except for that little plant outside under the kitchen window...
(I'm going to call it a she until she shows me otherwise)
How's she doing,you ask?
Here she is 10 minutes ago-growing a bit
The days are starting to finally get sunny,so she may surprise us all soon...
Well,that's about it for my first installment,but I'll be updating often...
I just wanted to add that I'm really liking that light-lo budget or not-it's surpassing my expectations so far...
@MrSauga -wanted to let you know, I finally got around to doing this
. Out of interest, what are the dimensions of that box?
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She was a husky girl from early on- a lot different than the somewhat spindly Peyote Critical
Thanks,HH ! That was a nice thing to see this morning- Of course,when I first saw the notification from Teddy I thought I was in trouble for something,so it was real nice that I wasn't
It's a little odd-the only sound from that room now is the little usb fan blowing toward the drying buds.
,I'll be ready for the next grow..
Thanks,MrSauga-
Today is 14 days since the first harvest of the top buds on the Northern Lights,so it was time for stage 2.
Nothing very exciting about the harvest- one thing I did notice was that I could just pull off most of the bigger leaves-like they were about ready to fall off on their own-so that made it a little easier,although a little messier,too.
Here's her last pic in the box- downright ugly,but quite a bit of smoke there
Even uglier out of the box...
And a couple of final bud shots-she got frostier over the last two weeks,so it wasn't a waste of time:
and a lower bud
The box hasn't looked like this for about 6 months- quiet, dark, and empty-
but it won't be empty for long-I'm waiting on the new crop to sprout,but they don't seem to be in any hurry...
This is what's left after trimming- 8.5 oz wet,but there's some big stems on there,
so dry and trimmed will probably end up about 15% of that...
And here's where they'll hang for the next 6 days or so,with a little usb fan blowing across the room in their general direction...
And that just about does it for this grow-I'll post up the final weight on the total NL harvest in a week or so.
I'm going to keep this same journal going for the next one,which is going to be autos- Purple Punch,and Granddaddy Purple x Gumberry...
Just waiting on them to sprout,so we can get the next show on the road...
Thanks to you all for following along with this grow-your support means a lot,and I hope to see you all when I get something interesting going again-probably within a week or so...
Of course,I'll have to keep updating on MsCheese's progress-aside from a little food and water,she's practically growing herself out there,but she's fun to watch...
Hopefully by Monday's update,I'll have 2 new seedlings to report on...
I hope to see you then,and Thanks again for looking-have a great rest of the week!
the smoke looks good 
It's a little odd-the only sound from that room now is the little usb fan blowing toward the drying buds.
I think I'm going to take the light apart and blow the dust out of it..it's got to be pretty dirty in there by now...then ,if the light still works after that...
