11/18/19
hey everyone, I hope y’all have had a wonderful December so far. I hope everyone is all set for Christmas, I hope all of you will be surrounded by the people you love in your life
I just want to take a sec here to talk about something that I feel is very important, especially since I do struggle with depression myself but I do have an amazing support system my wife and my kids and my wife’s family, these people saved my life so I just want everyone to be aware this time of year it is a magical time of year but also it’s the time of year when depression rates and suicide rates go through the roof, if you notice anyone one that you know a little off lately please don’t let it go without saying anything or reaching out. Please your not alone, and if anyone on here doesn’t have anyone to spend Christmas with please reach out to someone , this is no time to be and feel alone. We all have people that love us, just remember your not alone. And if you don’t have anyone reach out to me or anyone on this group. Please your not alone
It’s been a few weeks since my last update and I apologize for this, life gets busy.
JOURNAL UPDATE DAY # 46
So a lot has happened in the past few weeks, my plants were showing major deficiencies and it was throwing my right off , this is my first attempt at true living organics , worms and all kinds of crawling things in my soil in turn creating a complete soil food web well I obviously messed up somewhere , I think one mistake was a 3” layer of hay in the middle of the pot , I know now that if I am to do this I will set my pots 2 months in advance and let the worms work their magic and hit it with npk microbes in the regular to break everything down before planting into the amended medium . So now I am hitting these girls constantly with microbes and after a week and a bit they are bouncing back , my autos damage is done and it has significantly stunted the growth of the one currently in flower. But the smell coming off these buds is outstanding , hints of citrus fruits , somewhat pine ish and has a woody ish and a very sweet indica smell to it, even though it’s a sativa dominant strain , so at the very least I will get a very nice smoke out of it , even if it’s a small amount , I am going to keep running these until I can get these to their full potential. I started a second Moby dick XXl in a 5 gal pot old school plastic pot, just to see how it goes here I did not add hay into the middle of my next auto , I have loaded it with microbes , only amended at half strength cause I know there are amendments left over . So I’m hitting them with microbes on the regular ,
every since using the npk microbes myplants have shown a complete turn around,
SOIL- so this is my biggest issue , I was amending my soil and planting within a week . Not giving time for the microbes and everything else to break anything down to become available, so these pots did sit for about a week , so gave them a drenching if compost tea .
This is so wrong and it took @Emilya to keep pushing me in the right way , so now I am finally doing something right. Last night I mixed 15 gal of soil all my recycled super-soil I don’t have a lot of it maybe 30 gallons of soil in total then I amended with gaja green at 1/3 Rd strength , I mixed up some npk grow microbes and watered the in the medium , I will let this soil cook for the next 2 months. I have 15 gal of soil left in which I am going to get set up for flower, and load it with microbes. I think doing this prep work and giving the soil the time, I will have a flawless grow as far as soil goes .
ENVIRONMENT- everything is on point lights on 26 degrees and 60% Rh and lights off 20 degrees 60% Rh
Let’s get into some photos here
Amherst sour diesel by hao
pheno #1
she is starting to take shape now , I’ve remove bottom 2 nodes for clones , I’m going to keepone going in a space bucket with minimal light just to keep it alive, and when harvest comes if it’s a keeper I’ll keep it as a mother , if not I’ll clone the heck out ofit and I’ll do a sea
she has been topped multiple times now i am going to just let her fill out see how she goes , if some branches get too long I’ll top
the new growth is looking very nice
just a shot I got an idea from a member last year , I’m pretty sure it was
@carcass who originally did this type of photo
Amherst sour diesel
Pheno #2
She has been topped a few times and will be set to let fill out for the next few weeks now she has a nice structure and I can’t wait to see what these 2 plants bring
So out of the 2 asd phenos this one has the large sativa like leaves so I am very excited for both
As you can see the new growth is beautiful
MOBY DICK XXL AUTO
pheno #1
And this now brings us to the 2 autos first one is on day 47 out 80 ish days
She’s been through hell and back but I finally got things under control and it seems the damage has stopped but she’s not going to bring much of anything to the smoking room but I got a lot of experience in what not to do when growing autos , 1 don’t start in solo cup , 2 make sure everything is on point because you only have 3-4 weeks to build as much as you can for flower. So In the future I will start in 3-5 gal pots and water very little more frequent
One things i am unsure of is why are the pistols turning already , I have no males in my house or outside . I have been Diligent on my light distances . Any help would be great.
Moby dick XXl auto pheno #2
I really hope this one gets some more height then the 1st pheno
If anyone has any advise please feel free , I welcome the knowledge , my mind is open
and I will need some of your respected opinions on something thank you for taking the time to read my journal I try to dedicate all the time I can , I know I won’t be winning any journals of the months here but hopefully one day I will have the time to do a kick ass dedicated journal , I just need to up my camera game and writing skills , this is the most writing I’ve done since trade school. Happy New Years everyone 
