Jon's Second Grow, First Grow Journal, Soil Grow Autos & Photoperiod

[Diatomacious]

Tell your neighbor to pull his f***ing males lol

 

[Jon]

Sadie Update
Grow Day 126
Flower Day 47

A couple things about this plant.
- She's perfect. No seeds. No deficiencies. No flarf. Stinky. Dense as hell, like rocks. Tons of yield. No bud on this plant is smaller than a golf ball. Most are way larger. No other way to characterize her except, for me, perfect. Somehow I have managed to basically finish my first legitimate plant of my growing career (in my own self assessment of my growing to this point).
- All her leaves are turning purple. She is gorgeous to look at, and the photos don't do it justice.
- I leave for vacation tomorrow at 5 am. She gets watered today. All my assistant has to do while I'm gone is give her ONE gallon of CLEAN tap water on Sunday. The plant will be fine then when I return Tuesday afternoon. Other than that everything is automated. And the scrog tent is dead and empty and all turned off and sealed up, so no more worries about that tent pollinating the Sadie tent via the AC an longer. That was causing me a great deal of stress after what happened with the scrog. Thank GOD she never got pollinated. I have taken the five smallest buds on the plant over the last several days, cutting each one open and apart all the way and there's not the slightest sign of a seed or a seed developing. I know she's going to finish great and THANK THE LORD for small consolation prizes.
- When I return we do a trichome check but she should basically be ready or very close. Finish her up, darken her world for 36 hours, and harvest the only legit plant I've ever successfully grown.
- I'm going to go ahead and declare the budding a plant at almost 1400 par a SUCCESS. At least in this case.
- Last note on Sadie is that she is a Jelly Rancher. Same plant that a very small amount of stress caused to hermie in the scrog. Yet Sadie has been through more stress by FAR than any plant of this grow. And somehow SHE didn't go hermie. Again, proof positive that I SCREWED UP, not the genetics or the plant. The scrog that is. Not Sadie somehow.

So here the beast is. Note the new light green growth you can see on the buds that's popping out everywhere. These buds are still growing and for the last few days have begun fattening up exponentially. It's truly insane. The tent smells like sweet, dank, pink and blue cotton candy. Intensely.

- overhead shot
- profile shot
- bud shot 1
- bud shot 2
- bud shot 3
- bud top 1
- bud top 2

I will have a brief commentary on the scrog later on. I'm over it and it's taken care of. Took me a few days. Big loss.

 

[Bud Love]

Sadie Update
Grow Day 126
Flower Day 47

A couple things about this plant.
- She's perfect. No seeds. No deficiencies. No flarf. Stinky. Dense as hell, like rocks. Tons of yield. No bud on this plant is smaller than a golf ball. Most are way larger. No other way to characterize her except, for me, perfect. Somehow I have managed to basically finish my first legitimate plant of my growing career (in my own self assessment of my growing to this point).
- All her leaves are turning purple. She is gorgeous to look at, and the photos don't do it justice.
- I leave for vacation tomorrow at 5 am. She gets watered today. All my assistant has to do while I'm gone is give her ONE gallon of CLEAN tap water on Sunday. The plant will be fine then when I return Tuesday afternoon. Other than that everything is automated. And the scrog tent is dead and empty and all turned off and sealed up, so no more worries about that tent pollinating the Sadie tent via the AC an longer. That was causing me a great deal of stress after what happened with the scrog. Thank GOD she never got pollinated. I have taken the five smallest buds on the plant over the last several days, cutting each one open and apart all the way and there's not the slightest sign of a seed or a seed developing. I know she's going to finish great and THANK THE LORD for small consolation prizes.
- When I return we do a trichome check but she should basically be ready or very close. Finish her up, darken her world for 36 hours, and harvest the only legit plant I've ever successfully grown.
- I'm going to go ahead and declare the budding a plant at almost 1400 par a SUCCESS. At least in this case.
- Last note on Sadie is that she is a Jelly Rancher. Same plant that a very small amount of stress caused to hermie in the scrog. Yet Sadie has been through more stress by FAR than any plant of this grow. And somehow SHE didn't go hermie. Again, proof positive that I SCREWED UP, not the genetics or the plant. The scrog that is. Not Sadie somehow.

So here the beast is. Note the new light green growth you can see on the buds that's popping out everywhere. These buds are still growing and for the last few days have begun fattening up exponentially. It's truly insane. The tent smells like sweet, dank, pink and blue cotton candy. Intensely.

- overhead shot
- profile shot
- bud shot 1
- bud shot 2
- bud shot 3
- bud top 1
- bud top 2

I will have a brief commentary on the scrog later on. I'm over it and it's taken care of. Took me a few days. Big loss.

WOW ! Jon , what a job mate. Up there with Bill284’s eye candy pics.. beautiful.
Have you got any thoughts on your next grow yet? Looking forward to it, whatever it is.
peace an buds to ya

 

[Jon]

WOW ! Jon , what a job mate. Up there with Bill284’s eye candy pics.. beautiful.
Have you got any thoughts on your next grow yet? Looking forward to it, whatever it is.
peace an buds to ya

Thanks BL. And yes, I have. I have grudgingly come to the conclusion that due to the wheelchair thing, working a 5x5 scrog is simply not my best option. There are too many gaps in my ability to effectively monitor the plants, especially in the center of the tent. It's simply an access issue and I can't do anything about that. From now on I am going to grow my plants just as I did Sadie - top, train, and create with one plant as big of a "scrog without a scrog" like Sadie is as possible. For the next grow, I'm gonna do two plants in each five by five, all photo only, in seven gallon pots. Hulkberry in one tent and Ghost Train Haze in the other. No mixing strains. No scrog. Just LST and maxing yield on two plants per tent at a time. I figure I can still pull a pound and half per tent from two plants in 7s. Sadie is likely to be around 3/4 of a pound in my estimation.

 

[Bill284]

Sadie Update
Grow Day 126
Flower Day 47

A couple things about this plant.
- She's perfect. No seeds. No deficiencies. No flarf. Stinky. Dense as hell, like rocks. Tons of yield. No bud on this plant is smaller than a golf ball. Most are way larger. No other way to characterize her except, for me, perfect. Somehow I have managed to basically finish my first legitimate plant of my growing career (in my own self assessment of my growing to this point).
- All her leaves are turning purple. She is gorgeous to look at, and the photos don't do it justice.
- I leave for vacation tomorrow at 5 am. She gets watered today. All my assistant has to do while I'm gone is give her ONE gallon of CLEAN tap water on Sunday. The plant will be fine then when I return Tuesday afternoon. Other than that everything is automated. And the scrog tent is dead and empty and all turned off and sealed up, so no more worries about that tent pollinating the Sadie tent via the AC an longer. That was causing me a great deal of stress after what happened with the scrog. Thank GOD she never got pollinated. I have taken the five smallest buds on the plant over the last several days, cutting each one open and apart all the way and there's not the slightest sign of a seed or a seed developing. I know she's going to finish great and THANK THE LORD for small consolation prizes.
- When I return we do a trichome check but she should basically be ready or very close. Finish her up, darken her world for 36 hours, and harvest the only legit plant I've ever successfully grown.
- I'm going to go ahead and declare the budding a plant at almost 1400 par a SUCCESS. At least in this case.
- Last note on Sadie is that she is a Jelly Rancher. Same plant that a very small amount of stress caused to hermie in the scrog. Yet Sadie has been through more stress by FAR than any plant of this grow. And somehow SHE didn't go hermie. Again, proof positive that I SCREWED UP, not the genetics or the plant. The scrog that is. Not Sadie somehow.

So here the beast is. Note the new light green growth you can see on the buds that's popping out everywhere. These buds are still growing and for the last few days have begun fattening up exponentially. It's truly insane. The tent smells like sweet, dank, pink and blue cotton candy. Intensely.

- overhead shot
- profile shot
- bud shot 1
- bud shot 2
- bud shot 3
- bud top 1
- bud top 2

I will have a brief commentary on the scrog later on. I'm over it and it's taken care of. Took me a few days. Big loss.

Looks great my friend.
Chin up and keep going forward.
I'm sure that was a tough loss.
I had 10 outdoor ladies and two rooms wiped out by mites. All at once.
All in flower.
Its a tough situation to go through.
But live and learn and keep improving is all you can do.
Spilt milk and all.
You will bounce back better than ever buddy.
Keep up the great work.
Bill

 

[Jon]

Sadie Update
Grow Day 133
Flower Day 54

I am home after six days on vacation. Left Sadie in the care of a friend. The friend did well. I came home a bit nervous but Sadie is just fine. Her leaves pretty much exploded in color while I was gone and the buds fattened up significantly. I can't wait to harvest this girl. I got a lot of catching up to do in other journals, so here's Sadie today. Note the colors.

 

[DeeBoy]

Sadie Update
Grow Day 133
Flower Day 54

I am home after six days on vacation. Left Sadie in the care of a friend. The friend did well. I came home a bit nervous but Sadie is just fine. Her leaves pretty much exploded in color while I was gone and the buds fattened up significantly. I can't wait to harvest this girl. I got a lot of catching up to do in other journals, so here's Sadie today. Note the colors.

That’s beautiful!

 

[Virgin Ground]

Oh no! Did you already trash your other grow??

I would have finished them and turned them all into hash or dry ice kief.
Something to think about if it should ever happen again. Hopefully it won't though.

Unfortunate about all of the seeds.

 

[Jon]

Oh no! Did you already trash your other grow??

I would have finished them and turned them all into hash or dry ice kief.
Something to think about if it should ever happen again. Hopefully it won't though.

Unfortunate about all of the seeds.

Golly VG, it's my second grow but I'm not obtuse, lol. Of course I didn't trash it. I took all the flarf and keefed it all and saved it for edibles. I final trimmed and dried all the good looking but seedy buds as if they had no seeds and am curing it as such. My boy is coming over with a 90 gram butane rig and we're gonna have a wax making party to start. So no. I definitely did not trash it. And the keefe is rocket fuel. Reason I didn't finish them and chopped them early was because I wanted to immediately eliminate the possibility of this seedy tent cross pollinating my other tent with Sadie in it due to the two tents sharing space and each having AC units with air intakes on them. And it worked. SADIE is fine.

 

[Virgin Ground]

Sorry, didn't mean any disrespect.
I tend to speed read because I visit so many journals.
I just saw that you said it was over and trashed....

 

[Nine Toed Hippie]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Don’t know why I wasn’t getting notifications in your journal Amigo. Was wondering where you went? Sadie is looking marvelous!! Such a beautiful plant. Congratulations!

NTH

 

[Jon]

Sorry, didn't mean any disrespect.
I tend to speed read because I visit so many journals.
I just saw that you said it was over and trashed....

VG I promise and assure you that I felt no disrespect from you whatsoever. I was just trying to humorously respond so if there was a tone that gave you the impression I felt disrespected or something it was unintentional. I appreciated your comment. I knew immediately you hadn't read the entirety and in that case I would likely have said the exact same thing to someone. No worries and no offense taken my friend. You gotta do better than that to get under my skin. LOL. Besides, I am and have been depending on the more experienced folks like yourself for this entire grow from day one, and your input has been invaluable. I am the kind of person who does not suffer fools and who ALWAYS prefers direct communication, and you're pretty good at that.

So please continue to keep me in line, be direct and tell me when I'm screwing up, and know that you won't offend me, and most of all THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

 

[Jon]

Sadie Update
A REAL One
Grow Day 134
Flower Day 55

If I am going to post basically just a picture I gotta be a lot less lazy than I was yesterday. Sorry about that bullshit picture I posted yesterday. Today I turned off the reds so I could get pictures in natural light spectrum and show you guys what Sadie looks like in real life. She is intensely beautiful. Most of her leaves have gone deep purple with yellow in the middle, as you see in the pics. I chose a few of the more extreme examples for the pictures but they all look like the pictures to some extent. Gorgeous. The buds are unimaginably dense. Indescribably so. I check them out and they're literally like dense, heavy ROCKS. I expect them to take a while to dry. I did a very close trichome check yesterday and I am at around 80% milky white and 20% transitioning from clear to white. Zero amber so far, not one. She has at least a week to go maybe ten days in my estimation. At this point she gets only clean water with molasses. I think I have loaded her up plenty with nutes this entire grow and it's okay to starve her out at the end. I believe that the starving her of nutes at the end not only flushes the root system but is one more stress that causes the plant to exude everything it's got in self defense. Note that in several of the pictures you can see new green growth with hairs coming out of all the buds. This is a literal explosion that has been happening for a few days now. I *think* what I'm seeing is their final fattening up in the two weeks or so before harvest. Cuz in the six days I was gone they got so much fatter I couldn't believe what I saw when I opened the tent. The smell is off the charts. Pink and blue cotton candy mixed with just a DANK smell. The trichomes are completely insane. If you zoom the cola picture and look even closer, you will see an awesomely thick blanket of trichomes top to bottom. I still have a few days, and the dry and cure, to screw this up. But I have pretty good confidence in my methodology on those fronts and I *think* and I *hope* I can bring her home right.

So here's some REAL pictures of Sadie.

Photographs:

- Sadie side shot
- Top shot
- Cola closeup
- Bud closeup
- Bud top (note new growth)
- Gorgeous leaf shot
- Gorgeous leaf shot 2
- Bud top 2 (again, note new growth)

 

[Nine Toed Hippie]

Sadie Update
A REAL One
Grow Day 134
Flower Day 55

If I am going to post basically just a picture I gotta be a lot less lazy than I was yesterday. Sorry about that bullshit picture I posted yesterday. Today I turned off the reds so I could get pictures in natural light spectrum and show you guys what Sadie looks like in real life. She is intensely beautiful. Most of her leaves have gone deep purple with yellow in the middle, as you see in the pics. I chose a few of the more extreme examples for the pictures but they all look like the pictures to some extent. Gorgeous. The buds are unimaginably dense. Indescribably so. I check them out and they're literally like dense, heavy ROCKS. I expect them to take a while to dry. I did a very close trichome check yesterday and I am at around 80% milky white and 20% transitioning from clear to white. Zero amber so far, not one. She has at least a week to go maybe ten days in my estimation. At this point she gets only clean water with molasses. I think I have loaded her up plenty with nutes this entire grow and it's okay to starve her out at the end. I believe that the starving her of nutes at the end not only flushes the root system but is one more stress that causes the plant to exude everything it's got in self defense. Note that in several of the pictures you can see new green growth with hairs coming out of all the buds. This is a literal explosion that has been happening for a few days now. I *think* what I'm seeing is their final fattening up in the two weeks or so before harvest. Cuz in the six days I was gone they got so much fatter I couldn't believe what I saw when I opened the tent. The smell is off the charts. Pink and blue cotton candy mixed with just a DANK smell. The trichomes are completely insane. If you zoom the cola picture and look even closer, you will see an awesomely thick blanket of trichomes top to bottom. I still have a few days, and the dry and cure, to screw this up. But I have pretty good confidence in my methodology on those fronts and I *think* and I *hope* I can bring her home right.

So here's some REAL pictures of Sadie.

Photographs:

- Sadie side shot
- Top shot
- Cola closeup
- Bud closeup
- Bud top (note new growth)
- Gorgeous leaf shot
- Gorgeous leaf shot 2
- Bud top 2 (again, note new growth)

Freakin awesome! What colors! Job well done Amigo!

NTH

 

[BubbaKush909]

Hi Jon! Thank you for doing this excellent journal, I'm about 3 months behind you growing autos in soil and your journal has been so helpful. I'm basically copying you lol. I've grown before but it's been quite a while, and this is my first ever grow with soil, autos and led's. I'm in the midwest, this was originally going to be a simple outdoors grow with 2 plants in my backyard, which is quite roomy and private. Unfortunately we've had so much rain and so little sun I've now got a full indoor setup and I'd say they're outside 3-4 days a week and inside the rest. I bring them in every night and have them on your 6am-midnight cycle. I also copied your 22 on/2 off schedule and I'm glad you switched it didn't feel right to me.

As grows tend to do, mine is growing. I've now got 2 Bruce Banner fem autos, 2 Gorilla Glue fem autos and just started 2 fem gold leaf photoperiods that were thrown in as freebees.

I've also gotten 2 1000w equivalent led's with a third on order. I swear I'm stopping after this lol.

I don't have much of a feel for these lights yet. I used to grow with 400w CMH bulbs, I loved the results but hated the heat. After a while everything gets so dialed in you don't even think about it, so it's very strange to be in such uncertain terrain again. Given the time spent outdoors I'm not sure what accounts for what and probably won't until I do a full grow completely inside, but hopefully I'll learn some tricks before then.

I learned a great trick here at 420 years ago that I'll share with you. When you germinate your seeds, put them in the paper towel, wet it, and put the paper towel in an old cd case if you have one, or something similar. Then stick the cd case in a quart baggie and place it vertically on a shelf in the dark. This results every time in a straight tap root heading straight down, and is perfect for planting.

Until I read your journal I thought my grow room was well regulated, but you gave me some great ideas and got me thinking.

I used to grow clones in cut down 2L's with perlite. It's an incredibly productive way to maximize space but requires a rather elaborate setup to maintain a constant veg room with cloning mothers, etc. Regardless, it was very important for me to keep them all at a manageable height and this brings us to stretch. This may not work for anyone else but it worked for me every time and with at least 20 different strains. I would never let the night temps drop more than 2-3 degrees from day temps, even if it meant using a heater in the summer. I'd try to keep the room 78-82 degrees the entire grow, day and night. What this does is inhibit stretch, especially in early flower. I'd like to add this does not include auto's I'm not even sure if they do stretch much, mine are just starting flower. This time I'd like them to stretch as much as possible so I've installed an a/c unit to drop the overnight temps as much as I can. I didn't document this at the time but it always seemed that if I screwed up and forgot, even for a single night, the stretch would be noticeable the next day, and a 6-7 degree difference was enough to kick them into stretch mode. I have no idea why this works, or if it works with regular non-clones in soil, but I've noticed you discussing stretch throughout the journal and hope you don't mind my 2 cents.

Looking forward to following your journey, that sucked about your sog but as all of us must you carried on. Take care my friend and thank you again.

 

[Jon]

Hi Jon! Thank you for doing this excellent journal, I'm about 3 months behind you growing autos in soil and your journal has been so helpful. I'm basically copying you lol. I've grown before but it's been quite a while, and this is my first ever grow with soil, autos and led's. I'm in the midwest, this was originally going to be a simple outdoors grow with 2 plants in my backyard, which is quite roomy and private. Unfortunately we've had so much rain and so little sun I've now got a full indoor setup and I'd say they're outside 3-4 days a week and inside the rest. I bring them in every night and have them on your 6am-midnight cycle. I also copied your 22 on/2 off schedule and I'm glad you switched it didn't feel right to me.

As grows tend to do, mine is growing. I've now got 2 Bruce Banner fem autos, 2 Gorilla Glue fem autos and just started 2 fem gold leaf photoperiods that were thrown in as freebees.

I've also gotten 2 1000w equivalent led's with a third on order. I swear I'm stopping after this lol.

I don't have much of a feel for these lights yet. I used to grow with 400w CMH bulbs, I loved the results but hated the heat. After a while everything gets so dialed in you don't even think about it, so it's very strange to be in such uncertain terrain again. Given the time spent outdoors I'm not sure what accounts for what and probably won't until I do a full grow completely inside, but hopefully I'll learn some tricks before then.

I learned a great trick here at 420 years ago that I'll share with you. When you germinate your seeds, put them in the paper towel, wet it, and put the paper towel in an old cd case if you have one, or something similar. Then stick the cd case in a quart baggie and place it vertically on a shelf in the dark. This results every time in a straight tap root heading straight down, and is perfect for planting.

Until I read your journal I thought my grow room was well regulated, but you gave me some great ideas and got me thinking.

I used to grow clones in cut down 2L's with perlite. It's an incredibly productive way to maximize space but requires a rather elaborate setup to maintain a constant veg room with cloning mothers, etc. Regardless, it was very important for me to keep them all at a manageable height and this brings us to stretch. This may not work for anyone else but it worked for me every time and with at least 20 different strains. I would never let the night temps drop more than 2-3 degrees from day temps, even if it meant using a heater in the summer. I'd try to keep the room 78-82 degrees the entire grow, day and night. What this does is inhibit stretch, especially in early flower. I'd like to add this does not include auto's I'm not even sure if they do stretch much, mine are just starting flower. This time I'd like them to stretch as much as possible so I've installed an a/c unit to drop the overnight temps as much as I can. I didn't document this at the time but it always seemed that if I screwed up and forgot, even for a single night, the stretch would be noticeable the next day, and a 6-7 degree difference was enough to kick them into stretch mode. I have no idea why this works, or if it works with regular non-clones in soil, but I've noticed you discussing stretch throughout the journal and hope you don't mind my 2 cents.

Looking forward to following your journey, that sucked about your sog but as all of us must you carried on. Take care my friend and thank you again.

Yo BubbaKush909 - THANKS man! What a kind and thoughtful and informative post. I truly appreciate you taking the time to do this and thanks for following my journal. You sound like you have ten times my experience, as most do, so I'm a little surprised you can get anything you don't already know from me! Lol! Anyway, I tend to arrange things along math lines, so not be less conversational, but allow me to respond to a couple things numerically:

1. The tap root/CD trick - I never have a problem with germination, I'm 21 for 21 lifetime, but that said, WHAT AN AWESOME TRICK! Is this what you do? And is it really that dependable? If so I'm on the train. It's always good to learn new tricks. Good looking out. Lol.
2. The light cycle: Yeah I've learned much about this. It's kind of my sweet spot in terms of greatest interest so I study intently. I have come to the conclusion that you have 100% control over the rate of growth of any auto you grow, and all it takes is controlling the light cycle. The type of light, sun, LED, CMH, whatever, is irrelevant to growth rate overall. (Not saying one of those isn't better, I would always argue sunlight rules) What matters is how many hours. 22/2 as we both agree, was bad. Too much light, not enough down time. And I have learned that it also caused TOO FAST growth in terms of towards maturity. It guaranteed the harvest was going to be on the short end of the time range. Not good for a lot of reasons. So when the switch happened there was a very obvious slow down in the rate with which the plant grew. It didn't seem to matter whether it rained that day and it was mostly LED hours or if it was sunny and most of the hours were sunlight hours. The less the light hours the slower the plant grows. My proof of this is found in my current single Sour Apple grow, which you can see in my other journal. She hasn't gotten more than 15 hours of light one day of her life, and if it was rainy that day she's been with Sadie on 12/12!!!! Well guess what - the results are amazing. She grows slowly. But so perfectly. I'm doing an update to that post today with outdoor real light pics that'll show you what I mean. It's fascinating.
3. On stretching - all you say about this I agree with. I am familiar with much of that knowledge but not all, so thanks for filling in some gaps. Regarding auto stretch - my nine were four strains. The Gorilla Zkittlez did not stretch at all. Not one centimeter. The Cinderella Jack stretched, to my eyes, for maybe two days, and maybe for around 2-3 inches. Basically nothing. The Lemon Skunk stretched maybe 6 inches over three days or so. But...the Pineapple Express stretched like a photoperiod plant. I was amazed. They bushed out the entire center of the rows when before their stretch none of the plants were touching. So I believe stretch in autos is a more strain specific thing maybe? The Sour Apple is well into budding and she only stretched maybe two inches over a few days and has appeared to be set since then in terms of vertical growth. As far as stretch with my photos - I have the height available to never have stretch be a concern, especially now that I've settled on what will work best for me. All my photos from now on will be individual plants trained in the manner of Sadie. They stay manageable no matter what, and they yield HUGE. Sadie may well be close to a pound plant. And it's fun as hell to do it that way. I'm basically done with autos for a while after the 8 Sour Apple seeds I have (this one was the experimental plant). I'm going to soon begin the field of those 8 Sour Apples and that will be fun. Which by the way is one thing that I also learned - it is easier for sure to grow all the same strain than multiple strains. Mixing different nute mixes for different strains all the time gets real old fast. As does multiple watering schedules to remember or write down. I found the work load to be a ton, wheelchair or not. Thus, the one strain idea. At least for me.
5. On lights - yeah it takes a while to get the feel for new lights, especially since your previous experience was CMH. Took me a while with the new light in the scrog tent. That light rules, wish I could talk about it. One thing that helps IMMENSELY in my opinion is the light meter app. I use Korona. It's extremely accurate and really helps dial in the lights, especially with new lights. There are many you can download for free, I always suggest checking them out as very few of us have a true light meter like in the test videos.

You gave me a lot to unpack! Thanks again for the kind words, man. And good luck. Thanks for following. I'll check out your stuff.

Happy Growing!

 

[BubbaKush909]

Thank you Jon! I don't have any stuff to check out here, I looked and either I can't remember my old log in name or it's long gone. I placed two gold leaf seeds in the paper towel/cd yesterday, I'll look tomorrow and take pics if I remember lol. It works every time, the only problem I've ever encountered is sometimes the root will try to grow within a single sheet of PT, don't ask me how it gets there but just extract it very gingerly should that occur.

I may have more experience growing my old way, but most of this is new and your journal has been great, both as a reminder of things I'd forgotten and learning soil. One thing I loved about growing in perlite is you know exactly what nutes your plant is getting, now I'm trying to account for the soil (100% Happy Farm) both in terms of additional nutes and also it's impact on pH. I found having great water and correct pH to be a real cornerstone that helps forgive a lot of other sins.

I'm using an app called lux which measures lumens, I'll try your app as well I know they're all imperfect measures but much better than nothing. This app shows full sun in the 90k -110k. I was about 15 inches above the canopy with my lights and getting readings of 65k through most of the sweet spot tapering off to 35k on the perimeter. While this should be very safe I'm not thrilled with how the girls are reacting, so I've raised them about 2 more inches. I couldn't decide if I should raise or lower them so I'll try the safer option first. I don't care about the yield this time around as much as I do trying to get things more dialed in for the next one.

I'm hoping to get started on your other grow journal shortly, but in truth I have much to finish in this one, I've kind of jumped all over the place trying to compare your grow to mine which is around page 15 now, reading the whole thing sequentially where I'm around page 25 and also skimming ahead looking for pending issues lol. But I'll get there!

Take care my friend.

 

[Jon]

REAL Quick Sadie Update
TRICHOME CHECK
Grow Day 135
Flower Day 56

First real thorough trichome check as she's very very close to look at her. Here you go. Four different buds, high and low and middle level, only one a bit blurry, sorry. She's close but not there. Only a couple amber in one picture. Three days maybe. I want 10% amber and she goes.

Here's the pics. If anyone disagrees with me please tell me so and why? Cuz what the hell do I know? Lol. Thanks!

 

[Nine Toed Hippie]

Looking tasty! Man you’ve had a good grow lately! Congratulations!

NTH

 

[Jon]

Looking tasty! Man you’ve had a good grow lately! Congratulations!

NTH

Thanks but you agree? We're a few days from about 10% amber? I'm seeing more like 1% here.