Metalpoet - 1st Grow - Northern Lights Auto - Soil FFOF - CFL - Indoor

Thanks, everyone, for checking on me & Matilda! I think she laughs at my attempts to defoliate. By tomorrow you won't be able to tell I stripped her just yesterday. Anyway, here's an overall look and a look at one of her 4 mains. All 4 mains are like this. The secondary growth has the two pistols per node but that's about it. I think when I can get the 2dary growth to catch up with the mains (height wise) it will all be at the same stage of bloom.
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I missed a little while there... Matilda is looking great, and she's moving into flowering too. Won't be long now.

My advice is to let the smallest main cola start to go vertical and keep everything else pinned down to keep it level and let the secondary growth grow freely. If she's got pistils that means she's starting to stretch. Good luck on the early flower, my hat's off to you Metalpoet :bravo:

KiG :green_heart:cheers
 
Hey MP!

This may be your first grow but did you work in a factory training plants your whole life? Oh my, you did a great job with the LST.

I'm on my first grow and having some issues with my first go around with seedlings - your journal gave me hope that even if I am left with 1 or 2 then I can still make some magic happen.

I am excited to follow your journey.

All the best,

Lev
 
Masters, journeymen, and apprentices thank you so much for your attention, advice, and ideas! :circle-of-love:
Day 50 Double Feature: So You Think She's in Flower & Return of the Gnats.
I hate gnats. The SNS 203 arrived. Yesterday, with a dry weight of 10.4 lbs (very dry) I watered with the 203 in drench form. It smells terrific, btw. Wasn't sure about using the nutes along with, but Tilly was hungry so she got FF Bloom nutes at standard ratios...I will increase dosages slowly with each watering until she let's me know it's too much. Ph of the whole concoction was 6.8, ph of soil seems to be 6.5. Weight after watering and runoff was 14.0. Just before lights out I gave her a heavy foliar spray with the 203. Active ingredients are rosemary and clove oil, but it smells fresh and floral. Just awesome stuff. Definitely seems to have knocked out the gnats, but I am going to stay on a nightly spray routine for a bit. Never leave moisture on your leaves in any sort of light, btw. I let the fan dry any remaining damp leaves before turning the light on.
I am the progeny of farmers and urban gardeners and inherited a green thumb. I have grown many, many potted tomato and they have issues similar to cannabis. I am not new to growing, just new to growing cannabis... it's not always an advantage. :hmmmm:
Sorry. Morning wake and bake has me chatty. :smokin:
So today she was 13.6 lbs! Significant uptake of water... gooD good. She looks good. Perky. I nudged a few pins tighter and looser and now have a fairly even canopy. Here's pics.
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Looking good MP! :thumb:
 
SIDE CONVERSATION:
Tilly is fine, but I have another thought for discussion. I have looked around the 420 site still not sure where this fits in. So.
In the past 3 years I have been trying to get healthy. Long story short- lost about 80 lbs, quit smoking cigs, stopped drinking soda, blah blah blah, good for me (YES!). I ended up with a walking/jogging habit. At some point or another I noticed that some varieties of weed give me great workouts. They uplift and energize me while knocking back the ouchies (cause I ain't no spring chicken!). The only name I know is a variety called White Dawg.
I'm curious if anyone has suggestions for something similar.
My other thought is this: When possible, I medicate before a race (5k). Sometimes I do ok. Is that cheating? I don't win money... just a ribbon or cheesy medal... won a tacky trophy once. Thoughts?
 
Yeah man if you want a nice day time get stuff done smoke aim for the sativa variety for the couch lock sleepy not do anything buzz aim for the indica.

As for running I don't run unless something is chasing me and that thing better be bigger meaner and something I can stand and fight off... T-Rex maybe I'll jog away at best :rofl::rofl:
 
Thanks for all your thoughts! I prefer high sativa mixes but I have found that short, fast, auto, mostly sativa seeds don't exist.... Well, I have my eyes on a few: pineapple express (that 57 day wonder someone just posted in PTOM), Cinderella99, Jilly Bean, maybe golden goat. Size matters, but I am considering some of these in photoperiod--- would top often, fully flux, and flip early. Thinking and dreaming.....:hippy:
Day 53 Thick & Green
I told you she would laugh at my attempts to defoliate. Salad, anyone? --- omg--- anyone ever try the leaves on salad? Sounds better than kale!
Seriously, she definitely stalled a while the last time I defol'd. Snid or Dirt, should I defol on the 25th and 50th-ish days (since beginning flower)like on a photo? She is So thick now I literally run my fingers through her foliage to get air flow in there--- and to chase off any gnats that may remain. They are gone .. for now. I have treated with a foliar spray of sns203 at night. I've been avoiding getting any on the buds at the recommendation of SNS.--- causes some burning of the pistols. Sprayings have kept the moisture content of the soil high though. Days til the next watering with nutes I think.
Here's pics. So far, so good.
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I try and defoliate when is required, I don't have a set schedule. My general rules of thumb are..
-if the leaf is yellow from lack of light
-if the leaf is facing upside down or in the dirt
-if the leaf is reaching/touching pistils from another cola
-if the leaf is causing the stem to twist, usually the leafs coming out from the bottom will make the stem twist.

For now unless those notes apply, I'd wait until more buds are formed so you don't stall her anymore. Use that guide until it's got fully formed buds, then you can defoliate as you wish, keeping in mind that those big leaves aid in sugar production. I try to start from the bottom and work my way up the Colas as I remove fans before harvest. At that point, if the stem is visible coming out from the buds then I clip it, taking out the whole last stem from the stalk to prevent any disease induction zones. (dried out stem nubs)

Hope that helps, pm me if you have any specific questions... She's looking fantastic Metalpoet, your hard work is doing wonders for her. Keep up the good work and...

KiG :green_heart:cheers

Side conversation -
It makes a difference when you harvest aswell, early harvest being at mostly milky trichomes. I harvested my NLAs at different %s of amber. Leialoha was in the middle of the road and still gives me a good energetic buzz. but my first couple plants due to my eagerness were much less amber and made me want to do anything that kept me busy. Sativas are definitely a good choice all around, tougher to grow and all that but I'm dying to try my hand at some.
 

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