My First Grow Ever!

rifleman said:
Thanks WW. There is one less on #4 today. I was in checking ph this morning, and as I was leaving the tent I noticed I had broken a bud by hitting the light overhead. Fk'n Winnie the Pooh on a pogo stick!!! Oh well, what to do? Picture, weight, then hang to dry. Damn I hate this, but things happen. At least now I'll get a test smoke, as I couldn't have brought myself to cut one off early. Oh well, 5" long and 18g wet.
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Gutting bro, shit happens sometimes! Like you said, get a wee test smoke, see what you're in for :) :tokin:
 
Subbed. How did I miss this one! Looking great!
 
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Triggle said:
Subbed. How did I miss this one! Looking great!
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Welcome Triggle, pull up a chair, call your friends, and let's all burn one. :rollit:
You haven't missed anything yet. It's really been uneventful until the breakage today. Harvest is a few more weeks away, and after that the photo plants will be untied, put under the screen, & flipped to 12/12. Lots more to come. Hope you enjoy it.
 
Burning currently! And lucky enough to be burning my fave strain Affy #1...i don't see it much anymore! Super stoked on this journal, thanks for the welcome!
 
Happy Hump Day Everybody. I just left the tent, been doing my daily ph checks and giving it the eyeball. In the last week I have noticed the pistils changing color. About 10% going brown. Finally got a lighted 30x loupe to look at the tricomes too. Don't know which sucks worse, trying to use the loupe or the 60x microscope while hovering over a plant. As best as I can tell, I only have a few amber tricomes very near the buds. However I still have a boatload of white pistils. The autos have just about quit eating also. For about a week the ph has started dropping a bit each day and the ppm are going up, instead of the ph up/ppm down that I am used to. All of this an indication that the end is near? Water change is Friday, start flushing?? Those of you with more experience; any guess how much longer they should go?

The photo plants are doing just the opposite. They are eating like beasts again and putting out lots of new growth. Drank more water this week than any other too. It might be time to snip a little bit off of them again. If I don't do something they are going to be too big to go under the screen. Oh the humanity...:thedoubletake: Such a horrible problem to have.<snerk> Looking forward to chopping the autos so I can move on to trying to scrog. Damn growing is more addictive than smoking.:laughtwo:

I'd appreciate it if some of you guys would chime in on time to flush, things to look for, est time left, etc.
Until then I'll leave you with a single pic from last night. More pics of everyone coming Fri. See you then.

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I was stumbling around in the garage earlier, looking for containers to use TheCapn style on my next grow, when I found an old friend. I picked up the dragon in 1984 at a head shop called The Station, near Detroit. A robust cleaning and a new screen in the party bowl, and it's ready for my first home grown cannabis. I am not known for my patience and this is trying it for sure. A few more weeks growing, another or two drying, and then the cure. Ahggggg...:bitingnails: Really wishing for that time machine Herbie's has had me thinking about.

Got a pic of your favorite smoking apparatus? Let's see if it is as cool as a 30 yr old party dragon. Post away, and enjoy tonight's cannaporn.





 
Looking great rifleman. Outstanding first grow. See things are better with age. :cheesygrinsmiley: :bravo:
 
Hey Rifleman, instead of trying to hover while you check this trics,, cut a small leaf off and bring the examination to you. I've tried hovering, PIA. Cut a leaf, take it where it's comfortable. Good luck, nice grow!
 
Jesstar said:
Top notch RM. That's a cool party dragon. I have to say though, the tail does look somewhat phallic in that photo. I had a bit of a laugh.
-J.
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Oh cripes. 30 farking years and I never noticed that. Thanks a lot, now every time I take a hit from it I'll be thinking of the cock head just below my mouth. :trance: <sigh> Oh well, I'm sure nuff secure in my manliness to not care, I just hope my buddies don't notice it too. RoorRip
 
Jesstar said:
Haha. Sorry, Rifle. But the look on the dragons face..! ..and that girls face, Clemens.. lol.

-J.
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Thats funny. I didnt even notice the dragon looked like he knew what was up the whole time. He has a "tee hee" look going on.

Edit: Just re-read riflemans post. I thought you actually smoked it out of the tail. That would have been great.
 
Thanks for joining my journal riffle man much appreciated :thankyou:
Just sat and read through your entire journal and I must say I'm very impressed. I'm just in time for the harvest too :thumb:
 
Jesstar said:
Hahahaha!! Hilarious.

Rifleman, we're having a discussion regarding yield and growth of autos. Any chance you can pop over to my journal and post a pic of your sexiest Auto for us bud? Prove it can be done, and on your first grow!

Cheers.

-J.
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I just took new pics this morning along with the water change. I'll post a couple over on your journal per the request right now. For the rest of you, I'll get around to updating everything here by this afternoon.
 
Water Change Day-(Fed the autos again.)

Yes the autos were fed again. Last time...I think. Plan to start flushing next Fri. The photo plants are so ready for the flip. Huge root mass, nearly 60 days vegging. Makes me wish I had enough space for dedicated rooms to veg and flower in, instead of just the one tent. Not a lot else to report, boring actually. It seems that I've been on auto pilot now for weeks. If it wasn't for my daily ph checks, I wouldn't have anything to do. That is however better than trying to figure out what is wrong and fixing it at this stage. I suppose I'll just hush about it, and count my lucky stars.:high-five:

Click the pics for a larger view, and as always I encourage you to comment, good or bad, I can't learn unless I realize I'm doing it wrong. Thanks everyone, Have a Smoking Weekend !!


Plant 1

PH out-6.4
PPM out-830
Height-12 1/2"
Grown in a wk-0
Water consumed in a wk-3 gallons
Fresh h2o PPM-173
Nutes given- Micro 20ml, Grow 20ml, Bloom 12ml, Hydroguard 8ml, in 4 gallons water
PH in-5.8
PPM in-812
PPM nutes-639
Days above dirt-59







Plant 2
PH out-6.2
PPM out-773
Height-11"
Grown in a wk-0
Water consumed in a wk-3 gallons
Fresh h2o PPM-176
Nutes given- Micro 20ml, Grow 20ml, Bloom 12ml, Hydroguard 8ml, in 4 gallons water
PH in-5.8
PPM in-842
PPM nutes-666
Days above dirt-58







Plant 3

PH out-6.0
PPM out-1020
Height-25"
Grown in a wk- 1 1/2"
Water consumed in a wk-3 1/4 gallons
Fresh h2o PPM-171
Nutes given- Micro 30ml, Grow 15ml, Bloom 52ml,Hydroguard 8ml, in 4 gallons water
PH in-5.8
PPM in-1240
PPM nutes-1069
Days above dirt-54









Plant 4

PH out-5.5
PPM out-954
Height-39 1/2"
Grown in a wk-0
Water consumed in a wk-4 1/4 gallons
Fresh h2o PPM-172
Nutes given- Micro 30ml, Grow 15ml, Bloom 52ml, Hydroguard 8ml, in 4 gallons water
PH in-5.8
PPM in-1240
PPM nutes-1068
Days above dirt-53







P.S. #4 is now too large/wide for me to bring her out of the tent alone safely. I don't want to have another breakage. All pics of her will be in the tent until harvest.
 
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