My First Grow Or A Brown Thumb Account Of Events

[BTzGrow]

A little updating for this fine San Diego Morning. First a picture from yesterday the 25th, just to keep up with housekeeping:

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 26, 2018

Pushing it out

Then it's feeding time again on a beautiful San Diego morning. I take out of the tent for a breather and it gives me a chance to take a closer look under the skirts and see how healthy the plant is. Also taking outside allows me to dump and measure the runoff. One gallon in a pint out.

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 26, 2018

Outside enjoying Sunny San Diego Weather

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 26, 2018

Outside enjoying Sunny San Diego Weather

 

[DonChiefums20]

A little updating for this fine San Diego Morning. First a picture from yesterday the 25th, just to keep up with housekeeping:

Feb25Growth.jpg

• BTzGrow
• Feb 26, 2018

Pushing it out

Then it's feeding time again on a beautiful San Diego morning. I take out of the tent for a breather and it gives me a chance to take a closer look under the skirts and see how healthy the plant is. Also taking outside allows me to dump and measure the runoff. One gallon in a pint out.

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 26, 2018

Outside enjoying Sunny San Diego Weather

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 26, 2018

Outside enjoying Sunny San Diego Weather

Looking nice man do you take it out every time you water/feed? Just seems like a lot work outing it back under the scrog

 

[BTzGrow]

At this point my screen bars just move up and down as I like and I can raise the screen/net and slide plant out for watering. It's really easy in the moment and make it easier to drain the runoff. I'm sure that when I flip to Flower and those buds start running for the roof it will be a whole different process of watering in place.

 

[BTzGrow]

Photo Update from last evening Feb 27 18:

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 28, 2018

 

[BTzGrow]

So, This "dude" wandered into my grow. Had to join him in the 10 Day-Week of the Hang Over celebration.

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 28, 2018

He said he would be around for the duration.

 

[BTzGrow]

Came home tonight to this "dude" just hanging out in my grow, and damn it if he'd started without me.

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 28, 2018

So I mix up a Caucasian, Packed a bowl and joined him

 

[BTzGrow]

March 1st Growth, will need to do a water feeding a little later. Just thought I would add three photos early on. I started this plant almost 3 months ago. The most remarkable growth has been since I added the Perfect Sun Mini and also started feeding nutes about a month ago.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 1, 2018

March 1st Growth

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 1, 2018

March 1st Growth

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 1, 2018

March 1st Growth

 

[BTzGrow]

Feeding time I had a little help with the process. The Dude hug around to make sure I watered correctly.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 1, 2018

The Dude Abides

 

[1stgrow2018]

looking really good!

 

[BTzGrow]

About once a week I have been doing a little measure to see how she's growing. Last two times were 14 and 16 inches. Today the tops are right at 24" and the rest are a strong 20plus. That's since the last measure about a week ago. Think I'll have to get a new stick for the next measurement.

Measuring stick

• BTzGrow
• Mar 1, 2018

About once a week I have been doing a little measure to see how thing grow. Last two times were...

While I'm at it, I like to take a peek under the skirts. I like my girls nice and thick in all the right places.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 1, 2018

I always like to include an under the skirt look from time to time to see how thick she is.

Until tomorrow, may the Dude Abide.

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• BTzGrow
• Feb 28, 2018

 

[BTzGrow]

Didn't post on Friday, came home after midnight this morning to see some curling and white between the ribs.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 3, 2018

Curling/Taco effect with white Spots/Ribs

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 3, 2018

Curling/Taco effect with white Spots/Ribs

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 3, 2018

Curling/Taco effect with white Spots/Ribs

Close as I can figure in the moment and with the wise counsel of my brother FelipeBlu I feel this might be light stress. So I moved my dual Perfect Sun Mini's which basically have the power of a PS500 up 8 inches and just in case did a 5 gallon flush with straight tap water at 7.6pH and then a regular feed of 1 gallon with my normal nutes. 2.5 teaspoons each of Dyan Gro Protek and Grow. I had been considering doing the flip early this next week but will wait until this issue resolves before changing anything.

 

[BTzGrow]

Well, it turns out my pH Pen was not working correctly and I have not once but now twice over dosed my poor little plant with an extremely low pH feed. No telling how low it actually was. I will do another flush with about 30-50% runoff and with my new very expensive guaranteed pH pen feed a minor dose of nutes with a fairly neutral pH water. Hope for the best in this moment.

 

[BTzGrow]

March 5th and things seem to be not so dire. Whew!!! I took the plant out and spent some time doing some last minute LST with tying down and spreading out the plant in preparation for Flower. I did some defol of the leaves that looked like hell from the pH damage. Fortuately it appears it wasn't as bad as perhaps it could have been.
Here's some picture from all four angles of what I hope will be a huge lady in the room.

LST'd Flower Prep

• BTzGrow
• Mar 5, 2018

LST'd Flower Prep

• BTzGrow
• Mar 5, 2018

LST'd Flower Prep

• BTzGrow
• Mar 5, 2018

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 5, 2018

LST'd Flower Prep

I feel the days of moving in and out of the tent have come to a close. Barely fits as it is now. going to really start letting everything start gravitation toward the roof. Will do the next feed with a pre-Bloom solution of Dyna Gro Bloom and then do a flip perhaps by late weekend.

 

[BTzGrow]

March 6th, Day of the Dude is coming to a close. A check in with my plant and it continues to reach for the sky. I'm feeling the flip is just about upon us.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 6, 2018

March6thGrowth

Here's a close up of some great potential sexing site's, just not seeing what I'd like to see.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 6, 2018

Still not sure of the sex of this plant.

 

[BTzGrow]

Well, For my first attempt I wanted to achieve a sea of green. I feel I made it. I want to get at least one pre-flower feed in preparation before actually switching over to a 14/10 schedule. Still waiting for the real soaking this plant took with a couple of back to back flushing over the weekend. Learned a very valuable lesson about pH meters and not trusting intuition when something doesn't feel right.

 

[BTzGrow]

March 7th Feeding Time at the Zoo. After a complete drowning two days in a row over the weekend to flush out the extremely low ph that was put in, the plant seems to be thirsty and took an entire gallon with only 15oz of runoff. The runoff was under 5.5 on my litmus tapes.(I won't use my good meter to measure runoff anymore).

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 7, 2018

March7thGrowth

I adjusted/tightened and moved over some of the LST ties I had finally put into play on Monday, she(hopefully) is really spread wide open to receive extra light on the inside down low.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 7, 2018

Plant Ties Extraordinary

I'm going to say I really like these plant ties, they are so soft and yet hold very will without a lot of twisting and such. I just make a small bend on one end and play out some slack. Then move the tie to a point that the stem is where I want and insert a safety pin, cut the tie about an inch longer and then slide through the pin and bend. Little to no waste, and I'm thinking they will be very easy to remove and reuse.

 

[BTzGrow]

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 7, 2018

Opps!!!

Opps!!! Damn I hate when that Sh*t happens. Apparently between doing some late LST and my screen I cause more than enough stress to split the primary 5th node that I originally had topped above. The branches are very strong and thick, but apparently the joint between is vulnerable. I put a tie between the two branches until I could get back home from work and pay real attention to the situation. Brother FelipeBlu has suggested putting a sterile bandaid over the break and then taping around the trunk with electrical tape. Photo might follow, depends on how bad a job and how nasty it looks.

 

[BTzGrow]

Pulled out some band-Aids and pull some more slack out of the break with the tie. Covered across the top first and then wrapped two around the side 180 from each other. I figure as hard as it is to get these band-Aids off my, they should hold just fine. FelipeBlu told me it might just respond similarly to what happens when you super crop a branch. Big Fat Knuckle and maybe bigger buds. Fingers Crossed

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 7, 2018

Band-aid over

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 7, 2018

Two band-aids around.

 

[BTzGrow]

I made an executive choice today and have set my light time for a 12/12 flip starting tonight at 10pm off and back on at 10am in the morning. Sometimes I get home later and want to check on progress, and I certainly sleep in. My understand is that there should be not light disturbance at all during the lights out time. Though I wonder what plants do in the flower stage with lightening. Anyway, after the breaking action yesterday all seems in the moment to be healthy, so I'm pulling the switch and going with a flip.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 8, 2018

Mar 8th Growth

The really tall branch/growth on the right side is actually the tip of the branch/stem that broke earlier yesterday.

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• BTzGrow
• Mar 8, 2018

March 8th Growth

Measured distance between the tallest point in this moment to the highest I can adjust my light is approximately 36 inches. The PS-500 distance guide is as follows "Flowering plants: Stay at 2 feet away until you only have 3 weeks left. Take that time to slowly lower the light ever few days, until you are 18 inches away from the tops of the plants. You want the last 2 weeks to be at 18 inches away to get the most dense, large, frosty nugs"
So I only have 18" max to play with during stretch and the entire flowering stage. It could be tight. This is what preempted me to flip now. I really can't afford to much more growth during the veg stage. Besides I have at least 24 major bud sites in the moment.

 

[BTzGrow]

Lesson's learned from the break yesterday. Start the passive LST with tying things down much earlier on while they are still so very pliable. I feel the SCROG is a valuable technique however relying on it only and then the moving in and out of the tent has not been a good thing. Perhaps LST tying down early on then move towards the SCROG when the veg stage is maturing and beginning to need some extra support. Of course if I go with Hempy Pot Growing and choose to have multiple plants in my small space I really won't need either one, unless I go with it after the flower flip and use it for support.