I consider this journal done and the reason we write journals is to help and teach others and ourselves This was my first SCroG photo grow so instead of telling everyone how great of a grower I am and how awesome my grow was (both are very wrong) I am going to write a list of my FEK ups and lessons learned in hope of helping others
1. I let my plants veg to long I had 1 runt so I waited on the rest of the plants to add the net buy the time I filled the net I had a dense jungle of under growth
2. the stretch using a Scrog works better if you can have strains with the same growing specs I waited on other plants and My net was to full when the flower/stretch began and I lost a lot of valuable buds for lack of room dont grow sativas and indicia's together unless you know what to expect from each plant
3 any spots you see where flowers have very little light and will be larf get rid of them they are a waste of time and resources that the flowers can use that goes for above and below the net
4 NEVER ,NEVER, NEVER GOE INTO ANOTHER TENT without washing and changing clothes before you unzip your tent or open the door on your grow room. LESSON LEARNED THE HARD WAY My son called me and told me he had a plant morph and all his plants were covered in yellow powder. 2 days later I went to his house (over 10 miles away) I came home and checked my plants first thing. A part of me died when I found seeds 2 days before harvest. Remember nature is much stronger than us if they wanna make babie they will do anything, even cling to us and out clothes
5 STRESS dont stress your plants I did 2 things that my have caused the seed issue A. timer messed up left lights on for 36 hrs 1 time. B. look out for Light burn I had 1 cola I did not tie down far enough and it BURNT my bud badly.
check every plant I paid most of my attention to the front plant becuase it was hard to check the back 2 (my new tent will end that issue 360* access . I made all of these mistakes and they may have caused the seeds
6.the dry and the cure I planned 60/60/10 for my dry 60 degrees , 60% RH , 10 days well let me tell you Mary Jane is just like most women you can tell mary jane what her plan is and expect her to follow it. But she aint letting anyone tell her what to do Mary Jane does what she wants to do and when Mary Jane decides it's time. I waited 10 days and I knew they were close at day 8 but I said 10 day she said and did 8 days and Like most men I DIDNT LISTEN TO HER! so now she is sitting in Jars with 54% to 64%
7. if you are going to trim trim 1 time I trimmed all my buds buy hand trimming while they were wet I didnt trim my buds close because I wanted to dry slower So I hand trimmed before the hang and used a bowl trimer to have a pretty manicured buds so I got 4 ounces of high quality Shake with seeds 2 ozs should have stayed on the bud
I made other mistakes getting the perfect dry/trim/cure is the real key to growing top shelf pot.
now I did do some good things
1 if you use soil as a medium IMO the only way is GROW ORGANIC super soil Organic soil stops most lock out or deficiencys take good care of your Microbes good super soil will only let a plant intake what ever it needs no worrys about over feeding or nute burn
2. follow your grow Plan I swear By
GEO FLORA VEG AND BLOOM A TOP Feed nute they have a recommended grow plan start with Dynomyco, Terpinator and Massive Bloom 123 all designed to work together and are organic. I did add some other things I used Bud Candy and Terpinator during Veg I made Mik-rob organic tea and ved the girls 1 liter every 10 days
3.DONT TOUCH YOUR BUDS when you check your plants odds are you will touch your buds always wear rubber gloves
if you have grow for awhile and grow at least 4 plants a grow you will learn that pot farming is not only fun and rewarding but it is a lot of constant work Im 61 yrs old with pain issues it takes a lot out of you to sit down and trim for 6 hrs. mixing soil, filling buckets, watering your plant checking the PH and adding what you need can Take some time and gets tedious DONT GET LAZY + SHORT CUTS = SMALL BAD TASTING BLUNTS
#4 listen to what more experienced growers have to say Methods of growing weed is like BUTT HOLES everybody has one there is no one way to grow POT listen to the pros use what parts work for you and develop YOUR WAY with things that work but dont be to try new things Just dont do it mid grow sudden changes cause stress
I have a total yield 8 oz of good Bud 4 oz of shake and 2 oz of larf so a total of 14 OZ and I left a lot of weed on the table this grow. I need to work on keeping a more consistent canopy focus my bend and twisting and LST on weeks 1 thru 3 of flower During the stretch.
I hope this journal helped at least 1 person I will be starting a new perpetual journal for all my grows now on
So I am asking everyone who wants help or wants to help other to follow my new journal it is under construction for now have a lot of work to do this week for my next attempt and will try to have my journal by this weekend.
I ALSO THANK YOU FOR ALL OFF YOUR HELP AND TAKING TIME TO FOLLOW ME
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