GirlsGrow2
05-13-2013, 06:13 PM
I've posted a couple of times already and have been reading this forum on/off for awhile already now, but I figured it was about time that I introduced myself! My name's Kim and I've been involved with growing marijuana in some way or another for over three years now. The first attempt was with my brother-in-law as partner. He'd grown with a different partner very successfully for many, many years (got popped by the feds eventually because they stupidly got involved in other things), but after they parted ways and we started growing together, it became crystal clear who the brains of that operation had been. It wasn't my brother-in-law. :(
After struggling for over a year and never getting more than half an ounce per plant at harvest, we shut down. At that point, I wasn't involved other than occasionally watering and trimming when needed. Well, and crying my face off every time we weighed stuff. haha
Fast forward a year and I had the opportunity to grow with my brother-in-law's former partner. He's a friend of the family that we've all known for many, many years. Our first harvest was good, almost 3 oz. per plant after a 4 week veg and 6 week flower. After what I'd been through before, getting 3 ounces was like hearing angels singing. Then my partner was actually diagnosed with cancer and my fiance and I were left to handle the second crop on our own. We got less than half an ounce per plant after burning them early on in veg. They almost died and it was a horrible experience.
There's a TON of stuff I'm leaving out, but after a bunch of other stuff went down, I cut my fiance out of the picture and took things over myself. We're still together, he's just not in charge anymore. I guess I should've done that years ago, but hey, I had other things going on! I'm a tarot reader in my other life :)
Now I'm 100% in control of what's going on and things are looking good. I'm 6 days into flower in my original grow room. It's 15x12 or so and I've got six 1000 watt set ups with cooled hoods, proper ventilation and air flow, temp control, etc. We'd had CO2 for our first grow but had borrowed it and had to give it back, so we didn't have it for the second one. I just recently purchased one, so now we'll have CO2 for the flower room.
We're in the process of putting up a separate room for veg right next to the flower room. I've chosen to go with 600 watt cfls in there, four total sets with one 12 foot long shelf about five feet up. The first row sits on the floor and the lights are hung from the shelf. The walls aren't up yet, but we have fans and stuff all ready to go and it should be done this week.
I clone in an aeroponic cloner that has like 120 spots in it or so. I pruned and topped my current crop about 10 days ago and I had so many extra clones that I threw them into some trays. They all seem to be rooting well, I've only lost a few. I've got T5s over the cloner and trays.
I've struggled with spider mites, temperature probs, accidentally burning the plants by dropping the lights too low, etc. but I'm learning. I've gotten tons of great info from this forum and lots of other sites online. I've been online since the mid 90's when I was a teenager and I know it's a good way to make contacts too.
That's the biggest problem I've run into so far. I live in WA and I've got a script, etc. but can't seem to find anyone interested in what I've got. And it's not because it's bad or anything, our first stuff was beautiful, perfect....I couldn't even get anyone to look at it, even though they all said they would.
So that's me and where I'm at, in a nutshell. I'm enjoying the process A LOT more than I ever thought I would now that I've taken over and kinda sorta almost know what I'm doing. I'm the type of person that when I get into something, I really immerse myself in it intensely for as long as I need to in order to feel competent and that's what I'm doing now. Hoping to also connect with some local people maybe...who might be able to help me get my foot in the door, so to speak.
Thanks to everyone who's already helped me out by putting great info up here on this forum and those who answered anything I asked directly. I look forward to participating on here and seeing how much more I can learn! Here's to everyone's success. :thumbsup:
After struggling for over a year and never getting more than half an ounce per plant at harvest, we shut down. At that point, I wasn't involved other than occasionally watering and trimming when needed. Well, and crying my face off every time we weighed stuff. haha
Fast forward a year and I had the opportunity to grow with my brother-in-law's former partner. He's a friend of the family that we've all known for many, many years. Our first harvest was good, almost 3 oz. per plant after a 4 week veg and 6 week flower. After what I'd been through before, getting 3 ounces was like hearing angels singing. Then my partner was actually diagnosed with cancer and my fiance and I were left to handle the second crop on our own. We got less than half an ounce per plant after burning them early on in veg. They almost died and it was a horrible experience.
There's a TON of stuff I'm leaving out, but after a bunch of other stuff went down, I cut my fiance out of the picture and took things over myself. We're still together, he's just not in charge anymore. I guess I should've done that years ago, but hey, I had other things going on! I'm a tarot reader in my other life :)
Now I'm 100% in control of what's going on and things are looking good. I'm 6 days into flower in my original grow room. It's 15x12 or so and I've got six 1000 watt set ups with cooled hoods, proper ventilation and air flow, temp control, etc. We'd had CO2 for our first grow but had borrowed it and had to give it back, so we didn't have it for the second one. I just recently purchased one, so now we'll have CO2 for the flower room.
We're in the process of putting up a separate room for veg right next to the flower room. I've chosen to go with 600 watt cfls in there, four total sets with one 12 foot long shelf about five feet up. The first row sits on the floor and the lights are hung from the shelf. The walls aren't up yet, but we have fans and stuff all ready to go and it should be done this week.
I clone in an aeroponic cloner that has like 120 spots in it or so. I pruned and topped my current crop about 10 days ago and I had so many extra clones that I threw them into some trays. They all seem to be rooting well, I've only lost a few. I've got T5s over the cloner and trays.
I've struggled with spider mites, temperature probs, accidentally burning the plants by dropping the lights too low, etc. but I'm learning. I've gotten tons of great info from this forum and lots of other sites online. I've been online since the mid 90's when I was a teenager and I know it's a good way to make contacts too.
That's the biggest problem I've run into so far. I live in WA and I've got a script, etc. but can't seem to find anyone interested in what I've got. And it's not because it's bad or anything, our first stuff was beautiful, perfect....I couldn't even get anyone to look at it, even though they all said they would.
So that's me and where I'm at, in a nutshell. I'm enjoying the process A LOT more than I ever thought I would now that I've taken over and kinda sorta almost know what I'm doing. I'm the type of person that when I get into something, I really immerse myself in it intensely for as long as I need to in order to feel competent and that's what I'm doing now. Hoping to also connect with some local people maybe...who might be able to help me get my foot in the door, so to speak.
Thanks to everyone who's already helped me out by putting great info up here on this forum and those who answered anything I asked directly. I look forward to participating on here and seeing how much more I can learn! Here's to everyone's success. :thumbsup: