First Grow

I went in tonight to check on my flowering girls and a HUGE red flag went up.


Pistles were dying back on Gia!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :wtf:


I took a close look at her underside,... and sure as hell I missed a sack and that little fucker was wide open and dangling it's junk out there for the world to suck up! :mad:


I'm not gonna put up with heavily seeded meds for my wife, so Gia got cut down tonight, the harvest is WAY early and most of the trichs are just starting to turn cloudy from clear, and there obviously wasn't a chance to flush nutes out :(

It'll be junk smoke for sure, but she wanted me to manicure it and dry it out anyway so it's in a drying box now.




Diana has a few pistles that are brown, but they're mainly in the lower buds, and are few and far between,... I'll keep an eye on her. If she's not heavily pollinated I'll let her mature and keep the seeds for future grows.

Here's a few picks of my epic failure,... need to get back in the basement and comb over Diana.:detective1:


Pic 1: The Evil sack! :mad:

Pic 2: Gia after trimming all the fan leaves,... I've since cut the branches off the main stem, but no pics of that or the impromptu drying box..... Yes that is a AA battery for size comparison,.... not a very good yeild :(

Ew. Hermie.

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Originally Posted by neceros

Ew. Hermie.

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What bugs me is it only happened on the lowest branches of both plants that are in flower,..... maybe it was the stress that they were under when I cut them from mom, All I can say is FUCK!!!!! :mad:

The top of the branch the male sack was on was ALL girl and looking great!!!!! (3rd branch up from the bottom in the 2nd pic)



Both my 2 Vegging clones are showing 100% female pre-flowers, just like mom is.... so hopefully when they go under 12/12 for round 2 this won't be a problem.:hippy:

Diana is so far looking like she's only got a couple pollenated flowers, and mostly down low, I haven't found any browning pistles on the top of the plant.

I think I'll be able to let her run her course.




Pic 1: The whole plant,... I gave up trying to take pic's under the HPS so this is actually on the MH side and the background is the light barrier to the 12/12 HPS side. (P.S. the pic was taken during "Daytime" for the HPS side, just moved the plant under more camera friendly light for a couple minuets. ;) )
Pic 2: Diana's top
Pic 3: one of the middle buds showing nice frosting.
Pic 4: one of the lowest buds, there seems to be a lot of pistle die back here and I suspect this bud will be heavy on the seeds when it matures.

The wife decided that we will let the seeded buds mature and she'll either pick them out of the finished product or we will have to catch them IF they fall before harvest.


No new pics tonight since I've quarantined the grow room due to a mite outbreak on the houseplants in the front window! :eek: (one floor above the grow room, and separated by about a 100 foot walk thru the house and down the stairs....... Im cutting the carpet (leaving bare wood(stairs) then concrete) and spraying the walkway with Neem tonight)



My Outdoor plant is still mite free,... which is kinda surprising/amusing given her environment.

Should still have about a month or so before that one kicks into flower..... I HOPE she finishes up before the first freeze,.... it'll be close by the weather models.

I'm just not a fan of outdoor grows. Seems to limited. Hope it goes well for you.

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Originally Posted by neceros

I'm just not a fan of outdoor grows. Seems to limited. Hope it goes well for you.

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Thanks for stopping by, and I really hope so too!:hippy: but it all depends on what part of the world your in, check this thread out....

http://boards.cannabis.com/grow-log/...-grow-log.html




This is my first grow, (since I was a teenager, but this one is LEGAL! :D :thumbsup: ) and as such is a complete experiment for me.


All I can say about my outdoor plant vs my indoor plants, is WOW the outside plant has MUCH bigger leaves, (tho node spacing is slightly farther apart)

She's quite a bit more stinky too even tho she's still veging, ( showing lots of pre-flowers/pistles but not budding)

And aside from inspection for mites and an occasional feeding has been completely maintenance free. (haven't watered thanks to natural watering via rain, and overspray from my lawn's sprinkler system)


Outdoors has it's issues for sure,... but nature has a greater plan for it's creations,.... and man has a HELLUVA time recreating that in what would otherwise be complete darkness! ;)

Hmmmmm,... for my latitude at summer solstice I should only be getting 14.8 hours of daylight,... as of today 14.5 hours,... No flowers on my outdoor plant, but pre-flowers with pistles all over the place,... ohh and the pre-flowers are about 2x the size of the preflowers on my indoor plants as well! :wtf:


I'll try and take some detailed pics of the outdoor plant tomorrow.

Pics of the indoor vs outdoor grows, both plants were cut from the same mother, the outdoor has been veging for a couple months, while the indoor just over one month, but the indoor is typical of the growth under the lights.

Outdoor was planted in 3 gallons of happy frog and the rest of the pot is generic "Topsoil", has never received more than 15 hours of light a day, and gets watered city tap from the lawns sprinkler system (Over spray, not directly, with a ph of around 8 ) and rainwater when a storm rolls thru, I'll dump excess nute water on her when I feed the indoor plants, but it's still pretty close to the Feed water water schedule.

Indoor plants are potted in Ocean forrest, getting 18/6 light schedule, and Ph'ed water with a feeding every 3rd watering


Pic 1: Outdoor fan leaf, just shy of 6" across
Pic 2: Outdoor pre-flower right around 3mm
Pic 3: Indoor Fan leaf about 2.5" across (the thermometer in the background is on "Clock" display, the temps are NOT over 100*!! ;) )
Pic 4: Indoor pre-flower 1mm


I"m not complaining, and don't really think there's any problem inside, just interesting comparison. I'm open to suggestions on improvements inside tho.:cool:

Step away from the plants, and GO TO WORK!! :lol5:

How are those cuttings??