First Grow, 500$ and a dream

I am now 3 and a half weeks into flowering and the plants are looking great. It seems however that most of the leafs have died underneath the "Canopy" of the LST style grow. I have been cleaning out large handfuls everyday. The top looks very health whoever so I am guessing that this is just a natural part of a LST grow. My buds are large and healthy looking, some of them even sparkle like they have snow on them. One in particular, my largest of the bunch is floresent red! it looks really cool. I have been feading them full strength 5 30 5 bloom nutes with Granulated sugar for extra carbon. They are thirsty plants and like to be waterd every 3 to 4 days. Picture time, and since i havnt posted in a while it will be alot ^_^.


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Red bud

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Average bud

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Dieing yellowing base ( Natural for flowering?)

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yeah, Dying of lower fans is normal. Whats not normal is to have one bud who's hairs have turned so red so early. That may be stress that caused those red hairs.
Red hairs will naturally start showing up now, But it should be uniform and start the same on all buds of the same plant.
Other than that, can't argue with success. Looks freakin awesome. Your gonna have some very nice buds when this finishes.
Now I'm gonna press you about the Humidity meter. Where is it?? Don't think you can just wing-it without one. Those look to be indica dominant, That means dense buds. That means that a little tiny bit of bud rot will ruin your entire crop. With those lights I'm gonna guess that the air is dry in that cab. But thats just a guess. If your humidity is rising above 60% at night(usually the time it goes up) your in big trouble soon.
Get back to me Joe. Please have a humidity meter when you do. :thumbsup:

Ok i bought a digital humidity meter and it reads 29percent humidity. I will check what the humidity is at night, but it is winter and very dry in canada. What should the humidity be in my cab?

I'm not sure but i think that i saw in another thread for veg 55-70 and flower 55-45 check that tho cause I'm not sure

Thats fantastic man(29%). If you can keep it under say 50% at night, That would be good. My experience tells me that lower humidity means more crystals. There could be problems with too low humidity. But Where I am, Never had that worry.
Check with some fellow Canadians to see what your concerns should be. But every good grower is equipped with a humidity meter. Great job so far. I foresee a happy harvest.

Hey Joe,
Just checkin with ya. Hows that red bud lookin??

Well its been 4 and a half weeks into flowering and the plants were looking really yellow. The upper fan leafs started to turn yellow and look like they were about to fall off.I wanted to flower my plants for another 4 weeks if possible to maximize the yield, so i gave them a large dose of Nitrogen. This has greened them up enought that they dont look so sick. I took off a bud and microwaved it with damp paper towels. The smoke wasnt as harsh as i thought it would be, and it gave me a nice cerebral high. Im going to sample it every 2 weeks to find out when it would be best to harvest it.


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Im super stoned as im typing this, I cant stop smiling cause the high is so good.

lookin real nice:thumbsup:

alright joe, time to hit radioshack. Get yourself a hand microscope. it'll be about $10. The one I got was illuminated, I'll post you a pic shortly. Long story short its a 60*-100* micro. Its gonna show you these.

Well i am now over 5 weeks into flowering and I havnt really had any problems with my plants lately. My plants have been stressed alot from temperatures, now that winter is fully here. I left my window open and the temperature swung from 13degress celcius up to 38 degress celcius. They look fine though and that was 4 days ago. I have not been able to get out to radio shack to buy a microscope, but I have tried to improvise with my camera zoom and a 10x mag loop. The pistils still look pretty clear, so im going to have to keep on flowering till they cloud up. Humidity has been stable at 25percent day and night and the temperatures im my closet are usually in the mid 90's in Fahrenheit. I know that is pretty high, but I cannot open my window to cool the room or the pipes in my place will freeze and burst.

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Is there no way you could ducked something for fresh air?
If you can continue to take pics like #4 here, You could get by without the scope. FYI those are trichomes in that pic and not pistils. Your pistils should be turning red/brown by now, They are the hairs everywhere.
Man thats lookin great :thumbsup: . Rep to you, even if you got it shutoff.

looking real good keep it up can't wait to see what ur yield looks like

well im now 7 weeks into flowering and the plants are looking great. They are fat and heavy and the bigger cola's are starting to bend under there own weight. Most of the pistils are red and brown and white and all the tichromes are cloudy. Im not sure if I should harvest my plants yet. I Would like afew opinions before I pull out the knife tommorow and cut everything down :)


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i would say they are ready to come down if the tricromes are cloady and looks like u got over 70 % of your hairs turning or turned orange. looking great though :) good lucky with the harvest

Wait! Wait until most or all the Trichomes are Amber, before you chop her.

OMFG, OMFG, OMFG. that is 1 kick ass lookein CFL grow.

fucking a...looking good dude...keep up the good work

nice looking grow :thumbsup:...keep it up

Thanks guy, it took alot of time and effort and research to get to this point ;-). Im pretty sure im going to harvest this tonight, I like the more cerebral highs that a earlier harvest will provide.

Wow this looks like a great harvest...it must be very rewarding to see all your hard work develop then finally be able to smoke it...I am just setting up now for my first grow, it will be similar to yours...i have been reading journals and im gettin really excited to get started...as soon as i get back from christmas holidays i can start germination...right now ive got my cab built and wired and vented and im letting it run on 24h to see if i can keep the temperature good or if i need more venting...thought that would be better than trying to fix it all as the plants are trying to grow....January 3rd cant come fast enough!

Nice going, JoeShmoe.
I pulled early last grow because we like a heady high also. I really works well like that. We were pleased.

This grow I'm going to pull some earlier but most of them later to impress the friends. I should start pulling a couple of plants in a week and these should be still some clears and the rest when they are mostly rusty colored. maybe in three more weeks.

Here's the last grow log harvest.
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Shov

fuckn sweat as:smokin: