Orangeman's 1st log!

[orangeman]

Here are my babies today. Noticed a smell when I went down there earlier today and my heart dropped. Why? Because this is only the 3rd week and the smell is coming from only a few trichomes that seems to have formed on the bud site closest to the reflective material and getting a lot of light. Happy about it but not happy thinking about how bad it can smell in the coming weeks. Actually I wouldn't mind the house reeking of it but it can't for safety reasons. Gave it some nutes, I think I gave em both 1/2 tsp again, (I think) it's hard to tell because the nutes is muddy-like so it's hard to read what it says on the measuring cup when you have nutes smeared all on the shit lol. Sprayed them for the last time with pesticide since they aren't that filled in yet, sprayed em good and left door open with fan on to stop any heat problems. Since temps are high I keep fan on all the time now aimed at the light to keep it cool....de ja vu, I seen this whole point in my life before...anyways lol, there was a small bud helplessly trying to develop in-between a rope of mine and I tried to help it but 4 pistils fell off in the process and the bud looked sorta damaged. Hopefully it just develops into a weird bud and doesn't die on me. Either way it goes I'm not letting any of these buds just die off without sampling . I won't adjust light anymore, I'll just let the plants grow and see how they respond. If they don't like it I'll move it up more. 3 weeks, 2 days into flowering.

edit: btw is there any reason why there are pistils that seem reddish already?

[go toke up]

lookin fuckin great orangeman! keep up the good work!

[orangeman]

Yeah thanks, I just realized how much I was actually gonna have to smoke lol. As the flowering process went on at first I thought I wouldn't even have anything worth stashing (probably like only 10 grams) but now they are getting bigger and all and now the whole side of that room is filled up with flowers . I think I'm gonna be happy at the end of this thing . Also I don't know how long it takes for them to show how well they like the nutes you gave them but so far every since last night they still seem fine and didn't seem to mind the nutes so if they are doing fine and not showing me any deficiencies I'm guessing it'll be doing just fine. I don't think I ever gave them anything over 1/2 tsp. Too scared of an over fertilization. Too far into this to end up with that shit.

[r00tdoctor]

Dont worry about a few reddish pistils that happens , more and more will grow. Your girls are looking good orangeman I dont see any deficency's just make sure you dont starve them for flower nutes or it will make your yeild less then it could be. Theres a thin line between over and under fertilizing , heh.

[orangeman]

Lol yeah that's what I always worry about. Under fertilizing and over. But I see them (almost) every day so I'm sure if they were ever to be under fertilized I'd know it before it got out of hand. And they don't seem to be responding bad to the nutes I gave them so I guess they're fine. I'm not too sure if I'll give them any more nutes unless they seem to need it because they look fine to me.

[orangeman]

Sorta weird to try and figure out if you aren't looking at it in person but I really need to know, wtf is this? It doesn't look like a female flower, might not seem like anything unusual from where you're looking but in person it looks like a big ball of whitish green. It just doesn't look like anything I've seen before. That usually isn't what a hermie or seeded bud looks like is it? Also I think I seen a little bug on a pistil. Usually if they are easy to blow off doesn't that mean they're dead? I looked at it through microscope and it wasn't moving. I mean I did spray them yesterday and I think I did a good job. Hopefully it got rid of anything living on them.

Oh yeah I'm glad to see crystals starting to come in on the buds . The plant on the right is developing crystals a lot more than the one on the left but it's ok. Might have been dumb to believe they were all the same strain before but now I see that they are different, they look different in a way. Also how the hell do you guys keep focus with those microscopes looking at the trichomes? I keep shaking and shit. :wtf:

[orangeman]

Hopefully I can put two females in one ScroG screen. I know things will get tangled but I don't have that much space so next grow I'm gonna try to stuff two females under a screen and hope for the best lol. Now that I finally got a little bit of experience I see for my situation a ScroG grow would be best. I really hate that there is still small buds at the bottom that don't really get a lot of light. I'm also thinking about just cutting off all the buds that are ready when it's time and let the buds that didn't get that much light just a little bit more time to grow. I hear it works so we'll see. I just look at ScroG grows and it seems like there is no bud that grows that doesn't look the same. No big nice cola and little nuggets growing under it..all the buds look nice and big and equal. I wanna see what type of results I get.

[r00tdoctor]

A scrog in your space would work well , ill be waiting for your second shot at growing lol. Seems like are plants have been growing for ages already lol.

[orangeman]

Mm-hmm. It's been 4 months now. Way longer than I expected. Just imagine if I had let them vegetate longer. I'm glad I started flowering when I did. I had it all scheduled to be done at a certain date and things turned out EXACTLY how I wanted them to. The only things I hate about this grow is the heat problems, and the ventilation issues. But those are things I realized I was gonna have a problem with in the first place, I did want to fix it up but I can't, I can't put any holes in the walls because it just wouldn't work trust me. The things I DID learn about this grow was to never spray them too much with that pesticide, not to panic about roots like I was doing. I never realized every time I transplanted them they weren't even root bound yet...Also I'm never giving them any vegetating nutrients until they really have a deficiency showing.

I don't know it just seems like those growing nutrients really were too strong for the plants. I guess it was all the nitrogen. I dunno. The flowering nutes don't seem to affect them much though, they don't seem to mind it. Also I really believe the lights were a major problem to them at one point. Believe it or not but I COMPLETELY forgot about the lights for a minute in the grow. Yes, that means they were too close and I didn't even realize it. That's why I believe they had all those burns on them earlier in my grow when I sprayed them with pesticide like every day. They were too young for all that heat from the light. Also with the humidity panic, it really wasn't even a problem. I didn't realize humidity wasn't really a problem at that time in flowering. Something I guess I skipped over when I was reading about growing. Y'know when you're reading about Cannabis growing you never really pick up on certain things until you get your grow going and run into a certain problem and look for solutions to it. I love gaining knowledge about this man it's all exciting. I wish I had this much enthusiasm in school so I can hurry up and ge the fuck out of there lol.

When I transplant next time I'm gonna make sure that soil is totally gripped by the roots because every time I transplanted on this grow I had a break down because I always thought my plants were gonna die. You should have seen the job. Roots broke off, dirt was falling eeeeverywhere and the roots were just fucked. I'm seriously shocked I even made it this far, those transplants were rough. I was too focused on roots coming out of the bottom of the pots not even realizing they hadn't even filled out horizontally yet. I was just so paranoid by transplant because I had a bad experience with a transplant which resulted in the death of my young cannabis plant once before. With my plants now I realize that one flowering female is growing a bit faster than the other because one was flowering long before the other. I'm hoping that's why the calyxes on the other plant are swelling because God those things look big lol. I could be just exaggerating but I didn't know those things could swell so fast so early. One plant is starting to slowly produce crystals that are clear to the eye. The other one you have to look in a microscope to see them. I have a bud I have my eye on for testing. It's a smaller bud with a thin branch so I know it won't be that much so I'll take it off when it's all sugary for a sample lol. I know it's only the 3rd week (this Monday making it the 4th week from the switch to 12/12) but I'm glad there is no smell. I really don't want to speak too soon. I really don't even know if that little smell thing will work but I swear I hope I can keep the odor down. If it gets out of control things will get crazy I know it .

[horror business]

orangeman... good job on your grow so far. It's amazing to see your plants come along. It's also somewhat depressing, since I would have had two flowering plants right now, close to the same age as yours. But, I've got two Jack Herer seedlings now, I just can't wait for them to start being big. lol.

I'm glad your plants made it, as I remember when they looked terrible due to the pesticide burn. I also remember when they came back looking healthy. And now to see them bud, it's just amazing.

I'm glad there are other people my age that are as serious about cannabis as I am.

Peace,
horror business