Quote Originally Posted by emilya
Glad you stopped by StoneMeadow! I hope you have enjoyed reading about the journey I have taken here. I have learned so much in the last 4 months. Now you know my secret... I'm betting you have many many years of experience over me. After reading my journey to get to this point, now you can see my fascination to see someone like you with so much practical experience growing fruit and vegetables, now starting to grow a weed. And not just that, but starting in Miracle Grow too! The scientist in me can not resist watching how this goes!
Well, I don't know that I have "many, many years" of experience over you, and certainly not with medijuana, where I am on my first grow ever. It took a few days, but I have now read all the way through your thread. I learned lots (as I'm confident most other readers did...). Certainly enough to know that I will be sticking with clones for the foreseeable future...

I grew up in a farming family and have 5 decades of gardening and raising critters. If nothing else, that gives me a certain reserve of patience and a lack of emotional attachment to particular plants and/or processes. For instance, although it doesn't say why I tranplanted my #4 clone an extra time on my thread, it's because I built a DWC for it to run in parallel with the soil grows. My DWC setup and feeding schedule had worked well with other plants in my sunroom, but #4 started showing signs of nitrogen deficiency within a day or so. When it didn't come around promptly, I unceremoniously yanked it out and put it in soil, where it's recovering nicely and catching up to its sisters.

One big surprise for me is how fast these plants grow. A couple of my girls have burn spots from where they grew an inch or more overnight to reach up and touch hot bulbs/reflectors. Tomatoes, collards and such don't do that in my experience, so I'm having to adjust my expectations. And if you are the archtypical "helicopter mom" to your plants, I am the opposite...a practical farmer who checks them occasionally, but doesn't fuss over them.

At this stage of my experience I also don't spend too much time trying to optimize or too tightly control the variables of light, air, water and soil. I just give them the basics and let their natural inclination to grow like weeds take over from there. That said, it's been fun to read your grow log, and pour over your detailed records and analysis. Like I said, I learned lots and enjoyed it. I hope you have a good enough harvest to keep yourself motivated to do it again!
StoneMeadow Reviewed by StoneMeadow on . Emmies Grow Log - White Widow Grow Log (pics coming when I get the ability to post them) 12/06 - Started germination 12/09 - 10 5/5 seeds germinated and transplanted to 6? pots. Light set to 24/0. Light is bare minimum at this point, 4? shop light with standard grow bulbs from hardware store. Ordered $500 of new lights online. 12/13 ?? got programmable thermostat and light timer today, now set to 77° day, 70° night. Also set light timer for 18/6 and added a fan to the closet to evenly distribute heat Rating: 5