Mrs. Greenjeans' first ever grow

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Got a 16 oz bottle of Wilt-Pruf concentrate for 4.99 today! SCORE! You mix it 10 to 1 for cuttings and transplants.

[FreeVenice]

your plants look about the same age as mine, but I am only working with one plant, and treating it like a Bonzi tree. Your grow area even looks the same, I'm about to update my 420 thread. I don't really have the whole cloneing thing down, you should see the size of the one I accedently cut. Got any pointers for a newby?

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Hi Free Venice. Thanks for stopping by.
I would love to help, but I'm a noob my ownself. This is the first time I've ever grown cannabis. I'll come check out your thread though.

[FreeVenice]

Thanks, this isn't my first, but it's the first time I concentrated on one plant. It's tuffer when you give to much attention. . .

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Stupid Pat has grown up into the light. One of her leaves has light chlorosis and is limp and hanging. Poor Lily is still short, even though I raised her pot up on a box.
I have to physically pull them out tonight, and make some adjustments. I'm going to tie Pat back down. She's just out of control, and raising the light in the present setup is difficult, to put it mildly.

Watering tonight too, no nutes, just H20, molasses and epsom salts.

Sprayed the clones with Wilt Pruf the other night. (Did I already mention this?) anyway, they are doing well so far. Very green and looking just like they did two days ago when I cut them. In other words, they haven't discolored, or gone wilty or anything negative. :thumbsup: I can't wait til they root! I'll be so excited. Then I have to beg for money to buy some Fox Farms dirt.

In non-cannabis news, I have to repot one of our ordinary houseplants, let's see, what kind is it...a gold cappella schefflera. We got this at Home Depot cause it was cheap. 10 bucks for a nice big plant that we figured would look nice in our new home. We bought a golden pothos too. We think plants make a house look like home. Well the damn thing is sick and shocky. Leaves falling off like mad. So I'm going to repot it tonight, spray it with Wilt Pruf, and put one of my fluros on it, since it's been sitting in a dim corner ever since we brought it home. I hate moving. We've been so busy it seems like we don't have time for squat.

[Bree1978]

I have a dwarf schefflera.....you can bonsai these and air layer them!!! When I moved mine, I put 15w of light over it because it was used to a lot of light (which they like) It helped immensely. Have a great morn, Mrs G. :jointsmile: Bree

[stinkyattic]

Hey greenjeans... mashed potatoes checking in...
Check that your schefflera isn't way too wet. In my experience with those things they seem to dislike being soggy.
I noticed your main man has joined us.. wOOtles!!!

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

I have a dwarf schefflera.....you can bonsai these and air layer them!!! When I moved mine, I put 15w of light over it because it was used to a lot of light (which they like) It helped immensely. Have a great morn, Mrs G. :jointsmile: Bree

Thanks Bree! Good to see you. I miss you ladies on the weekends. And yes, it likes the light.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Hey greenjeans... mashed potatoes checking in...
Check that your schefflera isn't way too wet. In my experience with those things they seem to dislike being soggy.
I noticed your main man has joined us.. wOOtles!!!

LOL! Mmmm, gravy...

Speaking of wet, yep, I think one of the kids "helped" mama by watering the plant. When I looked in the pot it was standing in an inch of water, and smelled like sulfur. But that's not all. It was so potbound, that the roots had actually grown up out of the pot and wrapped around the base of the plant like a bird's nest. What I thought was a fancy decorator wicker planter was, in fact, plant roots. I trimmed them, and scored the rootball to help it break free. If it lives, I'll be impressed. I pruned it too. In for a penny, in for a pound.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

I BROKE PAT!
As mentioned, she had gotten so far out of pocket, that I was going to tie her back down. Well I never made it that far. As I was taking her out of the closet, she bumped her head on the hood of the light, and bent! The top 6 inches just went "doink" at a 90 degree angle. Luckily, she didn't snap clean through. I would have cried, because that's the biggest cola on her. So I just sort of gingerly puuussshhhed her head back upright, and left her the hell alone, only bothering her to give her a drinkypoo. She's holding her head up on her own though, so that's good.

I still don't know what to do about getting her away from the light though. I may have to attach a string farther down on her stem, and just sort of lean her away. I'm kind of at a loss. Let me take a picture, maybe someone else will have an idea.


***time passes***
Oh yeah, she is 27 and 1/4" tall from dirt to tip, and what, 3 weeks into an only god knows how lengthy flowering cycle. This was anonymous bagseed, so I have no idea what strain she is or anything, only that she looks to be sativa dominant. With my luck, I got hold of some strain that's best suited to outdoor growing by swarthy men in camoflage, who have all the room in the world to grow a 10 foot plant with a decade long flowering time. hmph.

Oh right then, this is supposed to be a grow log, not a bitchfest. They both took 3 quarts of water. I suspect I have a manganese deficiency. Correction, I suspect I have a manganese lockout, caused by a surplus of magnesium. Of course, I came to this conclusion after I had watered them with a dose of epsom salts and molasses. Aaaannnd, my soil pH is 6.6. Now, my water pH is frigging 8. So now I need to beg for money for some adjuster. But the furnace in our new house doesn't seem to be working. So I think getting money for pH Down may be challenging. I would borrow it from my mom, but I don't really want to tell her I need it because my pot plants need help LOL! Argh. This is becoming a frustrating week.

That's all for now. Here's the picture of Pat trying to escape through the roof.:wtf: