First of all, welcome to the farm!!
Second of all, screw you for waltzing in here with that array of beautiful looking plants and making my tiny-tent DWC grow look like a joke!
Does your Shih Tzu have a bit of poodle in her lineage? (fellow Shih Tzu owner)
Looks like things are going great for you. Nice work!!!
You’re close, she is Shih and bichon. She is a mess. She thinks she is a Jack Russell, and not in a good way.
Thanks for all your kind words, but I bit off more than I can chew. I actually had one plant that I grew after having five really nice plants that were stolen in June of 1983. We had just put them in the ground after being in 5 gal buckets. Right after we put them in the ground we got word that the sheriffs Dept thought we had this major grow, so my buddy went down in storm and pulled them back out of the ground and parked his truck in his folks garage. I was gone that weekend, but the state drug task force and local DEA landed a black hawk almost on my grandfathers tomato garden, and storm the place like we were in El Chopo’s crew. That was 1983. A few years later I managed to not kill this one.
This is an old instant Polaroid from around 86
Even though is my first grow, the guys at the OTS helped me tremendously. They know who they are. You could say I’m following the Growing For Dummies program.
Fox Farm
Trio, and dirt. I have well water that is good and bad. It runs 7.4 ish every second of the day so I know exactly how much down to use, but it’s hard with lots of nasty sediment. I’m still on a septic tank and well. I was taught to be a Nazi about Ph and ppm, so maybe that’s some of it.
I started using CannaBoost and TerraFlores last week and it’s amazing how quick the Boost works. The guys at the grow shop here turned me on to it. They said CannaBoost, although expensive, is the one single product that people always come back for. I’m very early in flower, so what I’m seeing might be the TerraFlores. At least to my inexperienced eye it has.
My first tent project will start as soon as I’ll pull this stuff out of “the barn” so to speak. These were started under a little
HLG V2 99 watt LED that I purchased for that purpose, but I kept killing everything. By the time I figured out what was causing them to stretch, flop over and croak, I was out of seeds, it was early April and
flu was shutting the world down. I had 3 Bluedreamatics and one made it. I started with 10 GG4’s and three made it, 3 24k from Crop King that are in one 7 gal pot. And the bag seeds that made it. Oh, and the BDAuto is sharing a 7 gal fab container a Bubba Kush.
After struggling to get anything to either germinate or live once it was in the dirt, I panicked and germinated every seed I had left.
My bride was up my butt about having too many plants, so that’s another reason why 5 plants are sharing two pots. Based on how I got everything to live, I didn’t think I bring five plants to harvest.
I guess the compromise for sharing pots is, although they were never going to reach their full potential, at least they’re alive and doing well- for now.
So yea, everything has gone surprisingly well, but for obvious reasons it’s stressful. I’ve haven’t worked this hard in years. All the flushing, testing, watering, testing, measuring, transplanting, flushing, rinse repeat is a PITA!
I can see why a lot of you guys are running hydro gear, coco, and automation. I’m sure I’ll try it at some point. Anymore than five plants is too many for a novice. It’s just too much unless you’re out in the country with good security.
You guys know how intimidating this is at first. I went from laying in bed thinking, “damn, I’m into this project $2,000 when I budgeted $1000, and I can’t get a seed to pop!” to “OMG!!WTF am I going to do with all this shit?”
I’m guessing what’s coming next is, “please god give me the ability to get this thing to the finish line without mold, bud rot, critters, bugs, or theft.”
It will get easier, but my hats off to the old hands that grew without the internet and all the resources that are out there. I have to say this too, all the technology and growing techniques have changed the industry and we’re just scratching the surface, but there’s no substitute for experience. I’m fortunate that I can spend as much time as I need to on them, and if I have an issue, it’s as easy as a google search, and having the ability to hop on here or one of the other sites and get and answer from folks that know what it takes is priceless. As an old pot head, I feel very blessed.
Thanks again for having me!
