First time Grower and Photos. From failure to thriving!

[Letsbelievein]

Yo! As most people do, All of my first posts were all panicking. I got brown algae before I even started because I was test running the system and didn’t think about grow lights hitting the water and thought I ruined my entire system. Fixed that, had some seedlings not make it, had calcium deficiencies that I didn’t know what it was. Temp and humidity issues and thought I had mites that turned out to be lint from my fan lol. Was over feeding and thinking it was light stress… broke a top and saved it by taping it….

Also pretty sure the reasons my plants on the left are smaller is because I didn’t realize my light got moved and was pointing at the right side lol.

And now, starting my third week in flowering, they’re past full recovery and into full thriving mode. Let me know what you think or any input id love to have it as I need to learn so I can grow better and expand next time! I LST and used a net at the start of flowering having zero clue what I was doing and just figured it out the best I could. My last hurdles are what and when to prune lower branches and bud sites, and how I’m going to successfully dry and cure. Been reading a ton and hope I can ride this out to the finish line the best I can!

Lastly, I keep a grow journal my wife made and documented everything that happened from temp/vpd/rez changes nutes ph etc. and it’s been super rewarding.

 

[Bdubs]

Looking good. You are in flower. I wouldn’t start my flowering timer until probably now. When those new growth are super tight and it’s just starting. You are 1 week in true flower.

 

[Letsbelievein]

Looking good. You are in flower. I wouldn’t start my flowering timer until probably now. When those new growth are super tight and it’s just starting. You are 1 week in true flower.

Thanks for that. So you’re saying if this strain says 9-11 week flowering period I would start that now? I flipped 2 Fridays ago on the timer. This would make sense as I found my “seedling” stage was longer than most places said and my “veg” didn’t start until 3 weeks after breaking ground.

 

[Bdubs]

Remember that if you trigger flower with no pre-flower coverage at both sides of the nodes, the actual flower timer is delayed until she becomes mature enough. So the timer needs to be delayed until the plant is mature enough for the transition.

 

[Bdubs]

Thanks for that. So you’re saying if this strain says 9-11 week flowering period I would start that now? I flipped 2 Fridays ago on the timer. This would make sense as I found my “seedling” stage was longer than most places said and my “veg” didn’t start until 3 weeks after breaking ground.

I would say you ended week 1 right now.

 

[Letsbelievein]

Thank you very much

 

[Bdubs]

Your time is right for veg. If you are going off time based flower trigger. If you were going by veg time to whatever plant wants, you would veg - and get her properly fed and worked up - until she shows pre flower. iMO - if you cannot get her to pre flower prior to flip, you have environment, nutrients, or lighting not proper for her to be mature for flower. ( it you can always force flower).

The size given the timeframe is depending on her health and growth during her veg time.

You start Veg time when you see your first set of True 5point leaves fully develop. Then you may start day 1. You must not account for the 2 week rooting phase of the plant when it breaks soil. So if you went 3 weeks “Veg” you may be referring to no veg or maybe a week of veg before your flip.

Typical veg time is 4-8 weeks. Or 7-11 weeks from germination. Then 9-10 weeks flowering time. 13-18 weeks depending.

So I think if you went 2 more and maybe even 3 more weeks you’d have had 4 weeks veg.

You are good though no problem.

P.s. Whatever you are feeding and whatever schedule, keep it up.

 

[Letsbelievein]

Nice, thanks for the thorough explanation. Reading all the info your first time is convoluted and overwhelming. I considered my seedling phase three weeks after breaking ground and ended up doing 5 weeks more so a total of 8 weeks breaking ground before I changed my timer. I feel like it worked out well but I think I may have forced flower before enough pre flowering as I was worried about space in my tent. Hoping everything works out!