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PurpleLurple

Last seen Nov 17, 2022 | Joined Sep 30, 2021

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2021 was my first year growing! I threw 30 bagseeds in an enclosed outdoor garden with some raised beds and a pile of soil we had left over from prepping the garden. Out of those 30 seeds, three sprouted. I culled one male and grew one indica and one sativa females. The indica was in a 200 gallon raised bed, and the sativa grew in the pile of soil with my very terrible clay ground underneath it (poor drainage). I did not prune, I just let nature do it's thing and I supplemented with Fox Farms organic nutrients. The sativa is a little better than eight feet tall and still a couple weeks out from harvest, full of dense, sticky cheesy, old sock smelling buds. Notes for next year--plant only in raised beds and give s sativa plant lots of nitrogen when it first starts stretching during it's initial flowering phase. I did not do either and the top stretched out part of the sativa was nitrogen deficient for a spell until I got it corrected. With sooooo much rain this year in Michigan it was hard to get nutrients appropriately, at least to me. It rained for like six days straight and then I had to let it dry out before I gave it nutes. Before I could do that, it was freakin' raining again. Thankfully no mold issues...yet.
The indica has been gangbusters since the get go. Five feet tall, five feet around, and lots of skunky, sticky buds. It's just about ready! I had a branch break off in a deluge of rain, so I trimmed it, dried it and started a cure. It's very piney and somewhat floral but it's not cured well yet. I have been taking immature buds since then, just to see the difference in potency, look, feel, etc of this wonderful plant. It gets me a good high, but it's short-lived--lots of glassy trichomes.
I had some pest issues early summer, but ordered some nematodes for the soil and some predatory mites and I didn't see any more pest issues. Lots of natural green lacewings and real ladybugs, not those Japanese imposters, around my property. Birds eat insects off my weed plants like crazy. I live well in the country and I love it. It was a great learning experience and I've already ordered feminized seeds for next year, the wife and I are moving the garden and increasing it's size (it's going behind the garage, away from creepers' prying eyes). My plants are about 300 feet off the road and they look like evergreens from a distance, but they sure don't smell like evergreens!
I used this site a ton in my first pot growing endeavor and I use it almost daily to learn something else about weed. I love weed, man and growing it just makes it all that much sweeter. Thanks for listening and I will be posting here for years to come.

Sincerely,

PurpleLurple

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