First time grow in zone 9b, lets learn from my mistakes

[cbrians]

Hey everyone!

I’ve been positing off and on for a few months but I wanted to get all my thoughts in one spot. I will probably tag all my other posts here in case someone wants to surprise me and be interested.

Second point of this is to hopefully help some new growers like myself learn things that can and can’t work, and that cannabis is pretty damn resilient. I don’t know much but I am very familiar with feeling absolutely lost on growing.

What I’ve learned this year by doing it wrong;

-you can’t take seedlings from your window sill to a green house and expect them to be okay. They need to adapt.

-if you top you cannabis and cut off the new shoots that YOU AREN’T SUPPOSED TO CUT OFF your plant will still grow. Might be a little sling shot looking but it will grow.

-140 degree green house is too hot lol

- boy plants are bad

-you can drown your plants pretty easily

What I’ve learned from doing it wrong;

-Weed is fucking resilient. Even with all the fuck ups I’ve done I have six girls going strong.

These are my girls as of today, on the backside of the green house cuz it’s fucking hot. Just transplanted to final 30 gallon pots in a soil blend that I basically freestyled

 

[cbrians]

Got a little scissor happy

Absolutely 💀 My concern is that I topped it, then topped the two little growths. Just wanna know if I did any major damage that I should try to correct cuz they aren’t growing back from those brown scabs in the picture.

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this is the one where I went all edward scissorhands

 

[cbrians]

Rookie outdoor grow in hollister ca

Alright let me lead with this; I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m not trying to get all crazy with the ph and the nutes and what note. just trying to see if I can get these plants to survive. Plants are mystery strains, from seeds I’ve collected over the last 8+years. Germinated by floating in...

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This is my first post where I learned about the whole hardening off thing.

 

[cbrians]

Is it a boy…again

Starting to think I messed with these plants and hermied them. or it’s my guilty conscience, I didn’t know what the seeds were when I started. sendhelp

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this is the one where I learned about plant balls and the perks of having feminized seeds

 

[cbrians]

Heat Stress Recovery, when and how

Sunny california did me dirty and roasted my plants. I didn’t check the weather and it hit 140 in my green house. Girls look okay, watered them well and put them in the shade. I do have some roasted leaves and what not. Curious how long I should wait to prune or feed, I don’t wanna stress them...

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This is the one where I toasted my plants. The second time.

 

[cbrians]

Anyone used solar powered fans?

Had a heat spike and my green house hit 140. Again. While open. Anyone have a recommendation for a solar powered fan/cooling system? I don’t wanna run an extension cord out there.

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first time roasting

 

[BearWater]

This is raw! love it. Thanks for sharing your learning experiences! Reminds me of the 8 miles scene when MM finally hits back in the freestyle and fucks shit up!

 

[cbrians]

This is raw! love it. Thanks for sharing your learning experiences! Reminds me of the 8 miles scene when MM finally hits back in the freestyle and fucks shit up!

Hahaha thank you sir, I’ll gladly take any comparison to slim shady

 

[Sunin]

so, is the chicken coop solar fan working?

 

[BearWater]

Hahaha thank you sir, I’ll gladly take any comparison to slim shady

just make sure you keep mom’s spaghetti off your sweatshirt! Hahahahaah!!✌ its nice to fallow along with all the other folks here learning as much as I am.

 

[cbrians]

so, is the chicken coop solar fan working?

no it sucked at blowing gonna get some more, maybe a few exhaust fans.

I wanna just put the girls out on the damn lawn but my wife wants it to be contained. legally they need to be in a locked unit but man. There’s so much sun here.

 

[cbrians]

the corner we picked get shaded by these eucalyptus trees, we still get sun there but not as direct. Also don’t really know how cannabis plants tell the difference between direct and indirect, and when there is too much shade for them to tell.

 

[Oldchucky]

Don’t worry! They know the difference! And they will let you know the difference! About time you quit, jumping all over hell!

 

[Sunin]

that area looks very inviting
would travel in some successful outdoor grows threads here and catch ideas

 

[cbrians]

Don’t worry! They know the difference! And they will let you know the difference! About time you quit, jumping all over hell!

That would be too easy. Who has time to relax?!

 

[cbrians]

Alright y’all happy Wednesday, who’s ready for a crisis? Not me.

Internet says it’s spider mites

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

Internet says it’s spider mites

I've had to deal with spider mites several times. They live on the underside of the leaves, so that's where you need to look for them. I usually cut off a leaf and use a microscope or a jeweler's loupe because they're hard to see. I tried many ways to get rid of them. What worked best is Agromagen GrowSafe. I also used a sprayer with a nozzle that can point upwards to spray the underside of the leaves.

 

[cbrians]

I've had to deal with spider mites several times. They live on the underside of the leaves, so that's where you need to look for them. I usually cut off a leaf and use a microscope or a jeweler's loupe because they're hard to see. I tried many ways to get rid of them. What worked best is Agromagen GrowSafe. I also used a sprayer with a nozzle that can point upwards to spray the underside of the leaves.

Ordered! Thanks.

So, I think I gave my plants a little shock after transplanting then trying to move them around to the sunniest spot. Unrelated 30 gallon pots are fucking heavy.

Should I wait for them to recover before treating for bugs?

Amazon should deliver the stuff tonight, I get home from work about 6 am, wanna kill em off as soon as possible.

 

[cbrians]

This is where we’re at today. Transplanted on saturday, so 5 days post.

They have good color in my opinion, but looking a little sad. the ones I’m assuming are sativa from leaf shape are a bit happier. Similar thing happened when I initially moved them from inside to outside, I had about a week of freaking out and they came back.

I let the soil dry a bit then gave them a decent watering today, going to try and go back to every other day now that they’re not in the green house. Sure they will perk up but I’m nervous as we get closer to flowering. Any suggestions?

 

[Fishybass]

no it sucked at blowing gonna get some more, maybe a few exhaust fans.

I wanna just put the girls out on the damn lawn but my wife wants it to be contained. legally they need to be in a locked unit but man. There’s so much sun here.

I feel ya on this. I built a greenhouse because the law in our state (mn) says locked and away from kids. My first test grow started last October and was finally killed in February when I couldn’t pump enough heat to overcome -20F weather. Started again in March and all was perfect for like two weeks and then on a 70F day my greenhouse hit 125F. Freakout! Had to totally reconstruct all of my ventilation and add in fogging lines for summer. I probably have to upgrade my exhaust fan too. Sized my fan to online calculators and learned there’s no such thing as too large a fan. The dynamics of getting a greenhouse to work well are way complicated. In your weather… holy hell… seems like fall-spring is the only chance.