LJ66 said:

Hi growers, I’ve been reading a while and I think I should say hi to the community.

I’m quite new to growing, just at final stage of my second ever plant. I learned a lot the hard way the first time around and this time is much better.

I live in a tiny inner city studio so I’m growing one plant at a time. My mum was a bonsai gardener and plant training is very similar.

This is my gorgeous one gallon girl, a hybrid called Dream Girl. She is 12 weeks old today and on day 44 of flower. I have her in Canna Terra Professional with Dr Greenthumbs CalMag and diatomaceous earth added. I’m feeding her Ozi Magic Gro Juice organic nutrients. She’s under a Spider Farmer SF1000 in a tent that is 40x40x120 centimetres. I prefer these fabric pots to plastic.

She has not used up most of the space in this tent so my next baby girl will be a granddaddy purple in a 3 gallon.

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BudBogart said:

I wanted to grow gdp this year. A mouse ate them all on day two of popping. Yours looks great
I’ll try again next year!

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ritoMox said:

Very nice! How do you like the GeoPot? It looks like you are able to use it along with that saucer as a self-watering planter. I would ask if you have any issues doing that, but from the look of your lady, everything looks to be doing great. Thank you for the great post

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ritoMox said:

Ha! Those mice will do you in! I had a similar experience years ago. I was trying to grow in my open closet (no door) and I was using one of those cheap 1-gal planters with the 4 square drainage holes on the sides at the bottom. Shortly after planting the seed, I would notice a mound of soil outside of one of the drainage holes. This went on for about 1 week before I realized what was going on (I was a 15 year-old kid). By the time I realized that it was a mouse burrowing into the planter drainage hole, there was a pretty good sized mound of soil outside of the drainage hole. So I figured that I would outsmart the mouse by elevating the planter on a pedestal. I repotted and dropped a fresh seed (bag seed, so no loss). I had the planter inside of a milk crate and I was using one of those old beer light signs that you would see hanging in a bar. I just took the beer cover off and would just set the whole thing over the milk crate. It was a fluorescent bulb inside the beer sign. Well, elevating the planter was a fail. Right away I started seeing a new mound of dirt. The mouse was climbing up and getting in. Duh! One morning I saw the tricky little rodent. The timer kicked the light on and I just happened to look over and saw the mouse jump down and scurry away. Well, I searched around and found the mouse hole under my bed in a corner (Mobile home), so I set out a mouse trap. To shorten this long story, my cat ended up getting the mouse and I lived happily ever after

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LJ66 said:

haha bloody mice. you can stop up holes with steel wool pot scourers that mieces can’t chew through. Another trick to keep them away is to put a container of used kitty litter with vent holes anywhere you have seen mouse activity. The smell of cat pee keeps them away.

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sambapati said:

and if you don't like cats the smell of coffee grounds tends to keep them away. We have big rats that I've seen outside but no mice. Almost everyone in a neighborhood of 150 houses has multiple cats and dogs, except a few hold outs. Pretty amazingly strong looking stalk on that first picture..add my welcome to the Farm and glad you're here.

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LJ66 said:

Hi growers, I’ve been reading a while and I think I should say hi to the community.

I’m quite new to growing, just at final stage of my second ever plant. I learned a lot the hard way the first time around and this time is much better.

I live in a tiny inner city studio so I’m growing one plant at a time. My mum was a bonsai gardener and plant training is very similar.

This is my gorgeous one gallon girl, a hybrid called Dream Girl. She is 12 weeks old today and on day 44 of flower. I have her in Canna Terra Professional with Dr Greenthumbs CalMag and diatomaceous earth added. I’m feeding her Ozi Magic Gro Juice organic nutrients. She’s under a Spider Farmer SF1000 in a tent that is 40x40x120 centimetres. I prefer these fabric pots to plastic.

She has not used up most of the space in this tent so my next baby girl will be a granddaddy purple in a 3 gallon.

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