Kim's Beginner Diary

DreamsOfDiesel · Mar 27, 2020

Are those seedlings doing better? They still look droopy in last pic

KLight03 · Mar 27, 2020

DreamsOfDiesel said:
Are those seedlings doing better? They still look droopy in last pic

They are giving me new leaves and seem a little more with it today, if that makes sense? I flushed them gently a few times yesterday. I'm giving them some time to just "be" today. I'll probably water them a bit a little later. I'll see how they are feeling.

KLight03 · Mar 27, 2020

Anthem said:
Well that is a good question.
Removing the bottom 1/3 of the plants leaves and buds is designed to allow air flow at the soil level. This helps remove humidity from that region. Which is the regions where a lot of diseases and bugs like to flourish. Removing the bud sites in the middle of the plant will allow the remaining bud site to grow larger. One thing you may not have experienced yet is trimming. Trimming several hundred buds the size of a dime or smaller is a pain in the back side.

So, do you just strip it down? Using your fingers or snips?

DreamsOfDiesel · Mar 27, 2020

khalt03 said:
They are giving me new leaves and seem a little more with it today, if that makes sense? I flushed them gently a few times yesterday. I'm giving them some time to just "be" today. I'll probably water them a bit a little later. I'll see how they are feeling.

Be careful with watering, very easy to overwater young

DreamsOfDiesel · Mar 27, 2020

khalt03 said:
So, do you just strip it down? Using your fingers or snips?

You can use either, disinfect with rubbing alcohol (hands &/or snips). Use snips or you can use fingers if you can pull it off with very little or no strips being pulled off down the stalk. There's a way to bend & twist them to get them off easy by hand but I'm not gonna be able to explain it any better than bend at stem base few ways & twist them.

KLight03 · Mar 27, 2020

DreamsOfDiesel said:
You can use either, disinfect with rubbing alcohol (hands &/or snips). Use snips or you can use fingers if you can pull it off with very little or no strips being pulled off down the stalk. There's a way to bend & twist them to get them off easy by hand but I'm not gonna be able to explain it any better than bend at stem base few ways & twist them.

I got the picture in my head while from your description. Thank you.

DreamsOfDiesel · Mar 27, 2020

khalt03 said:
I got the picture in my head while from your description. Thank you.

If you have lot of strips pulling off after few tries just switch to snips, takes practice sometimes, pull up rather than down

KLight03 · Mar 27, 2020

DreamsOfDiesel said:
If you have lot of strips pulling off after few tries just switch to snips, takes practice sometimes, pull up rather than down

Thank you!

MikeZ · Mar 28, 2020

khalt03 said:
It's been a rough couple of days and I don't like to whine. Meant to update yesterday, forgot, so here is today.

I recently bought the Mars 3000 crazy light already another on the way.plants are rocking better than my first

KLight03 · Mar 29, 2020

MikeZ said:
I recently bought the Mars 3000 crazy light already another on the way.plants are rocking better than my first

Crazy as in good, right?

KLight03 · Mar 29, 2020

My seeds popped, well, 99% of them anyway.
Keep in mind that I start seeds and do accept that all may not make it.

On the menu:

9x SSSD
4x Chem Gopher
2 x Rebel OG (1 didn't pop)

The seedlings:
1 is perfectly happy to keep on trucking. 1 is deciding if he/she wants to continue this journey or not, but I believe there is a spark still.

The other...well, it's just a waiting game, I guess.

The last image is just for fun. I put them in water on my meditation altar, next to Kuan Yin. One is sprouting.

✌

MarsHydroLED · Mar 31, 2020

MikeZ said:
I recently bought the Mars 3000 crazy light already another on the way.plants are rocking better than my first

khalt03 said:
Crazy as in good, right?

A lot of growers said that Mars Hydro TS3000 is a beast

StonerWunSimba · Mar 31, 2020

Your plants are looking really good!!! What week of flower are u in??

KLight03 · Apr 1, 2020

StonerWunSimba said:
Your plants are looking really good!!! What week of flower are u in??

Thank you. I'm about halfway there.

KLight03 · Apr 1, 2020

Rebel OG, and Chem Gopher popped. SSSD is slow as usual. I'll post closer pictures of them tomorrow.

KLight03 · Apr 1, 2020

MarsHydroLED said:
A lot of growers said that Mars Hydro TS3000 is a beast

I'll have to take a look at it. I'll end up with so many lights I'll be able to seen from outer space. haha!

KLight03 · Apr 2, 2020

Weeeeee!

dire wolf · Apr 2, 2020

Hey k , nice looks like everything is moving in a great direction , that tall girl in the back is really something , going to be fun watching her stack up the buds

KLight03 · Apr 3, 2020

dire wolf said:
Hey k , nice looks like everything is moving in a great direction , that tall girl in the back is really something , going to be fun watching her stack up the buds

Thank you!

KLight03 · Apr 3, 2020

My biggest girl is looking a little nutey lately...
Trying the ole flush...

I'm still trying to help the seedlings that were gifted to me along. I think we are making headway, but I'm not sure. My inclination is to take off the yellowed leaves, but I think that would be a bad idea considering they are so delicate.

I have only one seed that didn't pop. Giving it until tomorrow as I sense a little something, but it may be just rotting.

Hope everyone is healthy and well!

Edited to include: Well, I accidentally bent one of the branches on the PC. If I keep it taped, will it be worth it? Meaning, will it mend back together?