I figure it’s about time I show the forums what I’ve got going on. I’ll probably update this weekly or biweekly and continue it through multiple grows unless somebody convinces me that’s it’s better to make new ones. Thanks to @sshz for bringing me to this forum especially, his Orange-gasm thread and current Sweet Zombie grow are inspirational to say the least.

Without further ado, the details on my first indoor grow:

After an extended 7-week veg, day 5 of flower today. Four plants, four strains, 4 styles of growth. I know that this was a bad idea. Clockwise from back left, the tallest is Seedsman SSH, then Dinafem Critical Plus 2.0, Seedsman Cream & Cheese 1:1 CBD:THC, and Seedsman Widow. The CP2.0 and SSH are mine, the Widow and CBD are my friend’s.

The original plan was to basically manifold each plant, but the Critical is the only one that ended up getting the full treatment. My friend and I topped her, the widow and the SSH early on, but the widow got topped down to the 5th or so node while the critical and SSH were down to the 2nd.

The critical took to training well, but the SSH snapped a branch the first time I tried training the new shoots, the stems grew too thick too quickly. The entire time, the SSH has been freaky vigorous with massive thick stems and leaves, and inch-long preflower hairs. I let its broken branch heal and kept it level with the other one by training the main stem diagonally instead, and it’s still the tallest plant of the four. It’s been defoliated slightly to give light to the lower branches.

All four plants were put into solo cups full of happy frog after germination, which burned the shit out of all of them. The original CBD seedling never got over it and we killed it 2-3 weeks in, which is why that plant, it’s replacement, is untouched. It’s more than caught up and is now 2nd in height.

After the first topping, the widow exploded with branches and so my friend decided to stick to LST from then on, keeping them mostly even in height. It now has more tops than are worth counting and is effectively self-SCROGged.

The 4 are obviously totally uneven in height but hopefully we have enough light coverage to accommodate them. They’re under one sun system 315W CMH, a shitty viparspectra blurple 300W on the left, and a mars hydro 600 on the right. Not exactly optimal, and I’m not even going to depict the trapeze work we have suspending them right now, but it’s more than enough light for the girls so far, and we can use the two LED fixtures to work with the plants’ different heights while the CMH stays directly overhead.

All four are in 7gal fabric pots with 5-6gal of Fox Farm Ocean Forest and Happy frog in a roughly 3:1 ratio, amended with lava rock, rice hulls, and compost. They’re mulched with a light layer of rice hulls as well. I intend for these to become no-till ROLS pots to reuse each grow after re-amending and letting them cook for a bit.

Since going into the pots early September, they’ve been given a cycle of plain water, water with mild silica, and water with aloe concentrate. They’ve been top-dressed once with alfalfa and kelp meal, fed one dose of alfalfa sprout tea, and they just got an inch of build-a-soil’s build-a-flower blend when we flipped, which is basically heavily amended fish compost.

I intend to give them another light dose of alfalfa sprout tea once they finish stretching, top dress with barley in a few weeks, top dress again with alfalfa/neem meal around halfway through flower, and let them coast from there. They’ve been foliar sprayed once with Mammoth Canna-Control, which I had decent luck with on my last plant outdoors this summer, and I’ll spray once, maybe twice before harvest with some BT to be safe, but I haven’t seen anything in the grow space so far.

The space runs about 75 F with lights on and I have a dehumidifier capping humidity at 55%. The dehumidifier is a new addition since starting flower and I’ll probably crank it down to 40-45% by harvest time. Up to this point, aside from the hot happy frog soil burning the girls as seedlings, this grow has been almost completely without issue and I’m hoping tight climate control and generous organic foods will keep the girls happy through harvest.

I’m excited to see the variation between these four strains, and look forward to using this experience to inform future grows and my selections in strains. Each girl is such an individual. The SSH stem rub smells like genuine human shit, it’s offensive too close to the nose. The critical plus smells of burnt rubber and bubblegum, and the CBD and widow both are very green, piney and peppery. I intend to experiment with edibles or hash from one or more plants, identifying which is best for resin production, medical benefits, etc. After this grow finishes up, I have two packs of Bodhi beans to run: Herer Hashplant and an unnamed cross, Sunshine Daydream x Stardawg Guava. I could use a hand deciding between those two, if anyone wants to chime in!

Actually, chime in on anything at all. This is only my second grow ever, and my first indoors. My outdoor plant was pretty happy with this organic regimen, but she was in a much larger 20gal pot, and she didn’t grow large enough to utilize all that soil and ended up N-burnt at harvest, from my alfalfa amendments building up. I don’t expect that’ll be an issue with this grow, since these plants are almost the size she was in pots 1/3 the volume, and overall haven’t been top-dressed as frequently. But again, I’ll listen to anything anyone has to say. If any aspect of what they’re eating seems suspect, like they’re getting overloaded or like I’m not addressing a specific nutrient need, let me know. I look forward to sharing this run and future ones with all of you, thanks for reading so far to those of you that do.