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I related most of my background in my intro, this is a timeline of my first growing attempt in my 8 x 8 greenhouse on Long Island New York. I am growing in soil organically.
September 13. Presoaked two seeds for three days until saw white tips.
September 16. Planted in 3 inch plastic cups set into 11 inch pots.
September 18. Seeds popped and kept under eight 4’ Philips 32 W F32T8/TL965 deluxe daylight, and F32T8/TL930 deluxe soft white fluorescent grow lights for 24 hours. Probably overkill, but the plants survived my ignorance.
The lettuce and arugula in my greenhouse went wild though.
October 11. Transplanted from 3 inch cups into 11 inch pots. I start in small cup to control water to avoid damping off, etc.
Gave them a drink of Neptunes harvest fish and seaweed (NHFS) to settle them in like I do with my tomatoes, but evidently too strong and some leaves burnt and curled. Condition subsided after several days.
lights at 18/6
Plants 9” and 11” tall.
November 1. Fed with NHFS (one TSP/21 Oz filtered water) and Actinovate.
plants 22 inches and 24 inches tall.
November 14. Fed with NHFS.
Plants both 30 inches tall.
November 16. Added six 4’ Monios LT8LED full spectrum 42 W bulbs, three vertically on each side.
November 21. Fed with compost tea aerated and brewed for 36 hours. For my brew I use my own compost, worm castings, humeric, alfalfa, kelp, and potassium.
November 26. At this point they had spent two weeks as seedlings and eight weeks in veg vegetative growth. They were 36 inches and 40 inches tall and anticipating early flowering growth surge and calculating maximum I can move my lighting up to keep proper spacing, I decided it was time and flipped the lights to 12/12.
November 28. Fed with flowering tea. Aerated and brewed for 36 hours, made from my own compost, worm castings, humeric, molasses, potassium, Azomite, Cal/Phos, and bonemeal.
I also started removing fan leaves, a few every day. I learned about that a little late in the game.
December 2. Fed with Epson salts drink.
December 5. Sex pronounced. Both showing tiny female stigmas in the pistils. I was elated. They were both random seeds given to me by a friend. No idea of variety or strain either.
December 9. Fed with NHFS and Actinovate.
Plants 42 inches and 49 inches tall. pH 6.8 and 6.6.
December 13. Fed with flowering compost drink.
Plants 42 and 52 inches tall.
Done with their stretch. Now it’s time to make buds.
December 19. Disaster. One of my fans crapped out in the middle of the night and shorted out the power strip running the electric heater. And on the coldest night of the year so far. 23° outside. I am a night owl, and at 2:45am when I checked the greenhouse temp with my Govee digital wireless monitor, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was 32° inside the greenhouse.
Long story short, lots of panicky running back and forth, setting up my portable propane heater to raise temps back to normal quickly, and got it back to about 73° within three hours.
December 20. Disaster averted. I was concerned the stress might trigger hermaphrodite, but I think I dodged that bullet.
Gave the plants an Epson salt drink.
December 26. Fed with NHFS.
December 28. Installed 2 foot AgroMax T5 UV fluorescent 24 W. Couldn’t put it overhead, so I hung it about 4 1/2 feet away from the plants, and tilted the fixture at about a 45° angle to hit the plants from above and the front side. I have lined the interior walls of the back half of the greenhouse so will hopefully get some reflected light as well.
Having read of the possible disastrous effects of overdoing UV light, I decided to start slow and gave them a 15 minute burst from 4 1/2 feet out. Will gradually up that each day until I notice any adverse effects. Could definitely use some advice as I am in unknown territory here.
December 29. Gave the girls two 15 minute doses of UV light.
If I am calculating right, I am now in my fifth week of flowering, having flipped to 12/12 on November 26.
I have tons of questions, and maybe this will serve as a basis or a springboard to launch into them.
First and foremost I need to understand how to best utilize the UV lighting, and I am wondering why the indica has very few white hairs on the buds, and still smells vegetative, while these sativa is hairy, frosty, and getting stinky. I can send additional pictures if this helps in analysis.
The presumed Indica
The presumed sativa.
If anybody reads this and responds, I will be one very grateful old boomer.
PS. Was at Woodstock with my wife, If that tells you anything.
September 13. Presoaked two seeds for three days until saw white tips.
September 16. Planted in 3 inch plastic cups set into 11 inch pots.
September 18. Seeds popped and kept under eight 4’ Philips 32 W F32T8/TL965 deluxe daylight, and F32T8/TL930 deluxe soft white fluorescent grow lights for 24 hours. Probably overkill, but the plants survived my ignorance.
The lettuce and arugula in my greenhouse went wild though.
October 11. Transplanted from 3 inch cups into 11 inch pots. I start in small cup to control water to avoid damping off, etc.
Gave them a drink of Neptunes harvest fish and seaweed (NHFS) to settle them in like I do with my tomatoes, but evidently too strong and some leaves burnt and curled. Condition subsided after several days.
lights at 18/6
Plants 9” and 11” tall.
November 1. Fed with NHFS (one TSP/21 Oz filtered water) and Actinovate.
plants 22 inches and 24 inches tall.
November 14. Fed with NHFS.
Plants both 30 inches tall.
November 16. Added six 4’ Monios LT8LED full spectrum 42 W bulbs, three vertically on each side.
November 21. Fed with compost tea aerated and brewed for 36 hours. For my brew I use my own compost, worm castings, humeric, alfalfa, kelp, and potassium.
November 26. At this point they had spent two weeks as seedlings and eight weeks in veg vegetative growth. They were 36 inches and 40 inches tall and anticipating early flowering growth surge and calculating maximum I can move my lighting up to keep proper spacing, I decided it was time and flipped the lights to 12/12.
November 28. Fed with flowering tea. Aerated and brewed for 36 hours, made from my own compost, worm castings, humeric, molasses, potassium, Azomite, Cal/Phos, and bonemeal.
I also started removing fan leaves, a few every day. I learned about that a little late in the game.
December 2. Fed with Epson salts drink.
December 5. Sex pronounced. Both showing tiny female stigmas in the pistils. I was elated. They were both random seeds given to me by a friend. No idea of variety or strain either.
December 9. Fed with NHFS and Actinovate.
Plants 42 inches and 49 inches tall. pH 6.8 and 6.6.
December 13. Fed with flowering compost drink.
Plants 42 and 52 inches tall.
Done with their stretch. Now it’s time to make buds.
December 19. Disaster. One of my fans crapped out in the middle of the night and shorted out the power strip running the electric heater. And on the coldest night of the year so far. 23° outside. I am a night owl, and at 2:45am when I checked the greenhouse temp with my Govee digital wireless monitor, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was 32° inside the greenhouse.
Long story short, lots of panicky running back and forth, setting up my portable propane heater to raise temps back to normal quickly, and got it back to about 73° within three hours.
December 20. Disaster averted. I was concerned the stress might trigger hermaphrodite, but I think I dodged that bullet.
Gave the plants an Epson salt drink.
December 26. Fed with NHFS.
December 28. Installed 2 foot AgroMax T5 UV fluorescent 24 W. Couldn’t put it overhead, so I hung it about 4 1/2 feet away from the plants, and tilted the fixture at about a 45° angle to hit the plants from above and the front side. I have lined the interior walls of the back half of the greenhouse so will hopefully get some reflected light as well.
Having read of the possible disastrous effects of overdoing UV light, I decided to start slow and gave them a 15 minute burst from 4 1/2 feet out. Will gradually up that each day until I notice any adverse effects. Could definitely use some advice as I am in unknown territory here.
December 29. Gave the girls two 15 minute doses of UV light.
If I am calculating right, I am now in my fifth week of flowering, having flipped to 12/12 on November 26.
I have tons of questions, and maybe this will serve as a basis or a springboard to launch into them.
First and foremost I need to understand how to best utilize the UV lighting, and I am wondering why the indica has very few white hairs on the buds, and still smells vegetative, while these sativa is hairy, frosty, and getting stinky. I can send additional pictures if this helps in analysis.
The presumed Indica
The presumed sativa.
If anybody reads this and responds, I will be one very grateful old boomer.
PS. Was at Woodstock with my wife, If that tells you anything.