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 Androcell’s first grow 
#860425 - 07/19/23 08:13 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Documenting my first grow. Will be using the How to cultivate for noobs guide. With a couple of modifications. First modification is I am using bag seed, so I am germinating with the paper towel method and planting into cheap solo cups until I can sex the plants. Since this is only for personal use I plan to transplant one female to the 3 gallon pot for harvest and keep another as a Bonsai Mother. Possibly 2 bonsai mothers, my friend gave me these seeds and said they are from 2 different strains but doesn’t know which seed is which strain. If there are males and females of both, might keep a couple of bonsai fathers around too and try my hand at crossing them eventually. We'll cross that bridge when we get there, just thinking ahead for now. I don’t know if I’ll even be able to tell the strains apart  but what would you call a cross between Inzane in the Membrane and Hulk Dog??
So far, two of the seeds germinated after 24 hours and a third cracked open 
Edited by Androcell (07/02/24 09:10 AM)
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#860427 - 07/19/23 09:29 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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With the seeds now germinated it’s time to get started. Loaded up Androcell’s Emotivision album on the stereo and started mixing the soil.
Noob guide suggests 3 gallon pot worth of soil with 2 cups of vermiculite. So I mixed this same ratio and divided out to solo cups from the bucket.
Drainage holes burned into 18oz solo cups with soldering iron.
While preparing everything, the third cracked seed sprouted a taproot! Seeds planted taproot down, half inch into soil, with a little bit of extra vermiculite around the seed as suggested in noob guide. Lightly watered with my modified 16oz bottle (thumbtack holes in cap to make it rain on soil) and placed in south facing window in my sun room.
Edit: I also put overturned solo cups on top of each as a humidity dome until they sprout.
Edit 2: Documenting my process for water in case I need to adjust it. Run cold tap for 30 seconds to flush out sitting minerals, fill gallon jug, set out jug for 48 hours to dechlorinate, test and adjust PH with PH Up/Down. Funnel into 16oz bottle for watering. Once I start fertilizing will have a dedicated fertilizer jug/bottle. Noob guide suggests fertilizing once weed is more “plant like” or there is a trunk, so plain water is being used for now.
Edited by Androcell (07/19/23 11:49 AM)
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#860435 - 07/21/23 06:17 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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3 seedlings sprouted!  I also took a picture of my ghetto humidity dome setup since I missed that in the last update.
    
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Thanks. I don’t have any toothpicks on hand so I improvised with the wooden end of an incense stick, very loosely tied some twine onto the splint to keep it in place.
Noob guide suggests fertilizing once plants are more “plant-like”, they’re starting to look plant-like to me. Since that guide might be outdated, I searched a bit more and found fertilizing can start when leaves start to have 3 points. I see these points forming on all the plants so I might start fertilizing soon. Maybe next watering or the one after depending on how the plants are looking by then.
I have Grow Big for vegetative and Tiger Bloom for flowering. Accidentally got hydroponic fertilizer but Fox Farm website says it’s fine just to use 1.5x the recommendation in soil. (Edit: just re-read noob guide, it suggests hydroponic fertilizer anyway. Going to start low with the actual amount I use anyway. Saw another guide that suggested starting at 25% the label recommendation and working up)
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#860547 - 08/07/23 03:42 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Thinking it might be time to top, if I’m counting the nodes correctly. I count 5 with a 6th starting to grow in. I’m thinking let the 5th node open up a bit more and cut the 6th off.
 
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#860633 - 08/16/23 07:16 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Topped 3 and FIM’ed 1. Made a tea with the cuttings 
     
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#860689 - 08/22/23 10:08 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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New growth is coming in nice from the 3 that were topped. Not sure if I FIMed the fourth plant correctly, keeping an eye on it. Does the new growth look normal on this one?
   
Also don’t remember if I mentioned it, but started fertilizing a couple weeks ago when the first leaves died off. Fox Farm Grow Big for 2 plants, Neptune’s Harvest Fish Fertilizer for the other 2. Planning on repotting this coming weekend to 3 gallon pots since the plants bounced back quick from the topping stress and are getting pretty huge now for the cups.
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#860766 - 08/30/23 07:36 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Repotted these last night. Pruned off some of the lower fan leaves. Letting them recover for another day or so then tying the branches down to the pot for some more training. The topped plants are looking good but I don’t think I FIMed correctly, might try again or just top it.
   
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#860771 - 08/31/23 11:07 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Tying, some light pruning. All leaves getting full light now under the grow lights. Also tried FIMing that other one again today since the first try failed, hopefully will see 4 new colas coming out. If not, just gonna top it in a couple weeks (hopefully that’s not too late to top)
The one pictured is my favorite plant so far, hopefully it’s female I still can’t tell
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#860827 - 09/09/23 08:50 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Topped the new colas at 4 nodes for the 3 topped plants. The FIMed plant is looking good, looks like 4 new colas coming in this time but growth is real slow on this one plant.
Here’s an updated pic again for my favorite of the plants + the new growth on the FIMed plant
 
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#860936 - 09/26/23 10:11 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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It’s been a while since the last update. Currently day 7 into slowly changing the light cycles down to 12/12. Started when plants were 2 months old, plan to bring to 12/12 slowly over the course of a month.
   
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#861007 - 10/08/23 08:10 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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#861029 - 10/11/23 02:16 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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I think we have 3 females. These are the female pistils, right? Still can’t tell with the fourth, but if it’s male then 3 out of 4 ain’t bad. I’ll add a pic when I can find a clear prebud
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Re: Androcell’s first grow [Re: Androcell]
#861031 - 10/11/23 03:06 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Androcell said:
I think we have 3 females. These are the female pistils, right? Still can’t tell with the fourth, but if it’s male then 3 out of 4 ain’t bad. I’ll add a pic when I can find a clear prebud
Yep, those are pistils. Congrats!
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#861041 - 10/14/23 08:58 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Looks like 4 out of 4 female. I should go pick up a lotto ticket today 
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#861084 - 10/23/23 04:29 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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#861100 - 10/28/23 12:59 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Look at those THC crystals forming now
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#861333 - 11/15/23 09:28 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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