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My First Grow! [bagseed, 56k be warned]

GrowMan

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I'm a little late in posting this as I'm going to make the chop either Friday or Saturday, but I just got around to taking the pix off the camera :)

2 unknown bagseeds in pro-mix, using a local shop's home brand nutes (next go-around I'll be dishin out way more than $10 for nutes ;)).

I LST'd one of them, started waaay too late, but I learned a lot and wont make the same mistake again (start early for the best/easiest bending), the other I just left to grow as is.

I ran out of funds a little too quickly and was forced to let them flower about 3-4 weeks longer than I wanted and as a result, the un-trained plant grew too tall :( So i was forced to chop the top waaay too early (only about 2-3 weeks of flower), very heady high but there wasn't much to it due to it's immaturity.

Does anyone want to take a wild guess as to the strain? (which i know is impossible, but I was hoping they had some special and unique trait ;))

What I'd like to have is a guesstimation as to it's dry weight. I'm going to be amazed by anything more than 14 grams total.

These pics are about 2-3 weeks old, and they've bulked up quite a bit and are about 15-20% amber/40-50% red hairs.

As for lighting, I started with 2x13 watt cfl's in the seedling stage above my stove :D

When I got paid, I upgraded to 5x23 watt Cfl's for veg (on 18/6) and when I switched to 12/12 I switched the bulbs to 5x47 watt cfl's and 2x30 watt 3' floro tubes.

I have also recently added a 13 watt "Repti-Glo" CFL that is putting out UVB to (supposedly) increase trichome production. I can't really say if it works as this is my first grow, however there is a significant amount of sugah on these babies :D

In the second to last pic, notice the odd trichome coverage? just on the outer edges of the leaves, and nothing in the middle... Is that a normal type of trait? or is it something I did? I am 100% positive it went hermie on me as I have (at least) one large very obvious seed, but only a few that I can see (crosses fingers), but I'm unsure of it's cause.


Just smoked a test joint from one of the lower branches. I decided to take a lower branch to 'sample' (heh and i was dry ;)), it took about 4, maybe 5 days to fully dry, the stem didnt snap (and even now 6 days after the stick's been just sitting here it's not), but the buds were nice and dry, they were then cured and burped for 3-5 days before attempting to smoke some.

I've always had a tough time truly appreciating the high unless I was clear headed and sober (baseline). So this morning, I decide to call in sick to work and get some work done on my various projects around the house. I've worked like a dog for the past week and I deserve a day ;)

So, anyways... I roll up a nice joint (sry no camera batteries, but I still have some buds to take pix of) that weighed in at about .5, .6 (about what I normally smoke) . and.... um... heh :rock:

(on a side note, it was preggers :( I was expecting it as the other plant in the room decided to change teams on me. The beans are nice and brown, so I look forward to seeing what may come of them. Right now the plants are named 'A' and 'B'... so I have some AxB sitting in a jar of rice that are itching to get germed!)

I can't say it was the best pot I've ever smoked, but man... I can't even describe it (never really could describe the high to others)... definitely more heady right now, slight body to it but my head is just swimmin right now...

Tasted wonderful, and smells very very weird.. I can't quite describe it... but sniffing the jar just overwhelms you with the flavour and scent.

Anyways... On to the pics... They pretty much speak for themselves, a pic of the supremely ghetto cab that I am using. Pics of 'B''s training and a pic of my equally ghetto exhaust :D

I'll be making the big chop tomorrow night or possibly Saturday night (I'd like them to dry a little more first), but I will definitely take pics during the momentous event...

Btw, I ended up with a little under 5 dry grams off the one lower branch :tup:


Advice, Questions, Comments, Etc... All welcome!


 
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that shit looks great. I didnt think i was gonna see buds trhat big but damn. Those floro tubes must have extended your range with those cfls.
 

GrowMan

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Thanks everyone... Once the lights turn on tonight (11:30pm) I'll try to get some new pics, as those above are fairly old now, and the buds are much thicker and firmer now.

Surprisingly, there has been virtually NO smell whatsoever... I'm bloody amazed! I can only remember about 5 times when I walked in the front door and knew right away what I smelt, but for the most part I cant smell a thing!
 

D Rock

HERBAL RELEAF PLANT A SEED START A WE
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most definately a good grow with Fluro's and CFL's. Good Work.
 

J-Roc

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OMFG! GROWMAN!
NICE WEED DOOD!
UR MUST BE SO PROUD!
WHAT AMAZING PHOTGRAPHS!
THANKYOU!
 

GrowMan

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Oh.... My.... GOD!


They're both dead!!!!!!!!!
















... heh, because I CHOPPED THOSE BEEEYOTCHES DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pics to come!
 

GrowMan

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Harvest Pics!

Harvest Pics!

As promised, pre chop pix! Not as many as i'd like, but I had to conserve what little battery power I had left :D





My second plant 'B' decided to give me a gift of a magic bean!

 

GrowMan

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Oh god the carnage!

Oh god the carnage!

The blood went flying and the leaves drooped in fear of what was to come of them and their kin...



I'll report back in about a week with a post dry/pre cure weight... Any guesses? The closest wins a bean from my brand new and completely unknown AxB cross :D (btw, no beans will be given out, nothing to win, just a joke ;) )

Any nominations for strain names? Preferably starting with letters A and B :)

Thanks for the comments all, I'm amazed by the results of my first grow... The best part is that I have realized my short comings (namely veg'ing too long for the space, and consequently having to lop the top off the untrained plant :( ) and I will strive to out do myself next time (which will contain my new offspring, assuming they germ).
 
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GrowMan

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d4. said:
I care! Nice harvest man and grow setup! Hows the high?

Dunno yet... I just made the chop on Thursday at midnight... The high from plant 'A' which i took a sample of about 12 days ago blew my freakin mind... First time smoking something as good as this in a looong looong time.. Not the best I've smoked, as I have known a few skilled growers in my time, but it's certainly better than anything I've bought in the past couple years...

One thing I am going to change next time, is to trim them up just after cutting them down... I decided to try something I've heard recommended, to take as much off with bare hands as possible (fan leaves, etc) then just dry it as is and trim the try leaves later...

I feel that it is going to take a little longer to trim after they dry due to the leaves all wilted and shriveled up. You have to go digging to get the root of the leaf, or to get as much as possible... Whilst wet, they're all easy to cut and to get as deep as possible to subsequently get as much as possible :D

I checked on them today, and it seems as a couple of the buds may be ready for the jar in a day or so.. (top 4 colas ), so I'll have some sort of a smoke report after a short cure.
 

pickledLSD

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Looks like you did an amazing job to have been using flourescents. I'm very interested in knowing your dried weight.
 

hazy

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awesome results for cfls
those are nice looking buds growman.
how much you think?
 

Dr Dog

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I agree completely, I would never have guessed you were using cfl here either. Nice looking grow, congrats!
 

GrowMan

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They went into jars earlier today, I didn't weigh it all, but the top 4 colas pictured above weighed in at a little over 20 grams dry !!!!!

I'm amazed... plain amazed... I was HOPING to reach one ounce, but now I'm leaning towards 2.5 or even 3 ounces by the time it's all said, done and weighed... I couldn't have hoped for anything more (with the exception of the LST'd plant not growing balls).

I'll try to get some jar pictures up tonite or tomorrow... thanks for watching, and stay tuned for more grows from me... Next up will be the construction of a new and more permanent grow room measuring about 3'x3'x5' for flower and 2'x3'x5' for veg. I hope to achieve a perpetual harvest of approximately 2-3 ounces every 3 weeks...


Thanks all!
G.M.
 

GrowMan

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Quick weight update for y'all... I tallied everything up and the total dry weight of 133.3 grams!!!!!! Over a quarter pound on two plants using NOTHING BUT CFLS. Pix later tonite or tomorrow!
 
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u got a green thumb man cuz im tryin to do the damn thing w/CFLs but can't get past my 3rd week. What soil did you use? Nutes? Any advice would be great man cuz if I get a harvest like that oooooooh boy what a happy day!
 
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