The Windowsill Grow Thread (Incredible Weed For FREE!) Take The Challenge!

[goingrey]

Starting a thread on the most sensible, most fun, possibly even most common, but most definitely the least talked about grow method.

Incredible indoor-clean but full spectrum sun grown flower. Free of charge! Ok windows will filter the light, some more than others, you will need fertilizer and substrate, maybe you even heat your home with electricity (or cool it down). But you get the point!

The most fun thing about it all is how you can take a quick look at the plant on the kitchen windowsill whenever you go to the kitchen to get a drink or whatever!

A couple of tips:

* Keep spinning the plant so it gets light on both sides and stays on the straight and narrow.
* You are not limited to autos alone. My best success to date was with a rootbound mother plant, put on the windowsill in September.
* Curtains with white on the window side that are dark on the room side are the best. Reflect light during the day, reduce the amount of house light to them at night (which in this situation also makes the plants more visible to the outside world, doesn't just mess with their flowering hormones).

Are you growing anything on your windowsill? Why not? Tips? Strain suggestions?

 

[goingrey]

What's going on in my kitchen windowsill:

Planted on 4/20. Gorilla Zkittlez Auto from Fast Buds. In 5l of moler clay, planning to feed with hydro waste water.

A couple of testers put out earlier to see if there is enough light already. Both in 1l of moler clay. Unsure about the strains, some random seeds found on countertops, possibly OG Kush and Beldia.

 

[Cvh]

Awesome challenge

 

[goingrey]

The light is good right now for Northern hemisphere South facing windows. Not reaching for the stars but building a sturdy stalk.

Gorilla Zkittlez Auto (Fast Buds)

 

[BradChremistry]

Had an autoflower that bloomed in a solo cup, was gonna toss it but stuck it in a 3 gallon pot in an east facing window over the winter.

Watered every 2-3 weeks when able to. Maybe 4 times. Half oz of fluffy garlic onion bud. Pots dry out too quick in the summer sun, not home often enough. South facing window would be nice but too many punk school kids walking by.

 

[goingrey]

Had an autoflower that bloomed in a solo cup, was gonna toss it but stuck it in a 3 gallon pot in an east facing window over the winter.


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Watered every 2-3 weeks when able to. Maybe 4 times. Half oz of fluffy garlic onion bud. Pots dry out too quick in the summer sun, not home often enough. South facing window would be nice but too many punk school kids walking by.

Yeah the scorching midday summer sun can cause a lot of evaporation. Self-watering pots with a medium that can handle drenching (coco, moler clay...) can help some but enough for once every 2-3 weeks, that's a tough one. A couple of times I have increased the capacity of the self-watering pots with an upside down bottle, it's a commonly used traveler tip for houseplants.

 

[goingrey]

Get it while the getting is good!

Gorilla Zkittlez Auto (Fast Buds)

 

[goingrey]

Outside in view, this is how I have the curtains reflecting light back.

 

[goingrey]

One of the mystery seed feelers turned out to be a male and was composted. The other one is still there, getting big.

 

[mr.brunch]

 

[goingrey]

Pop some beans instead of corn and get in on the action.

 

[mr.brunch]

Pop some beans instead of corn and get in on the action.

Windowsill is full of beans/pumpkins and the next generation for the tent (lemonade og) at the moment… I think mrs b would protest if I flowered there too.
I’ll take a seat here instead

 

[goingrey]

Windowsill is full of beans/pumpkins and the next generation for the tent (lemonade og) at the moment… I think mrs b would protest if I flowered there too.
I’ll take a seat here instead

In good use then!

 

[goingrey]

Gorilla Zkittlez Auto on the right has grown a little bit. Could be better, I might have overwatered it.

Mystery seed on the left has grown a lot and is surely rootbound as it needs watering multiple times a day. Hopefully that gets it flowering as it is not an auto. Secondary shoot shape makes me think it is a Beldia plant.

Getting more difficult to photograph.

 

[goingrey]

A tiny monster found the plants. Not sure if friend or foe, so I killed it.

 

[mr.brunch]

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A tiny monster found the plants. Not sure if friend or foe, so I killed it.

Better safe than sorry… looks moth like to me, that spells caterpillars

 

[goingrey]

The Gorilla Zkittlez Auto has started flowering, tiny tiny preflowers:

Beldia(?) feeler in 1l pot is doing well also:

 

[goingrey]

A few years ago, I helped a novice friend grow, only with the natural light that came through the windows of her apartment, not just an autoflowering, semi-autoflowering, or early indica, but a large sativa that finishes almost in December. (The girl, despite my advice that she start practicing with autoflowering strains that could coincide during the peak of their flowering with the days of longest daylight hours of the year, persisted in growing a Malawi x OldTimers Haze...and obtained some results endings that I myself couldn't believe... Of course, she spent the whole day moving the plant from window to window, heh. She started very early, at the beginning of March, and harvested at the end of November. I have 20 more photos that chronologically cover such an amazing crop for the little light there was if you feel like it, I'll share them in your thread):
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Wow that is incredible! If that doesn't convince the doubters I don't know what will. Please do post the extra pictures if that's not too much trouble.

Sativas do very well on the windowsill. I like to grow them later in the season to keep them more manageable. Don't get the huge buds your friend did but a lot of small ones that can be nice and frosty. Like this Christmas harvest Zamaldelica.

 

[pop_rocks]

que bonita

 

[Eltitoguay]

I seem to remember that in the Zamaldélica thread of A.C.E., there was also someone who had grown this variety in a garret without artificial light in Vienna...

I have to comment, however, that the best would be a crop in which flowering can coincide with the time of longest daylight hours, so that the difference in production and power with an outdoor or indoor crop with artificial light , be the minimum possible.