First ever grow, grow journal.

Cheers for the feedback guys really appreciate it in a bit of a rush now but will post back later.

Toolage: Your grows looking better every single day!

Jointluver: lol erm in the pics above its far from perfect i think the fluro tube is something like 20 watts. the cfl is like 8 and the fluro lamp is 40W or something close to that i cant remember exactly.

Like i said i'll update this when i get back!

Cheers for stopping by everyone!

DAY 38:

Im not feeling in such a rush any more with these girls which in a way is a good thing. So i'm probably going to give them a good long veg rather than rush it like before. Theyre still growing well, allot slower still due to their stress. But theyre still under fluros. Mary's new growth is flourishing shes literally like a little bush now. Thinking of cutting the damage back now as there wont be any more stress. and let them concentrate on their new growth. I'll post some pictures soon. Should be ordering my new bulb this week sometime!

TGP.

keep us posted TGP Mary sounds like shes doing well cant wait to see some pix.

Sorry i didnt update photos yesterday got side tracked.

And once again i have managed to fuck up... I stupidly thought they needed some more light (Which they do) so i put a lamp in with them thinking it was fine. Came back today and it had fallen over some how right onto mary snapping one of her large fan leaf stems right off and bending her over etc.... I was gonna take some photos to show you how well theyre doing and i came home to this... lol

I really need to sort my equipment out asap ive been getting by with shoddy lights seeing as i cant use my hps.

Im sure she'l be fine just a bit mis shapen at the moment. If she perks back up i'll post some picks. Jane on the other hand is doing fine. I'll measure height now... last time i checked was before the whole burn incident and they were below or around 5" i think.. Right well Mary's over 5 inches now but thats when shes wilted a bit so shes probably about half ana half. Jane is nearly 7 inches now.

Just gonna try set up a more secure light system for them. Sorry about the poor posts recently this has been all over the place. Hopefully i can get fully back on track soon!

Man that sucks about the light falling on her, but I'm glad to hear that she is alright.
One of my Lowryder's had her stem broke accidentally by me during transplanting and then a couple days later I accidentally dropped her and broke the pot that she was in.
She is doing fine now and even has new growth, probably end up the strongest of the bunch. Weeds, remember, very resilient!
Hang in there and good luck!

Haha cheers. yeah i think my grow was going too well when i started so something had to go wrong. . . But yeah i've learnt they can deal with alot of abuse (Although i hope they go through no more)

The stem is an S-Shape now. and a lot of the smaller branches are in a similar shape. I guess because the lamp was still on that all the branches etc turned toward it... Because they havent "popped back into place" Theyre all weird n wavey. How ever im sure this will change with time.

Both lights have theyre own light now where as before they were sharing one Fluro... I'm aware how poor the lighting is currently but hopefuly this will change soon when my envirolite arrives.

I've been following this thread. While I have yet to grow anything, I find all the info available in the grow journals to be of extremely high value. I think your grow is going great, even with the setbacks. I'm in the process of gathering equipment to build a stealth grow cabinet -- can't wait to get it started! Best of luck, TGP - I'll keep following!

Cheers for the input! Thanks for keeping up I think one of the main flaws in my plan was that i underestimate how difficult it would be to have a successful stealth grow. I mean obviously one persons scenario is completely different from another. But i really should have looked into my set up more before i started. Probably would have saved me a lot of time and money. In fact without the set backs id be close to flowering soon lol.

Anyway yeah i think they're fine but their recovery time is probably being stunted with my shite light set up... Anyway i feel confident that in a week or two they will be both well on their way

Aw dam, thats ashame about the lamp, I'm sure they'll be fine tho, it's a very hardy plant.

Looking forward to seeing those pics x

yeah I learned to be very careful around the kids after I had that PH Down mishap, lol.
All liquids are now on the bottom shelf!
No worries TGP I am sure they will get big and healthy again soon.

TGP, sorry to hear that bro! Don't give up on your little ladies, they can with stand alot of problems. The beg of my grow I used nutes for the first 2 weeks from seed. 2 CFL and the socket fell on Stretch and cut 2 of her branches. Alot of things went wrong at the beginning of my grow. It will all make up in the end with time, patience and understanding!!

Cheers guys! I just checked on her for the first time today. And im happy to say shes back in the right shape lol They're both fine. i WILL upload some photos in the next hour or so i promise lol.

I didnt realize it so much yesterday as she was misshapen but the growths on my plants are a bit uneven. I'll show a photo later. Basically where two branches emerge, one branch would be bigger/longer than the other. I assume this is due to the stress they've had with lighting etc. Anyway like i said i'll have a proper update as soon as i get the camera charged.

So its Day 39:

Cant believe it was nearly 40 days ago that i planted these girls. Been through so many good times.. and unfortunately some bad times lol

Anyway lets keep this short n simple. You all know theyve been through alot of stress so there is still some browning from before, as well as slight drooping of the leaves. Mary for those of you who dont know, had a lamp fall on her which deformed her some what but shes fighting back already (Lamp incident was yesterday).

Photo time!

Jane:
As you can see top leaves seem a lil droopy, could be due to branches not being strong enough to support whole leaf?


Jane again, this is what i mentioned earlier, same set of stems but one is much longer than the other? Janes new growth seems to be alot slower than that on Mary's.


Jane again. Thinking of attempting Fimming?


Mary:

Right prepare for alot of brownish patches and odd shape due to the lamp etc. She is looking alot better though!


New growth, you can see its much more advanced than that on Jane.




Another example of growth being different lengths:


As you can see Mary is much bushier where as Jane seems to be taller with less new growth. Jane has primarily been under CFL's where as Mary has been under Fluros.. Both kept as close as possible (not counting the period i had the HPS on).

Anyway thanks for popping by, any insight would be great! Thinking of attempting fimming sometime soon. Probably on Jane.

TGP

Wow they look brill
I wouldn't worry about the irregular growth - it's prob just genetics x

Cheers GG I feel happy with them again now like theyre getting back on track

Keep finding this bloody small black flies in there now though, tried pest control called "Provado" which is supposed to be great, but these things seem to never die... Hope theyre not too much of a problem for the ladies.

They look good TGP, gives me hope that my No2 will come through whatever is going on.
Some of the bigger fan leaves (or parts of them) look like you really fried her a bit, Heh..
Its just a waiting game for me now, till I go into the flowering.
I think you have run out of stuff to go badly at this point eh?

TGP, they are on the right track. Jane is looking fabulous! How much longer you wanna grow it in veg? Keep up the great work brother!

i wouldnt worry to much about jane...mary might just be growing extra fast

Alto: Yeah like mentioned before, they are weeds after all lol. Just got really worried as its my first grow etc. But it seems that they can put up with anything with time. Yeah the upper fan leaves which were fried really suffered after the transplant. Literally just the tips were showing a sign of brownishness before the transplant then BANG over the next day everything went to shit lol. Well yeah you say i have run out of things that could go wrong but knowing my luck... lol Bare in mind this is a stealth grow so theres always that aspect to worry which would be the ultimate fuck up lol. I love the fact you keep you avator updated i think it was yesterday when i first saw your newest pic, its like a live feed to how your plants are doing

Toolage: Yeah i keep changing my mind about which ones looking better lol. Jane has gone through the least amount of stress but she doesnt have as much vegetation. I'm not too sure about how long left, what do you reckon? I havent even ordered my new bulb yet. HOPEFULLY when that arrives it'l be a case of plug and play, if not it may take a couple of days to get it up and running. Do you think it'd be worth fimming one of them? I was thinking possibly Mary because she seems to grow a lot faster. Although she is still recovering a bit i think... Still ow you some rep mate, need to spread some more around!

Cannaboy: haha yeah i think Mary is just a freak. Not to worried about Jane at the moment. She seems to be doing well Cheers for stopping by!

So its day 40. Definitely back on tracks now seeing a difference each day. I think i need some more MG though... so need to sort that out.

Also i found an orange mold at the base of one of my pots..... Bit worrying to be honest. Could this cause problems to the roots? Not sure if it was actually from within the pot or just around the base..

Anyway i found a floor in my plan lol my plants will be too big if they reach over 2ft tall... They're seven inches now, and they are predominantly Sativa i believe... So im thinking of chucking them into flowering ASAP. I will probably have to use tie down methods although i dont know how well i'll pull that off...

No pictures today guys sorry, although this way you may notice a bigger difference next time i guess.

Cheers for stopping by again, any advice would be mint.

Peace.

TGP