First Official cfl grow

Pics of what Estella looks like tonight.



I have 2 options at this point.
I'm thinking a few things. First, I want to test some new FF OF soil with the pH tester I have. It's supposed to be in the correct range, so I am going to put some in a container, water it, and test the runoff. See what it comes out as. If it comes out like it should in the 6.5 range or so, then I know my test kit is working. Not sure why I didn't think of this before. I already tried testing vinegar and water, and it definately showed up, the pH went down a lot. So, if the test runoff works right, then I can assume my plant is still at a high 7.2 to 7.6 pH. So, I will water her with vinegar water.
Or I might repot her in a bigger container. I realized I have like a 1 or 2 gallon size container from veggie gardening this summer. I could put her in their with fresh soil. I don't know which one to to, but the first things first, and that is to test the runoff of fresh soil.

This is most Excellent! Yes! I learned 3 things!
1. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Period.
2. Watered Estella with vinegar water. Read in another post that several people use regular white distilled vinegar, not just the cider apple vinegar, and that's what I have, the white stuff, so I pH 3/4 gallon of water to about, oh, I dont' remember lol. But I tested the runoff, and it's great! 6.2 to 6.4. Somewhere in there! So this means, my tester was working, and the pH was too high, and now, I think I fixed it!!
3. My pH tester works lol.
So, now that I have lowered my PH, do I have to do that again? Or is it really now all at 6.4 or so? What I mean is, does it take more than 1 watering with vinegar to actually lower the pH of the entire pot of soil? or did I just fix it???!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I'm super uber dooper excited right now!!!!!!!!! If I just did what I think I did, I SAVED MY PLANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey man, i finally read through (most of your thread). dude, what a rollercoaster ride of emotions. some pretty hilarious passages as well, i must say, for example:

"ADVICE!! I HAVE A QUESTION! HAHAHAHA. Ok, seriously, I'm totally baked tonight lol. Ok, but I DO have a question! ? lol. Um, crap, I forgot the question!! Damn! What was it? Um....................................ok got it, it came back. I literally hit all those dots while thinking lol. That was in real time dots lol. So! before I forget again! shit. damn. what was that question? dammit. lol. .............................ok got it again. more real dot time. it's the new thing lol. damn. ask the question before I forget it again!!! ..........ok, so if I want a high that is mostly cerebral, with good pain relieving qualities, if I cook it, or even just smoke it, when should I harvest? When the trichs are 30 clear/70 amber, 70 clear/30 amber, 50/50, what? When do I chop this honey?"

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lmao!! i do that all the time when i'm writing stoned, hahaha. anyway, if you're still wondering about trichs, i think you'd want to go for something like 70 cloudy / 30 amber for a mostly cerebral high but with a little couch lock relief.

but in any case, i think it's easier to just go by the look of your buds. your plant's been suffering from lock out, hopefully your vinegar solution might help. if it doesn't, i wouldn't worry too much... my sour diesel looked bare like that when i chopped but the high is AMAZING.

and your buds are getting fairly close, based on the hairs/pistils... when she's "ready" most of the hairs will have receded and turned crusty brown. yours isn't quite there yet, but i'd guess in another week or two. hopefully you can reduce your ph and let her take up some nutes to keep her alive for about that much longer!

good luck dude. when you're ready to harvest, you can try my technique... here's my sour diesel harvest from early november:
https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/368799-150w-cfl-purple-d-sour-10.html#post4859332

YES ALL!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S AAAAAALLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE GREW SINCE LAST NIGHT after the vinegar pH solution. She grew!! The sugar leaves are more green, more trichs, everything looks much better!!!! It worked!!!!!!!! FUCKIN AWESOME!! Yes!! Here she is:

looking good how long did you veg for

homer371, thanks for the info and for stopping by!! Yes, it has been a ride of emotions for sure lol. I tend to rant sometimes in my posts, but I just can't help out. It's my way of trying to let the world know just what's going on lol. Too much garbage in the world. I do tend to ramble when I am baked lol. I will check out your technique. I'm so happy she is making it! I will let her chill with this water for about 3 or 4 days, then feed her some FF BB. I would like to see her buds fill out some more before choppy choppy time lol. Who knows, maybe I Will harvest her on Christmas lol. Will see lol. Maybe New Years Day, that would be good lol.
Fight411, thanks for the reply! I vegged her for exactly 36 days. If you look back through the journal, you will notice that I screwed up about halfway through flowering, she lost all her leaves because I was too dumb to figure out she was in lockout. Now, I have that fixed, and I understand how to keep it fixed, so she is going to explode in the next week or so.
I just have this feeling the buds are really going to fill out now. Going to take a week or so though, I believe. She went through hell, now she gets to go through some heaven before she gets wacked lol. I know she has plenty of light, and I can already tell that the buds underneath the main cola's are starting to fill out even more. Saw that last night. That's totally cool! I just might end up with a few decent sized cola's! If I get a OZ out of this, it would be awesome, considering I almost killed her lol.

good luck with the reviving process! i would probaby start right away with the nutes, since she's still very deficient... the sooner the better in my opinion.

hey homer371! howdy! I would love to give her some nutes tonight, but her soil is very wet still. What happened was I watered her, then the next day got mad and did all that testing with pH, figured it out, and watered her again with the pH'ed water. So, I have to wait a bit so I don't over water her too much. So once she is getting closer to drying out, I will give her a good shot of BB. Full strength probably. I want to order some Ca/Mag too. Any good websites that you know of to order stuff from online?

sorry can't help you on the website question. how's your drainage on the pot? if you have good easy run off, i don't think it would hurt to water her again like tomorrow to boost the recovery. either way, i'll be watching for updates

* i meant water her tomorrow *with nutes*

roger that lol. Drainage is pretty good. I have a layer of rocks on the bottom of the pot, so that helps alot. The water does run right through for the most part. I will have a look at her tonight, see how she is. 7 pm is the time I wait for every day lol. That's when the lights come on lol. I am just amazed that I saved her lol. It's awesome lol.

Here of some new pics from tonight. I notice more trichs for sure, and the buds lower on the stems are getting bigger and more trichs. This is a great thing. I checked her water, she is still pretty dense with it, so I am going to wait until tomorrow at the earliest until I give her nutes. I don't want to overwater her, that will lead to more stress on the plant I believe. She seems to be doing well, so I don't want to add to the problem I already had. I could be wrong though. But with my anxiety issues, I'm too chickenshit to try it lol. (feeding so soon after watering)
I can actually see some of the pistles turning orange. I was hoping they would turn purple lol. Crazy, yeah i know lol. But I like purple buds lol. So I am thinking this is an Indica, judging by her leaves when in veg. Either that or a mix. I think she probably has another week at least, probably 2. Just depends on how fast she grows, now that the pH is correct. Without further ado, heeeeeeerrrrreee'ssss Estella!

one thing is for sure: sadly, I won't have much trim leaves to make cannabutter with. I won't have to trim much at all, looks like the leaves in the buds are pretty darn short.

Here she is tonight, still growing and maturing better.

lookin good allforit. hopefully the nutes you add will help the buds plump up and get a little frostier!

id say shes beginning to ripen

Homer371! Sup! Yes, I am going to water her tonight with nutes for sure. Maybe a full strength dose too. I think she could for sure use it, and since she is getting close to being done, I would say one last good feeding, then straight water for a week or so. Maybe 2. I will go by her trichs. I want about 50/50 or 70/30, haven't decided yet lol. But the pistles are beginning to turn orange, and some are getting all small and thin, so it's getting there lol. I am hoping for a miracle lol. She was almost dead, now she is thriving, so want to keep her going lol.
John Pickle! How you doing? I agree with ya, I think she is too. She finally is growing again. I can't imagine how big my buds would be, if only......I hadn't got her in nute lockout lol. For 3 or so weeks lol. Bad. She would have buds twice this size, I bet.
I wont' have any pics tonight, my camera batteries died on me last night. Damn. I have to go get some. I want pics tonight dammit! lol. I'm going to the corner store. Fuck it.

Ok, story right quick. Last night when I was checking out Estella, I touched some of the leaves with trichs on them, I was just trying to heft the branch a little bit, see the weight. Well, I took my hand off and saw and felt it had trichs on it, and without thinking just licked em off lol. Maaaaaaannnn, did I ever get....not sure lol. HIGH AS A KITE. Body felt no pain at all, none. Muscle cramps, gone. Pains? Gone. I was stoned out of my body lol. It was amazing! If this is any indication of this plant, it's potent!
Pics will be up in a half hour or less. I hope lol. I'm baked lol.

Took these with a higher setting on my camera, so hoping they turn out better. Tonight is feed night, so will feed her after a bit. She feels fairly dry, which is a good thing. She's using the water again.

Hello all you boys and girls, I'd like to take ya to the inside world. It's quite an irregular place to be, but never fear your safe with me......well.....maybe.

Hehe. It's update time! She is filling out! I hope the pics tonight do some justice to how she really looks. She still looks bad, but she is for real sure looking 200% better than she was!! Been 2 days since I fed her, she seems to like it lol.
Looking at the pics in zoom mode is quite fun!! I can see the trichs are turning from cloudy to milky white. A few ambers (saw less than 10). So that's cool. Maybe she will be Harvested New Years day lol. Not Christmas, for sure. That's what I wanted, and probably would have had, IF.... yeah. lol.
I gotta tell ya all. With my super low tolerance and smoking brown for the last many moons, this stuff is going to be amazing!!! I have not taken any test buds, although did accidently eat some trichs, and got so baked I could have been on the Moon lol. And I didn't have very many either! lol. I think it will (hope it will) last me long enough to harvest my next grow. Although if it helps with my anxiety, the brown weed doesn't, just makes it worse sometimes, it might not last as long lol. Damn, this anxiety is killing me. Worse every time I eat gluten. Much worse. So this day I am just all stoved up, tense, wacked out on anxiety. Sigh. Gotta stop with the burgers and pizza and stuff. Have to. That's actually my New Years Resolution, which I never make. But I have to do it.
Hope everyone is doing well this here Christmas week!! Here's some bud porn!! (sorry the model is not a 10 lol)