Growing again first time since the early 80's...

Romeo7701

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Top of the day to everyone hope all are thriving in these hard times!!! Well had one of the expert growers suggest I start a journal so here goes...
This is my second time growing in my life,, things have changed allot since the early 80's I have started growing again because of corporal tunnel syndrome and don't want to take the crap the docs are trying on me...
I had some very old seeds given me by a friend so I planted them just to see if they would come up, only 3 but what you know got 3 beautiful babies...
Growing them in 2 to 1 mix of Sphagaum peat moss and regular yard soil with River rocks in the bottom of my containers to help runoff that I don't have right now because I'm closely monitoring the amount I feed and the moisture content of my soil, I see very good penetration of my feed and water solution which happens to be Alaskan Fish Fertilizer went from 1/2 a tablespoon at 4 weeks to currently at 2 tablespoons per gallon at 6 weeks since I was kinda new decided not to do the heavier solutions like 20/20/20 didn't want to worry about a burn out so stayed with the 5/1/1 Fish. Had a slight canoeing Come up on 2 of my babies and that's why I'm here. They look great PH staying around 6.8 temps between 70* to 80* humidity staying good also and they are pretty and green but was concerned about the canoeing it is very slight but I didn't want to wait till it got bad before I got some more knowledged from some pro growers... This is the place for that,,, no sarcasm from me just truth I've learned allot in a short amount of time for the Ace's on here and a big Hell ya goes out to you all. From what I'm told not many people try to grow in just regular dirt and Sphagaum Peat Moss mix so if anyone has would like to know how it went. Mine are growing slowly but have been told that's because of the lighting I have when I can't get them in the sun and because I'm using such a light feed... Gonna try to get better and achieve more as I go so I'm glad for all the knowledge I'm receiving here from those that grow awesome buds I have seen!!! I'll continue to update as I achieve more... Now having said all this going to include some at this point picks... 6 weeks old and was told they're small...
 

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Romeo7701

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Morning everyone hope all is good with my fellow growers, If I have three right to say that yet... Well it's been a tough starting back growing as you can see in my previous page and some of my post it's been a learning curve. One off the most important things I have learned from growing indoors is you must have a stable grow area,, temp, humidity, air flow and one off the most important things proper lighting... Planted at the end of June and weeks went by then months little to no growth several off the pro's that have helped me kept telling me my lighting sucked,,, it did I knew it did but didn't have the $$$ to do better at the time. Then finally got my stem check decided to spend about a third on the grow. Lights being at the top of the list searched, studied, researched and U tubed lighting specs and what to look for. So I jumped on Amazon and came across a light that the manufacturer said meets the specs I was looking for and for a good price. So I said F. it I bought 2, 3 days later the showed up and I installed them in my grow room 8ft X12ft put them on the timers I bought with them and brought my still little babies and placed them under them at 20 inches turned the fan on and walked out. Waited 3 days before going back and checking on them thinking ok they won't grow much. Now understand I could still lift the ring on the 5 gallon buckets I had transplanted them in the third time and tote them in and out without the ring touching them... Dudes I opened the door and stopped dead in my tracks,,, these bright little full spectrum cheap W-1000 lights I bought are unbelievable!!! In 3 days 3 they had grown and were now 3 inches above the ring, room temp 76 degrees humidity 68 checked the soil checked it again down 6 inches Dry grabbed my bottle of 20/20/20 Peters mixed at 1/2 tsp with 1/4 tsp of molasses and 1/4 tsp of Alaskan fish fertilizer mixed in and fed the girls real good... Guys and Gals thanks for keeping me positive I was about to give up!!! 3 days ago I took my first clones from my baby's and have them to rooting in some enhanced water... Check out the pics more information coming as I progress... O one more thing Mars, Spider Farms and Spectra are some of the best out there BUT this WILLS W-1000 is freaking awesome for the price less than $100 bucks covers a 3.6 X 3.6 square ft floor area now let me upload some picks... The first pics are before I put them under the new lights 2 weeks ago the last 4 are when I topped them 3 days ago... Look at how they have already filled in after topping on the last 3...927366B3-7F39-433C-BCC8-5A1B6ADD4E4E.jpeg2F48206E-0969-45C8-B771-268CAC8643C0.jpeg406A7338-28A3-4BE7-A081-21130B45DE6A.jpeg73535ED9-F88A-420F-9BB5-E890DA3E4A3D.jpegA77DE25E-D7D9-41FD-A7B5-EB300F77DD7C.jpegA2F460D4-DBBB-4984-B5F4-97CCEDA511E5.jpeg691B588B-D7B9-4B91-8EF5-4E2396DFD907.jpeg0EE80BC3-3B6A-4854-B765-9DCD2E5F8F16.jpeg16DCB6BF-523B-401B-AE40-7D2A85101F9A.jpeg5948BE59-9FB3-4C1E-97D1-174BD193D4C7.jpeg
 
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Romeo7701

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Thanks man like I said was about to throw in the towel... If not for some of the others on here and those like you I probably would have just have up...
 

Romeo7701

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What happened to this grow?
Harvested those girls and smoking on them as we speak got my self feeders all ironed out
and they came out really well... Had to start working allot of over time so didn't take the time
to record everything like I should have, I let life get in the way... I've got her clones going now and
White widows, critical widow, and black widow going did some upgrades on equipment.
 

bernie344

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Harvested those girls and smoking on them as we speak got my self feeders all ironed out
and they came out really well... Had to start working allot of over time so didn't take the time
to record everything like I should have, I let life get in the way... I've got her clones going now and
White widows, critical widow, and black widow going did some upgrades on equipment.
Big harvest?
 

Romeo7701

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Harvested those girls and smoking on them as we speak got my self feeders all ironed out
and they came out really well... Had to start working allot of over time so didn't take the time
to record everything like I should have, I let life get in the way... I've got her clones going now and
White widows, critical widow, and black widow going did some upgrades on equipment.
Here’s a few picks of her clones in flower now..825D299A-77FA-43E3-A71A-980594E7F6D0.jpegEF2DAA26-90AD-4F60-9609-A93AEE1D65C4.jpeg4C304FB3-BB8D-42B0-A5F5-DF41CEC463E8.jpegA7AB2F56-F504-489E-89AA-037114F8CC49.png
 

Romeo7701

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Oh well keep trying, youll get there one day.
Yep wasn't to bad a grow for a bag seed that was many years old, I think now that I have some good Genetics
with the widows coming up it will be a better outcome. Almost gave up but didn't have it in me... Lol
 
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