Hi all!
So I managed what I would say was probably a 80% successful first grow! I grew Purple Punch which was a favourite strain of mine that I once managed to get (wasn't my fav. Until I had it ofc and I don't have much/any choice in my area).
Why wasn't it a 100% successful grow? Well I think I harvested a little too early. The buds were quite airy and spacious and not as dense as I was expecting, but by that stage the plant had become a jungle. I had 2 failed grows before that, so with this one I did less and generally left it to do its own thing (whereas before I was like a mother with her newborn). I mean the harvest was crazy, each branch was as thick as my arm/leg with bud and had multiple branches everywhere. The main cola ended up taking light stress as it was reaching right into the lights at the top of my grow tent, and as the weather was changing I decided to harvest (pistils and under the scope it 'looked' ready, but how would I be sure, was my first). I had also started to notice some mold in some of the super dense areas, the jungle was just filling the tent and blocking airflow.
So I harvested, ended up having to throw most of the main branch due to mold, but still ended up with enough to see me like 5 months.
Issues;
Size - the plant was massive. Autoflowering strain. How do I keep the plant smaller? Is it the size of the bag it's in? The grow seemed to take like way longer than I expected, at like 6 months almost.
Airy buds? Is that because I let it get so big? And I didn't cut off the nugs? Or would it simply have fattened up anyway had I left longer?
My grow tent is decent size, I have a good light, I effectively specced the space to be ample for a single plant, but it seemed to just grow and grow and grow.
Any tips for my second grow to keep the plant smaller? I'd like a faster harvest - so I can try different strains instead of having like a year's supply of 1, I don't mean beyond the realms of the plant, but my grow was like 3x what was advertised. So I must have done something/not done something.
My thoughts are;
Smaller grow bag
Earlier light change? Can not switching to bloom lights (LED with veg and bloom lights) cause it to stay vegging as an auto?
Trimming? Both in veg and bloom phase?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've waited out the weather and got a little seedling just breaking ground.
Gastro
So I managed what I would say was probably a 80% successful first grow! I grew Purple Punch which was a favourite strain of mine that I once managed to get (wasn't my fav. Until I had it ofc and I don't have much/any choice in my area).
Why wasn't it a 100% successful grow? Well I think I harvested a little too early. The buds were quite airy and spacious and not as dense as I was expecting, but by that stage the plant had become a jungle. I had 2 failed grows before that, so with this one I did less and generally left it to do its own thing (whereas before I was like a mother with her newborn). I mean the harvest was crazy, each branch was as thick as my arm/leg with bud and had multiple branches everywhere. The main cola ended up taking light stress as it was reaching right into the lights at the top of my grow tent, and as the weather was changing I decided to harvest (pistils and under the scope it 'looked' ready, but how would I be sure, was my first). I had also started to notice some mold in some of the super dense areas, the jungle was just filling the tent and blocking airflow.
So I harvested, ended up having to throw most of the main branch due to mold, but still ended up with enough to see me like 5 months.
Issues;
Size - the plant was massive. Autoflowering strain. How do I keep the plant smaller? Is it the size of the bag it's in? The grow seemed to take like way longer than I expected, at like 6 months almost.
Airy buds? Is that because I let it get so big? And I didn't cut off the nugs? Or would it simply have fattened up anyway had I left longer?
My grow tent is decent size, I have a good light, I effectively specced the space to be ample for a single plant, but it seemed to just grow and grow and grow.
Any tips for my second grow to keep the plant smaller? I'd like a faster harvest - so I can try different strains instead of having like a year's supply of 1, I don't mean beyond the realms of the plant, but my grow was like 3x what was advertised. So I must have done something/not done something.
My thoughts are;
Smaller grow bag
Earlier light change? Can not switching to bloom lights (LED with veg and bloom lights) cause it to stay vegging as an auto?
Trimming? Both in veg and bloom phase?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've waited out the weather and got a little seedling just breaking ground.
Gastro
