1st Grow WW, Santa Maria.

Molasses is taking this to new levels!!! Was away for a couple days and came back right at the end of light hours to find even more crystals! Had given them a good watering, knowing that I would not be there to do anything if the temps were to creep up above 32 degrees C, with full nutrients. Nutrient mixture, as said before, is a mixture of cactus/bonsai fertilizers of NPK 3-5-7 and 3-7-5 with 6ml molasses per 2L. And it's working fantastic!

I am hoping that the buds continue to swell. The sativa heavy SM has really started to pack on some weight in the last two days. It looked like a completely different plant, as it started to flower a little later than the WW. But it seems that it will yield quite a bit as it is nearly a foot taller than the WW and the buds are filling in the spaces between the nodes.

Enjoy...

one last pic...

Nice job so far. I have about the same space as you in my flower room but with the 600w. Just started flowering some BlueBerry. Hope they turn out as well as yours. Check these out. https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/17079-supercloset.html

great pics and gals.. keep up the fine work

thanks you two!

The plants have, as mentioned in the thread on molasses, been given a higher dose guage the effects of what some at rollitup seem to consider overdosing. I fed two plants each a liter of 4.5ml/L, and the other two were given 5ml/L. Crystals are starting to really pack on, and I should have photographed the bud I plucked off the younger plant to blaze today. The inside of the buds was also covered in crystal, though this is nothing compared to what I am hoping to harvest later.

two more...

scrumptious. u smoked it yet? how's the high?

the high, for half way done, was heavenly; especially when you don't have any other nugget to smoke and you've grown it yourself... that said, i am definitely realizing the importance of proper curing and drying. i'm not going to ruin this stuff by not finishing properly. it didn't taste that great, though...

Happy Independence Day! And to show my independence of ignorant drug laws putting half of the "criminals" in the US behind bars for enjoying something the government is unwilling to market, new pictures of my derelict and delicious marijuana!

A couple notes: I chopped off about 6 fan leaves from the plant that has continually lacked the will to produce huge buds; my (lack of) red-haired stepchild, if you will. The side that was away from the light (i have been too lazy to continually turn the plants) was showing it, and all the leaves were yellow and covered in disgusting brown lesions. So I cut them off.

Second, I am experimenting with a pond formula that I am guessing contains seaweed extract, but I am not sure. None of the stores here carry seaweed, so I found an organic product that encourages the growth of flowering plants in ponds, and it says it won't harm the fish. It doesn't encourage the growth of algae, either, but it contains trace elements and promotes healthy plant growth. So, in other words, seaweed. At least I'm hoping...

Pics were taken before the shot of seaweed was given, which, by the way, seems extremely small. They recommend a dose of 1ml/1L, approximately 1/10 of the dose I recommended to johnny1234 on his journal. I ended up disregarding the recommended dose in favor of approximately 25ml/L. It won't burn the plants, and I will see just how much it can use of the stuff. It seems like it's aloe vera for plants or something, simply fantastic stuff, so we'll see. I'll update when it seems like there's something to report...

the saga continues...

windows crashed the other day leaving me without the possibility of posting pics... but an update will suffice.

I have harvested a wet trimmed weight of 259.04g, and will be pursuing the water cure method posted by video; i trimmed the main cola and about half of the more mature tops off of two plants, and am allowing the lower bud sites to mature.

Based on my calculations, i am looking for a dry yield of over 38.5g from the first harvest, and am hoping for about 3 times as much from the four plants overall. The water cure, of course, dries at 15% of wet weight as opposed to 25% with regular drying methods.

yo med. I didn't think anyone bothered to check this grow out. thanks for stopping by...

so: The water cure gets rid of more clorophyll, making the final dried plant product weigh 10% less, but a harder cure? I'm not sure what you mean by that.

The process is simply soaking the pot right after harvest in cool water, and leave it in a closet or whatever. Change the water once a day, and after seven days, dry as usual. I found that it needs a little longer than what seems like dry, as my bud hisses a little when i burn it, meaning it's not completely wet.

I simply didn't want to wait a month for a cured product. Won't ever wait that long, probably. Seeing as I don't sell at all, the end weight is for nothing but bragging. Plus, the bud that you're smoking is more potent, which means you smoke less to get just as high. Obviously no one smokes less, so the effect is simply stronger.

Nice journal man.
How was the final smoke, and what did all four plants combined harvest eventually weigh up to?
I currently have 2 5'5 Misty plants growing outdoors at around 2 weeks flowering and was just wondering how long it was before you saw some actual buds on your plant? Also, I'm hoping that they turn out as nicely as yours seem to have!! Good grow.. +rep
Peace

yo storny. pictures will hopefully be posted of the final results, as i took a ton of budshots before my computer went bezerk. I ended up harvesting 39 grams dry from my first harvest from one plant, but that was after the water cure. The weight was much less than normal, 15% of wet weight as opposed to 25%, as i mentioned in the last post. I harvested another two times from it, each time from lower bud sites until this last time I chopped it completely down, gathering in total another ounce, I'd say. I would say, and this is difficult because I started to get lazy with my numbers after I had something to smoke, that I harvested another ounce from that same plant. I would say about six ounces total from everything, although I froze the stuff that didn't look as great, and am saving it with some trimmings for some hash later. Not bad for the head room, as I couldn't let them grow very tall, but not all that impressive i must admit.

It took three weeks before I saw major bud growth. I saw little clumps of hairs after two weeks, and mass built up continually afterwards until the last week. You could call them buds after three weeks, but you wouldn't want to smoke it... patience is a virtue here. I must also say that I limited my harvest by continually picking a bud here and there for smoking to tide me over those two months. Good luck, and thanks for the compliments!!!

these are the clones I took early on just about ready to get hacked. will post harvest pics of both grows another time...

Wow, those look great.

thanks, man. How much longer would you give them? I'm thinking another week. I'm going to start flushing today and then use the $2 magnifying glass to look at the trichomes. I'm thinking of doing another water cure as well. Thanks for checking it out

So i'm pulling out the HPS out of my closet and testing my newly constructed cold cathode light in its place. I figure that it's worth testing it out right away on what really counts: can you flower a plant with it? Well, my plants are still alive, and are greening up after a long drought and hot HPS conditions over the weekend. It seems to be improving, and i'll be posting pictures. This is nothing conclusive, but I will be starting perhaps a batch of tomatoes shortly to see how they fare.