2nd attempt at 1st grow...problems again :-(

Thank you...and good to hear your excited about your first harvest is good...keep up the hard work and be patient it will come together if you can keep it together till there ready...you did this work yourself be proud...good growing

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awww, thanks guys...couldn't have without some "gentle guidance"..I have 1 bubblelicious that's 6 foot and has 7 freakin colas! PACKED!I tied them w/ some hemp string and tugged them so they bent alittle for better light over the colas..she is THE monster!!! I got some "real" pics from my new b/f whose a photographer on the side,, who happens to love watching me work in the garden, haha...
My trichs have turned cloudy now on all but one...any idea how long it'll take, though with 5 diff strains who knows, so I check every couple days, see no amber yet, and buds aren't beefy "fat", nor are most of them very crystally, I am wondering if my humidity issue is making them less frosty? How will I be sure of when to start flushing?????
I got a small dehumidifier, pulls only like a cup or 2 a day out of the air, maintains about 49-52%...going to get a better one w/ an a/c unit for next time, b/c summer will def require a/c.
Just feeding the micro & bloom now, like 7-20 and after last feeding had a bit of brown crispies on fan leaf edges, not sure if the ppm was too high,(about 1200) I added the bud booster stuff and that brought it up from 900's.
So yesterday I gave them all a hugee drink of water, man o man can these gals drink...6 5 gal buckets later(some are in 10 gal/sunshine advanced)...I REALLLY need a res in that room! What a back killer!
Am thinking of using my hydro res when it comes time to flush, which is going to be hectic, as they will all be done at different times it seems.
A small lower branch broke off so I cut it, hung & dried it..veryy stoney and considering no flush wasn't harsh at all!
They seem to be taking their sweet time, but the bubbles are 8-10 weeks..and I figured the way they flowered in the beginning I needed to deduct 2 weeks for the light leak when they were still in the house.
So now I watch for the pistils changing color and the trichomes turning partly amber?]
Smoked some of this buddah kush, i got it off another med patient, best medicine for my aches n pains, the stuff was phenomenal..he is going to try and get clones for me..and the trichs on it were very clear, he said he harvests when they are clear"? I don't know, but it was a great body high, giggly, yet not hyper, no couch lock either, like you can use it day or night, no munchies, lol..I WANT THAT strain!!!!

any idea why some of the leafs around the buds would ram horn, not even using much N anymore..???? 4 plants have it though...

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nice to see your garden full of flowers

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I'm loving it, so are the damn bumble bee's...somehow keep getting in, I think they OD on the thc...found 3 dead in there

Icannabis, I have babies started in the ebb&gro...a group of 3 week olds and some under 2 week olds (tried to time them according to wks of flowering, see how that works out, lol)
I have a white rhino, some white widows, bubbles, crystals, ice, 2 medi-buds..and a couple clones from my 7 top super bubble I took whilst in flower, and after they rooted it took maybe a week under 24/7 fleuro b4 they started veg growth again, once I saw that plant I KNEW I wanted a mamma of her, so hopefully 1 will be the strongest, I will save for a mother.
The medi bud is a pretty new strain, not much on google about it...so heres to hoping it yeilds huge like they say, supposed to also be easy 2 grow..we shall see!
My res PH is doing the same as it did last time, every ebb/flow it goes from 5.6-5.7---6.2 or so, I read its probably because I should have soaked the hydroton in a tub full of ph 5.5 water..I thought I just had to get all the crap & dust off them..hmmso have tried adding water from the top between feedings thats 5.6...but I shouldn't have to PH the res for every ebb/flow?
Got some hydrogen peroxide, is it OK to use over the counter (3%) strength? I only have 12 pots currently hooked to the res. so am only using aprox 20 gallons.
I also have read the more water in the res the more the PH will be stable...whats your thought on this? Reason I didn't fill it to 65 gal or even 40, so few small plants, freq nute changes, seems wasteful in the nute dept.
Using the maxi bloom powder for the ones in the res.my main concern is add back, seems the N is low, and if using a powder you don't really know what the plants are using/needing.. I am doing a side by side of same strains 1 group in the ebb& grow with maxibloom and the ones in sunshine advanced I am using foxfarms, just to keep things chaotic, haha..
This is the first baby pics of the baby girls (fem seeds) so...the little ones are 1 week from ger5mination, bigger ones a bit over 2..almost 3.
Question also: my 1 bubble clone I took when flowering is growing a lot, but it's got 1-3 fans per leaf instead of the 5...is that b/c it was in flower and is reverting??

Can someone please help me identify what is going on w/ my plants??!! Getting pretty closed to done and suddenly the foliage is getting all crunchy at the edges, is this nute burn, or a deficiency?
Please help these babies are so close to being done, with no big problems until now...only 1 difference, I flushed all the plants when I first noticed what looked like nute burn....

I hope you figured it out by now...good work

I said 2 hell with it, all the programs I am running say I was in week 10, so I harvested...did a bubble and romulan grapefruit first...dried 5 days then into quart jars, those 2 plants filled 6 jars snuggly...burping them (curing) 3-4 x/day, smell amazing, icky sticky resinous giggity stoney stuff!!!
Today I am drying 4 more..the NYCD I think had the fattest colas, like 2 litre bottles..the 7 top bubblelicious is drying on 2 clothes lines, and I think I'll need 2-3 more cases of mason jars before the harvest is complete.!!!
Next...canna butter with the shake!!!!!!!!

one plant had some weird stuff going on, had a bunch of tear shaped swollen thingys..like new pistils were still forming? I don't think it went herm and seeded itself, but buds don't look like any others...will post pics tomorry....dead tired!

Ok, where I am at so far...have 2 oz per mason jar for a total of around 8 oz dry from the 1st 2 plants harvested, guess thats ok numbers for a first harvest?
The buds were pretty light/airy sativa'ish except on the NYCD! That sucker had tight/fat buds (big around as my upper arm...wet weight on those 3 branches was a bit over 3 pounds. Not sure where it'll land dry, like 80% less? The 7 cola'd bubble weighed 4.6 pounds wet, can hardly wait to see dry weight!! At about 2 oz per quart jar I am guessing I will need 2 more cases of jars by the time all are dried and ready to cure..Have gone through 4 just on the 2 smallest5 plants!


ok here are some pics of where I am at...have all but 1/2 of 2 plants harvested, damn that is a LOT of work for 1 person to do!!!
Happy growing...1st 2 plants averaged about 4 oz/plant..is that decent for 1st time?
Newb proudly presents her first set of bud porn pics!!!
Happy growing all~~

and heres a quick pic update on the kids & babies..Happy growing~~

oh just realized...my Northern lights looks almost exactly like "Luna" did...so much for it being indica dom./.. =-/

repotted all the new babies, growing like weeds...going to flip them in another week or two and try some smaller plants this time.
Thanks again for all of the help from RIU members..

nothing builds success like success. nice work

Thank you, friend! I ended up with about 4 lbs 9 0z on 1st grow,AND OF COURSE donated everything above my allowed 22 oz to a few diff local collectives and some patients w/no money..
Today is end of week 1 in flower for second grow...they have been borningly uneventful (I'm leavin them alone, haha)
I started them on 12/12 when the smallest was 10", max was 16", not looking to grow trees this time.I am growing medi-bud, which I guess is pretty new..beautiful, easy 2 grow heavy indica, hugee fan leaves (one is >14"!!)white widow, white rhino, pineapple jack someone gave me,I have 4-5 THC snow clones I took from early flowering last time that are just big and bushy..already were showing tiny flowers b4 I flipped to 12..
And now I am growing for my son in laws friend(everyone LOVEDDD the smoke!!), so his 15 are medi bud x3, white rhino x3, Amsterdam haze x 3,N. Lights x 3 and 3 White widows...
My plants now in flower are on floranova 1 part nutes, and I am realllly happy with it, no mixing 3 different things, and the plants are so happy I can hear them singing!! although I am using diamond nectar w/ it and every 2 weeks as a foliar...they are happy plants, made it to wk 1 flower with no problems! Seems my biggest problem in the past was changing nutes in flower, the the 1 part its easy-breezy!!!
Happy growing all!!!! Decided NOT to use the ebb&grow..everything is in sunshine advanced #4, love that stuff!! Seedlings still not getting fed as they are only up less than 10 days..when they get 3 sets of leafs I will start em on a lite 200 ppm feed(GH floraNova), titrate as tolerated..
Oh and I just had ventilation finally put into my room, 2 6" fans pulling hot air out at the top of the peak(that exit thru carbon filter), 4 screened louvered airvents put in at floor level on opposite wall..and I vented the 2 lights with air hoods..actually getting too chilly in there now...maybe I can avoid an A/C unit if the summer stays in the 40's at night!!

Today is the beginning of week 3 in flower on my 15, and my patients 15 were germinated 6-1 and are very healthy green, no nute burn or def,ranging from 9-13" they seem to realllly love GH flora Nova 1 part nute regime, I am really loving it instead of the GH 3 part series, they seem to be flowering faster, as well as it being mostly organic and chelated the plants have never had a single burn.I add worm castings tea 10 ml and nitrozyme 7 ml and diamond nectar to each gallon made and the plants are simply gorgeous this round, though they have quickly outgrown their pots, payday they all get 10 gallon pots, except of course the few I have going in my ebb & grow. They are showing yellowing of the lowest leaves at 600 PPM of just flora nova grow and diamond nectar.
Just did my first res change, thinking having my res 4" higher than the brain/buckets may be messing something up, think I will call CAP and see if that is a problem,and make changes as needed.
Thc snow clones from last grow are sooo covered in gorgeous flowers, I will tie them down tomorrow so they can get more light to all bud sites.
The are having yellowing around the bud leaves at only 3 weeks into flower, but they all 3 had a slew of flowers the last 2 weeks of veg, also...not sure if that is due to taking the clones when the mom was starting to flower or not? I only let them get about 14-18" before flipping this time and they range from 24-40", some tripled height.
Had 3 air intakes installed for fresh air and 2 up high to blow out the heat, this week I am going to buy the turbo type fans as the 2 I got were just supposed to be boosters i think, not meant to be the only ones, they are inline with the 2 air cooled lights then blow through a air filter with charcoal before it's blown into a different area of the garage, may need to change that if we actually ever start summer this year, room temps have been staying around 70 @ night and up to 78 in day, humidity is staying under 50 with 1 small dehumidifier running.
Have my eye on a portable a/c-dehumidifier with a hose to drain it if the temps get much higher, all it'll take is a few 80+ days for my temps to be way 2 high, so am going to get it just to have in case it starts getting hotter.
I also have 2 wall oscillating fans and a standing oscillating fan, dont have a temp/humidity meter in the tent that the 15 babies are in, but their light stays on 24/day and I open the tent flaps during the 7-7 hours for their added circulation.

OMG I am crushed...discovered my beautiful ice plant was a male (from a fem seed) too late, all of my buds on ALL 15 flowering plants are LOADED, and I do mean LOADEDDD with seeds, like one bud I clipped and dried was not even an inch long/around and had like 48 seeds!!!! That was a big bud x Ice, sooo, looks like no further bud growth since the seeds were noticeable, I am sooooo bummbed.
Lemons=lemonade, right?
The bud won't be worth shit as there was not much left of the test one after pulling all the seeds out, but ice x with medi bud, white widow, white rhino, bubblegum,big bud, and all the other strains should make for nice plants, I think Ice with any of them would be a good thing?
only one I dont think got nailed was the pineapple jack who was outdoors when this happened, and her flowers are still very small,with no seedy looking bulging. Not yet, anyway, but she was right outside the garage...hmmm, what to do, what to do?
I cut 15 clones of my vegging plants (14-22") in case I harvest early just for the seeds, doesn't seem it would take a full 8-10 weeks for seeds to mature from what I have read, some are already so big they are bulging out of those teardrop shaped thingys.
Any advice...seems I just talk to myself on here these days...
Im not sure if I should just chop em down as soon as seeds are viable, the big bud cross looked light tan but now that they've dried are more brown..just hate flushing any more $$$ down the toilet, though...I could sell these killer mix seeds at the MMJ farmers market I guess, maybe recoup some losses and just start fglowering the other 15 now....what would ya do if you were in my shoes??

no ideas, hmm?

Sucks that happened...but this is why I tell people to watch there plants in early flower no matter what seeds they buy...and if it was a hermie then the seeds are worthless...this is why spending all the extra cash on fem seeds is such a waste I've run regular seeds for years and bread a few to make new seed and have yet to seed a crop I didn't want too...sorry for your lose next crop will go better...good growing