9 weeks old, first grow - What is she up to?

So I'm on my first ever grow and this lady here is Red. She was popped into the soil 9 weeks (aka 63 days) ago and I think she is about 2 weeks into her flowering phase.

But to be honest I'm lost.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at at this stage, and what changes I should be expecting to see in the coming weeks (?).

And insight would be welcomed as I honestly didn't expect any of my plants to get this far having never grown anything from seed before. So it's been a learning curve(I have three more but two are progressing very slowely and the third is just in preflower. I know I planted them very late but I didn't understand autoflowering, or even much about growing, correctly at the time.)

She's a Bloody Skunk Autoflowering seed. Planted in coco coir with perlite and given nutrients and seaweed. She's in an outdoor greenhouse. No extra lights or heat or any of that jazz. Just a little fan to circular the air.

Nice job reminds me if my one time greenhouse grow literally even the same tent model I think. It didnt get more than 3hrs direct light a day though from the sun so I got poor results.

Its just flowering making buds, purple ones at that which I have yet to grow anything that purple. So thats cool.

Keep up the good work it looks healthy, good job. I do grow in coco coir too Id water it at least twice a day in flower and not let it dryback or at least extremely.

But to get this far doing what youre doing it must be alright but things can turn for the worst at any time. Usually just give fertilizer in solution no top dressing or mixing in anything meant for soil.

Thats if this is 100% coco and pearlite at most. Growing it any other way may be more harmful than good.

medidedicated said:

Nice job reminds me if my one time greenhouse grow literally even the same tent model I think. It didnt get more than 3hrs direct light a day though from the sun so I got poor results.

Its just flowering making buds, purple ones at that which I have yet to grow anything that purple. So thats cool.

Keep up the good work it looks healthy, good job. I do grow in coco coir too Id water it at least twice a day in flower and not let it dryback or at least extremely.

But to get this far doing what youre doing it must be alright but things can turn for the worst at any time. Usually just give fertilizer in solution no top dressing or mixing in anything meant for soil.

Thats if this is 100% coco and pearlite at most. Growing it any other way may be more harmful than good.

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The initial substrate mix I used when repotting I created using coco coir, perlite, seaweed diluted in purified water, and a slow release nutrient mix from Royal Queen Seeds. So I've been mindful of adding only a little extra nutrients along the way, and at this stage just water.
I did accidentally give 2 of my plants nutrient burn a week ago but they are recovering now.

When I water I burrow in about 3 inches deep at the edges of the pot, like a moat, water in there, then cover it back up with dry substrate. This ensures the top is always dry which I heard prevents insects.

I'm totally winging it so fingers cross I correctly figure out when to harvest! Just going to keep an eye on the trichomes.

the little bit of the plant we can see loks alright. Beautiful colors. But, you are setting yourself up fora real headache if you continue treating coco like soil. coco is meant to be kept damp and FED daily at least once per day, if not several times per day. I highly recommend doing a little digging and finding some threads on coco growing in here and reading through them. You'll be amazed at the difference you will see when you give coco what it needs. So farthough,the plant does look pretty good. I am pretty sure @medidedicated went through this exact thing early on. I know I sure did. When it went south, it went FAST.

I started out reading coco for cannabis the entire site then I came here had people teach me what that site doesnt cover well. Was suffering therefor.

Really relates to feeding but everything else was useful and got me conditioned to learn the rest I needed to. So I mostly started out doing almost everything right.

Also with a understanding of whats going on. Boiled down to using small pots feeding often like 4-8x a day. It wouldnt fit well outdoors but can hand water it just gets time consuming.

Removing calmag from solution but people do get away with it or use it carefully with educated intent. To keep simply id water at least 2x a day but youre better off finishing what you started.

It may work, people say they never seen it but I have, just not often and more than one grow from said user. Growing a plant takes a while so careful calculated approaches are wise to make it all worth it.

Youd just be limited to getting advice from others that are doing a specific method. If youre winging it taking pieces here there it just sounds risky is all.

TCH said:

the little bit of the plant we can see loks alright. Beautiful colors. But, you are setting yourself up fora real headache if you continue treating coco like soil. coco is meant to be kept damp and FED daily at least once per day, if not several times per day. I highly recommend doing a little digging and finding some threads on coco growing in here and reading through them. You'll be amazed at the difference you will see when you give coco what it needs. So farthough,the plant does look pretty good. I am pretty sure @medidedicated went through this exact thing early on. I know I sure did. When it went south, it went FAST.

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What you can see in my first post is about half her overall size. This is her last week:



The coco coir is wet through the whole time, I just keep the top 1cm dry. I have read conflicting things about watering. Some say multiple times a dry. Other say they can cause the roots to rot and to water every second day during flowering.
I'm just trying my best with confusing information out there, but I will definitely look into it more.

Also, she is pre-fed with this so I don't want to overfeed her by accident.

I just dont know what this method would be, reminds me of a thread here asking if grow dots ok for dtw coco. Idk about why adding things meant for soil with microbes to break down for the plant.

So yea I just dont know much about this route so thats all I can offer.

medidedicated said:

I just dont know what this method would be, reminds me of a thread here asking if grow dots ok for dtw coco. Idk about why adding things meant for soil with microbes to break down for the plant.

So yea I just dont know much about this route so thats all I can offer.

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No problem.
I do have a process in my mind and am trying to "read" my plants too.
What I meant by 'winging it' was that I have never grown cannabis before and so have never seen, in person, the process. So am trying to match what I see, to what I know from online, but it can be tricky!

My first attempt at photographing her trichomes

EmeraldGreenGal said:

No problem.
I do have a process in my mind and am trying to "read" my plants too.
What I meant by 'winging it' was that I have never grown cannabis before and so have never seen, in person, the process. So am trying to match what I see, to what I know from online, but it can be tricky!

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Id have started you in organic soil/compost and biobizz rather than straight Coco for your first few runs in a ideal world I know it well and u being new it's a tad more forgiving (dirt) and you can let it dry out with Coco you shouldn't really let it dry out honestly cannabis isn't the hardest plant to grow and as you already got gardening skills most of that's transferable especially to outdoors