RichardDawson
Active Member
Ok, I am currently finishing up another project on neglect and abuse. Here we have one surviving plant out of an initial six, the other five turned out to be 4 males and one hermie (none died from natural causes).
- this grow consisted of six seeds from various bags
- one small walmart fan, one spped no oscillation
- growing medium MiracleGrow moisture control soil mixed with perlite
- Grown in 1 gallon pots
- lighting was furnished by 5 T8 flouro tubes attached to a 20L gallon screen top suspended between two end table shelves
- No fertilizer was used, except for that which was impregnated into the soil, during vegetative growth
and Dnya-grow Bloom was added during the 3rd and 4th week of flowering.
Initially the plants where started from seed and i used 3 Marine Blue T8 bulbs and 2 AquaGrow T8 bulbs. The Marines put out Blue light and the Aquas are purple bulbs. The lights were set for constant light for the first month. Then the lights changed to 18/6 for the second month. Plant growth was nice and steady. Although I did not use a timer for this, having the clock sway is part of the experiment. Sometimes the lights were on for 18/6 sometimes it was 20/5 , 16/5, 18/8.
As the plants grew some little black bugs entered the game, they were left to themselves until a week before flowering when pest control was administered. The bugs seemed to have no effect that could be seen other than they bite.
After about 2 months these plants were several feet tall
and had very nice looking growth except for side shoots were very limited and small, just one straight stalk. After the nodes became uneven I waited for 4 uneven nodes before I forced Flowering(they had between 13 and 16 nodes a piece).
Once the clocks was changed(along with the lighting which is now 4 standard bulbs and one blue) to 12/12, it took about a week before 3 plants started to show male flowers,these were pulled.A couple of days later another male was found. Leaving two plants without signs of sex. Good I thought, 2 is a good number, not 3(or more) but fine with me. Now it is 2 weeks into flowering and one of the plants has show both, some pistils some sacs, It was pulled. With one plant left any hope of a return, which I hadn't really had any, was in her hands. She started to produce several pistils. I added Dnyagrow Bloom twice during the next two weeks.
It was at this point one plant roughly 3 feet tall was flowering. Her side shoots,which began to grow considerably since the time change, also began budding.
Now to create darkness I just threw a blanket over the top of my screen.the lighting periods again were all over, most of the time it was 12/12,especially during the first 2 weeks of flowering, but I did range it from 14/12, 10/12, 12/15, and 10/14.
Yesterday I noticed that several of the lower flowers had finished so I harvested them. She should be finished within the next couple of days.
Now with the end of this experiment I should say to all the purist and crazies, YES it is possible to grow and complete a grow with minimal attention lackluster light
poor growing room(1 gallon pots). This looks like there may be an ounce on this plant we will know in a week or two.
Remember It is called Weed for a reason, and when growing just remember less is more, It is for easier to kill your plants with kindness then it is with neglect.
- this grow consisted of six seeds from various bags
- one small walmart fan, one spped no oscillation
- growing medium MiracleGrow moisture control soil mixed with perlite
- Grown in 1 gallon pots
- lighting was furnished by 5 T8 flouro tubes attached to a 20L gallon screen top suspended between two end table shelves
- No fertilizer was used, except for that which was impregnated into the soil, during vegetative growth
and Dnya-grow Bloom was added during the 3rd and 4th week of flowering.
Initially the plants where started from seed and i used 3 Marine Blue T8 bulbs and 2 AquaGrow T8 bulbs. The Marines put out Blue light and the Aquas are purple bulbs. The lights were set for constant light for the first month. Then the lights changed to 18/6 for the second month. Plant growth was nice and steady. Although I did not use a timer for this, having the clock sway is part of the experiment. Sometimes the lights were on for 18/6 sometimes it was 20/5 , 16/5, 18/8.
As the plants grew some little black bugs entered the game, they were left to themselves until a week before flowering when pest control was administered. The bugs seemed to have no effect that could be seen other than they bite.
After about 2 months these plants were several feet tall
and had very nice looking growth except for side shoots were very limited and small, just one straight stalk. After the nodes became uneven I waited for 4 uneven nodes before I forced Flowering(they had between 13 and 16 nodes a piece).
Once the clocks was changed(along with the lighting which is now 4 standard bulbs and one blue) to 12/12, it took about a week before 3 plants started to show male flowers,these were pulled.A couple of days later another male was found. Leaving two plants without signs of sex. Good I thought, 2 is a good number, not 3(or more) but fine with me. Now it is 2 weeks into flowering and one of the plants has show both, some pistils some sacs, It was pulled. With one plant left any hope of a return, which I hadn't really had any, was in her hands. She started to produce several pistils. I added Dnyagrow Bloom twice during the next two weeks.
It was at this point one plant roughly 3 feet tall was flowering. Her side shoots,which began to grow considerably since the time change, also began budding.
Now to create darkness I just threw a blanket over the top of my screen.the lighting periods again were all over, most of the time it was 12/12,especially during the first 2 weeks of flowering, but I did range it from 14/12, 10/12, 12/15, and 10/14.
Yesterday I noticed that several of the lower flowers had finished so I harvested them. She should be finished within the next couple of days.
Now with the end of this experiment I should say to all the purist and crazies, YES it is possible to grow and complete a grow with minimal attention lackluster light
poor growing room(1 gallon pots). This looks like there may be an ounce on this plant we will know in a week or two.
Remember It is called Weed for a reason, and when growing just remember less is more, It is for easier to kill your plants with kindness then it is with neglect.
