Art_Vandelay
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Hello, everybody! This is my first time posting on this forum. Over the past few months I've been stopping by here to read threads on the different ways one can grow cannabis, and I must say, I am impressed! what an exciting and fun hobby (although I'm sure it's much more than that to many of you) to grow cannabis!
A little bit of a back story about myself (this will only take a minute, I promise): I have absolutely no experience growing cannabis. However, I have a degree in horticulture, and am a full-time gardener, designing high-end garden installations and caring for the plants with my own company. I do a lot of gardening, is what I'm trying to say. Around three months ago, a friend gave me a white widow seed. Now I'm obviously not an expert on growing cannabis, but I know enough to know that it's not a plant that can thrive with just window light. It needs the outdoors where it can thrive in the open air and natural sunlight, or it needs the tight constraints of a carefully controlled indoor grow. Anyway, I germinated the one seed that my friend gave to me, and planted the seed in a large planter pot inside my living room. I thought "what the hell, why not?" It may not thrive with window light, but it will be interesting to study how the plant grows, and besides, it will just be nice to have another plant in my house. Over the course of its life, I topped it twice - not unlike pruning any other young plant to encourage wider growth - and I tied down the growing branches to let in more light, as well as to encourage side branches to turn into tops. Fast forward to three months later, and I have this rather large flowering plant smack dab in my living room. I didn't plan for this lol! Growing this plant has really piqued my interest in growing cannabis, and it's something that I'm planning on doing properly indoors with proper equipment and proper nutrition. In three days from now, I'll be moving this plant into my basement where it will spend the rest of its life beneath an led light that I'm buying tomorrow. A couple questions: will the powerful led lights shock the plant? I plan on introducing the light from a further than ideal distance so it doesn't take the shock as bad. Second question: should I give it store bought nutrients this far into flowering? The initial soil mixture that I planted it in seems to be agreeing with it quite well! What other steps should I take to move this winow grown plant into a proper grow setup? I'm actually quite surprised that the plant has done this well! As far as a window grow, it looks quite healthy to me. Should I be pruning the lower leaves off to promote flower growth at this stage? I read some conflicting opinions on the matter
Here are a couple pictures:
Just to add: the plant received light from both an East and south facing window, as well as a little light coming in through a skylight...
Thanks in advance for any answers or other info
A little bit of a back story about myself (this will only take a minute, I promise): I have absolutely no experience growing cannabis. However, I have a degree in horticulture, and am a full-time gardener, designing high-end garden installations and caring for the plants with my own company. I do a lot of gardening, is what I'm trying to say. Around three months ago, a friend gave me a white widow seed. Now I'm obviously not an expert on growing cannabis, but I know enough to know that it's not a plant that can thrive with just window light. It needs the outdoors where it can thrive in the open air and natural sunlight, or it needs the tight constraints of a carefully controlled indoor grow. Anyway, I germinated the one seed that my friend gave to me, and planted the seed in a large planter pot inside my living room. I thought "what the hell, why not?" It may not thrive with window light, but it will be interesting to study how the plant grows, and besides, it will just be nice to have another plant in my house. Over the course of its life, I topped it twice - not unlike pruning any other young plant to encourage wider growth - and I tied down the growing branches to let in more light, as well as to encourage side branches to turn into tops. Fast forward to three months later, and I have this rather large flowering plant smack dab in my living room. I didn't plan for this lol! Growing this plant has really piqued my interest in growing cannabis, and it's something that I'm planning on doing properly indoors with proper equipment and proper nutrition. In three days from now, I'll be moving this plant into my basement where it will spend the rest of its life beneath an led light that I'm buying tomorrow. A couple questions: will the powerful led lights shock the plant? I plan on introducing the light from a further than ideal distance so it doesn't take the shock as bad. Second question: should I give it store bought nutrients this far into flowering? The initial soil mixture that I planted it in seems to be agreeing with it quite well! What other steps should I take to move this winow grown plant into a proper grow setup? I'm actually quite surprised that the plant has done this well! As far as a window grow, it looks quite healthy to me. Should I be pruning the lower leaves off to promote flower growth at this stage? I read some conflicting opinions on the matter
Here are a couple pictures:
Just to add: the plant received light from both an East and south facing window, as well as a little light coming in through a skylight...
Thanks in advance for any answers or other info
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