I have read hundreds of journals and almost have two sucessful grows under my belt thus far. This will be my first time attempting to document one of my grows and hopefully it will motivate me to document the rest of my grows here on out. My first grow was Northern Lights that I recieved as a clone from a friend. The clone was very healthy and I immediately took it out of the plastic cup and transplanted it to the ground. I transplanted on 6/7/2010 and topped multiples times in the following weeks. Half way through veg period a rodent or some sort of animal decided to have a snack and chomp one of my branches off.
I live in New England so I started seeing hairs around end of july beginning of august. The plant showed significant signs of yellowing after buds started forming. Fan leaves started turning yellow and dying off from the bottom up. Luckily the plant survived and was harvested on September 29th. The final height was 53 inches and it produced 6 main colas with nicely formed frosted citrusy smelling buds. 
Final weight was 37 grams of dry bud. I believe it would have yielded more if it hadnt had the deficiency or rodent issues. I will add pics of the grow from start to finish tomorrow.Well now that I've said that I can get to my current grow. Since the northern clone was such a sucess I figured I could get used to growing my own dope. So I went ahead and purchased a gang of MJ strains. All seeds were purchased from attitude seed bank. My first order placed in august included:
Green House Seeds- x2 Cheese x2 Church x2 Trainwreck x2 El Nino x2 Lemon Skunk
I also recieved two freebies from DNA Genetics Sourcream & Sharksbreath. I orginally purchased these beans for next season to grow outdoors but one day about a month ago I was so bored that I decided to start an indoor grow
WOOT WOOT!!!So here it goes. I germinated the two freebies (Sharksbreath & Sourcream) and also a Trainwreck for the hell of it. Used the always dependable paper towel germinating method and all three germinated within 48 hours. So I ran to my closest hydroponics shoppe and picked up some fox farm ocean forest soil along with some ph up, ph down, and fox farms grow big which I have been feeding full strength every other watering for about a week now. :bolt:The germinated seeds were then placed in their respective 1 gallon pots on 9/5. The Sharksbreath and Trainwreck both peeked above soil within 48 hours and the Sourcream was the last to sprout right behind them.
All three strains were striving in the ocean forest soil. By the third week all three plants were working on its 4th internode. At this point in time I decided to top all three. Three weeks later the plants have 6-9 main shoots all within 2-4 inches apart. I've also experimented with supercropping the shoots close to the top so the bottom branches can catch up. Also minor LST was performed by tucking fan leaves behind eachother to promote more growth under the canopy.
As for lighting for the first month and a half I used 3 23w 5700k spectrum CFL's. I implemented a 24/0 light schedule for seedlings. Once sprouted I switched to 18/6. The CFL's worked great until I realized the plants were getting bushier and I would eventually need another source of light to supplement. Luckily I have a good friend that loaned me his extra 250watt HPS in exchange for a trainwreck and el nino bean.
I have had the 3 5700k 23w bulbs and the 250w HPS running for almost a full light cycle now and can already tell that the plants are going to enjoy the extra source of light. I will upload pics sometime this afternoon of my previous outdoor grow and my current indoor grow. Just too lazy and its late. It's about time to hit the bong nd hit the sack.
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