2011 Organic Outdoor Grow: Northern California

Thanks, yup just a start. Bout to germ all my seeds

Thank you brotha. More than a nice season, a spectacular one. I'll be following yours closely as well, that is quite the seed pick up you just got delivered

I shall stop by sometime. Can't go wrong with a good ol' porch grow.
The weather is starting to get more mild around my area, like high 50's to mid 60's daytime and mid 40's to low 50's during night.

I gave my girl her first trimming. I have 3 visible nodes, with the fourth growing and the fifth like just barely starting to grow. So I cut the 5th node I believe and we will see what happens.

Day 16:

 

Yessir, I went with chemicals my first grow and even though I flushed and the smoke was smooth it still had that chemical aroma to it, I am more into the flavor of the bud and like it when a strain actually taste like THE strain.

By train do you mean LST or FIM/Top? or both? I FIM'ed it yesterday on the 5th node, the growth has been somewhat slow now, just waiting to see if I created multiple new stems. As for LST, I was thinking about starting in the next week or so, what you think?

That she has, I actually left her outside too long because I was at work until 9pm, she was in the mid 40's for a few hours and began to developing a slight purplish hue on the new growth. Haven't even been able to put her outside as much as I wish.

You wish
Believe it or not I still consider myself a newb with a slight green thumb. I have only grown one other time a few years back but I am so into Ecology and Botany that I am pretty much always looking up specifics on how to grow so I don't mess up. The key to success is lots of planning and a detailed background in the subject.

Anyways, here is the beginning of the start. I'll probably pop them in the soil within the next 24-36 hours, and then post updates once they begin to poke their heads out ~ 4-5 days depending on the seed.



Peace,
Washed

 

Well a lot of ingredients I bought I can use for many more grows, so it may be a bit more of an initial investment but in the long run you can keep reusing the soil, and it gets better with time.

At this point in time your probably best using the Fox Farms, to go all organic you would need to mix up a super soil and then let it sit for a good month or so before using.

So I have been LSTing the past day simply because I might as well make my mistakes on this bagseed. It seems to like it so far. However, I brought my plant in from outside and it had a tiny orange spider, not spider mite but something else. Anyways here is about two and a half weeks. After Fim and train, upward growth is close to nothing while it continues to bush.

I also filled the top inch of the pot with 50/50 Sunshine and worm castings, and some extra perlite.

Edit: I LST'ed her a bit more drastically just for you anonymous...let's hope it doesn't bite me in the butt Here is the fixed LST, you can see the side growth starting, still no new growth from the fimmed location....not even a new set of leaves.

Day 18:


If you look REALLY closely in the second picture I think you can see where I fimmed just to the left of the copper wire where the stem kinda just stops.

 

All of my seeds have cracked by this morning ~36 hours since I began. However, only two have their tap roots a good 1/4 inch out, those being Ice, and the PPP. Keeping them warm under a couple of CFL's while in a plastic baggy to keep the ever so important moisture in. It is most likely that I will come back from work tonight at midnight and the other four should be long enough to plant. Anyways, things are pretty slow going. Toke on.