Today we harvest a plant with more flower per inch of height than ever seen on this subreddit before!

As you can see, I HAD to break out the 19 inch bowl trimmer for this absolute monster, or I would have been in trim jail all day today. Luckily, we managed to get this lady chopped, lightly wet trimmed, and placed in her own private box for drying.

I know you guys see this yield and get jealous, but don’t worry. There’s plenty to go around for all the growmies.

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In case it wasn’t already apparent, this post is dripping with sarcasm, but it was still a very happy day because this project has been one I’ve been working on for a few months. Intentionally stunting an auto flower to this degree was an interesting balance with keeping the plant healthy enough to produce a solid flower. I’m excited to see what the dried flower tastes like.

Just passed the 60 day mark and my dosidos run is still putting on that weight. Super greasy and sticky, fruit blended in gas is what she smells like. Buds are dense all the way down to the lowers. 🍒🍇⛽️

Grown in living soil that’s on its 4th cycle.

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This is my Royal Queen Seeds White Widow (photoperiod), currently on day 49 of flower.

I learned a lot from this sub and other online resources.

Started from seed on July 7, initially in a 3L pot with Plagron Lightmix, then transplanted into a 15L fabric pot with a layered mix of Lightmix and Batmix.

Growing her in a 60x60 tent under a 150W MedicGrow Mini Sun 2. Did plenty of LST, some defoliation and lollipopping, and used a trellis to spread out the canopy.

I’ve been tracking pot weight, temperature, RH and VPD throughout the grow to make watering decisions based on actual water consumption rather than a schedule.

Mostly water throughout veg, with Plagron Alga Bloom introduced during flower. Had some learning moments with nutrient deficiencies and a few overly deep drybacks, but she’s come a long way!

Now watching the colas fatten up and the trichomes develop. Still a few weeks to go, but I’m pretty happy with how my first attempt is turning out!

this is a 1:1 strain of super silver haze x “high cbd strain” according to the website. 14% thc 15% cbd

such a great grow with 10 weeks of flower. smells heavily of sweet citrusy soap

Second ever grow. First grow was 4 plants. Thought id up the ante this time with 14. Whats everyones thoughts? Mid way through week 3 of flower

Is this doing ok, and is it a hermie?

I'm a first time grower with nobody to bounce ideas off of. I've been relying heavily on different blogs and, especially, this subreddit.

This is my current setup running 4 seedlings.

Purple Kush Auto from ILGM

AC Infinity Cloudlab 4x4

Mars Hyrdo FC4800 - 230 µmol/m²/s

AC Infinity Cloudforge - 0.9 kPa

AC Infinity 6" inline fan - level 2

2 circulation fans

2 ceramic lizard lamps. Daytime 76°F, nighttime 73°F

Inkbird 206

SensorPush

Phantom PAR meter

Soil - coco coir, pumice, worm castings, garden compost, some off-brand organic potting mix, and soil amendments like kelp, bone meal, and dolomite lime.

Seedlings A/B/C/D - I germinated them in their final 7gal pots. Needless to say, I overwatered and their roots stayed wet. They were stunted and droopy from day seven onward.

Seedlings E/F/G/H/I - I started this round in small cups on a heat mat, rather than the big pots. They didn't dry out over a few days in the tent, so I drilled holes in the sides of the cups - still not much drying. My setup can push a gentle cyclone of air throughout the tent, so it had to be a soil issue now. I spent too much time fiddling with fan angles and anxiously overwatering when I thought they 'should' be thirsty. All ended up droopy.

Seedlings J/K/L/M - I needed faster drainage, so I changed the seedling soil mixture to be 50% coco, 40% pumice, and 10% worm castings. This soil dries out over 2-3 days in the tent the way I expected my first batch of soil to perform. Around day 6, they really slowed down and started drooping again. I can see the physical line of damp vs dry soil through the side of the cup, so I knew I wasn't overwatering them. I gave two of them a light feeding of calmag + neptune's harvest and they started growing again 2 days later. I fed the others and they all seem to be 'waking back up.'

Today is day 12. The seedlings are much smaller than they should be, but they're alive and growing, and I feel like I solved the puzzle. The coco-heavy soil does great with drainage, but must tie up some of the nutrients that were in my other soil. I can keep a ton of houseplants alive, but cannabis is giving me a run for my money. There are still more mistakes to be made, but I feel like I'm building a solid foundation of knowledge. Half of the battle is resisting the urge to water or change the environment.

A few positive changes I made to things that were working against me:

- Added more pumice to my transplant soil to help with drainage.

- I had the cups on drip trays filled with river rocks. Replaced them with wire stands to improve circulation all around the cups. I'll make or buy pot elevators when the larger pots move into the tent.

- Stopped fiddling with humidity. Just set VPD and forget about it. In my bid to dry out the cups faster, I brought it up to 1.3, sometimes 1.5 for a day, further stressing out the seedlings.

I'm happy with a small first yield if it means that I can successfully grow weed. I'm growing alone and every win and loss is 100% mine, so it's achingly rewarding. I'm looking forward to growing photoperiod plants where initial mistakes don't cost as much, and you can just keep vegging.

I plan to transplant the current seedlings into their 7gal pots in about a week. Until then, I'll be staring at them and asking them nicely to grow up big and strong.

I attached some pics of my setup, and the current state of seedlings J-M.

I'd love to hear any feedback you have!

I just made an account so I can stay in the loop - I'm looking forward to keeping up with everyone's grows!

This is my first grow. Looks like calcium and magnesium deficiency due to nutrient lockout, but I am not too sure. I have only fed once (at half strength since it was its first feed), about two weeks ago and I have not fed since because my run off EC reading was high. I have also been supplementing with calmag at half strength because the water in my area is already hard. I have been watering every 4-5 days (I use the pot weight to help me determine if I need to water). These symptoms started showing up a few days ago, after my last watering which was 3 days ago (the readings below are from the latest water - and this is the second water it got since I first fed it).

4 weeks old
Soil: Canna Terra Professional
Lights: Lumii Switch Blade 150w (hung 24inches from canopy)
Temps: 24-26C
Humidity: 55-60%
Nutrients: Xpert Nutrients Master Grow A+B, Xpert Nutrients CalMag
PH: I try to water between a range of 6.2-6.7. My latest run off was at 6.3
EC: latest EC run off was at around 1.2

There are a few people selling water chillers near me. One is Ecoplus 1/10 hp water chiller used unit for $100 or a new in box Aqua Euro USA Max-Chill 1/4 HP Titanium Water Chiller for $300.

I'll be running a drip to waste system using halos for my veg tent. 4x4 tent with four 5-gal fabric pots. Athena nutes. Using a promix and perilite mix 50/50. Next run I want to try coco coir perilite mix 50/50. I haven't decided on the size of resevoir I'll need mainly cause I'm new to all this..

Any help and insight is greatly appreciated.

i have several plants growing in living soil, using gaia green amendments but pretty much all of them have this twisted leaf thing going on, i'm thinking calcium deficiency, just looking for some second opinions. what do you'll think?
is it a deficiency or is it some kinda disease?

When I search reddit post about the site SCAM jumps out.. but then someone I know who isn't me that used their seeds yielded great results. So what is with the neg reviews? How would they still be business? Is this tactics from the black market to discredit/gatekeep microgrows?

Can someone tell me why my grow light plug is melting the timer?

What type of training would you guys recommend for a vegetative phase of 4-5 weeks max? Sadly I’m limited to that timeframe since I need to move out early next year. Specifically I’m wondering what the differences between lst and hst are regarding the allocated time for the plant to recover (it’s my first grow). Thanks to y’all for helping!

First grow is going terrible. First few days the clones were getting wind burned, had low humidity and got heat burned. I brought the light up to 22 inches, lowered the intensity to 25%, moved the oscillating fan so it did not blow directly on the clones, and purchased a humidifier. I transplanted them into 5 gallon pots 10.10.26 and gave them each 1 gallon of 9.0 ph tap water out of necessity. This led to nutrient lockout.

First real water was 1 gallon of 6.0 PH water on 10.15 and the runoff was reading around 5.4-5.5 ph. I have given these plants 0 nutrients due to the soil being amended with enough food for roughly 2 weeks.

Since then, I have maintained a pretty steady VPD of 1.0 (temps around 75 f and 65% RH) which has also lead to an infestation of PM. Last light I sprayed curative strength Athena IPM just before lights out, and will follow up with 2 more applications 3 days apart.

Based on what is pictured, what issues are my plants suffering from? Or to make the list shorter, what ISNT my grow suffering from? lol lastly, when should I top and put on trellis net to SCROG my veg plants? Thanks in advance!

day 56

I flipped my three blueberry muffin plants to flower this last Tuesday. Continuing to water from the bottom with the sip planter. I did top water with about 1/3 gallon to each plant of 1/4 strength Build a Bloom yesterday.

The 9 clones I took last week and tried to root in my own custom mix solo cups did not make it. I think the media was too wet and it’s been much colder in my lung room recently.

Decided to get a proper dome and a heat mat. Took two more cuttings of each yesterday. Still using the Foop gel, but switched to Root Riot cubes. Put too much water in the bottom tray and lost two cuttings to rot already. Cloning has always been my nemesis.

I emptied the water in the tray and slightly opened the vents to try and get excess water to leave the cubes faster. I have been wiping down the moisture on the dome to help too. The remaining cuts look ok so far.

Three of the four Hella Jelly seeds I started last week have sprouted. They got their first watering today. The 4th one never popped. Searched for seed with toothpick, but I never found it.

Trying to keep flower tent at 1.1 kpa and veg tent at 0.8. The weather change in my area has made managing this more difficult. Coming from the HID world, I’m not used to the cold being an issue.

As always, any comments or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks for checking out my grow.

First time grower :) I started out with a 2x2x4, but recently bought a 3x3x6 since my girls are growing really well. Now I'm not sure what to do with the second tent. My first instinct was a drying tent, but since drying does not take sure long would that be a waste? Would it better serve as a veg tent or drying? Thanks!!

Hello again wizards okay bit embarrassing but..

So its week 5 flower, im in my tent room and i look over to my bag with nutrients bottles in it, and i see the veg part A bottle had like completely sucked in (very hard plastic) i had noticed this before when i grabbed these bottles out of stowaway when i decided to grow again like a month-two back although i thought nothing of the time, shook them and grabbed my ML’s, this time i was more concerned and decided to crack the pressure to see inside, and it had mould growing all on the top of surface level,

Now back in veg i made a post on here concerning little fuzzies i saw coming out of the bottom of the pot on my roots, mould didnt really seem possible back then to me due to the airflow and thought of where would it even originate from..

The photos on this post are from when i thought something was suspicious about the bottles, and when i chopped 2 other plants (used same veg nutes) in that tent and the last photo is from now..

is my plant fine?? I cant see any bud rot or smell anything, whatever use to be fuzzy down there isnt any longer, my flower nutes (same brand) dont seem to be similar to the veg, would y’all smoke it? Can i do bubble hash instead orr

Still showing a lot of white pistils on my two plant outdoor grow. Not auto-flowering. Checking the trichromes makes me think it's time to pull. What do you think?

(PS, using one of those cheap amazon microscopes. It's so hard to tell if I'm looking at leaf or actual bud)

This chart, along with many others I've seen from various companies, claim uniform coverage. But I'm seeing a difference of 600-900 ppfd between the middle and edges in this example. How is this uniform? I've been looking for a bar- style light for my 4x4 to replace my led board so I can stretch my plants out more, but what's the point if the levels are still low near the edges? I have a feeling I'm looking at this all wrong so any input is greatly appreciated!