First Grow - Flowering

[phomoxd]

Hey guys,

I live in Far North QLD, and last year, just before summer and the wet season, I planted my first marijuana crop.
Just two plants, to try it out, see if they survived, to learn the techniques and hopefully have some sort of harvest at the end.

I started out with 2 seeds, THEY BOTH TURNED INTO FEMALES! Anyway, I picked out of a bag of weed that had been grown by someone in the bush, and not taken care of. Hence why the bag of weed was more like a bag of off-cabbage. 
This "cabbage" is what drove me to grow in the first place. I picked two darker seeds with some light brown spots and stripes of black. I then proceeded to germinate them using cooled boiled water and eye make-up remover patches as the medium (I prefer over tissue and such as its easy to lift and take out the seeds without damaging them, and they still hold the moisture and create a nice environment for the seeds).

After two days I had germinated seeds ready to go. I planted them in two smallish (1/1.5L pots) and then completely and utterly forgot I had begun growing weed. 
Two weeks later I walked into the garden, ready to mow the lawn when I saw two pots out the back near the shed. BAM! Two sweet little vegetative seedlings looking so very cute in the midday sun.
From then on it was trial and error, but they kept growing! One looking much taller than the other with leaves more spread apart, and thin; obviously Sativa. The other however was plainly more Indica than Sativa, and it was looking healthy!

The time had come to give these plants a bigger home. Time for a transplant. So I bought some organic compost and ph balanced soil, mixed in some epsom salts, mixed my substrate together and pulled those bad boys out! Roots systems were healthy, vegetation period was in full bloom and the plants were loving it. Until the longest day.

Literally the longest day being the longest day of the year in Australia. The plant loved being out in the sun until the soil became to hot! The plants roots are so suseptible to the heat of there environment and need to be kept cool, which I didn't know at the time. So some of the plants leaves and vegetation began to yellow, then brown and die away! It also didn't help that we over fed the poor thing with the organic compost! Now the wet season has begun full throttle, and the plants, they were feeling the pressure. About a week into constant rain and no sunlight, the Sativa was showing signs of serious, serious stress. And as it was to heavy to carry in its pot, and because I went away for 3 weeks, the plant suffered.

I bet you're wondering what happened to the Indica?
Well, as it was a much smaller, lighter plant, in a smaller, lighter pot, we managed to move it in and out of the sunlight as it came and went! It stagnated for a little bit but it stayed healthy. Now the wet season is ending, and sunlight is more common.

To round it up, the Indica has reached the halfway point... IN FLOWERING! and the Sativa? Well, lets just say I haven't given up, and it's now beginning to pay off
On the whole these plants were taken from shitty stock cabbage weed, and that is 100% NOT what is growing in these pots! Just shows that the more care you take of your plants, the bigger and better the buds you will have!

Thanks for listening, please look at these photos I have provided and let me know what you think? Would you toke that? ;P
See you soon guys!

phomoxd

[spider_b]

lookin good   well done

cheers  sb

[MediKat]

Getting into the ebb and flow straight of the bat, nice work.

[cap'n yNg]

Nice start matey!

Welcome and good luck phomoxd

 

C-yNg-b

[phomoxd]

Thanks for the positive feedback guys, always wanted to join a cannabis community, but now at least I have something worth sharing
Such a good feeling to be supported by fellow Aussie's with their heads in the right places.

Thanks heaps guys, will post progress of the indica during budding, and pics of the Sativa and more details on its hard, hard journey soon.

Love 

phomoxd

[hydrogrow919]

Hey guys,

I live in Far North QLD, and last year, just before summer and the wet season, I planted my first marijuana crop.

Just two plants, to try it out, see if they survived, to learn the techniques and hopefully have some sort of harvest at the end.

 

I started out with 2 seeds, THEY BOTH TURNED INTO FEMALES! Anyway, I picked out of a bag of weed that had been grown by someone in the bush, and not taken care of. Hence why the bag of weed was more like a bag of off-cabbage. 

This "cabbage" is what drove me to grow in the first place. I picked two darker seeds with some light brown spots and stripes of black. I then proceeded to germinate them using cooled boiled water and eye make-up remover patches as the medium (I prefer over tissue and such as its easy to lift and take out the seeds without damaging them, and they still hold the moisture and create a nice environment for the seeds).

 

After two days I had germinated seeds ready to go. I planted them in two smallish (1/1.5L pots) and then completely and utterly forgot I had begun growing weed. 

Two weeks later I walked into the garden, ready to mow the lawn when I saw two pots out the back near the shed. BAM! Two sweet little vegetative seedlings looking so very cute in the midday sun.

From then on it was trial and error, but they kept growing! One looking much taller than the other with leaves more spread apart, and thin; obviously Sativa. The other however was plainly more Indica than Sativa, and it was looking healthy!

 

The time had come to give these plants a bigger home. Time for a transplant. So I bought some organic compost and ph balanced soil, mixed in some epsom salts, mixed my substrate together and pulled those bad boys out! Roots systems were healthy, vegetation period was in full bloom and the plants were loving it. Until the longest day.

 

Literally the longest day being the longest day of the year in Australia. The plant loved being out in the sun until the soil became to hot! The plants roots are so suseptible to the heat of there environment and need to be kept cool, which I didn't know at the time. So some of the plants leaves and vegetation began to yellow, then brown and die away! It also didn't help that we over fed the poor thing with the organic compost! Now the wet season has begun full throttle, and the plants, they were feeling the pressure. About a week into constant rain and no sunlight, the Sativa was showing signs of serious, serious stress. And as it was to heavy to carry in its pot, and because I went away for 3 weeks, the plant suffered.

 

I bet you're wondering what happened to the Indica?

Well, as it was a much smaller, lighter plant, in a smaller, lighter pot, we managed to move it in and out of the sunlight as it came and went! It stagnated for a little bit but it stayed healthy. Now the wet season is ending, and sunlight is more common.

 

To round it up, the Indica has reached the halfway point... IN FLOWERING! and the Sativa? Well, lets just say I haven't given up, and it's now beginning to pay off

On the whole these plants were taken from shitty stock cabbage weed, and that is 100% NOT what is growing in these pots! Just shows that the more care you take of your plants, the bigger and better the buds you will have!

 

Thanks for listening, please look at these photos I have provided and let me know what you think? Would you toke that? ;P

See you soon guys!

 

phomoxd

It sounds professional growing and I use LED Grow light for my plants, it looks great! And this lights website could learn more info on LED Growing:

[billygoat]

Good stuff mate, hopefully they fatten up for ya dunno about it showing what taking care of a plant can do.... By you own admission it was left for over 5 weeks without being seen! But seems it will work out ok....

[billygoat]

It sounds professional growing and I use LED Grow light for my plants, it looks great! And this lights website could learn more info on LED Growing:

Good comment.... Wtf ?