Indoor Buds Buddy's 1st Grow Journal (9-Plants)

[Sour D]

7 out of 8 have broke ground. The 8th one (N.L. x Critical 2.0) hasn't broke ground. I dug around a little & found the seed & there is a tail so it should come up soon. Sure wish my camera took better pics. Keep saying I'm going to buy a new one; but somehow buying & upgrading my equipment always wins when it comes to spending the money.
Going to lower my lights this weekend & considering adding the Viperspectra 450 Watt LED to the center of the tent & the small Humidifier to bring the RH up just a little more.
My temps are staying 77 - 79 so I couldn't be happier as this is the 1st grow in 2 years or EVER that I've been able to accomplish this. However, my RH is staying 50 - 55% & I would like to increase that by 10%.
The Re-Veg is starting to show little nubs on the stem. Another week & should start seeing a little growth start to happen.
I'll add more pics this weekend when I have time to take them under normal lighting. Wish I could get good pics with LED's but haven't been able to. Thinking I should put a couple of Clip on lights with CFL's that I could turn on just when I want to take pics. Another project for this weekend. At least I'll have it all dialed in to the best I can get it before the real grow starts. I don't really consider this part a grow. It's just germination to me. The grow doesn't start til they're above ground a few days. I usually start my 8 - 10 week countdown for auto's 1 week after they are planted so that would be the 8th. So for me 6-8-19 is the 1st day of my actual grow cycle. I do this because I have a bad habit of harvesting a little to soon. If I don't count that week of Germination things come out better. I still go by the orange hairs even though I do have a digital microscope & Lupe.
Thinking I'll try out the microscope this grow as I haven't used it yet.

An easy way to fix pics is with a program like photoshop.(there is also a lot of free paint programs that will work similarly. Open the photo in the program and look for a tool called "white balance". Use the slider to adjust the color. A lot of programs will have an eyedropper that you can take a sample of something in the pic that is white--like the perlite and it will automagically adjust the color. You could also put a white card or something in the corner and click on that.. Another way is shoot a pic of your white card, do your click/adjust and use the resulting settings to adjust the color on the rest of your pics. Some programs allow you to save the settings and "batch" import using those saved settings. A lot of cameras now allow you to create a custom white balance where you would tap on the screen something that is white and save that as a custom white balance. Then you don't need a separate program..

 

[Sour D]

Sure wish I could make this more interesting. Never done a journal & I don't have the Gift of Gab so not sure how to go about it. I'm more of a couple of friends / keep to myself type of guy who avoids large crowds. More of a listener than a speaker. .

You're not alone there

 

[Buds Buddy]

I thought that you were supposed to leave some buds on the plant b4 you re-veg?

They say to leave a few leaves on for faster growth to start. However, I did it this way once before on a Fire OG plant & it worked just fine. Last time the Fire OG took up the 4' x 4' tent all by itself it got so big.

This is the Fire OG Reveg. This is at week 6 of Veg. It went 8 weeks in Veg & 8 in Flower. This is probably only 1/2 the size it got before finishing. I'll have to find a pic of it at the end.

 

[Buds Buddy]

An easy way to fix pics is with a program like photoshop.(there is also a lot of free paint programs that will work similarly. Open the photo in the program and look for a tool called "white balance". Use the slider to adjust the color. A lot of programs will have an eyedropper that you can take a sample of something in the pic that is white--like the perlite and it will automagically adjust the color. You could also put a white card or something in the corner and click on that.. Another way is shoot a pic of your white card, do your click/adjust and use the resulting settings to adjust the color on the rest of your pics. Some programs allow you to save the settings and "batch" import using those saved settings. A lot of cameras now allow you to create a custom white balance where you would tap on the screen something that is white and save that as a custom white balance. Then you don't need a separate program..

Interesting . Time to break out my 17 year old son to show me how to do this. He always laughs at me when I ask for computer help. I tell him if it was a Rotary dial phone he'd be asking me for help ...Ha Ha. He just looks at me funny ..."Like what is that ???"
I'm sure he knows how since he makes video's & games of his own.

 

[Buds Buddy]

House AC is working again !!! Darn Fan Motor went out on it. Had to spend $350 out of the money I was saving for my 3rd P900 .... "OUCH". Now I gotta grow 3 extra oz.'s to make up for it .... LOL. Plants went through 16 hours of 88 F temps with less than 40% RH but seem to be just fine.

 

[Buds Buddy]

Well here we are on day 10 & all seeds sprouted 5 - 7 days ago. 4 of the Auto's are still pretty small & haven't developed their 1st full set of leaves yet. They are there .... just small still. The other 2 Auto's ( AK 47 & Haze XL ) and the 2 Photo's ( Widow's Breath & Afghan Kush ) are working on developing their 2nd set of leaves. The nubs on the ReVeg are getting bigger but still no branching. I'll be adding pics once or twice a week, but no time today for it.
Tell you what.... Those 3 in 1 CHEAPO Moisture Meters don't work at all. Not even close. Bought one just to find out ... waste of money guys. Meter said Media was Dry when I'm getting Run Off. That's how bad these things are. Kind of figured it would be crap but curiosity got me. Figured if it did work I'd order a dozen.
Tent is back to it's normal 77 - 79 F with 50 - 60% RH now that the AC is fixed. Kind of worried me that the house would get too hot for the seedlings but they did just fine.

 

[Sour D]

Good to know about the meters-I've had an eye on em myself. FWIW Mine are about 10 days old too. They got to about 1 1/2" and then just stood there looking stupid. 2 days ago I thought I'd give em a kick in the butt and left the lights on 24 hrs. They seem to have responded nicely.

 

[Buds Buddy]

Yeah, I just been running 18/6 on my Auto's. Seems I always throw a couple of photo's in my grows. I highly doubt my lights are too close as I'm a good 30" or so above the plants. The 4 smaller ones are a day or 2 behind the others popping up too. Probably just the strains. Wish I wouldn't have done N.L. Just found out it's taking people 100 - 125 days to finish one. That's too long for me to Veg these photo's. If it's not ready in 90 days it will have to finish in a closet ... LOL. I'm going 12/12 in 90 days at all costs.
So what kind are you growing ?

 

[Sour D]

Sour Diesel autos

 

[Buds Buddy]

Got a friend who want's me to grow that. IDK ... Sour & Diesel just dont sound good to me. I like the sweet taste of a good kush or an indica with an almost hash taste. I'm not much into the ones with fruit names. I know there are some good ones but the names of some of them turn me away. Also ... if it has a fruit name then it should taste like that fruit. A strawberry strain should have at least as much taste as a strawberry rolling paper. Maybe I'm just old & believe that weed should taste like weed & fruit like fruit.
Any chance you know what's up with this website ? I'm having trouble getting on just about every day. Always says "Host Error" 523. Tried over & over for 14 hours yesterday & kept getting that message. I think they need a bigger server.