It’s been a long time since I last updated this thread, it’s been a long time since I last grew. There are various reasons: time, work, family – life in general. Along with a nosey neighbour who is also a colleague of Mrs Egg, she works in education so not great if cover gets blown, also, plenty of reserves to not actually need to grow. Many reasons and many excuses but I have missed it, so today is the day I resurrect this thread and introduce the current grow. I’m at day 50 something at the moment so it will be a bit of a photo dump, but I will start with an introduction.
Apart from the reasons above I was a bit disillusioned with the whole growing, harvesting, trimming, curing treadmill, and a break has certainly done me good, but as I neared the end of my reserves I got to thinking about a small grow and mentioned it to Mrs Egg. She’s been intrigued by the whole CBD thing and after talking through a growing and harvesting strategy she was happy with it was time to get started. To make it interesting for me, I decided to make it more of a sciencey thing and grow a full CBD strain, a mixed CBD and THC strain and a high THC strain for comparison. I looked around and Dutch Passion seemed the natural choice, I got online and ordered 3 each of Charlottes Angel, Elephant and SFV OG – all autos of course – and as I waited for delivery, I got the tent set up again. I also invested an a new, and better, dehumidifier as my old one had packed up since last used, and it was too small to realistically cope with the space anyway. I’m really glad I did as this has kept RH in a much tighter range as the plants have grown.
The seeds arrived a few days later and I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of 2 free Auto Trichomes and Cream seeds. I was only going to grow 1 of each but chucked the 2 freebies in as well – they either would, or they wouldn’t. The 2 freebies plus the Elephant and SFV OG got going straight away but after a few days no sign of Charlottes Angel, so I put a second one into damp paper and hoped. Sadly, this too did nothing so the third was placed and everything was crossed. This did pop and grew away but by the time it was above soil it was 2 weeks behind the others. She’s quite small, as you will see in the coming photos; she was crowded out and unable to compete as the others began their stretch, but she is going to produce so all is not lost, and we will have something for a comparison smoke at the end. I should just say that these are all being grown organically in 11L pots of Plagron Light Mix with 2 Bio Tabs per pot, and they have been receiving BAC PK Booster and Biobizz Cal Mag as needed from around day 30.
Not sure who is still around, who’s new and who’s even interested but here we are, enough chat and onto the photos…
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And that's everything up to date for now, well done if you made it to the end and I'll update again in a few days...
