Hi guys firstly excuse the grammar as Inam dyslexic. Never let that stop me doing anything I put my mind to. I have been smoking on and off since my mid teens. Since discovering this beautiful plant we all love I have always dreamed that one day I would grow and smoke my own. Well here it is. Due to stumbling upon a few videos on YouTube and reading into growing here I am. Originally I was going to purchase some lights and a start a little setup in my closet however thought otherwise and as after reading some more I thought I'd start an outdoor grow first and see where it goes. So three weeks ago after doing a bit of research and stumbling upon here I decided to purchased some Forest Dream Auto flower feminised by Dutch Passion. I want to a local head shop in Birmingham UK and purchased them the guy was a bit arrogant to start with as he probably thought I wasn't serious enough or I didn't kno anything until I started to talk lol. so I got home and without any preparation after reading up on this germinated them to my surprise a couple days later I had shoots all 5seeds popped. Due to being extreamly busy at work and not being able to purchase anything plus I wanted to keep this as a really low budget and wanted to just try and never thought they would even germinate. As once over 10 years ago I tried to germinate some seeds which were Covent to me using the wet paper towel method but it didn't work. That has me thinking it wouldn't so due to being surprised and busy another 2 days later so they had been in a wet towel in my tupleware at the back of my coupbord for 5days in total and were about to pop their leave. Urgently on my only day off I went and brought regular compost and some small pots from a local hardware store. Popped them all in and then put them on my windowsill. Now this is where the problems started. Due to not having enough sunlight on my side it really stunned their growth.
I then moved another and put it on the other side of the house. Due to living with my parents,
I needed to keep this undercover and being a Oldschool car mad but who's recently got into Downhill MTB I would have raised suspicions with my dad. So I popped one on the other side of the house and made up a story that I was given some tomato plants from my future farther Inlaw. If I was still living in my own place I could have but an apartment is always a problem and this would be perfect as only 5mins from my parents house I have the perfect spot to grow. Due to going through a current property purchase I have changed my requirements to suit this new found horticultural hobby. I have always been into gardening when I was younger so it doesn't raise to many eyebrows. My current garden is just a slabbed and straight low maintain and clean garden. I could never get away with it there, so I put them on my windowsill but I wasn't receiving too much so I put one downstairs and said I given it by my F-in law to be who's really into horticulture and has an amazing garden. This really got me motivated and after reading various threads through here I must say I was hooked. I started reading more and even went to BBC gardners world and was speaking to loads of traders. Got talking to loads of people and when discussing cannabis the Beautiful flower I was presently surprised how many people were discussing this lovely plant with such horticultural respect. I think it's due to the whole renaissance with the Green Boom in the States. I met the guys at AirPot if you don't know about these and you're a professional or a good grower who has a few successful crops under your belt then I would suggest you research about it. So yeah loads of ideas came through and I was given loads of free samples. I got some seaweed extract from one of the trade stand guys and lovely Spanish woman who I got on with a lot talking so passionaly about the herb gave me some Bio Grow for free and warned me not to use so much due to nutrinburn. I was really taken back by the positivity and it only gave me more motivation. Well the seedling with went downstairs really started to get big quick compared to the ones in my room. A few days when the sun came out well I popped them outside however, the ones which were in my room started to streatch and weigh over and weren't looking so well. I had to try and prod them up then got so fed up with no light and them becoming worse I put them where the other one was and they started doing well. I would move them outside as the weather got better and they changed but the colour wasn't looking too well so started feeding them seaweed extract. Once started showing there second set of leaves the started looking a little yellow and got spotting. Upon reading I realised it was a lack of nutrients. This is where I thought it was time for them to go outside. I'm now aware and it's all a lurking curve that autos don't like to be transported. However I'm really happy Iv got this far plus this is going to be a lifelong passion for personal flavours which will be my own personal smoke. I'm learning so I don't mind. So yeah the spot is only a 5 min walk away from my parents. You have to go through a couple of alleys and then through a broken fence to access the disused land with is if and under loads of tree and nettle cover. Hence starting this. I cleaned up the place about a week ago on my one day off at work and was finished by 3pm. Made a really nice job of it and the perfect thing is there was loads of light at this spot and adequate cover. After being stung by nettles and covered in dirt I finally planted my 5 girls who were looking too well. I put the biogrow into the compost upon planting and then fed them with seaweed extract. Surprisingly they picked up. Currently in week 3 from seed so still in veg. They're doing crap one has been really eaten by some bugs another is still small and stunted. The biggest one is the one which was put on another windsill in my house. Guess lots of light is really important in the seedling stages. Well now I know to get lights to start then off first next year now. However km happy with there we are ATM let's see where this goes. Please take it easy on me people I'm new however loving the sense of family on here Thankyou [emoji111] Constructive criticism is welcome lol
