New Grower Lucy's Very First Grow - Ak48 auto in soil LED

[Dudeski]

Day 62
I can't believe it is day 62 already. It flew by !

I did receive the Flower Fuel yesterday and fed early in the day ( yaaay for Sunday deliveries). I gave a 1/3rd dose because I hadn't yet seen Waira's post saying that I should give a 2/3rds dose at this point.

I went out for the day and evening yesterday to get my mind off all of the yellowing leaves. So when I came home from work today it was about 33 hours since giving the new bloom booster. I was afraid to look in the tent and when I did look, at first I thought something really horrible had happen to Stinky. Her buds had turned all white. I was like " What the HELL now I have light bleaching to boot?" I was practically in tears until I looked a little closer.

She isn't bleached she is freaking COVERED with sugar! Yaaay. The large leaves that were very yellowed are clearly going to die and I've already removed a few but man just look at those TRICHOMES!

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I think they are going to be ok. Even the Variegated plant has trichomes now, They're just starting on her but she had none at all until now.
They both seemed to handle yesterday's feeding without burning up. View attachment 964245

Thanks to everyone here that has been offering so much support. It is much appreciated. View attachment 964240

are you sure you didn't just powdered sugar up those girls? They look frosty and fine! Great job.

My grow buddy, who is 81, will stare at the plants so much he has a chair by the tent. But when the yellowing starts it's like he gets depressed because they are ugly! I have to remind him, dude you smoke the buds

You are almost there, and then you get to smoke your own bud. Are you ready for drying and curing?

 

[LucidLucy]

@Dudeski LOL I do exactly the same as your friend. I sit with them and well, I adore them, quite literally. But I have also developed a real love for them and honestly I don't want them to die and at this point I don't even want to smoke them. I wish I knew how to work with glass so that I could just encase them in glass and keep them forever...well Stinky anyway. Have you ever watched disjointed? I thought the young guy who couldn't bare to kill his plants at the end was pretty silly but now I AM him !

This transition in flowering has been painful and I find myself wanting to look away as well. I feel like I've failed them but it's not just the yellow leaves. Stinky is like a big clump of buds now and doesn't even resemble the plant she was while in veg and early flower. She's like a cannabis scarecrow.

I do realize that it has to be this way. If I didn't cut them down once they are ready the carnage would just get worse and then they'd be gone anyway. It will not be an easy day for me tho for sure.

I grew them for the smoke but now that hardly seems to matter !

Drying and curing ........I have read about it and watched Youtube videos. I think I am ready but then I thought I was ready for flowering too and you saw how that went LOL.
I have the supplies, the scissors, the mason jars, a hanging net thingie etc. I need to get some of those 62% Bovida packs.

Someone should start making T-shirts that say "I survived my first flowering" heh.

 

[davisgirl]

Lucy I have had the same thoughts as you! “All this time I’ve been caring and loving and adoring and one day I’m supposed to just ... cut it down?” Ha!

Seriously congrats on the trichomes! It seems like things are turning around for your ladies.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

looking good no surprizes we get attached to our first plant,i had to stop giving them names after my first.

 

[Dudeski]

@Dudeski LOL I do exactly the same as your friend. I sit with them and well, I adore them, quite literally. But I have also developed a real love for them and honestly I don't want them to die and at this point I don't even want to smoke them. I wish I knew how to work with glass so that I could just encase them in glass and keep them forever...well Stinky anyway. Have you ever watched disjointed? I thought the young guy who couldn't bare to kill his plants at the end was pretty silly but now I AM him !

This transition in flowering has been painful and I find myself wanting to look away as well. I feel like I've failed them but it's not just the yellow leaves. Stinky is like a big clump of buds now and doesn't even resemble the plant she was while in veg and early flower. She's like a cannabis scarecrow.

I do realize that it has to be this way. If I didn't cut them down once they are ready the carnage would just get worse and then they'd be gone anyway. It will not be an easy day for me tho for sure.

I grew them for the smoke but now that hardly seems to matter !

Drying and curing ........I have read about it and watched Youtube videos. I think I am ready but then I thought I was ready for flowering too and you saw how that went LOL.
I have the supplies, the scissors, the mason jars, a hanging net thingie etc. I need to get some of those 62% Bovida packs.

Someone should start making T-shirts that say "I survived my first flowering" heh.

They will love you for a long time with their parting gift, good buds! Yes, it is sad but will be something you will remember for a very long time.

I dry in brown paper lunch bags first, the into the jars for burping. I think 912greenskell has a great thread about curing. It's as important and difficult as the grow.

I'm looking forward to the final run down the stretch.

 

[MickJ]

I use raw-cardboard boxes to dry in. Then jar up once I got 62rh. You need a miniature humidistat as well for your jars. The boveda packs hold at 62 but won't reduce rh from 75 to 62 for example.

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[Give Pizza Chants]

Tears for the children we must sacrifice on the burning alter of euphoria.
I just hope to get that far...

I name mine too.
Helps give them a special purpose in life.

Good looking grow.
Big congrats and REP to YOU.
Stop in and say hi sometime.

 

[trailanimal]

Day 62
I can't believe it is day 62 already. It flew by !

I did receive the Flower Fuel yesterday and fed early in the day ( yaaay for Sunday deliveries). I gave a 1/3rd dose because I hadn't yet seen Waira's post saying that I should give a 2/3rds dose at this point.

I went out for the day and evening yesterday to get my mind off all of the yellowing leaves. So when I came home from work today it was about 33 hours since giving the new bloom booster. I was afraid to look in the tent and when I did look, at first I thought something really horrible had happen to Stinky. Her buds had turned all white. I was like " What the HELL now I have light bleaching to boot?" I was practically in tears until I looked a little closer.

She isn't bleached she is freaking COVERED with sugar! Yaaay. The large leaves that were very yellowed are clearly going to die and I've already removed a few but man just look at those TRICHOMES!

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I think they are going to be ok. Even the Variegated plant has trichomes now, They're just starting on her but she had none at all until now.
They both seemed to handle yesterday's feeding without burning up. View attachment 964245

Thanks to everyone here that has been offering so much support. It is much appreciated. View attachment 964240

How sweet it is! We all appreciate how tough canna plants can be, especially starting out. Nothing like frost to put a smile on:smoking:

 

[Reeferviews]

Looking good, that mutant is gorgeous.. So yeah I don’t name anything I smoke or eat!! Big lesson learned from my departed great grandpa who gave me a goat to take care of one summer.. Should of listened when he took billy and said “don’t come in the back yard..” poor billy

 

[LucidLucy]

Stinky is seriously stinky now, If I leave the tent open for more than a few minutes the house floods with major skunk stink even though the carbon filter is running.

She seems to love the Flower Fuel. Her main cola is fattening up fast. The side buds are also doing ok, could be bigger but I am not really concerned about yield so it's all good. She's got some clawing going on because I am rushing to fill the deficiency before it's too late to help bud production. Probably a little too much too fast.

The variegated plant is a little singed from the booster but she will be ok I think. I need to give her less when feeding.

So here is Super Stinkie's main cola. I'm thinking that the leaf/bud ratio is off. It seems like a lot of leaves for buds of this age. I've seen Waira talk about it. I'm not going to fret over it tho. She seems to be doing all of the things she is supposed to right now.

I can't get them to upload vertical.