Hey all! As the title suggests, I'm new to all things growing. I've been lurking the past few days after a local grower suggested checking out the site. Mid Atlantic region, which means long hot humid summers.
My first four beans (Purple Cookies, Rum Runner, Motor Punch, and Purple Canyon, all photos) popped 7/4 and have been living it up in my 2x2. Running two "100w" spyder farmer LEDs, the one that came with their tent kit and one I bought separately (though the upgraded version). Things are going fairly well with them, they were started in root riot cubes with myco and were transplanted to 5g fabric pots from there. Grow medium is
OF, and have been using their bottles nutes following their recommended feeding chart each girl gets approximately 8 fluid oz of feed every Tuesday after about the same amount of water (I have not been watering to run off, and I'm wondering if I should be increasing volume/frequency of feeds/water for these girls and my autos below). Decided to follow the original guide to manifolding cause I can never do things the easy way. Aiming for 8 colas per ft², though some breakage during LST has skewed that for a bit (definitely need to dial in how much force to use and when the best time to actually pull branches is, I'm working on it). I have been heavily defoliating these girls from the start based on the manifolding guide. They were just flipped to 12/12 about a week ago and are starting to show the early signs of sex. Everyone looks pretty happy to me overall but again, this is my first run so I could be wrong.
Because I have no self restraint, I dropped two more beans, a Critical auto and a Somango XXL auto (both from Nirvana) when they showed up in the mail; they popped on 7/16. Then another batch of came in and I dropped a WWxBB and an Auto Kush (both from female seeds), which popped on 7/21. Everything the same as the photos, only these four ladies are living their best life on my second story balcony on the (true) south side of my house and have had basically no training, since all the reading i had done suggested that minimal interference was best with autos (since I started reading here I've found that this is a myth that has been busted). They have been getting boatloads of sun up there and the heat doesn't seem to be bothering them one bit. They are all pretty solidly into flower, the WWxBB has taken the lead in development though she is by far the smallest of the four. In my novice (though I have done a metric tonne of reading) opinion I think she probably has at least 2 weeks left. The Somango is next furthest along and I would guess three or four more weeks on her. The other two still seem to have a long ways to go. I heavily defoliated them last week which I know can be a bit of a hot button topic, my husband (who last grew about 20 years ago is of the "sucker leaves" camp) told me I should basically strip them about a week ago, idk if it was the right choice but its too late to change it now. I will tell you that my balcony smells heavenly and I'm pretty sure the constant wind up there is smelling up the whole neighborhood.
Anyhow, just wanted to pop in and say hello, since I felt kinda creepy just lurking. Fair warning that I'll probably end up dumping all of the above into a grow journal, so if you see it elsewhere you're not super baked (or maybe you are, idk ) you really are seeing it again. I'll add pictures to that, since I'm obsessive and have been taking pictures pretty much daily. Also, not that I care too terribly much but I'm not a "brother" so there's that just figured I'd go ahead and say something since I've seen it used a ton on here.
My first four beans (Purple Cookies, Rum Runner, Motor Punch, and Purple Canyon, all photos) popped 7/4 and have been living it up in my 2x2. Running two "100w" spyder farmer LEDs, the one that came with their tent kit and one I bought separately (though the upgraded version). Things are going fairly well with them, they were started in root riot cubes with myco and were transplanted to 5g fabric pots from there. Grow medium is
OF, and have been using their bottles nutes following their recommended feeding chart each girl gets approximately 8 fluid oz of feed every Tuesday after about the same amount of water (I have not been watering to run off, and I'm wondering if I should be increasing volume/frequency of feeds/water for these girls and my autos below). Decided to follow the original guide to manifolding cause I can never do things the easy way. Aiming for 8 colas per ft², though some breakage during LST has skewed that for a bit (definitely need to dial in how much force to use and when the best time to actually pull branches is, I'm working on it). I have been heavily defoliating these girls from the start based on the manifolding guide. They were just flipped to 12/12 about a week ago and are starting to show the early signs of sex. Everyone looks pretty happy to me overall but again, this is my first run so I could be wrong.Because I have no self restraint, I dropped two more beans, a Critical auto and a Somango XXL auto (both from Nirvana) when they showed up in the mail; they popped on 7/16. Then another batch of came in and I dropped a WWxBB and an Auto Kush (both from female seeds), which popped on 7/21. Everything the same as the photos, only these four ladies are living their best life on my second story balcony on the (true) south side of my house and have had basically no training, since all the reading i had done suggested that minimal interference was best with autos (since I started reading here I've found that this is a myth that has been busted). They have been getting boatloads of sun up there and the heat doesn't seem to be bothering them one bit. They are all pretty solidly into flower, the WWxBB has taken the lead in development though she is by far the smallest of the four. In my novice (though I have done a metric tonne of reading) opinion I think she probably has at least 2 weeks left. The Somango is next furthest along and I would guess three or four more weeks on her. The other two still seem to have a long ways to go. I heavily defoliated them last week which I know can be a bit of a hot button topic, my husband (who last grew about 20 years ago is of the "sucker leaves" camp) told me I should basically strip them about a week ago, idk if it was the right choice but its too late to change it now. I will tell you that my balcony smells heavenly and I'm pretty sure the constant wind up there is smelling up the whole neighborhood.
Anyhow, just wanted to pop in and say hello, since I felt kinda creepy just lurking. Fair warning that I'll probably end up dumping all of the above into a grow journal, so if you see it elsewhere you're not super baked (or maybe you are, idk ) you really are seeing it again. I'll add pictures to that, since I'm obsessive and have been taking pictures pretty much daily. Also, not that I care too terribly much but I'm not a "brother" so there's that just figured I'd go ahead and say something since I've seen it used a ton on here.
to afn brosister! 
(sorry, jus couldn't rezist 
) i'll jus say this -> female seedz for the win! 
by far, the stoniest shit i've grown so far was/is the ww x bb from fs, oh ya! 
best canna site on the web here & anything u need, jus give a holler 
the gelato is the 2nd stoniest girl i've grown & was also my quickest at 70d drop-to-chop 
i'm also currently growin another fs gelato & auto haze outside this year & they're gettin close to finish 
they're jus too complicated for my taste & too hard to follow 
sorry, jus bein honest...
