New Grower Noob's first grow AKR

[Gatorbackbob]

I'll put what pictures I've taken up in a bit, I haven't just started this grow, but I felt I should share my first experience anyway.
Afghan Kush Ryder at day 50 today
2 gallon pot with roots organic original, added dolomite lime, no perlite.
Growlab gl40 tent, Mars 300 with the 5w diodes, 190 cfm exhaust with 4x12 phresh filter, and a small 4" clip fan for ventilation and temp control. Fed the fox farm trio, calmag plus, and molasses, in faucet filtered water.

Mistakes I've made this first time around,
A combination of heat stress, over watering, and giving bloom nutes had stunted growth and bud development, and my height restriction didn't help with the led burning the tops a bit, I tried a little lst early and it proved to bush the plant out vs getting too tall. The over watering gave me some pretty bad fungus gnats, till care of them finally in mid flower with mosquito dunks.

I've given a little too much tiger bloom, the leaves are showing it, so it's on straight water now, trichomes are a little over half milky, the rest clear, I'm assuming this one will be ready on or before day 70, the buds are starting to get dense, but not really filling up much more, still quite a few white pistils, so maybe I'll see some more fattening up by then, let me know what you guys think.

 

[Gatorbackbob]

 

[Ripped In Oregon]

You just made the common new grower mistakes,everyone has to go through it at some point. That is a cool little plant , it will be interesting to see it fatten up over the next 20 days. I am not sure but I would think that by day 70 it will be ready and you should have mostly cloudy and amber.It's only a guess I like mine a little more stoney so I pull mine when I start to see about half cloudy half amber. You should get some good smoke it may surprise you how much you actually harvest. The last two weeks are by far the funnest part of the grow when the weight begins to pack on once the buds begin to swell. Looks good to me,it's still surviving and producing. Here's some rep for sharing,hope you put up some more pics. Peace!

 

[knocker powell]

looking tasty bro!

 

[Gatorbackbob]

Thanks for the rep! Yeah I'll keep posting update pictures, then when this one is done I'll start a proper journal, going to be mephisto deep blue c. I'm wanting more body than head stone, so I'm thinking maybe around 20% Amber

 

[Gatorbackbob]

Day 51, starting to yellow up, frost production is pretty excellent, sorry for the fuzzy pics.

 

[Gatorbackbob]

Update day 55
I've been on the flush cycle, trichs are clear and cloudy, there's a lot of broken dark Amber ones on the sugar leaves, but I've read to only go by the heads on the calyx themselves. I'm enjoying the purple color coming out on top, and the smell is deep fruity skunk

 

[Gatorbackbob]

Day 60 trichomes are cloudy now with some Amber, haven't seen much more swelling the last 4 days or so, I'm going to harvest Saturday, which will be day 64, loving the purple hues, I had no idea this strain would get so colorful.

 

[Gatorbackbob]

Day 64
Harvest!
Trichomes started appearing Amber, I didn't want a lot of Amber, so it was time. I'm sorry that this go around I did not invest in a scale, so I can only guess wet weight around 40 grams? Into a paper bag to dry, cab is 73 degrees and 49% rh I know it's warmer than preferred, but I live in the deep south and it's hot outside lol. The scissors hash was outstanding by the way!

 

[Gatorbackbob]

I went and got a reliable scale, wet weight is 99 grams even, so that will probably be around an ounce dried! I'm very pleased with this amount for my first time!