My First Grow: Bruce Banner on Day 2 of Flower

Hello and welcome to my Ghetto Grow. Also, thank you to the many who've come before me and shared their knowledge here.

I'm a 50-something dad with a decent green thumb and an appreciation for fine weed. I've been curious about growing but never have. I typically enjoy the headiness of a good sativa, but imo it isn't easy to find great sativas here in Portland. So I decided to grow my own.

On June 1, I got a small BB clone from a local retailer. I took it home, watered it, and put it under two cheap LED blurples (200w each) in my guest bathroom.

I fed it Brita-filtered water and a 1/4-strength Fox Farm trio, with a few other minor things thrown in occasionally (Schultz's when I wanted a good, simple push, and very light CalMag a few times, as a preventative measure only).

Eventually, I sprung another $40 for another Amazon LED -- this time, 600W.

I was super particular about some basic things, but really this was a "common sense" grow. Basically, I kept it stupid-simple. By all rights, this shouldn't even be growing. Some may say the final product may be weak. Who knows? I wanted to learn on one plant and simply focus on the basics.

I am happy to share any info about my grow. How I fimmed a FIM and ended up topping. How I scientifically planned the nutrient regimen. How I set my ph.

I have just flipped to flower. I don't have any idea what's going to flower where, but it appears pretty primed to me. I light-proofed the bathroom and switched the timers to 12/12 this past weekend.

There are a few things I need to correct for going forward -- mostly notably, fresh air intakes/exhausts. IMO I'm moving the air okay (with a small fan), but I'm not moving enough volume of air in and then out of that room.

I will actually probably spend the cash to have this weed tested, simply so I can have a baseline measurement of THC (or something, not yet sure) from this grow, from this plant.

I've taking a few cuttings already, and will take a few more at the end.

Any and all feedback is welcome, and thank you again.

Bud

You can either remove this lower sucker growth or take another cutting.

Budzbuddha said:

You can either remove this lower sucker growth or take another cutting.

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Thanks for that! Think it's okay for me to take them now, having just started flowering? (How I Got Here: I basically started to tie stuff down along a screen type of deal. I coaxed everything up to screen-level as best I could, but a few didn't make it. Those were my clone targets. Girlfriend took a few last week but didn't take them all. At this point, I'm reluctant to traumatize the budding children, but not sure this will.) Thanks again. I was hoping some branches would make it up but a few didn't (like these). Last week, girlfriend took a few for cloning purposes but didn't tak

No reason to allow underdeveloped growth to take anything from upper growth.

GL

I would save up ditch those blurples lights, get yourself something half decent.

I had a blurple that said it was a 1000w but when you look at the sticker on the side with electrical information it was actually 110w

I'm guessing you maybe have just over 100w with those three lights

Also I wouldn't waste your cash getting it tested

Test it yourself lol