Rubbermaid 156 watt CFL (First grow)

Hello, figured I should start one of these for my first grow. I had the seeds sprout on 6/14 of unknown bag seed. Since then they have been under 126 actual watts (6 26watt CFL lamps) in 2 18 gallon rubbermaid containers. I cant find the camera I took my first few weeks of pictures with but I switched over to my phone and these pick up at about day 25.

I'm using 2 gallon smart pots with Fox Farms Ocean Forest. I sprouted them under 24/0 light, switch to 18/6 when I started having temperature issues during mid day, and now I'm on 12/12. The last picture in this string is of day 42 from seed.



EDIT:Comments and questions are welcome!

Going to get caught up here...


6/10
- Planted seeds and watered.

6/11
- Sprayed soil to keep moist.

6/12
- Watered soil fully.

6/13
- Sprayed soil to keep moist.

6/14
- Watered soil fully.
- 3 of 4 have sprouted

6/15
- Added fan in grow box to aid in air circulation.

6/16
- Watered until drained.

6/17
- watered until drained.

6/19
- watered until drained.
- Moved CFL lamps to 3" from seedlings rather than 11"

6/21
- watered until drained.

6/23
- Repotted into 2 gal smartpots with FFOF soil.
- Watered until drained.

6/24
- Watered until drained. (I very much overwatered....first grow, blah blah...)

6/27
- Watered until drained.

6/29
- Watered until drained.
- Rotated plants

6/30
- FIMed and topped.

7/03
- Watered until drained.

7/06
- Transplanted my double potted into their own 2 gal pots.
- Watered until drained.

7/10
- Watered with 1/4 strength nutrients (.25 grow, .25 micro, .25 bloom)/gallon
- Switched lights from 24/0 to 18/6. This is to help a heat issue during the mid day where box temps were reaching 93*F.

7/12
- Watered with plain water.

7/13-15
- Moved to attic during in-law visit. Temps reached 113*F and plants were pretty wilted.
- Watered with 1/2 strength nutes (.5 grow, .5 micro, .5 bloom)/gallon. They perked back up within 2 hours.

7/16
- Started LST. I pulled the 2 3" tops down to either side and tied them.

7/18
- Watered with plain water.

7/19
- Removed plant that wasn't growing and put it out back in the yard to get more space in the box. Don't really care about it at this point but seems to be doing nicely in the yard.

7/23
- Watered with 3/4 strength nutes ( .75 grow, .75 micro, .75 bloom)/gallon.
- Switched lights to 12/12. 10am-10pm off cycle.

7/27
- Watered with plain water.

7/30
- Left plant (lighter green one) is female.
- Watered with full strength nutes (2 tsp grow, 2 tsp micro, 2 tsp bloom)/gallon. Nutrient levels were boosted after first week of flower per the feeding GH feeding chart on the bottle.

8/01
-Pictures

The 2 different plants are very apparent here. The lighter one on the right is the one that is female and the close-ups are of the tops.

8/02

8/03
One plant is male


However my other one is female

8/04
Pulled the male. Going to try and use his clippings in some cannabutter. The little single top plant that you can see in some of the pictures is female so she took the pot with fresh dirt in it from the male I removed. Also watered with plain water.

8/05
Tops are really starting to grow up. The plant leaning in the second picture is the small plant that was planted the same time all the others were but just never really got good light from being so small. However it is female so we will see what happens with it.

8/08
Day 16 12/12
Flushed ~3 gallons of water through to try and get rid of this clawing that seems to be happening on my leaves. Used tap water untreated at around 8.1pH. Once I finished the run off still pHed at 5.7 so apparently there was some issues with the soil. The last half gallon of water through was pHed water that sat out for a few days (6.7)


Here's to hoping those leaves straighten out.

Looks good so far brow nicely lsted plants and use of your little space and that 150 watts . Crazy looking strain nice light green bud on it will check back to this to see how much resin it produces . Anyways this is a good grow bro keep at it and get some more pics when stuff starts to happen peace.

8/11
Some pics. Noticing some yellowing of the lower leaves.


8/13
Watered plain water. Yellowing getting worse. pH is still an issue with runoff testing at 6.0. Thinking I've locked out Nitrogen with my low pH.



8/14
Flushed again with 7.4pH RO distilled water. I ran 4 gallons through with the final runoff pHing at about 6.7 according to my new drip tester. I added another half gallon of nutes at half strength (1 teaspoon micro 5-0-1, 1 teaspoon bloom 0-4-5). Hopefully this will fix this issue I seem to be having.

8/17
Watered the smaller plant with 1/4 strength nutes. She seems to have some burn so I backed off.


8/19 day 28 flower
Going to water my larger plant this evening after the dark cycle completes. Used half strength nutes last time so going to use plain water with epsom salt this time. Getting some nice size to the buds but the yellowing is continuing. At this point I really have no idea what to do about it other than just wait it out and hope the plant finishes. It looks like the plant is in it's last week but that's not the case.


Suggestions appreciated.

Honestly I dont know why you havnt gotten more comments and love. Youre doing great! You document like a champ, nobody is that detailed anymore. I used to document daily about every plant. I respect your need to be on top of things. Can I assume you didnt clone? One word of advice, do so.. Always. Even males. Ive lost some pretty special phenos in my beginning years because I didnt make clones. I wanna see you more of what you got. ALso, Can we getta pic of the rubbermaid with top on and lights on?

As far a the plants go, You want yellowing but not as much right now at day 30. You have to know you have a decently fast indica on your hands, kinda impressive actually. Id say you need to feed them more because she is obliviously sucking up all the food you give her faster than you are dishing it, but to much N late n flower will result in a bad taste and a slightly delayed finishing time.. So the yellowing is hunger. Either that or you have a bad ph lockout. I say you make your the ph is perfect then up the nutes a tad bit, maybe an eighth or quarter more than usual. I say only do this for another week or 2 MAX. Other than that you will taste it