1st Plant | Bluecheese | Indoor/Outdoor on the cheap

Hello ,

Complete newbie about to harvest my first plant. She's Bluecheese from a plant that herm. I had a lot of seeds but lost them during a move. Glad to have 1 sprouted. She's literally my first plant and my goodness a person can learn a lot from growing. She's a very hearty plant and I've already started 2 clones for some friends and testing a third. The goal was to go as cheap as possible and learned as much as I can from 1 plant.

I really wanted to take it all in at once. I have dyslexia... reading isn't something that I good with. Genuinely it's thanks to marijuana that helped prolong a little bit of clarity to work on developing better with writing.

I gave it a shot and see what happens how far curiosity would go. During veg she was under 24/0 of 1x - CFL - 23w 5000k, 1x - CFL - 15w 6500k and 1x - LED - 18w 5000K by a window. The soil was what I found outside, looked for a plant that's looks healthy and borrowed some of the soil.

I was very rough and she was brilliantly forgiving. I dropped a fan on her and split her at her top, a clamp lamp fell on her several times...She keeps recovering each time I screwed up. Really learned how resilient a plant can be.

Didn't Ph my water, just let it sit and 1 tablespoon of Thrive Alive B-1 Green and Grozyme, 2 spikes of Jobes Organics fertilizer spikes 4-4-4. Both nuts were found laying around and are both expired back in 2013. I played with my own mixtures but since I only had 1 plant and this is my 1st plant, no control to compare. The soil drained well and dried really fast.

The disco-ball is just sweet.

I really wanted to keep her in vegetative stage as long as possible but as soon as I noticed her hairs I transitioned hesitantly to 12/12.

During flowering, she was giving sunlight whenever it is available and when it starts getting dark I would bring her back in to indoor lights. For the lights I hacked off the diffuser domes of 8w Ikea LEDS and used light clamps and got as close as I can for 4 days and then I got lucky at a garage sale with some light sockets. Went on ebay and bought a 20W LED grow light for fun... arrived defective...

For the indoor light most of the flowering stages I had 4x - 8w- LED 3000K, 1x - 18w - LED 5000K, 1x - 20W - defective grow light. When it rained I brought her outside for a soak and back in to some light.

I knew she wasn't going to yield much, it was more of observing, trying, learning and doing what I can with whatever that was around.

The other lights that I got to try out were 23W CFL 3000K Floodlights. After removing the disfuser domes from the 8W LED 3000K looked brighter and I stuck with them till the end.

1st harvest is coming up. Very excited Happy growing!

From the looks of the close ups, how much longer can I wait?

how long has it been in flower for? it does not look done. i would wait at least another 2 weeks to let it fully mature.

MintLeaf Jewelry said:

how long has it been in flower for? it does not look done. i would wait at least another 2 weeks to let it fully mature.

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I'm glad my photos have the dates on them. She is almost exactly 6 weeks. She looks underdeveloped probably because of not having enough light. I wish I could wait a little longer but her trichomes look just right, around 10% amber. She's in the dark at the moment. I don't want to stress her too hard because I do want to reveg and observe how that works.

yeah so that would put it on 42 days of flower im guessing. you should wait until day 50-56 for an indica. i like to wait for about 25% amber.

MintLeaf Jewelry said:

yeah so that would put it on 42 days of flower im guessing. you should wait until day 50-56 for an indica. i like to wait for about 25% amber.

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That's really encouraging now that you mentioned that. Since this is an experiment and I'm curious, I really like her closeup colors at the moment. I also would like to see if there is a difference between cloudy with minimal amber for more of cerebral experience. I'm thinking about harvesting her tops and then continue her for another 2 weeks for her bottom buds to mature and see where it goes from there.

MintLeaf Jewelry said:

yeah so that would put it on 42 days of flower im guessing. you should wait until day 50-56 for an indica. i like to wait for about 25% amber.

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Thank you so much for pointing that out. I have very good feeling about the other buds now. 2 weeks is a lot time to work on furthering their development.

Just finished a rough trim of the tops

MintLeaf Jewelry said:

how long has it been in flower for? it does not look done. i would wait at least another 2 weeks to let it fully mature.

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Thank you so much for your advice, I wouldn't have got the chance to witness the trichomes development if you hadn't mention that. Don't have a lot of time but will be posting more of her progress in her last week & 1/2. I can't wait to do a smoke difference between her tops and her fully matured buds.

Her trichome development is maturing well. Stretched and now is all cloudy and haven't amber yet.

Here are her 2 clones, she a very hearty plant. If she hermies due to temperature stress then I'll definitely send over some seeds for you to try out.

Phillipkind said:

Thank you so much for your advice, I wouldn't have got the chance to witness hey trichomes development if you hadn't mention that. Don't have a lot of time but will be posting more of her progress in her last week & 1/2. I can't wait to do a smoke difference between her tops and a fully matured buds.

Her trichome development is maturing well. Stretched and now is all cloudy and haven't amber yet.

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im here to help excited to see your progress.

MintLeaf Jewelry said:

im here to help excited to see your progress.

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How do you like a post? I haven't found that option yet.

MintLeaf Jewelry said:

im here to help excited to see your progress.

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Thank you, I'm stoked on your end too

Here's a better picture of her trichome development. It is better than the development of her tops in comparison. I'm curious if I changed the temperature of the lights now would it help her? I'm trying to keep them all in the same place near a windows and I don't want the warm colour temperature to stretch out her clones. I'm already in bonus round with your advice, might as well give it a go.

Was able to bring her outside for a sunbath today till 2:00pm. Now as slowly as I can to lessen the temperature change of indoor and outdoor. Her leaves are still very healthy.

I understand that having white ash after a light is a quite subjective in terms of it being an indicator of quality. I quick dried her sugar leaves and a small bud with a candle heater plate and she tasted really tasty and smooth. I feel that minimal nuts worked out quite good.