1st serious grow (jack herer, day 42@12/12 w/pics)

Jbrowngreen

Jbrowngreen

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so ive been working on this guy for a while he started as a nice 12" christmas tree shaped bush beautiful back in october/november but sadly my dog ate all the fan leaves off of it and it had to rejuvanate after 4 more weeks of growing back its dignity this little plant that could was thrown into the flower room looking better than ever at 18" now it is at 45inches where i had to top it back in like week 4 because it was growing into my light.

its looking great now it is recieving botanicare pure blend pro and gh kool bloom and floralicious plus, along with a tablespoon of molasses every watering

pics below, im watering about every 3-4 days the soil is 2 parts happy frog, 2 parts ocean forest, 1 part pearlite with a dash of dolemite lime

i have a 400 watt hps and 1 50 watt led panel and 1 24 watt 3000k t5 strip for supplamental lighting.

it was veged under a 2'x4 bulb t5 with 2 6500k bulbs and 2 3000k bulbs and 3 led panels as supplamental lighting with regular weekly foliar applications of diamond nectar during veg

if anyone sees anything or has any pointers feel free to critisize i'm still getting my feet wet here but after my first unnoficial grow im feeling a bit more confident.
 

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ya i took 8 clones of a sister plant of this jack(another victim of the dog attack) i call her gemini because after the attack she branched off and grew as two seperate plants from the same roots

its kind of funny the ones i didn't use any hormone on actually rooted faster and stronger than the ones with the clonex, i did them in rapid rooters

they are in soil now in 1/2 gallon grow bags 4 parts FFOF 1 part pearlite

one is starting to wilt a bit but the others are doing nicely, the two with no hormones are a little yellow but i sprayed them with a weak solution of diamond nectar and pro gro today and yesterday and they are starting to green up. and are still the healthiest looking ones.

i moved my area too so thankfully the dog stays out of the way now


i started some shivaXnl seedlings today too and will be starting my first grow log in the next week or so so check it out.
i'll keep you guys posted on this guy too during these last few weeks.

gemini is also just entering week 3 of flowering now i'll get some pics of her up here tomorrow, she is a little beaten but she is a survivor
 
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here are some pics of the rest of the kids

gemini is first followed by a power skunk i started a month ago that i am cloning for sex at the moment

also i have a pic of the babies i cut off gemini, as you can see one isn't doing to well, but the rest are ok.

i also threw in a pic of my sog setup i built im going to test it out soon hopefully and try to see weather or not i prefer dwc or ebb and flow for hydro, although personally i am really a soil person
 

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5 fan leaves finished yellowing and fell off today the rest that are left are all up by the main bud sites im doing my last watering with ferts today and friday just switched over to the kool bloom dry for these last 2 waterings

then on monday its just flora kleen for a flush

and just molasses after that

i think the big chop is going to be in 19-23 days, cant wait!

here are some pics
 

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yesterday was day 58 so i decided to harvest as 3/4 of the hairs were red and trichs a bit cloudy, i wanted more head than body so i figured 8.5 weeks would be good as it is a 7-10 week strain, i flushed with flora kleen and botanacare sweet (berry) for about a week prior to the chop

so i trimmed off the branches and all the leaves yesterday around 5 pm-7pm
and hung them in a dark closet with a small weak fan blowing against the wall for 18 hours

i then removed them from the closet and in a dark room i trimmed off all the stems and weighed it to get my weight after 18 hours of drying 130 grams!
so hopefully i will be seeing about an ounce and a half all together.

the buds are now hanging from a small rack inside a 30 gal Rubbermaid with a small air purifier/fan on inside for 1 hour per every 4 hours at the lowest setting. the lid has two 2" holes cut in it as vents and is not sealed it is just setting above the rack which is balancing on the tote so the buds can hang inside in the dark. humidity inside is around 35 and drops to about 28 with the fan on the inside temp is between 60-70f

i will be transferring them to glass jars in about 5 days assuming all goes well
 
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