2nd grow, potted outside plant, "Super Bud" seeds

This single plant grow is using "Super Bud" from High-Grade Seeds. $50 for 10 seeds and they shipped me 12 in a plain brown paper envelope. The seeds were in small sipping-straw-like containers, stoppered with cotton, with small hand-written labels and a smiley face.

I started growing this plant back in August, it was one of three. They were all tiny and I started them in Solo cups. I had them under flourescent lights, but I was using the wrong lights-- 5500 instead of 6500k, and they sprouted, but never really grew.

My last grow (Quasi Ghetto Grow) was using the same seeds, yielded one plant with some decent bud. That grow was done totally indoors with a few flourescent lights and was probably moderately successful because there was only one plant so it got most of the light.

This current grow has come a long way from the sad state that it started in and will yield more bud than my last grow, even though this plant went through some seriously tough times.

I put the three tiny plants outside, each in one gallon containers, in a stealthy place where they could receive sunlight. This was somewhere around September I think, and I figured they would go into flower pretty quickly, which they did. Two were males and the one in the pics below was female.

The soil I used is Expert Gardener organic mix all-purpose potting soil, which includes three months-worth of natural nutes.

I learned from my last attempt at leaving plants outside that they must be above the ground, to avoid earwigs. However, since I transplanted and had them outside in September, here on the west coast there are no bugs to speak of, at that time. The plants I do have outside, I have learned to let spiders build webs on, and live in them, because spiders eat bugs. That's organic.

This picture is after I've transplanted her and left her in the sun for probably a couple weeks. I wasn't home during the day and didn't realize at first that she was mostly in shade, after which I figured out a way to get her sunlight most of the day (more on that in the next post).

In the picture below you can see that her leaves aren't even formed properly, with only three blades to the fan at this point.

This is her now, Saturday November 8, roughly two months later. Her flowering time is 9-10 weeks. Super Bud is described on the High Grade Seeds site as being 30% indica, 70% sativa, thus explaining the long flowering time.

Her hairs (what are they really called?) are all white right now, except for the topmost part of the plant, a very small section which are already totally red, but that's about 1% of the hair sites, so I estimate I still have about 2 weeks to go to harvest.

In the beginning, I may have added a very small amount of nutes to this plant, like 4-5 drops in a 1/2 gallon container, and I may have done this twice. I thought I hadn't nuted at all, but as I write this I seem to remember in the early days I was a bit worried and the plant was in a big container and I thought it could handle the nutes. But that would have been about two months ago, and I haven't "nuted" since then.

However, I've been quite regular with the molasses.

I water the plant every 5-7 days. I put tap water in an open pitcher and let it set so that the chlorine dissipates. This usually only takes a day. Meanwhile, my cat drinks from the pitcher.

When I'm ready to water this and my other plants, I add a teaspoon of Grandma's molasses. Currently I'm using "original" though I've since read that blackstrap molasses are best.

Molasses are this curious thing, this goopy brown/sweet/tarry thing that is derived from some vegetable, I think beets. Because of how it is extricated and produced, it contains a whole slew of important biological nutrients. It's sorta like mulch, it's like it's sucked up all this good stuff and stored it in it's honey-like goodness.

So I add a teaspoon of this, and stir it up, then I water all my plants with this. Some of my other plants get straight water about half the time, but my pot plant usually gets molasses when I feed her, which is every 5-7 days. I let the soil almost totally dry out. Five days if it's hot, seven days if it's not. Of course, in summer or spring on the west coast, this would be more like 2-4 days, it is so hot here. And I'm curious to see the quality of buds I would have and the size of plant when this spring I plant it and let it get 4-5 feet, which I'm sure it would, considering our springs and summers.

This weed loves sunlight, can't get enough of it.

So what I did, outside my house is my water heater, and it's in this little shed.

I put my pot plant on the roof of this shed, which is slanting, so of course the plant grows straight, meaning when you take it down and look at it, it's crooked, because the pot it's been in has been on an angle but the plant will always seek straightness. How it does this, I do not know.

But I can't just put a pot plant on my shed. Someone could see it.

For instance, my Landlord's grandson comes and mows the back lawn every Saturday (I'm in a rear house), and her son-in-law, who is in law enforcement, comes around every now and then.

If you were mowing the lawn or trimming shrubs around here and you happened to look at the top of my water heater cover, you would see a pot plant growing.

This is not acceptable.

So I had this little rose plant that I bought from Trader Joe's. I put it up there, on an upturned 1/2 gallon container. On the other side, I put another plant.

Basically, what I've constructed, is, you can't see the pot plant unless you come into my yard and stand in a specific place and look at it dead-on. From the sides (I don't want my neighbors to look over their fences and see it), you just see some plants on a water heater shed, getting some sunlight.

So this is how I managed to give my pot plant sunlight, in autumn, through most of the day.

And this is why it is growing better than my last plant, which was grown entirely on flouros. That grow journal is here: https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/68427-quasi-ghetto-grow.html

Here are the pictures:

bud in kitchen
bud plant top down

So here's what's left of my bud after in desperation a couple weeks ago I cut off and smoked the lower part, after heating it in the oven and finding out it doesn't take much heat for very long (200 degrees for 15 minutes or so in my little oven) to dry it out, after first running at 300, then 250 degrees.

The smoke smells and tastes like boiling vegetables. Cabbage, anyone?

But I pulled those so early anyway, the hairs were all white, still... I got high!

A very clean but fairly weak high.

So the first pic is of the bud, it's actually leaning on it's green stalk, for two reasons: 1) I had it on a tipped roof of a shed; 2) it's started to bend over WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE BUD!

Sweet.

So right now it's about 70% red hairs. I put it back and just smoked the resin in my pipe. I'll pull it soon, though, and give updates on the curing.

2nd pic is a top-down view. The leaves themselves have become very purple which is making me think she's getting ready though it could just be nute deficiency.

As per the journals preceding this, I only fed the plant nutes a couple times, very lightly. Mostly just molasses.

i got a question mine the hairs are just white an is stayin white is that a good thing or bad i have been watering it every day leaves are turning yellowing i guess cause im watering it to much not that im reading how much u are watering yours im watering it to much i try to give it micrale grow an it rejects it starts to die so pretty much all i use is just staright water if i do let it dry up for bout 4 to 5 days how much water should i use half gallon full gallon plz let me know thanks

I do not know what the hell I am doing but from what you wrote, I would say you are way over-watering. Remember if you are using tap water, let it set for a day so the chlorine dissipates. It's so hard to not water... just get psychic with your plant and listen to her, that's all I can tell you. I am looking at this a year after I wrote it because I'm growing again, and I'm reminded of how delicate everything is.

tvanharte said:

i got a question mine the hairs are just white an is stayin white is that a good thing or bad i have been watering it every day leaves are turning yellowing i guess cause im watering it to much not that im reading how much u are watering yours im watering it to much i try to give it micrale grow an it rejects it starts to die so pretty much all i use is just staright water if i do let it dry up for bout 4 to 5 days how much water should i use half gallon full gallon plz let me know thanks

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Every time you water with a potting soil with nutes in it you are releasing the nutes...so you basically are over feeding it. Best suggestion is to plant your seedlings or clones right into a 3 gallon pot so your watering is spanned out over a longer period of time vs seeing your soil crusty dry in a smaller pot.