First grow - 2 S.A.G.E.'s under 250W

Due to this being my first grow I would love to have comments.

Hey, i'm new here and trying my first grow, already started it around 50 days ago but woud like to keep updating to the end.

My setup is a stealth closet sitting inside a closet, size is 50cm x 55cm x 165cm(height) .

Genetics: Planted 3 seeds, 2 of them were Fem TH Seeds S.A.G.E and a Skunk haze i got additionally (added them for free on order).

I'm using a 250W light system with MH and HPS for different stages, I got an outake fan working at 240 meter per second, ducted to a cool tube and a charcoal filter. Air comes in from 2 fans, 100 cubic meter per second and 300 cubic meter per second - total of 400.

Using soil, dunno exactly what kind but grow equipment shop said its good for grow and it seems to be working fine until now.

My fertz are Biobizz's Grow, topmax and Bloom.

Humidity is around 50% night, 30% at day,
Tempatures in the closet are kinda high (i'm living in a hot country) and are around 30c with lights on and 29 with lights off (i put a\c on light on hours so it doesnt get tot 34c....).

Due to high temps I added a home made co2 generater made by mixing water+yeast+sugar, seems to be working great.

I don't have a PH soil tester but only a chemical water tester and i'm making sure its around 6.5 each time I water.

Day 1 - 6\2 Put the seeds in a paper towel slightly soaked with water for 2 days until saw start of a root
Dau 3 - 6\4 - Put them in soil and waited to sprout

Day 9 - 6\10 - First pics, already got first set of real leaves


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Day 11 - 6\12 - Second set of leaves starting to grow

Day 12 - 6\13

Got a microscope to have a better view on the leaves, took 2 pics (first 2) ... was wondering what those white dots are... any one? (yes i would like comments on my thread)

Day 16 - 6\17

Rest of pics, starting to get real bushy, started giving nutes (Biobizz Grow , 1ml\Litre of water)

Day 21 - 6\23 - Growing bigger, the Skunk Haze going higher then the 2 Sage's (skunk in the middle).

might be that the Skunk Haze needed let nutes?

Nice looking plants

Day 28 - 6\30 - Skunk Haze just getting too tall (streching while in veg), decided to not raise the lights for him since i'm planning on the SAGE's to have the higher quality. Started thinkin about the option of it being a male.

Day 34 - 7\4 - 2 Sage's reached 29cm and started flowering, pics here taken a day after flowering.
Unfortunaly, I did a mistake and put the HPS bulb when started to flower, and after 3 days the plants doubled in size.
The Skunk haze start touching the light even though I bended it abit, causing it to get abit burned. Eventually I decided to take it out (not enough room for 3 plants, too high, might be a male, burnted already, lower quality strain). So I ended up with 2 SAGE's.

Here are the pics from 2nd day of flowering

Day 47 - 7\17 -
Haven't updated for a while. I already took the Skunk Haze out and located pistils on the 2 remaining plants. their height is already 80cm (started flowering at 29cm!!!!), starting to go really short on room (only got 15-20cm for the plant to grow...) - Hoping having the HPS on first days of flowering causing the huge strech not to ruin my plant, also hoping it to stop growing vertically.

So basiclly now, one of my plants is showing many pistils and the other one only a bit. The one with many pistils also showing something wierd that kinda looks like a male but through the microscope i'm not really sure.. gonna have to wait and see how that develops - I add'ed pics anyway. really hoping ain't a hermie

Heres some rep for nice plants

Day 52 - 7/22

Lots of pistils coming out, I tied my plants as I was afraid it will exceed the height, it kinda stopped streching now tho lots of bud sites are pointed straight to the light at the same distance from the light what is making me very hopeful about my yield... i'll be happy with whatever comes out. Did some micro pics on the top pistils of the plant. I'm supposing it's going into bud formation now and really excited to see how they develop.

Day 61 - 7\31

Day 28 of flowering, budding going really slow... i'm getting massive pistils but buds just starting to get a shape now, though its still very very small.

My plant is still stretching, and i'm out of room for a few days already... the light can't go any higher (it's higher then i beleived I can get it). The strain should end up at 120-140 but it's vertical growth wouldn't stop... so after tying them dow'n i had to pinch and bend lots of branches so they just don't get burned. Currently they are at about 15cm away from my 250W (what I beleive to be my limit since i'm using a cooltube letting me go just slightly closer than normal).

I hope all this stress won't give me hermies, I'm just starting to feel bad for my plant and i almost lost my faith that i'll actually get something from it... how in hell will I maintain a normal distance from the light for another... 40 days?!?

Next time i'm going for indica for sure, even though i prefer the "high" rather than the "stoned"...

As this to be my first grow I learned for the future that I should of topped them instead of letting them grow and bending them... do you guys think I should of done something else?

I'm really considering the option of giving them 13 hours of darkness to make them mature faster instead of seing them burn to their death... what do you think? please comment

Welcome to the jungel, here are my tall tall sativas, so compressed in that tiny closet:

Next time top your plants keeps them short and bushy looks like uve got more horizontal space to vertical space. they are looking good though keep going and updating ile subscribe heres is a link to my grow https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal-discussion/353418-gi13-haze-rocklock-sharksbreath.html

Haven't updated for a while, was very busy at work but that didn't affect my girls.... So i'll add updates by times photos were taken.

Day 68 - 8\07

Budding going very slow, have the feeling that something isn't going right. Leafs are falling in a rate of 1 leaf a day... not liking this, plants not looking healthy

Day 75- 08\14

Plants not looking healthy, too tight, looks like they are strangling eachother. Going to have a recovery operation soon. Going to transplant, add root additives, flush 3 times with distrilled water and no nutes, and sadly, kill one of the plants since only 1 can grow in such a tight space closet.

Day 92- 08\31- Week 9 of flowering

Back to health, no leaf loss, flowering great. After flushing and transplanting the plant really start showing good flowering rate and i'm expecting her to be ready within a month.

Day 101 - Week 10 of flowering

So I suppose it should start turning amber now? just dunno when it's gonna be ready since she seems to growing and growing and staying with white pistils so i won't kill her...

Wish you would have finished this journal..Good job though.

So, The SAGE took 13 weeks of flowering to ripe, Was harvested over 2 months ago and was all converted to smoke already (need some weed errrr).

I got a total of 125 gram, from a 250W light on my first grow. Here are harvest pics:

10 days later and you got it, its complete