Just a Girl Tryin' to Grow Some GDP and Cheese!

Yeah, my cat would eat a whole plant flowers and all if I let her! I always give her fan leaves when trimming. I also grow cat grass in my tent so she can garden with me

I'll be watering and updating tomorrow, thanks everyone for the likes and support! Happy growing!

Today marks Day 34 since germination and the GDP's are looking great! They are all happy in their new 5 gal homes and have taken off like rockets. I just finished a watering of Liquid Karma and an additional LST to 3 plants. These are really, really easy plants to care for. They are quite sensitive to nutrients and hardly needed the 1/2 dose feeding I gave them last week, and it is nice not to fuss with heavy feeders in veg. I am maintaining about an 82F average, I wish I could get it cooler but 79F is as good as it gets right now. The stalks are getting super thick! It was more difficult to LST today than it was before. Hopefully I'm able to keep them trained well over the next few weeks. Thanks for stopping by everyone

Every plant is officially flowering now on Day 38! I think this is the earliest I've had regular seeds flower before. I'm not complaining! But I am going to leave them under veg lighting schedule and MH bulb for another week at least. In the pictures here, the two back plants are males and the three front plants (+ middle plant) are females. I defoliated the male plants a little bit so I can keep more of an eye on what they are up to (I know that sounds stupid, please don't yell at me...). I spent some time LST'ing lower budsites tonight and I'm just so pleased and happy with what these plants look like! Still just one nutrient feeding in and they aren't anywhere near close to needing more. Because of the bulb you can't really see the true color in these pictures but they are so green and beautiful. What a pleasure this grow is becoming. And now the best lady and her friends...

Day 44 today and the HPS is hooked up and ready for flowering! Yesterday I had the plants in about 36 hours of dark, not by choice though. I had an unfortunate plumbing problem inside the house (plant unrelated) and thought it'd be best to turn it all off for a day until it starts to get fixed (people coming in and out all day, thank god they don't smell yet). They are all looking beautiful! Since I vegged for about 6 weeks the preflowers didn't keep forming but hopefully now the flowering cycle will jump start. This is the fun part Looking forward to some more LST soon, I think I've got the hang of it now. In the photos, the front 3 plants are my girls. Enjoy!

Lookin good sister, I'm subbed.

Great looking girls you got growin!!! You go girl..... I can't wait to see more photos from you...... Keep up the green work!!!

Thanks Daytona I'm following you along now too!

OK - Hopefully everyone can learn from my mistakes now. I made the stupidest mistake that almost cost me my grow. When LST'ing in the beginning I tied my string way too tight for my plants. I tend to get really thick stalks and they have grown bigger than I've ever had them before. Well, as you can guess I pretty much suffocated all of my plants in multiple areas! I lost a cola on one of the males (which is nothing to complain about) and nearly lost all of my girls for having those damn strings tied too tight. I noticed all of this about 4 days ago and spent hours meticulously removing all of my strings and taping together all of the fragile branches. Since then I am happy and thankful to say they have all made a recovery and have continued growing and flourishing but they all seem stunted in the flowering cycle... I can't blame them. I am just so thankful I didn't let it go another week, I would have been devastated. So hopefully in the next week I will start to see them pick up in health. I am noticing some deficiencies (the picture lighting makes it look worse than it is) and this morning I pulled out some veg nutes with micro nutrients to kick whatever is wrong with them in the butt. I am also considering watering them in the next week with some superthrive or just a vitamin B complex to encourage their recovery. Whew. It was a close call. Hopefully someone out there will read this and avoid doing what I did! I will update again in the next few days.. thanks for all the new followers and support

The two males are in front and the three females are the back two and the middle plant. It's getting too crowded in the tent now, I guess I've been training them properly minus almost killing them. None of them are more than 10" tall. Hopefully the males hurry up so I can get rid of them soon! Maybe some one can chime in and let me know how to preserve pollen? Like what temperature to store it at and for how long I can store it for?

Don't worry, you just in inadvertently super cropped your girls. On another positive note it should limit the stretch (I noticed you have a limited ceiling and with a 600 in there every inch counts....if I only had a nickle!) Also, Im not sure if you mentioned whats in your soil recipe but in the future, if you dont already, you might consider adding a couple cups of dolomitic lime for ph balance throughout the grow and add 1 tsp of epsom salts per gallon to your watering schedule (Looked like either Mg def or wind burn that you lost the cheese to) you would hate to lose any of those babies to a def late in flower... Other than that all looks well, goodluck with the breeding project! -S0uP

Edit. Pollen can be stored in sterile test tubes or film containers. Store at cool temperatures ,<65* with a couple grains of rice for humidity. Pollen can be viable for many years to come if stored correctly and with care!

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Don't worry, you just in inadvertently super cropped your girls. On another positive note it should limit the stretch (I noticed you have a limited ceiling and with a 600 in there every inch counts....if I only had a nickle!) Also, Im not sure if you mentioned whats in your soil recipe but in the future, if you dont already, you might consider adding a couple cups of dolomitic lime for ph balance throughout the grow and add 1 tsp of epsom salts per gallon to your watering schedule (Looked like either Mg def or wind burn that you lost the cheese to) you would hate to lose any of those babies to a def late in flower... Other than that all looks well, goodluck with the breeding project! -S0uP

Edit. Pollen can be stored in sterile test tubes or film containers. Store at cool temperatures ,<65* with a couple grains of rice for humidity. Pollen can be viable for many years to come if stored correctly and with care!

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Thanks s0uP! I was planning on storing it in the fridge so it seems like that would be a good idea. I doubt I'll store it for long I just think it'd be good for the girls to recover before they are pollinated.

I've been using FFOF but to be honest I think there's way too much Nitrogen in it and my plants were very dark green up until last week and I'd rather have that more under control because not all plants are as forgiving as these were. I would like to definitely play around with soil mixes on the next one. I also neglected them for a little while as this past week I've been really sick. But they will be nice and green in no time.

The males are making me pretty nervous, one is maturing a lot faster than the other but there's so many tops I can't keep track of the pollen sacks! So today I pulled out the keeper, put him in another room and bagged him. I should be able to trim some pollen sacks tomorrow and hopefully then get rid of him after the weekend for good. The other male that I am not keeping is getting cut down and dumped here in a little bit. Here's a few pics before I chop him. Not too bad for the worst looking one! Males are always the best looking...

I was also just looking over the females and wanted to share this really weird mutation with you guys! It's on the female in the back left corner, what I see is a pistil coming from the middle of a fan leaf with a little tiny fan leaf growing ontop of the pistil! WTF!





Also one picture of the male I'm collecting pollen from!

Hey everybody! Sorry it's been a week or so since my last update but I was away for work for a while. Anyways now I'm back and the girls are looking incredible. Today I took them all out and defoliated a little tiny bit and also watered with Liquid Karma and Big Bud for all of them. All of the deficiencies have gone away and I am happy to say they are all flourishing! I'd say they are about 2 weeks into flower now with one female lagging behind ever so slightly. The smell isn't too bad so far and I'm able to have it under control without scrubbers/carbon filtering. I'm just so pleased with how great they look! The 5 gal. pots have made a huge (pun intended) difference. Here are a few pics... happy growing everyone

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What are you gonna be growin Stufbob? Thanks for following!!

dellamore said:

What are you gonna be growin Stufbob? Thanks for following!!

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I'm two weeks in growing three "nirvana blue mystics". It's my first grow but seems to be going well....touch wood

blue mystics are great. my buddy grows them, and they flower quickly.

i have a nirvana master kush growing, 5 nirvana snow white seeds and 2 nirvana new york power diesel seeds that ill plant soon (theyre el dorado x aurora indica)

i also have 5 head seeds casey jones (i hear theyre rare)

subbed for you dellamore. my diesel and master kush both have skunk in them like your cheese

I store my pollen in the freezer, as I find the refrigerator has too much humidity. If you're using dessicants inside the container, you should be fine in the fridge.

A note on LST'ing if you're worried about choking out the stems again, you can train them without tying around the entire stem. Go to Walmart (or wherever has a sporting goods department) and get some decent sized sinkers for fishing. They'll be in a multitude of sizes so you can choose what's best for you, but most have a hole to tye them up with. Can open a paper clip so it has a loop on both ends, using one to hold the sinker and the other side to just hang some weight on the branches to spread them out. this will only put pressure on the top of the stem, and allow the sides and bottom free movement of fluids up and down the stem. I generally have several sized sinkers for larger/smaller stems.

Got Grandoggy Purps vegging right now from Connoseur Seeds, so very interested to see how your GDP ends up! Keep up the good work!

killachris said:

subbed for you dellamore. my diesel and master kush both have skunk in them like your cheese

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Now I am really mourning the loss of my Cheese!! I would love to follow your Casey Jones if you do a journal

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A note on LST'ing if you're worried about choking out the stems again, you can train them without tying around the entire stem. Go to Walmart (or wherever has a sporting goods department) and get some decent sized sinkers for fishing. They'll be in a multitude of sizes so you can choose what's best for you, but most have a hole to tye them up with. Can open a paper clip so it has a loop on both ends, using one to hold the sinker and the other side to just hang some weight on the branches to spread them out. this will only put pressure on the top of the stem, and allow the sides and bottom free movement of fluids up and down the stem. I generally have several sized sinkers for larger/smaller stems.

Got Grandoggy Purps vegging right now from Connoseur Seeds, so very interested to see how your GDP ends up! Keep up the good work!

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Thanks for the LST note. I figured I'd remember that I tied them tightly, to be able to adjust every few days. But I forgot about those important ones on the stalk and before I knew it I had 20 ties per plant the colas were all being decapitated! I definitely learned from my mistakes. I would love to compare our purps!! I've got the purple leaf thing going on but I'm not sure if it's the genetics or maybe a little too much of this or that - they've all gotten heavily fed lately, yet no burning. So give me another week or two and we'll see what happens

lol, who'd have thought your plants would be growing too quickly for your own good!? Pretty nice problem to have when you think of it.

killachris said:

blue mystics are great. my buddy grows them, and they flower quickly.

i have a nirvana master kush growing, 5 nirvana snow white seeds and 2 nirvana new york power diesel seeds that ill plant soon (theyre el dorado x aurora indica)

i also have 5 head seeds casey jones (i hear theyre rare)

subbed for you dellamore. my diesel and master kush both have skunk in them like your cheese

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That's good to hear!
Best of luck with your grow killa