First grow Heavyweight Fruit Punch

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Hi. I'll be following your journal closely. I'm doing my first (serious) grow and using Heavyweight Fruit Punch from Herbies also under 400w MH/HPS in a 3'x3' space. You are a few days ahead of me.

I fed the struggling seedling some nutes this morning. 1ml/gallon EJ grow, microblast, and catalyst. It didn't need more water, but it regressed a little since last night so I went ahead and did it. If she dies I'll still have 3 plants under 600w so I should still do well. 2nd set of leaves are progressing nicely. Temps staying 69-76 and humidity 43-50. I will be placing them under the MH lamp when the next set of leaves come in.

Update: 10 days since germination

Went ahead and dropped the hood down, turned on the MH, removed the CFL, cranked on all the fans, and I'm watching the temp rise. Holding lower 80's so it's looking good. I can see the 3rd set of leaves barley poking up. The baby of the group is stalled out. Kinda bummed since it's my first grow, but it is what it is. The next few days will be interesting with all the extra light now. Also, switching to 18/6 lighting schedule. Later.

Update: 13 days since germination

Added the humidifier to the tent. RH was down to 30 and temps hanging at 82. RH now at 45 and temps 76-78. Plants are growing steady. 3rd set of leaves are starting to take off. The light is now about 18" from the top of the plants. The sick one has 3 days until I pull her. That would make 14 days with zero improvement. I did cut one of the pre-leaves off that was dead and stuck to the one that is still mostly green, but I have no confidence she makes it. Some pics...

Update: 14 days since germination

There's some root growth coming out the drainage holes of the solo cups. First transplant should be coming up within 1.5 weeks.

Edit: Putting my nose close to the leaves I get a great dank smell. Guess these will get pretty strong smelling, especially during flowering.

Pics @ day 16.

Nice work. I am germinating 4 Heavyweight Fruit Punch fems from Herbies right now. It's nice to have someone ahead of my schedule so I can learn with you. Your plants look great and I wish you the best of luck. I am going to Scrog 4 if all goes according to plan. I can't wait to see how your journal turns out.

Well a couple things I'd change would be since you don't have a larger grow rotation and space is not an issue, Id just drop the seeds in a shot glass of distilled water and when the tap root pops out put the seed right into a 5 gallon pot. This is the way I have been doing it and I never had one seed that did not pop and putting right into the 5 gallon pot will be less stress than transplanting. Also the seedling that is stunted does not need nutes , there is enough nutes in the soil for months without adding anything ,just need patience and keep it simple . I got a week or so before my Fruit Punch is ready to chop and it appears it maybe my most potent grow yet. Iam in a 4x4 w/600W. In a few months from now you will be very happy.

one other thing you might want to consider is toping them , I normally top and use lst but I did not want to stress them so they won't hermie on me , so they stretched and the top main stem shot up higher than the sides , like a xmas tree. My next batch I will LST and top.

Thanks RoRo. So far everything is running smooth. Lemon, I already pulled the runt. She was completely stalled out for 14 days at that point. I waited too long to pull off the seed shell on her. Lesson learned so it's all good. I'm definitely going to top these. I'll be transplanting probably this Sunday. I'm going to top after the transplant on the 4th node. Right now they are just super short and compact. I've had very little stretch, much less than I was executing with this 600w MH. Basically node on top of node, but I am only at 18 days. Lemon, toss some pics up. I would love to see how they're doing at 1 week out from chop.

Update: 19/23 days since germination.

Transplanted them into 1G pots. Didn't take pics of root growth , but it was almost perfect timing. Excellent growth without any binding in the solo cups.

At day 22 I gave them their first feed of 1.5 tsp/gallon of Grow, Microblast, and Catalyst. The 5th leaf set is coming up, and overall growth is speeding up.

Pics won't load for some reason. Hope this changes soon so I can put something up here.

First pic is a couple hours after transplant at 19 days. Second is the day after the first feeding at 23 days.

Update: 25 days since germination.

Topped all the girls! Hopefully I got the right spot. They've been doing great so far . I'm brewing up some EJ Grow, Microblast, Catalyst, and I added a little cal/mag and Meta K to get a full nute feeding after this topping. Some pics...

Edit: Not sure why my pics are coming out magnified when clicking on the thumbs.

Girls look good today. The largest has a very slight overall droop, but a watering/feeding was due today so I'm hoping it's either solved by the feeding or chalking it up to the topping since she had the largest chunk cut off.

Speaking of feeding - My Earth Juice brewing isn't raising the ph at all. It sits at a constant 3.9 after 48 hours with an air stone. I added some EJ natural ph up (sodium bicarbonate) and brought it up to 6.5. I know people say don't worry about ph of an organic grow, but with it sitting so low I didn't want to continue to have the soil ph drop. Any tips or insight on the ph not rising?

One other has some yellowing on the bottom first two leaves. They started a very slight yellowing a week ago, but the rest of her has and does look great so I'm not worried.

Other than that I'm just chugging along. It feels like I'm watching the minute hand on a clock go 'round n 'round due to my non stop anticipation of this first grow.

This is my third time growing first two times grew good weed but bad yeild so this time I changed everything I am trying a mainline grow hoping to increase yeild your plants are looking great

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Thanks Weed. I picked a strain that was said to be easy to grow and have good yields. Also went with good strong lighting. 200w/plant will hopefully put me around the 1/2lb mark. That's what I'm hoping for.

I also have some blueberry crisp (blueberry x light of jah) (R), strawberry blue (F), Hawaiian skunk haze (R), one more fruit punch (F), and 10 more random freebie seeds for future grows.

Ive had a few people on here tell me I should be able to produce 14 oz on just two plants under 400w hps in a 2×4×7 tent if I mainline my plants so I have one that has been toped and shaped once and one almost ready to be topped

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I only grow for myself so I'm not shooting for astronomical weights, just enough to carry me through until the next harvest. Once I'm good on some starting weight I will probably try a scrog. 1 plant in the 3x3.

Next grow will be the blueberry crisp from AMS. That will be a learning experience on sexing. I'm thinking the 3rd grow will be my experimental grow with a scrog.

I only grow for myself also I just smoke alot

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