Just the one NZ girl...

Hi everyone, this is the first grow journal I have ever started and its a pleasure to share my growing experience with you all. I am absolutely fascinated with Marijuana in every aspect and I truly believe that "it is a blessing and not a curse" to the world.

I was given a clone of unknown strain, on the 7th of Janurary 2008 and it was 1 week old when I got it, with a really yellowed and withering bottom leaf which made it seem like the weakest of the bunch, but I wasn't complaining cos it was free! It is now at 7 weeks and 3 days old, and has been flowering for about 2 weeks.

I put it in YATES potting mix in this 15 Litre bucket which has a raised middle and drain holes. I also mixed in some Root Blast to the potting mix. Kinda wishing I had chosen a bigger bucket but I think it should have just enough room for the required root system.

We have had some beautiful sunshine here on the west coast of the North Island (NZ), one of the best summers I can remember, and this has boosted this plant incredibly.

I have fed it blood and bone mix with added Potassium, plus a potasium sulphate mix, just once every 2 weeks, we have had plenty of periodic rain to water it naturally and I have monitored it religiously to maintain peak conditions, and to kick off the stoner moths and bugs that aren't threatened by the masses of bug spray I use.

I have bent it over due mostly to security reasons as I have neighbours who could possibly notice it if pottering around in their gardens. I also think it allows more sunshine on more of the leaves, therefore increasing the rate of photosynthesis and growth.

I have pruned sparingly, with only the biggest fan leaves being removed periodically, I really just want nature to do its thing on this baby, with a bit of help with some good nutrients.

I welcome all your comments and suggestions, especially if someone can tell me what strain they think it is, any health notes, nutrient suggestions and if you can guess how much bud I it will yield, let me know, maybe I'll give a prize to the closest guess... !

Enough talking, here are the photos...

wheres north island? plant looking great so far.

with right growing conditions maybe 1 1/2 oz if its a single plant...what nutes u using?

I was borne in NZ. Aussie now but.

Your plants looks great. I would say about 1-2 ounces but that depends how much more growing it has to do before it flowers.

buzzza said:

wheres north island? plant looking great so far.

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Gidday buzzza, thanks for the comment mate. The North Island of New Zealand is in the south pacific, South-East of Australia, but it is not a part of Australia. NZ is the best place to live, its so uncrowded and natural. I live 20 minutes from a beautiful mountain and 5 minutes from a long coastline of surf beaches, that's why we call it 'Taradise' !

more pics below...

kosmindtrip said:

with right growing conditions maybe 1 1/2 oz if its a single plant...what nutes u using?

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Thanks for commenting kosmindtrip, Yeah I'm going for 1.5-3 oz's, it still has plenty of sunshine hours and perfect conditions, a late winter should mean more weight.

I have taken a pic and explained my nutes below.

cool grow, i think ill stick around for this! suscribed. goodluck!

Duece.

<>bigbudeddie<>I was borne in NZ. Aussie now but.

Your plants looks great. I would say about 1-2 ounces but that depends how much more growing it has to do before it flowers.

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Thanks for commenting bigbudeddie, I'm glad there's someone here that can relate to our Southern Hemisphere conditions and seasons.

Here's a couple of pics for the update on my ONE plant (it looks like more but there's only ONE plant in a 15 litre bucket...

She has had 1.5 litres water mixed with 5-10mls 8-3-8 blood & bone and 5mls Potassium Sulphate 'Pot Ash'. Basically everything you would give tomato plants to get nice juicy buds, I mean tomatos...

Not much stickiness or anything looking too wicked going on yet, I hope that isn't an indication of lesser potency because I want the gnarliest nuggets in the west out of this baby!

I went out into the beautiful sunshine and checked up on my girl, and who do I see but Spottle the cat, sprawled out beside it looking like he had just been knocked over by some kronic krystals. My cat loves budz too...!

Got stoned and took more photos

uberpea said:

cool grow, i think ill stick around for this! suscribed. goodluck!

Duece.

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Thanks man, should be nice in a few weeks time. I would share a cone with you all if I could.

Welcome to the forum. VV

VictorVIcious said:

Welcome to the forum. VV

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Thanks, glad to be able to take part in such a fine forum

that is one badass cat!

nice grow man.

bwinn27 said:

nice grow man.

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Thanks for the props peeps!

I have let her do her thing and sat back watching with delight, two days later she has some nice hairs and is looking healthy.

You can see the color change quite clearly as you compare the long shots from photos taken only 2 and 4 days ago.

I would love to give her some CO2 treatment somehow but can't think of a good easy way to do it, would those little CO2 airgun cylinders work if you added some sort of sprayer? Or those airblast compressed air cans? Would love to have one of those big oldskool CO2 fire extinguishers, I'd spray it in a small room and leave her in there for a few hours to soak it up. There are other methods of CO2 injection aren't there?

Saw a tiny spider on a branch so I squished it. Also saw lots of tiny white worm-like critters in the soil and considerable leave munching, should I be concerned?

iLoveBudz said:

Thanks for commenting bigbudeddie, I'm glad there's someone here that can relate to our Southern Hemisphere conditions and seasons.

Here's a couple of pics for the update on my ONE plant (it looks like more but there's only ONE plant in a 15 litre bucket...

She has had 1.5 litres water mixed with 5-10mls 8-3-8 blood & bone and 5mls Potassium Sulphate 'Pot Ash'. Basically everything you would give tomato plants to get nice juicy buds, I mean tomatos...

Not much stickiness or anything looking too wicked going on yet, I hope that isn't an indication of lesser potency because I want the gnarliest nuggets in the west out of this baby!

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Im always around
It does look like theres more than one. Its branched out really nicely. Its obvious your doing the right thing with your nutrients because its got a really nice green on it. Youl get some nice nugs and its FEMALE!

for CO2 you could always just sit in your grow rooom and breathe out. maybe read a book? lol

Edit: jk this is an outdoor grow isnt it?

bigbudeddie said:

Im always around
It does look like theres more than one. Its branched out really nicely. Its obvious your doing the right thing with your nutrients because its got a really nice green on it. Youl get some nice nugs and its FEMALE!

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YEAH !!! WAHOO !!! You're getting me all excited now...!

uberpea said:

for CO2 you could always just sit in your grow rooom and breathe out. maybe read a book? lol

Edit: jk this is an outdoor grow isnt it?

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Yeah this is outdoor so breathing on it probably wont do much, but I have been exhaling some smoke on one of the buds as a small experiment but thats probably just stupid and worthless, but fun none the less, all in the name of science!

Not alot of intense sunshine this past week so the growth has really noticably slowed down, you wouldn't have this problem indoors would you fellow growers, alas this is an áu natural grow and nature will do as it pleases.

I found one very small spider which I squished, two green critters stuck to the underside of two leaves by what seemed to be some sort of spider web - promptly snipped the affected leaves from the plant, and also found a rolled up leaf containing a green caterpillar, and some cobweb looking material, also removed promptly. No sign of the small white caterpillars seen last update after spraying them and the rest of the topsoil with my insect gun.

Now she has been fully inspected and all critters removed, the surrounding area drenched in insect spray and a couple of light sprays on the plant. I'll have to keep a close eye on her every day and make sure those critters don't reappear, they can do alot of damage in a small amount of time and I DONT want to loose this baby due to them fckers.

No CO2 solution yet, might not bother with that now.

Still counting down the days...!