New Grower Ex stoner - 1st auto grow - Dinamed CBD & my story

[Crazydiamond]

First off I'd like to introduce myself and say hello and thank you to all the contributing members of this great community.

Before I start my diary or journal, I'd like to tell you a bit about myself and my reasons for deciding to grow my own medicine after around 15 years of being an Ex stoner. You can skip to my next post if you're just interested in the grow, seeing my mistakes and progress.

I started smoking cannabis at 13 years old and by the time I was in my early to mid 20's a lot had changed and it started to make me extremely paranoid, somewhat lazy (although I don't think that was just the weed) and I just wasn't enjoying it like I did when I 1st smoked a joint and listed to Pink Floyd. So I quit.

Shortly after quitting weed I developed Psoriasis (coincidence?) ,depression and anxiety. Also my sleep has never been great but never really was.

I have had enough of so called treatments and decided to do research.... Well my research brought me here.

So I decided on CBD as I don't want to feel paranoid, couch lock and get bad thoughts going through my head again.
Other strains I really considered were Pineapple express and other Sativas as the uplifting effects could really benefit me.
That bean failed to pop so on I go with my Dinamed auto grow.

Please excuse my future lack of measurements, knowledge of autoflowers, terminology and experience.
Although I have researched plenty here and had experience with photoperiods 20 years ago, I am bound to make mistakes and am happy to hear advice and criticism from fellow more experienced growers.

I bought an 80x80x160 tent
Canna cocco
fabric pots
Nutes
already owned an old HPS and someone gave me a 300W LED
PH meter

Figured this would be a great start

Thanks for reading
Won't bore you with germination pics etc
Here they were at day 10 when they got 1st feeding
4ml Canna A&B plus Rhizatonic per 2L

They are 26 days old as of today so more pics to come

 

[wes]

Hello and welcome to the group looking forward to following along.

 

[Crazydiamond]

I forgot to say around day 8 I bought a new light as the HPS was only 150W and the LED had problems.
So after much trawling the Interwebs I decided upon an 800W Hipargero COB light.
Only used the VEG setting and had my plants a little to close at 1st.
With some great advice from the members here on the infirmary, I raised my LED to around 3 foot and plants were doing much better.

Some of my pics are from my CCTV camera and others from actual camera so have decided to upload just the camera pics.
The CCTV pics I have a screen shot from every day

11 days old



14 days old
light feeding again of Canna A&B plus Rhizotonic, calmag
PH 5.8
Temps 25-27
Lights are 18/6 and I decided after some more reading to switch on the bloom setting also


A few days later I started LST

18 days old



It was around this time I made a mistake that I am sure some of you will laugh at.
Like a boss I received my new extractor and filter and couldn't wait to install.
At some point my head hit the light, the stupid hook over bar fell and caused my light to absail down the power cord and land on one of my girls!
Yeah she wasn't bloody happy with the top of her snapped clean off
Weirdly she now seems to be doing well. Rookie mistake that will never happen again

I started to add other nutes around day 21- 22
2.5 L per plant
1/2 strength nutes, Canna A&B, Rhizotonic, calmag, Cannazym

Girls were thirsty but I think even at half strength the nutes were a little too much. I am trying to read them.

Day 25

4L per plant
1/3 strength
6ml Cann A & B
2ml CalMag
3ml Cannazym
4ml Rhizotonic
2ml PK
PH 5.8

Also was a little concerned over what looked like tears/holes in leafs I'd been monitoring.
This was either through the light falling, Leaf stretch or foliating under hot temps. Oh yeah.. or pests!!
So when lights were off I gave a gentle foliation with PH'd water mixed with neem oil. prevention

Currently at 3 weeks and 4 days, You can see the damage and how its affected one of my girls



Well thats it so far.

Would love to hear some feedback etc.
As I said, I am not good with PPM's etc and am just doing what I can with what I have.

Cheers

 

[wes]

Your plants look good overall. I myself have dropped a light fixture on my plants on more than one occasion lol. They are pretty hardy and usually recover ok. Just think of it as forced supercropping
There are many great members here willing to help you along your journey. Good luck!

 

[Crazydiamond]

Your plants look good overall. I myself have dropped a light fixture on my plants on more than one occasion lol. They are pretty hardy and usually recover ok. Just think of it as forced supercropping
There are many great members here willing to help you along your journey. Good luck!

Haha that's one way to look at it
And thanks for the support

 

[Crazydiamond]

Here they are today at 26 days really bushy.
You can see the damage and the holes in only the girl that had light dropped on her.
They are growing fast!
Look healthy to me. Hopefully doing something right as seen other dinamed grows where people go extreme with all the gear and don't look as nice.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

looking happy and healthy rookie mistakes are just that,we were all rookies at a time,and have done alsorts of stupid shit forget about it and move on
good luck n keep er lit.

 

[nicojellic]

Yeah this^ happy and healthy. Good luck

 

[Crazydiamond]

looking happy and healthy rookie mistakes are just that,we were all rookies at a time,and have done alsorts of stupid shit forget about it and move on
good luck n keep er lit.

Yeah this^ happy and healthy. Good luck

Thanks guys. Cannot wait to get this one under my belt

 

[Need4Weed]

Good luck on your journey!