New Grower First Time Post and Grow! Review and Critique Requested! With pictures!

[Killijin]

No, I really was joking with the patronizing comment. Thanks man, I have learned a literal fuck-ton since this first grow and my next soil grow is going to be magical. At least, I keep telling myself that.

 

[Killijin]

Here are my final pictures of my plants before I trim them for one more photo after the pots nearly dry out. :head: For my first grow, I don't think I have done too poorly, with that said, however, the tall plant never did produce trichs nor bud like the smaller one. I had to do a full flush and reduce the PPM of each plant to around 400, as they were finished and I did not have enough time to do a long term proper flush due to their age and the amount of nutes they still had in them. I miscalculated my harvest window, so there is more knowledge absorbed. Whenever the first watering is needed between weeks 9-10 is when I am going to start pure water. Since they stopped growing, I suppose the need for water was severely diminished and it was taking them 7 days to dry out enough to warrant another watering. Which when they are finished growing and I have no idea when their trichs would change, I didn't want to take any chances on having shitty tasting nute herb. :no:
Pic 1. Smaller plant in full glory
Pic 2. Cola of the smaller plant beside a gallon jug
Pic 3. Same beside H2O2 bottle
Pic 4. 5. 6. Cola from different views. I like when you use flash how the trichomes reflect madly in the light as seen in 6 and 7.
Pic 7. Another side bud in flash
Pic 8. Taller plant cola
Pic 9. Taller plant full glory


The hydro plants have to be stunted for their age, however they have all sexed female, so that's a plus. I made a K.I.S.S. (keeping it simple stupid for those who don't know) mistake and instead of following that sound advise, I overnuted in week 2 and have those yellow dying leaves that you see on the bottom of the plants. That has stunted my growth and those results are less than desirable. But so far they seem to be true auto-flowers, I digress.. So since they are ALL 42 days old I know something is extremely wrong, especially with the Super Silver Haze which, as you can see, is FREAKING SMALL. Gah, so I found out 3 of my feeding drip tubes were heavily clogged with algae gunk, which is why 3 are even more stunted than the others. So then I had to do a full system clean and disassembly. But the damage and set back has been done, but I do have a 5 gallon DWC bucket set aside just for her, the SSH, once she gets her roots in the water. I have already learned more than I wanted to know as far as rookie mistakes are concerned, I should of started off with 2 plants, I should of used a lighter hand in feeding, I should of checked the tubes more closely.. So let that be a lesson to all of you who are FNG"s when it comes to hydro.



Does anyone have any suggestions to make my hydro grow go any better please and thank you?

Thanks for looking. I will have trimmed and manicured photos in a week or less.

 

[GCase]

Excellent Killijin. Look forward to your smoke report.

 

[Killijin]

Me too Alan me too! I actually highly recommend the auto-ak48's.

 

[Killijin]

So here they are chopped down and ready to be made into delicious sweet candy. I made ice-o-later hash with the trim last night and only made 2 balls worth the size of 2 normal hydroton rocks, which was disappointing considering the amount of trim from both plants. The bowl in the picture weighs 164 grams, the first batched weighed 370 after removing the bowl's weight or originally 534 the next plant, the taller one, weighed in at 384 or 551 originally before subtracting the bowl. It says 547 but we took out some popcorn buds. Final wet weight = 754 g. or 1.67 pds. The tall plant was extremely more leafy and less sugary than the small one. It had a mix of orange burnt hairs, and brand new bud. This plant was confusing as to when to harvest that is for sure. Anyways thanks everyone who has subbed or read this thread. It feels great for reaching my first harvest milestone. I thank everyone who helped make it successful. Smoke report in 3 weeks.

pic 1 and 2 are the harvest lines
pic 3 is the tall plant look how much more leafier it is than pic 5
pic 4 bowl of buds
pic 5 smaller plant bud bowl.
** not shown popcorn buds or buds that were cut off prematurely

Enjoy:

 

[Killijin]

Final post - Thanks everyone first and foremost. Total combined dry weight is 5.4 oz or 153 grams, Small plant = 73 grams Large plant = 80 grams, Filled 3, 1/2 gallon jars. Smoke report on the 21st.

 

[Rebel]

Dude I don't know how the hell I missed this whole grow!!! I could have sworn I was subbed!! :no: That is one impressive harvest bro!! :clap: Max Rep to ya! Are you gonna do another grow thread? I'll be along this time for the start!! :smokebuds:

 

[bgrt]

excellent stuff, that and the ranch dressing.. youre set :thumbs:.

 

[sniper]

rebel don't you wish you had a first harvest like that i sure do

great job killijin can't wait for the next :thumbs:

+rep bud :smokebuds:

 

[Killijin]

You know what they say: "Better late than never." I appreciate the kind words guys, really, thanks. It's really really nice having my own non-dealer smoke, and the second best things is, EVERYONE wants it too. I am about to do my smoke/strain report in 3 days so you all can look forward to that as well. Thanks for the rep, thanks for the karma, and thanks for checking back in on me. I have A LOT of seeds to do in the next couple of grows, so much so, that I can't order anymore for a while. :dance: