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With that said... I'm gonna teach you how to grow some weed How we grow mother love all Damn, it's insane 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 21 and 4 ounces of trim That's absurd When people ask me, why aren't you releasing more content My response is, you could already have a perfect grow using the videos I already released Rather than showcasing my own grows This video showcases a public journal shared by Mike who followed the Grow With Me series. This is what his plants look like without the series.
And this is what his plants look like with the series. Same strain. So first off, all of the equipment he used is listed in the description. Mike started this grow on October 15th using Happy Frog soil and general hydroponic nutrients.
He prepared the soil a week before germination and exactly how can be seen on this video linked on the top right. It turned out that his soil had extremely low pH so he had to compensate future feeds. 7 days after the soil was prepared, he popped his seeds in rapid rooters.
Honestly, it's the best method and the reason why can be seen on a 7-way comparison linked on the video on the top right. So here's a little more info on the strain. It's mainly sativa. THC is up to 19%, which is kind of on the low side. Flowering time is 10 weeks, and we'll keep that in mind during bloom.
Now week one, no surprise, 100% germination. All three of them popped. As soon as the roots were poking out, he transferred them into the prepared pots. Domes on top to keep the humidity up. The width of these holes are about a pencil wide.
During these first two weeks, you're not feeding anything except plain water. Never directly on the stem. And that's going to prevent you from drowning your plant. Week two, he pulled the domes off and sticky traps are here because he noticed some gnats.
For the next two to three feeds, he's going to be feeding mosquito bits tea. And at this point, you want to keep that humidity up. So you'll notice these open containers with water in his tent. We're still feeding with plain water and you're fingering the soil to tell whether or not you need to feed. Week three.
This is where the plants are finally ready for nutrients. You'll see he started to make his juices. Stems looked a little weak, so we reinforced them with some chopsticks.
You're noticing a variance in the size of the plants. Week four. Again, here's the runt. The other two plants are looking great. The plants were big enough to be topped.
And the concept of topping is pretty simple. This used to be over here and that would have grown straight up. So when you cut it off, you'll see this leaf right here will branch out.
And this leaf right here will branch out. And instead of one main branch, you'll have two. Now week five.
Wow. Insane amount of growth. And you'll see he's finally ready to dunk.
If you don't know what dunk is, it is the absolute... best way to feed plants in fabric pots and soil. See, I like to start dunking as soon as these leaves extend past the edge of the fabric pot. He dunks it, then he places it on this bucket to angle drain all the excess water out. This runoff is the best measure of what's actually going on in your soil.
So if you take a look, he has measurements on all of the runoffs and you'll see here that pH is extremely low. In the series, you'll learn about responsive feeding. So his next feed is going to compensate for that low pH by having a higher pH. So week six, after dunks, you'll see the growth and the consumption just catapults.
In four days, each one of these plants drank 12 pounds of water. Could see he added a humidifier to help with the VPD. The higher pH feed also brought the runoff back to comfortable levels.
Week 7, routine dunks, feeds, you'll see there's new equipment. Week 8, this is the beginning of LSTing. He was a little too aggressive, he broke that stem, but honestly, they're weeds. I wouldn't have even done anything, but he reinforced it with chopsticks and the plant made a full recovery.
I noticed that he added some grommet holes so he could use twist ties to bend down the branches and sprawl out that canopy. The idea is really to cover all these gaps right here. The plants seem a little yellower than I'd like so I told Mike I would lower the light intensity.
Week 9. Plants still look a little yellow. I'm noticing some burnt tips on the edges. In this situation, I probably pulled back on the PPM, maybe like 50 to 100. Mike's going on vacation, so he prepared all these jugs for a friend to feed his plants.
And that's a good friend. Return from vacation and oh my god, look at that foliage. This is like Mayday Mayday. Defoliate all of that.
He also pruned all of those lower branches. And these are perfect for clones. This would be considered the pre-flip. defoliation that's gonna help keep the humidity down and allow more light to penetrate the lower bud sites.
Right after this Mike dropped the lighting to 1212 so now it's week one in bloom. This is literally at flip and this is a couple of days later. The color change is drastic and the reason why it turned green all of a sudden is because he went from 18 hours to 12 That six hour difference de-stressed the plant and turned it back green.
You can see he's doing a great job with LSTing. You can barely see the gaps. The bud sites are a good distance away from each other.
And this is where the bloom nutrients is slowly introduced. Week two. The plants are stretching a little.
The yellow in the center of the bud sites is perfectly normal. This new growth would have been leaves before. But now that we're in bloom, These are turning into colas, which will end up being bud sites.
You'll see how much foliage grew back. It's almost like defoliation wasn't done at all. Week three. Oh my god.
Once again, definitely need to do some defoliation here. The colas are starting to develop. This would be an ideal time to pollinate.
Tips are a little burnt, but at this point, it's a concept called chasing the tinge. It just means you're slightly over-nuding them. which is optimal.
Now week four. At this point the plants are done stretching. It's going to focus all its energy on the buds.
You'll see a heavy defoliation was done. Now the airflow is better. Humidity is easier to maintain.
See the colors are stacking. Now week five. That is a perfect job at sprawling that plant out. You could barely see the floor.
It's probably the week that you notice the most growth in buds. They're getting denser and you'll notice the trichomes are coming in. It's probably where it smells the best.
Now what's nuts is this middle plant was the runt from earlier. Week six, more stacking and you'll see here this is a top bud site versus a lower bud site that's kind of hidden under the canopy above here which is why this bud site probably should have been pruned off. Here's the three plants side by side.
Looking perfect. Again, that middle plant looks frostier than the two on the outside. Week seven. Now we're starting to see the beginning of the end.
Right here, I'm guessing it's phosphorus deficiency. But regardless, we're at week seven. So as long as the buds look great, I'm not too concerned about the leaves if they're all still green.
See? Those ugly leaves looked like an isolated case and they were right up here. It's a possibility that it was a humidity issue with the leaves touching the wall.
Regardless, the plants look perfect. So I said keep going. Beginning of week 8, trichomes were looking milky as seen. So with the hue of the leaves, I advised to start flushing.
So Mike started the pre-flush mix. and you could see how much of a difference it made in the plants. I mean what's crazy is that these are all the same strain, yet these don't look the same at all. This one looks purple, this one looks yellow, and this one looks green. You know responding to the leaves, I wouldn't flush this one.
I would still keep feeding it nutrients, but these two on the outside, I would definitely flush. Look at this. This almost looks like its main line. Week 9. More drastic color differences. You'll see even at this point these pistols are still white which is why you can't trust pistols.
You gotta look at the trichomes and here you'll see they're all milky with hints of amber. And that's my cue that plants are wrecked. Ready? This is the rightmost plant, leftmost plant, center plant. And finally, week 10. Just like the strain description said, trichomes are now showing hints of amber all throughout.
We gotta chop. This is the rightmost plant, left plant, center plant. All tree-a-dom. You can tell.
Mike's taking more photos of that center plant, which was the runt. And I asked him, which one do you think is alpha? And he agreed.
It's the middle plant. So, chop time. Look at that stem. That's cut off.
What a sad day. I know I always feel some type of way when I chop the plants. He hung dry them in the same tent for nine days. Now he's prioritizing humidity on his controller.
Mike messaged me his total weight, 26 ounces of bud and 4 ounces of trim. And honestly, I thought he was exaggerating. But then he sent me this photo.
Now I've been growing for a long time and for years, these 32 ounce mason jars were my preferred way of storage. I know that I keep them two-thirds full and that's gonna be a little over an ounce. His jars are almost filled to the brim and there's 21 of them.
So 26 ounces, that's accurate. For him to produce that much on one grow in a 5x2 is just proof that this series works. If you want access to the same exact guide he used, check out my Patreon. If you enjoy this content, smash that like, hit that bell. And for the best, subscribe to my channel.
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