First Grow

Sooo it's done. My first grow. The long wait is almost over. I don't think 220 grams gross for the first time with all the mistakes and catastrophes is bad. OK, I still have to peel off the stalks and the sugar sheets, but I'll see that on the dry weight. Until then you have to wait... First smoke test. I imagine something else when I think of "relax". It might be because the test harvest was a week early. At the moment the buds are drying on the line. Update: 48g dry Summary: I learned a lot from this grow and made a lot of mistakes. - Lighting: Very important from day one. If the seedlings don't get enough or the wrong light, they will stretch. - Temperature and humidity: Both factors are directly dependent on each other. And both factors are extremely important. If it is too cold, the plants grow slowly and only form small leaves. In a cold room without heating, the humidity is also much too high. The lamp brings warmth in the tent, but if you try to exchange air with a fan, the cold comes from outside again. More heating is required and electricity costs are rising. Solution: The tent must be in a heated room with relatively low humidity. Then you don't need extra heating in the tent and controlling the humidity is easier. - Equipment: When growing indoors, you definitely need good equipment. A tent, a good LED lamp, a fan with a filter and a controller. Together you get the things for about 500 €. With the first harvest, the costs are usually almost recovered. And no, cheap lamps do not work !!! - Fertilizer: You need that too. I have tried good soil and organic fertilizer but the plants are very very hungry due to the optimal conditions. So buy fertilizer and roughly follow the recommendations (I only needed half thanks to the soil). - Training: OK, there's a lot that can go wrong. I tried fiming, no comment!! Topping still works best in conjunction with LST. The aim is to get the individual shoots to the same height without shading each other. When they are at the same height, the shoots all get the same amount of energy to grow and thus all produce equally sized buds. But beware, the branches break very quickly! - Vermin: These damn little things. If you use normal floor, then you are guaranteed to get visitors. Neem oil helps, yellow boards too, maybe a few "good" animals. But please no chemicals, you want to smoke it.