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I started my boot camp with Lambda School yesterday. It already feels like a week has gone by, but I am surprising myself with my ability to keep up and to actually enjoy the learning experience. So far things seem familiar because I've done some form of HTML5 and CSS3 over the years but there …
I regret that my garden is off during most of the day but I have the lights on during the off peak hours so that I get charged a lower rate for my electricity. In order to have something ready for 4/20, I'll have to get my largest plants into flower on February 1st. That …
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Glad I just took a look at my favorite grow reference site Grow Weed Easy. It reminded me that I need to start looking for pre-flower activity on my seedlings. According to GWE cannabis plants can start to display their sex as 3 -5 weeks from seed. That's right about where my plants are now. Although, …
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The larger flower room needed some heat and humidity. Since they are all on the same veg light cycle I decided to move all the plants into the larger room. I moved the heater and humidifier too. The humidifier is only able to get the larger room to 30% humidity but that should be fine …
If you are interested in growing your own cannabis plants but are not sure how to get started, consider growing from seed an autoflower plant or two. What is an autoflower plant? It is a strain of cannabis that has been crossed with the Ruderalis strain of cannabis. Basically, as far as we know, there …
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I can't believe how fast the little seedlings are growing! It's been less than 3 weeks since they were tiny seedlings. Now even the ones that I didn't think would make it have several sets of leaves. They are bursting out of the solo cups. I want to transplant them but I am waiting for …
I have some Espoma Kelp Meal and I want to use it on my plants. I found this article from Buildasoil that shows how to rehydrate the kelp meal to be used on the soil: https://buildasoil.com/blogs/news/11759569-diy-instant-kelp-meal-tea-coots-hydrated-kelp-meal-trick . I'm going to start giving this to the seedlings once a day. I've been watering them with nutrients …
