What's new

Zen Garden 2025

20250322: It’s a girl! 🎉

Ironically after checking Fugly, I was using her as a demonstration tool for LST by hand or using the clips with my son, when I sent two pics to G$ showing how they didn’t show sex yet…when I noticed the second one DID show sex. 😳

Sure enough a second later he asked if I saw it. 🤣

76436050112__4C443E43-7378-4919-A739-960D214DEA6F.jpeg

It was the tallest one at the back of the tent. I even had my glasses on. 🙃

We did a short clearing of anything halfway between the pot and the net. Now we just need to find the legs for the second SCROG. Vanished. 💨
IMG_3321.jpegIMG_3322.jpeg

Company is coming soon so we’ll finish up tomorrow. I’m happy with how they are for now.
 
Now that his plants are both known to be female we can see about flipping them together down the road.

What to do with my plants is another issue. I made the one 1x3 section of one tent 6’ tall to see if I can grow out a plant and flower it there. This will be the first time I’ve tried it. I don’t think it’s enough space for two plants but we’ll see. I’ll move them over this coming weekend.

IMG_3327.jpeg
 
20250325:

Now that we have a confirmed group of ladies I want to see how many days they have been in veg and time out a flip date. The middle of both plants are filling in nicely. Need to get the net on Fugly asap. Off to buy some pvc tomorrow.

The smaller plants are doing okay but will start showing deficiencies soon if I don’t clean them up a bit and move them to the larger space with more lights.

IMG_3333.jpeg

IMG_3334.jpeg

IMG_3335.jpeg

IMG_3336.jpeg
 
IMG_3345.jpeg

Got the new legs on earlier today. Fugly is good to go.

The humidity is finely dropping. Sat around 35% most of the day. Temperature with the lights on is 26*. It’s the same for both tents.

Just got to power up the 1x3x6 zone, set the timer, and move the two smaller plants.
 
20250331: Flip Day 12/12 All plants.

IMG_3398.jpeg

IMG_3397.jpeg

IMG_3396.jpeg

Things have filled out okay. Would have liked a bit more but with this weather I’ll take what I can get.

Today was a good day for environment.

Lights out
IMG_3387.jpeg

Lights on
IMG_3385.jpeg

Hoping the stretch fills things in, we have some tucking to do tomorrow as it is. I like to feed them first.

Feeding every other day for the most part.

Storm only caused the chimney to leak a bit. No where near as bad as in the past. Guessing some of my efforts have helped. Need to get that bottom aluminum siding off this spring. Without damaging it. 🤔

Buddy in Barrie had a lots of ice damage in the area. Lots of broken branches and downed trees. Power was out between 3-5 hours for him but much longer for the other side of town.

Mom had to use her generator for the first time. Powers out until Thursday, they say now. Rivers not rising so that’s good. About 25mm-30mm of ice everywhere. Again lots of downed trees and power lines.

Daughter and Pipecarver are probably still getting hit by it. Hope everyone gets through with as little damage as possible. Get gas for your generators people. Moms almost out and lineups are long. Neighbours are in the same boat so they are making plans.
 
ahhhh yeah!!! bring on the buds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just flipped too man, we'll be close on the harvest!!! Moe too i think he flipped this past weekend!!!

buildin' buds baby!!!!! so what veggies you starting inside this year?
 
Stoneyluv said:
ahhhh yeah!!! bring on the buds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Click to expand...
I’m hoping the warmer weather gives things a boost again. -2* today and supposed to be 18* tomorrow. 😳

Stoneyluv said:
i just flipped too man, we'll be close on the harvest!!! Moe too i think he flipped this past weekend!!!
Click to expand...
Excellent. I’m thinking end of May or mid June harvest. Things have been a little off this grow.

Stoneyluv said:
buildin' buds baby!!!!! so what veggies you starting inside this year?
Click to expand...
🍻 you bet!

I had them out today ready to pick what I wanted and let the wife choose the rest. (Pill bottles are home made seeds.)IMG_3413.jpeg
IMG_3409.jpeg

Then I got a text at 1:36pm from my son to look out the window. IMG_3411.jpeg

I put the seeds away until mid April. I can take a hint Mother Nature. 🫣

I’ll post the list when I try again. But; Beefsteak and cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and a few peppers are for sure. Thinking lettuce and spinach too.
 
I’ve been looking for a better easier way to clean capsules and screens. Recently I shared a tea ball idea that works okay. But I really want a barbercide jar.

We like different cheeses in salads and things so my wife found this precubed Greek cheese. She thought I might like the container when it was empty. She was right!
IMG_3422.jpegIMG_3423.jpeg

I’ll still keep an eye out for a barbercide jar so I can use it on scissors but this is great. Just wish I could remove the advertising but it is what it is.
 
20250407: Flower Day 7

Zen 2: 3x1
IMG_3471.jpeg
Humidity is usually in the 60% until lights on and I open the door a bit. Then it’s around 35-40 the last week.

IMG_3466.jpeg
Both got a trim on Saturday. Hard to tell but both had a lot removed. I’m still not sure if this small zone will flower well. It’s got a 220w & 110w I’ve set by feel.

The clone is in the back ATM and the bushy one was the last seedling. Definitely leaning Indica. Some of the fan leaves I trimmed off the bottom nodes were bigger than my hands, very wide fingers.


Zen 2: 3x3
IMG_3472.jpeg

Zen 1: 3x3
IMG_3473.jpeg
When properly watered they look great. Unfortunately he keeps putting it off, even after I warn him. IMO it’s effecting the stretch and stressing them. This is the third time since flip. He has rolling hours that are rarely the same week to week with random days off but he still needs to plan ahead. He chose drinking and the movies with the guys Friday night. Didn’t feed the plants until after 1am. Then had to work at 11am, with his first hangover. 😈

He’s off today so we’ll see if he can get things sorted.
 
Zen_seeker said:
20250407: Flower Day 7

Zen 2: 3x1
View attachment 96290
Humidity is usually in the 60% until lights on and I open the door a bit. Then it’s around 35-40 the last week.

View attachment 96291
Both got a trim on Saturday. Hard to tell but both had a lot removed. I’m still not sure if this small zone will flower well. It’s got a 220w & 110w I’ve set by feel.

The clone is in the back ATM and the bushy one was the last seedling. Definitely leaning Indica. Some of the fan leaves I trimmed off the bottom nodes were bigger than my hands, very wide fingers.


Zen 2: 3x3
View attachment 96292

Zen 1: 3x3
View attachment 96293
When properly watered they look great. Unfortunately he keeps putting it off, even after I warn him. IMO it’s effecting the stretch and stressing them. This is the third time since flip. He has rolling hours that are rarely the same week to week with random days off but he still needs to plan ahead. He chose drinking and the movies with the guys Friday night. Didn’t feed the plants until after 1am. Then had to work at 11am, with his first hangover. 😈

He’s off today so we’ll see if he can get things sorted.
Click to expand...
Your plants look nice, nice large green healthy leaves. I'm not a big defoliator I don't even like the word it has led new growers to drastic measures. I'm use more of a selective approach, pick the big large ones covering bud sites but if my RH is good and they are not blocking growth I like to leave my solar panels on. Dr. Bruce B says light that hits the floor is wasted light, I selectively remove with that in mind

Kids today and their priorities..right? When I was their age I was all into smoking pot, drinking beer. Then waking up milking the cows before walking 5 miles up hill to school at 5am with a hangover....but we were tough back then. No after school daycare, fk no they gave us lawn darts and said go have fun.....

I never thought I'd get this old, never planed on it and I'm a bit in shock I made it this far, so is everyone that knows me...I think learning to dodge lawn darts at an early age kept me on my toes and help with the longevity
 
Pipecarver said:
Your plants look nice, nice large green healthy leaves. I'm not a big defoliator I don't even like the word it has led new growers to drastic measures. I'm use more of a selective approach, pick the big large ones covering bud sites but if my RH is good and they are not blocking growth I like to leave my solar panels on. Dr. Bruce B says light that hits the floor is wasted light, I selectively remove with that in mind

Kids today and their priorities..right? When I was their age I was all into smoking pot, drinking beer. Then waking up milking the cows before walking 5 miles up hill to school at 5am with a hangover....but we were tough back then. No after school daycare, fk no they gave us lawn darts and said go have fun.....

I never thought I'd get this old, never planed on it and I'm a bit in shock I made it this far, so is everyone that knows me...I think learning to dodge lawn darts at an early age kept me on my toes and help with the longevity
Click to expand...
You have to remember pipe in our day having kids was legal slavery. No free rides you had chores to do and you did them if not one crack of the horse whip on the legs and they were done on a very regular time as directed. No such thing as schools closed because of weather the bus didnt show up you walked.
 
OLDCRO said:
You have to remember pipe in our day having kids was legal slavery. No free rides you had chores to do and you did them if not one crack of the horse whip on the legs and they were done on a very regular time as directed. No such thing as schools closed because of weather the bus didnt show up you walked.
Click to expand...
Growing up in the great Vancouver area I can honestly say I never had a snow day off going to school. We walked on the rare days it did snow, we walked if it didn't snow. I remember getting the day off when Kennedy was shot in grade 4 other than that there was none I can remember.
 
Pipecarver said:
Your plants look nice, nice large green healthy leaves. I'm not a big defoliator I don't even like the word it has led new growers to drastic measures. I'm use more of a selective approach, pick the big large ones covering bud sites but if my RH is good and they are not blocking growth I like to leave my solar panels on. Dr. Bruce B says light that hits the floor is wasted light, I selectively remove with that in mind
Click to expand...
I still experiment. But for the most part I try to open things up for air circulation and letting light through to lower bud sites. Under the net I sometimes Lollipop.

Sons trying to do it. Not always easy.

Pipecarver said:
Kids today and their priorities..right? When I was their age I was all into smoking pot, drinking beer. Then waking up milking the cows before walking 5 miles up hill to school at 5am with a hangover....but we were tough back then. No after school daycare, fk no they gave us lawn darts and said go have fun.....
Click to expand...
We had unsupervised lawn dart games as well. Don’t think we actually used the round hoop as a target.

I’ve found most of the kids his age act like 16-18 rather than the 23-26 they actually are. My daughter is seven years older and grew up faster, but still slower than when I was their age.

Pipecarver said:
I never thought I'd get this old, never planed on it and I'm a bit in shock I made it this far, so is everyone that knows me...I think learning to dodge lawn darts at an early age kept me on my toes and help with the longevity
Click to expand...
Neither did it. Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. 🤣

Biggest life change after 45-50 is the constant and growing pain(s).

Getting out of bed is much harder and wakes more pain than I ever expected. Knees, back, neck…list just keeps growing. 🤣
 
OLDCRO said:
You have to remember pipe in our day having kids was legal slavery. No free rides you had chores to do and you did them if not one crack of the horse whip on the legs and they were done on a very regular time as directed. No such thing as schools closed because of weather the bus didnt show up you walked.
Click to expand...

We walked to school. No buses. Older you got the further the schools. We got snow days only if the snow was deep and staff couldn’t get in. It used to snow on Halloween once in a while. Now it might snow in late December.

Every kid had chores. Cleaning your room came before breakfast. Then you had the yard work, laundry or general home maintenance.

We all had to eat the same meals at the same times at the same dinner table. No devices or tv on during dinner either.
 
Zen_seeker said:
We walked to school. No buses. Older you got the further the schools. We got snow days only if the snow was deep and staff couldn’t get in. It used to snow on Halloween once in a while. Now it might snow in late December.

Every kid had chores. Cleaning your room came before breakfast. Then you had the yard work, laundry or general home maintenance.

We all had to eat the same meals at the same times at the same dinner table. No devices or tv on during dinner either.
Click to expand...
My folks would have a fit watching us eat dinner with the TV on. It was always a treat when they went out and left us TV diners to eat. It says it right on the package TV then they got us TV trays...oh I could see heaven. TV while dinning??

Fk my wife and I would have to talk to one another at dinner...and she's 3/4 deaf.....Whats that dear??? eh...speak up....Nope Youtube it is...........

Youtube is TV now, without cable its all there is other than movies and sht. Through the computer input Youtube is commercial free, no ads. Through the TV smart apps input its not watchable because of all the ads. Even Amazon movies that is supposed to have ads doesn't because I won't update my TV, I get a warning before I start a amazon prime my TV is not compatible with programing and might not function as it should please update for best viewing quality. Then everything works fine, the quality is good and there's no more warnings ....and no commercials....lol
 
20250408: Flower Day 8

His plants under SCROG survived.

Zen 1:
IMG_3483.jpegIMG_3484.jpeg

Zen 2:
IMG_3481.jpeg
IMG_3482.jpeg
If you look from the top down we pretty much have a full canopy with minimal gaps.

The two I’m responsible for.
IMG_3485.jpegIMG_3487.jpeg
I don’t think I’ve flowered in the side zone before. 🤔

More snow and -5 at the moment. What the fudge happened to spring?
 
Zen_seeker said:
20250408: Flower Day 8

His plants under SCROG survived.

Zen 1:
View attachment 96411View attachment 96412

Zen 2:
View attachment 96409
View attachment 96410
If you look from the top down we pretty much have a full canopy with minimal gaps.

The two I’m responsible for.
View attachment 96413View attachment 96414
I don’t think I’ve flowered in the side zone before. 🤔

More snow and -5 at the moment. What the fudge happened to spring?
Click to expand...
Its that global warming we keep being banged over the head about changing its mind......That or Trump waving his hand and pushing clouds away from his golf games in our direction.
 
BlueCollarBob said:
👎 More snow

👍 Nice work on the SCROG

😎 All the plants are looking happy
Click to expand...
Cool, thanks.

BlueCollarBob said:
❓ Do you normally move to where the two SCROGs are? Planning something different, this time?
Click to expand...

Yes, I usually up pot to a 3 gallon pot and then move to either of the 3x3 zones/sections. Sons doing the SCROGs so needed both 3x3s. I showed him how to clone and popped another seed so we had backups. We are only allowed 4 plants.

Both tents are 3 in 1. I modified both to be more practical. One can now germinate and do a short veg while the other is now 3x1x6. I hope to flower the two in there now all the way. I do open the door for them a while each day. Let them get a little space.

Since my son is just learning I used my original strains seeds. Still have 300 or more seeds. After this run I was going to try one of the prizes from POTM.
 
20250410: Flower Day 10

My side zone is doing better than I thought. One plant might be showing early signs of tip burn on the sides of the top leaves but it could also be a trick of the lights. One’s a 110w while the other is a 220w. After the pics I swapped their positions. Temps are still low on this side low as 16* at lights out, as high as 28* lights on. RH can be 30%-75%. I’ve been leaving the top of the door open lights on and venting extra heat/humidity.

The shorter plant took off. The other hadn’t recovered from the HST last week.
IMG_3528.jpegIMG_3529.jpeg

Zen 1: Doing good.
IMG_3527.jpeg
IMG_3526.jpeg

Zen 2: Better yet.
IMG_3525.jpegIMG_3524.jpeg

Fugly is looking real good. Lots of promise. Only two bud sites didn’t reach past the net…yet.

Stretch is doing it’s thing with all the plants. Week two still has 4 days to go. With the cold I wasn’t expecting the side zone to stretch as much. Hope week three leaves us room. SCROGs can stretch away. Plenty of room and yo-yos for backup.
 
Sons taking things more seriously. Was up at 7am to feed before lights out. Wasn’t dry enough at lights on.

He’s having trouble tucking and we didn’t do a final topping before the net got dropped. One SCROG is filling in nicely. The others more a trellis ATM.

Colours look good but man are some of these leaves very thin fingered.

I think the stretch will carry over to week three. The cold seems to have slowed it but every warm up they shoot up a few centimetres.

In my 1x3x6 zone the one plant is fantastic. The other is a clone and doing good. Had to bend over the three branches that stretched too fast. Let the rest catch up a bit.

Current feeding:
9ml 4:0:0 Base
4ml 2:2:4 Grow
8ml 0:6:6 Bloom
2.5ml 2:0:0 ProCal

So 8:8:10 total
 
Zen_seeker said:
Sons taking things more seriously. Was up at 7am to feed before lights out. Wasn’t dry enough at lights on.

He’s having trouble tucking and we didn’t do a final topping before the net got dropped. One SCROG is filling in nicely. The others more a trellis ATM.

Colours look good but man are some of these leaves very thin fingered.

I think the stretch will carry over to week three. The cold seems to have slowed it but every warm up they shoot up a few centimetres.

In my 1x3x6 zone the one plant is fantastic. The other is a clone and doing good. Had to bend over the three branches that stretched too fast. Let the rest catch up a bit.

Current feeding:
9ml 4:0:0 Base
4ml 2:2:4 Grow
8ml 0:6:6 Bloom
2.5ml 2:0:0 ProCal

So 8:8:10 total
Click to expand...
Some don't stop stretching for 4 weeks. it was 5 before I felt comfortable putting my Far reds on again. I'm going to switch reds on with the lights on to reds on at lights out for 15 min and switch on the new blues lights during lights on....Just playing. Though is to stretch the buds with the reds then tighten with blues....Not sure about this brain fart but wtf I got nothin better do do....and I bought blue lights for some reason....$300. tax and all they better be good for something.....eh.....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

MiGrampa
Girls Gone Wild - Cannabis Flowering with Supplemental Red Lighting
3 4 5
Replies
128
Views
3K
spartacusve
spartacusve
spartacusve
Hello Everyone, I am happy to be here and learn from you❤️
2
Replies
35
Views
1K
Tremojem
Tremojem
Kuwl
Kuwl - Cinderella C99
5 6 7
Replies
185
Views
8K
Bandit420
Bandit420
Rootsruler
Exposing plants to an unusual chemical early on may bolster their growth and help feed the world
Replies
13
Views
854
Franksta
Franksta
WeedRider
'Failure is always an option' Bagseed Hydro grow
3 4 5
Replies
147
Views
8K
Observer
Observer
Back
Top Bottom