I just accidentally deleted my first attempt at this so I will keep this one brief. I’m very new to growing, this is my third canna baby, a GDP photo. I have her in Canna Terra Professional soil. I’m growing in a laundry space in a tiny 42 sq metre city apartment so it’s one at a time at this stage.
I decided to journal this at @NUG61’s suggestion and I would appreciate your comments and advice.
She came out of that seed like a freight train and hasn’t looked back since.
First week: I just gave her pHed water for the first two weeks then started feeding Aptus nutes. Base plus CalMag. I have plenty of perlite and DE in the soil too.
Week 8: you can see I have hardly removed any foliage but the air circ is good and this is the least humid time of the year here in south eastern Australia. Temp in the tent is 22-24 and RH around 55. I have just put her in the 7 gallon pot. I hadn’t factored in how heavy she would be as my first two plants were in 1 and 2 gallon pots that I can easily lift in and out of the tent. I can barely lift this so I have a platform with a drainage system built in arriving this week. Tomorrow I hope I have just started bending some branches down with these plastic clip thingies as I am about out of height space for the light.
Here is my outdoor garden where I am trying to create a balanced eco space to attract all the good bugs that eat things like fungus gnats and spider mites
You doin great… nice setup good lighting ventilation good nutrients all the love and care it needs… nice outdoors as well … looks like you’re in a big city imma country boy only a few neighbors around for a few miles…
You can count of MeEasy for good advice. Top notch!!!
oh boy and she has not begun to stretch i.e. the period of rapid growth during the transition between veg and flowering stages.
You may need to consider some pruning with the intention of limiting its size. Cannabis can almost double in size during its stretch. My experience is more like 50 - 70%. This is still a lot of growth.
I recently grew GDP. ILGM describes its strain as compact. This description did not fit the GDP I grew. This is a photo of the GDP on the day I changed the lights to 12 hours on and 12 hours off.
Nice job LJ, she does look very healthy. Will def. follow along and watch her progress. We love pics, dont be shy about em. Ask the questions, your answer is here in these growmies.
Thank you. She grew to be much larger than I was anticipating. I had the room but still needed to do so super cropping so she didn’t get too close to the lights. I mentioned pruning because I didn’t want it to outgrow its space.
I flip most photos around 8 to 10 weeks depending on their rate of growth.
I’m butchering the training though. I’ve accidentally snapped off a few branches; I noticed that, right after the points where I put the clips on her, her branches are growing a lot thicker and stronger. Each time I snapped her it sounded like a horse biting a fresh carrot.
Where a branch is bent or injured new growth will heal it and can look like a swollen joint. There is a technique called chiropractic promulgated by Kyle Cushman. He twists a branch to breakdown its inner wall.
Light damage is usually a more solid patter along leaf edges. It is more often upper leaves that are affected.
To me the spots look more like early calcium deficiency. However this would not make sense since you are giving calmag unless it is caused by ph being out of range.
Do you ph its feed and water to a ph suitable for soil? (around 6.5)
Hey, yes I have seen Kyle’s videos and I subscribe to his channel. With these branches they snapped clean off though but I’m noticing that, where I decapitated her, she’s really powering on the branches that were either side. With the leaves, I’m still checking for signs that it’s getting worse. I realised I was still feeding her at 3/4 strength so she started on a full dose today. I’m pHing the water to 6.5. The runoff today was 5.7-8ish.
This is the soil she’s in. Not hot soil but ‘lightly fertilised’.
so I will keep this one brief. I’m very new to growing, this is my third canna baby, a GDP photo. I have her in Canna Terra Professional soil. I’m growing in a laundry space in a tiny 42 sq metre city apartment so it’s one at a time at this stage.
I have just started bending some branches down with these plastic clip thingies as I am about out of height space for the light.
nice outdoors as well … looks like you’re in a big city 
imma country boy only a few neighbors around for a few miles…
