I will get back in another week with a weigh in.
I am hoping to dry weight. Bud only, I hoping for 450 grams.
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10 days was the magic # for my dry time this harvest. I haven’t weighed it yet but based on jar count and trim bag, it’s close to a pound
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Gold leaf feminized.
Four seeds that broke soil January 18th.
They are currently “curing”
Current weigh in
430 grams of buds and a big-ol- bag of trim on the side.
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All ya’ll from Minnesota are kinda quiet!
OR, hopefully, just to stoned to post anything exciting.
I am on my way North to the BWCA for trip #3 this summer. I will be travelling with a nice bag of Gold leaf (well seasoned) and my wife.
There are few things better on this planet then sitting around a campfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and passing around a joint of weed “I GREW”.
The first two trips up were solo and I smoked a few. This trip is with my wife and two other couples.
There will be alot of smoking! All of us are in our 60’s and are really happy that Gov. Walls
Legalized the personal grow here in MN. I have two solid grows since legalization and my friends are excited to help taste it all.
I will grow more and I am excited to share!
HEY MN…I hope you all are well, and are having success growing the cannabis of your choice. I know I am.
Picture this:
Walleye filets
Side of garlic mashed potatoea and shallots.
Vodka and lemonade
And for desert,
A big ol’ fatty of weed I grew.
Followed by a campfire, loons howling, and maybe some northern lights.
Hot damn!
Beat that!!!
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Careful up there, some of that is federal land and still will be charged as a felony if your caught by a ranger.
Nice, and damn does fish fry sound great right now, haha…
I’m in the Twin Cities and also so happy with Gov. Walz and to finally be able to grow legal weed. It’s something I’ve wanted to do since the 80s.
For my first grow I have one Gold Leaf, one Blue Dream, and one Northern Lights auto, all outdoors. (I wanted to have 2 of the NL autos to get to the 4 plant flowering limit, but only one survived…)
My Gold Leaf is my biggest plant, it’s taller than me now… The Blue Dream already has had a sweet-skunky smell happening for a while. The NL auto just started to flower…
Can’t wait to try them all, but I think the Gold Leaf is the one I’m most interested in. Hoping to get a tent to dry/cure, then start a new indoor batch for the Fall/Winter 
No issues with the authorities. We claimed camp, we caught walleyes. We drank vodka lemonade and we smoked MN homegrown doobies. We stared at the stars and " ooooh- ahhhhed" at all the shooting stars.
It was perfect! This is a trip to be remembered forever as 60 yr old retirees moving forward with our check off list’s
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That does sound like a perfect trip
Im living in the Blaine city area of minnesota and I have had a few successful grows so far as well. I first grew green crack and trinity on my first grow. Then on my second i did ilgms mango kush(10/10 would recommend), they i did 2 of the ilgms fruity pebbles, and my last complete grow was four seeds i got from 420 fast buds( 1 gorilla cookies, 1 tropicana cookies, 1 purple punch, and 1 banana purple punch)
Now i curently have one of ilgms gold leaf just finishing its 2nd week of vegetative phase
I think this ones going good so far too.
That mango kush though (third picture down) that was some of the best weed i have smoked in a long time. I just couldnt get over how much it smells like a freshly cut mango everytime you open the jar to burp them. And the smoothest rips off of it as well. If you are on the fence about giving it a try just do it you will not regret it i promise you that.
Minnesota cultivators
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Hey Joe, Where are you going with that Miracle Grow in your hands?..
Just paraphrasing an old tune by the Byrds.
I’m throwing my 2 cents in on the Miracle Grow issue from a problem solving viewpoint.
I grow outdoors! Growing indoors has it’s place and I appreciate all the reasons for choosing to do so. My thinking is that this species we call Modern Man has been successfully growing Cannibus outdoors for at least 32,000 years that we know of. Grow Lights and related systems have not been around for very long, relatively speaking. The purpose of these Lights and Systems is to imitate Sunlight. While these Systems have greatly increased their efficiency at this in the relatively short time they have been on this Earth, they still fall woefully short of what that great natural light parked 93 million miles away can do for your babies, but, I digress…
My grow is rooftop gardening, unviewable and unaccessible from street level except through the building which remains locked and secure.
This year, I obtained a large bag of Miracle Grow Organic Potting Soil before I delved into any of the Cannibus forums, with their warnings of seedburn, seedlings dieing between 2 to 3 weeks, ect. I can be stubborn about certain things in life, such as making a dumb purchase and not wanting to be out of the money. Here is the solution I came up with.
For each baby planted, I use a 5 gallon pot and put in a 3 layered soil medium. The bottom layer is Minnesota Black dirt, out of the bag, as opposed to dug up from the yard, as some people might try. The top layer is Fox Farms Ocean Forrest Organic Potting Soil. The middle layer is where I found the solution.
I had to neutralize the negative effects of the Miracle Grow. I obtained a same sized bag of Burpee’s Organic Potting Soil. Burpee’s is out of Pennsylvania, has been making products for gardening for almost 150 years and is the Potting Soil my 90 year old Mom swears by for Fruit and Vegetables. I also obtained a bag half that size of Worm Castings, a great source of Nitrogen. I can’t remember the brand name but it was English in origin. The ratio was 2 fifths Miracle Grow, 2 fifths Burpee’s and 1 fifth Worm Castings. I put these ingredients in a wide tub and hand mixed them for about 2 hours, very tiring for an old geezer like myself. I used this mixture for the middle layer of my pots.
I planted 13 babies and 11 were successful all the way through. I lost 1 to Squirrels digging and 1, from the College Park strain, was an Albino Seed. I have read that it is extremely difficult to successfully grow an Albino Cannibus plant, with a success rate between 7 and 8 percent. It is a worthwhile pursuit as I have been lucky enough to see an Albino Cannibus in full bloom. It easily made my list of the top 5 most beautiful sights that I have ever laid these old eyes upon, right up there with that Solar Eclipse I saw down in Carbondale Illinois in April.
I hope you find this information helpful in your grow. Since I already brought up Nitrogen, I can tell you that you need rainwater collection of some sort. Rainwater just might be the best source of Nitrogen. When raindrops move up and down within a Thunderstorm or a smaller disturbance, they imprint the Atmosphere on and within each drop, 22% Oxygen and 77% Nitrogen. The Thunderstorm then rams that raindrop into the soil at speeds near 200mph. When the storm is over and you step outside, you smell that clean air! You’re smelling the Oxygen from the imprinted raindrops. It comes back out of the ground that fast because Oxygen is not a complex molecule with only 2 Atoms. Nitrogen, which has a much more complex molecular structure, can stay in the soil for up to 5 days, doing your babies good the entire time! Start collecting rainwater this spring. I was able water my babies with nothing but rainwater for 11 straight weeks, ending September 18th because of a rainless September. If you grow outdoors, take advantage of the rain.
This is my first time on this forum! As a lifelong Minnesotan, it fills my heart with gladness that we have this page where we can share our love for the greatest family of plants that God ever allowed to be created. I’ll see all of my younger Brothers and Sisters somewhere on the trail real soon! You can taste some of mine if I can taste some of yours.
MNMike
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Welcome to the Party Mike!
I agree with your view on Sunlight/outdoors vs. LED/ indoors.
HOWEVER…
I don’t have a safe neighborhood in which to grow outside. To much shit to deal with and questions to answer and ignorant folks that would do damage to my plants because well, because " They don’t approve"
NOW, with my 3X3 tent, charcoal filtration system, and a really nice Viperspectra growlight. I am able to grow four fat/healthy plants securely and comfortably in my basement. From sprout to cure, it’s about 5 months to realize 1-1.5 lbs of saaaweet homegrown weed.
Earthworm casings are the ticket!
So, the MN growers are the strong silent type I guess? I appreciate the post from Mike as new to the thread. But, where did everyone else go? Anybody out there that wants to share their growing knowledge now that we are a legal state?
Bueller…Bueller?
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Hey oh. Mn grower here. Got a couple going now, GG4, Bruce Banner, GSC. All inside grow here as well due to, well Minnesota.
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Sorry! Call em an uber!!
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Same here
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Minnesota weather is kinda sketchy. I have recently germinated two godfather OG beans,
And two Grandaddy purple beans.
I expect to get them nice healthy, topped, and ready for the stealth garden by April fools day.
And watch them start flowering? You will have under 13 hours of daylight then and that could flip them. You don’t hit 14 hrs/day until the 23rd…I had some outside mid-April and they started flowering, which is how I ended up going inside, needed to finish them (didn’t know about revegging them). We’re about the same schedule, near the 49th.
Check out timeanddate dotcom, great for figuring out when they may start to flower (at 14 hrs/day).