Cannabis Grow Journal #3: Start of Veg Stage

Veg Stage = starting in June, 2021
Big Bud & Watermellon Photoperiods 4X4 Indoor Grow 

Notes and photos from start of veg stage:

July 7, 2021

I’ve started a new grow and am going to spend a little less time journaling about germination and Vegging plants because it is really so boring. I’m going be topping and using low stress training (LST) to the max. I will journal this but it won’t be a weekly thing.

GrowDaddy Soil / Coco Mix Recipe:

This grow is going to be my own “secret sauce” medium recipe (OK, not so secret … and experimental):

• 35% Fox Farm Ocean Forest
• 35% Canna Coco
• 20% worm castings
• 10% perlite

For every gallon of coco, I amend with 3 tablespoons of this veg nutrient mixture:

• 70% Gaia Green All Purpose 4-4-4
• 30% Gaia Green Bloom 2-8-4

Then I mix the soil with the amended coco.

I’m excited to see what I can do in this new medium.

Germinating Big Bud and WaterMellon Cannabis Seeds

I started Big Bud and WaterMellon from seeds about 5 weeks ago, give or take. I started them in peat pods and moved them into solo cups after germination. I had a bag Wappa seed and I f***ed up the germination by putting it too deep in the pod. I thought it didn’t germinate. It had germinated, but it hadn’t gotten through top yet. Live and learn. I really wanted to grow that seed.

This led to confusion due to me smoking while in the grow room. I started a couple more seeds and got labels messed up. I know I have two WaterMellons and one Big Bud. Not sure if fourth is a Big Bud or WaterMellon.  That’s why two of them are smaller. They are a week behind in Veg.

Up-Potting the Big Bud and WaterMellon Cannabis Plants

I up potted into 1.5 gallon pots a couple weeks later… I should have waited longer. They weren’t ready for up-potting. I plan to up-pot in a couple weeks. I will wait until the plants are asking for water – at least every couple days – before I up-pot this time, so I have good root development.