Mothers Day 2020 maybe,
3 random Seeds are planted, all germinate right away. I have grown little to nothing before this point. A plant on the windowsill here and there but never passing the seedling stage.
This was also my first time growing herbs, lettuce, and using clay pots. Clay pots suck. I’m sure there are plants that would love their roots insulated but in the heat its an awful idea. It was the end of the lettuce. Herbs didn’t make it either but that was due to not transplanting….and poor watering. To be fair the medium I got was sand based, like why?
The soil I used was Happy Frog by Fox Farms for the entirety of this grow. I was told that the nutrient only lasts a few weeks to about a month. For me I continuously top-dressed with new soil and transplanted, giving the plant just enough to survive. This was the last grow I used a soil medium. Not to say its a bad medium, I just find it easier to feed with a hydroponic medium such as coco-coir. When I start veg its about time to get a Co2 bag ready for flowering.
My first plant to be disposed of started growing balls. Could have been the heat stress or the start of the thrips. One thing I hate more than clay pots are thrips. Either way if there is one thing about getting pests is getting rid of them faster than getting them. I neglected to think they would do as much harm as fast as they did. Ultimately I failed to get rid of them but managed to still harvest.
Then there was one. Further into flowering I noticed another one of the ladies turned hermie so I gave it to a friend. Honestly I should have kept it because all of them eventually Hermied. Doesn’t matter because I really didn’t have the room for more than a single plant.
Alright despite all stresses I ended with a harvest of 56 grams over the course of 5 months. The flower was scattered with seeds which took a lot of energy from THC production. Not a bad smoke and the seeds make the flower crack and pop, so I coined this random seed Firecracker. It may not have been super dank but it was happy start to a passion I refuse to let go.
Casper Grows In Coco 