Watermelon Auto

I want a real outdoor greenhouse like this so bad! I had to pause outdoor growing because of the bugs and bud rot every year. Looking forward to following along.

I got mine at Harbor Freight, 6'x8' for $350 a couple years ago. Looks like they might be even cheaper now like their website for me says $250 now

good looking out!

They look happy!!

It could be a genetic thing if they're all the same type that one could be a little off it won't hurt anything

That was my thoughts since they all came in the same pack from a couple years ago. I did rotate them in the greenhouse for the lighting since I do have trees partially shading my garden areas

I'm so happy with their progress in just a month!!!

#HealthyAssPlants 👌🏾

Sir what do you use to keep the bugs away?

Captain Jack's insecticidal super soap sprayed only when the bugs are hurting the plant. I mostly let nature take its course and let the bugs roam

Looking good, those colas are fire so far

Thanks, I'm really happy so far with my first real grow and for all the support and knowledge I can find on here!

What? 1st grow? Man well you knocked it out of park. But it goes to show passion, research, and a little support here and there and you can produce top shelf bud. I don’t know if your planing on curing or not but if your not sure i highly recommend it and looking into it. It’s easy and makes you bud go from ok to wow, wtf. lol

I helped a buddy with a grow once like 15 years ago, but that was mostly just trimming and hanging lol. I do plan to cure it after drying, but still trying to figure out where to set up to dry. I have a 4x4 tent I could use in my shed but it's missing most of the poles so I'd have to rig it up. Nowhere to dry inside due to the smell and small space in my house.

Dude that’s awesome this is your solo grow. If you got some cash go get ya some pvc pipe to rig or you even use a 1x1 rough or 2x2 sticks but if your budget like I am use sticks but depending on your weather you want that control. I use a shed on my property and hang some plastic about a 5x4 spot and dry in there I usually don’t have a humidity prob but the temp can get cold some years I have used heaters in the past but I try not to if I can

I'm in zone 4b up in northern michigan, so it can get pretty cold once fall hits. I do have some 2x2 sticks to rig up the tent, plus i can always just nail the thing up to the back of the shed lol. My big thing will definitely be temp and humidity control, but I can run an old window unit outside the tent near the inlet to cool things off and I do have a mini dehumidifier that should help regulate everything. I just have to make some room so I can get it all set up. we're in a big heat wave with like 85% humidity right now, but that should calm down by the time I harvest.

lol now your doing things on my level “ just nail it up” lol I like that. I live in Appalachian mountains coal country we thrive at doing a lot with very little lol And that sounds like a good plan and underestimate the power of air flow sometime a good fan pushing air can cool and dehumidify quicker but yeah have the other stuff incase you need it

I'm definitely doing things as cheap but effective as possible, so yeah same here work with what I got. No point in putting a bunch of money into a fancy drying system with automatic whatever when I can just check on it myself and adjust to my liking

Bub I feel ya on that I think about all the money some ppl put into some of this stuff and I think I could that with some plastic pvc and zip ties lol

Exactly! If it ain't broke don't fix it. But in a lot of people's minds they think if it ain't broke then there's not enough modifications haha

Right lol they are solutions in search of a problem lol

Like i don't necessarily go by any specific instructions on my fertilizers because every plant is different and they'll tell you what they need. I've been a veggie gardener since I was 5 and I've always been a firm believer in the KISS method, Keep It Simple Stupid

Now this is how I want my yields!! Nice grow brother 💪🏽😎

Thanks man, this first round has been a great learning experience so far

This is actually my 1st year using nutes on a reg basis and I’m mixed on it right now but I’m trying to learn to read the plant better and I’m think I’m getting better but still a lot to learn

I've only ever used liquid nutes on my tropical house plants, always used compost and dry fertilizers for veggies and fruits. It's definitely an adjustment, but pretty forgiving since you can just flush if you over do it

See that pretty much the way we use to do it when we was growing g in the woods it was a mix of dark black muddy riverbank mud and a manure compost. We only used nutes if something was wrong which was far and few between but starting back this year i chose to try nutes on a reg schedule

Man those bud pics look like centerfolds. I keep hearing the angel in a centerfold song playing in my head lol nice job bub

Thanks man. I've been testing the camera out on my new phone trying out the different features. The close ups are at 50mp and the zoomed out are supposed to be at 200mp, but im still messing with the focus on it

I like messing with shutter speed too but don’t go to long if your holding it by hand. I do some YouTube videos from time to time so I bought a gimbal and I’ve been able to get some nice pics I think I’m going to do a couple of videos on this grow maybe one for the veg cycle and one for the bloom but we will see

I definitely need some kind of imbalance or tripod. It doesn't help that the wind helps blur things out trying to hold everything steady. This phone does have a super steady horizontal lock, but only in video mode

Yeah I had some trouble with some time lapse photos I was trying to take I think the wind was shaking the table and the longer tripod I have is a cheap one so it’s not super sturdy either

Cellphone picture quality is insane compared to back in the day, hell even within the last 2 years the quality has jumped astronomically

Right? Lol used to I would just get a burry mess now I heard last year there was a movie filmed on a iPhone lol how far we come

Everything is so advanced now, but the problem with that is trying to keep up as we get older lol. I remember having to buy a special clip on magnifier lenses for one of my old phones just to get an okish macro Pic that still ended up grainy, now I can just hold my phone close and zoom if I want haha

Right my phone has the two cameras lens I guess for different magnifying lens or wide angle lens’s it does great for me but my daughters has 3 lens on the back and you can damn near see the color of the tricomes with it lol she was showing me a pic of the moon she took and you could see the craters plain as day in it. Now imagine when this newest generation gets our age what they will have. Well as long as the don’t go to far into AI. I think Tech should be a tool not a replacement lol the just laid off half of my wife’s jobs workers because of AI and they are hurting because it was ready yet

My phone has 4 cameras plus the front camera, but it's the new galaxy one that's trying to go full ai which im not a big fan of. I like a couple of the ai features but I don't need it to handle everything for me, im a big boy and can do it myself hahaha

That’s me I think AI as a tool is great AI that just takes over and does everything I’m not a fan of either I don’t know if that makes me a control freak or what ever but I just think they are going way to fast with this AI stuff. They are scammers using it to scam little old ladies around here and they can do a 1000 calls at a time like that

Yea was like 100 in Wisconsin yesterday. We Evan left work at 11 yesterday my first early day my bro is cool Evan tho he’s busy as hell

Love to see those buds snaking down the stem just stacking looks awesome bub

Hell yeah, by the looks of things, huey (one with purple leaves) might be about ready for harvest in the next week. The other two are taking a bit longer with how more dense the main stocks are

If you don’t mind me being nosey how many grams you get off each of those plants usually?