The Lazy Beginner

ItalianDesertBalcony Transplanted into 6L oddly shaped pot; AI Recommended 55% soil for flowering plants, 20% humus for plants, 25% perlite

ItalianDesertBalcony My water is really high in calcium; I think it’s raising the PH, the plant is showing signs of stress, 2 leaves yellowing and wilting. Super stunted growth probably due to transplant shock. Also haven’t been feeding her anything. She’s just living off the humus lombrico from my original DIY soil mix.

ItalianDesertBalcony Switched to distilled water to try and flush the excess calcium. Started LST. Ordered fertilizer, PH down and Cal/Mag supplements because my water has too much calcium and distilled water will not have any minerals. Advice welcome. It’s probably a miracle that she is alive, however, I did ask the guy at my local grow store to give me the easiest, most robust autoflowering for my first attempt.

ItalianDesertBalcony So, thinking this is the first day of week5, but I’m not sure. 📢🗣️ I think this is ‘flowering’ but I’m not sure; comments to help me define ‘flowering’ would be appreciated, please judge my photos and let me know! 📢🗣️ I made a video of my PH reader and a photo. Comments with help for that would also be appreciated, is the PH really over 9 (my readers max) due to calcium buildup up, or is the humus lombrico giving a false reading? 500 ml distilled water (still trying to flush high calcium buildup from the local water). When the fertilizers arrive I’ll start giving her food: 9/8 200 ml bloom, 60 ml CalMag sup 10/8 250 ml filtered tap water Moved her to a different balcony that gets a little less morning sunlight 🌅 but a lot more afternoon sunlight ☀️ Tightened the first two LST yarns, added 2 more and discovered 2 more bud sites!

ItalianDesertBalcony So, tiny spider mites have shown up, I blame the mojito mint plant that I bought that came with them before I knew how to regocnize the signs. 🙄 Anywho, continuing with a little fertilizer and cal/mag supplement. This will be a complete fail for my first attempt, but I’m going to see it through to the end just for the sake of learning every stage from germination to harvest.

ItalianDesertBalcony Terrible storm on 23/8. Survived. Buds look beautiful, despite spider mites (I think). Leaves are not doing great but buds seem unaffected and growing more than I could have hoped, over all I’m happy with my first attempt, if it’s even smokable I’ll be ecstatic.