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Hi, all

A friend gave me two clones (thanks, friend!) on June 8th. They are labeled as Chemdawg 4, and Lemon Pie. I can find a lot of information online about Chem 4, but pretty much nothing on Lemon Pie, so that one will be -- interesting.

The Chem 4 is tall and lanky, while the Lemon Pie is short and more filled-in. The LP also has its main branch at an angle, allowing for nice flowers to be formed and reach the light. I didn't have to train it or anything. What a good girl!

I am only growing for myself (and sharing some with my friend, since he was so nice to give me the clones), so yield isn't of utmost importance -- budget is. So it is kind of a ghetto-grow, but it seems to be going okay so far.

My growspace is a walk-in closet. About 4x6x8. Has a window, which I leave open with a fan exhausting air during the day, and I close with complete black-out blanket covering it for the dark period.

Soil -- using a blend. A local nursery's potting soil that has always been wonderful for everything else I grow. Contains Mycorrhizae and lots of other goodies. I didn't have a lot left, so I blended it about 1:1 with FF Ocean Forest, which they also had at that nursery.

Nutes -- I'll admit, I did not go all-out on nutes, because I have been having decent luck so far with what I use on my vegetable garden. In veg, I was using Age Old Fish and Seaweed, and in flower, I am using Alaska Morbloom.

Lights -- vegged with 2 overhead T12s and 2 side CFLs in 6500K, in flower, 4 overhead T8s and 4 side CFLs in 2700k, and 2 vertical (in the middle of the two plants) T12s in 3000k.

They are 2.5 weeks into flower now. Pics starting in the next post

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Here are the girls a month ago, on June 11th...

The smaller of the two is the Chemdawg 4. I will label them CD4 and LP.

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I repotted the girls on June 20th. Here they are in their new homes

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Flipped on June 24th to 12/12 and 2700K.

Here are the girls today, July 11th. They are 2.5 weeks into flower. I haven't really done any trimming or training or anything (other than removing some leaves my cat nibbled on one day when I wasn't looking. Grrr... now I have to take off fan leaves on occasion and give them to him, otherwise he will meow this demanding meow. Little jerk. He doesn't like being around when I smoke, but he is RIGHT THERE when I am visiting the ladies.)

Top view, and side view...

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Here's a nice photo (in my opinion -- I took it yesterday with my phone's camera, with a magnifier in front of the lens ) of a flower from the Lemon Pie. For 2.5 weeks, it seems surprisingly "frosty" to me. The Chemdawg 4 isn't anywhere near this developed in flower.

Since I can't find any information about Lemon Pie, I have no idea what the flowering time on it is, and neither does the friend who gave it to me :-\

After a sentence like that I normally take out handcuffs and ropes form the bedroom drawer..

That's the best way to learn the plants to watch do their own thing.

Good luck and the feeling when you have your first homegrow burning is something to wait for.

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Originally Posted by vuuduu

After a sentence like that I normally take out handcuffs and ropes form the bedroom drawer..

That's the best way to learn the plants to watch do their own thing.

Good luck and the feeling when you have your first homegrow burning is something to wait for.

I am not really into that kind of thing, though I can be convinced (I am female, BTW...)

I can't wait for the next 7 or so weeks to (hopefully) whiz by!

BTW, forgot to upload this one. Here are the two girls side-by-side -- Lemon Pie on the left, Chemdawg 4 on the right. You can see how much shorter (yet more developed) LP is. I have her raised by about an inch or so -- need to raise her a bit more so the tops are at equal distance to the top lights...

Nice grow and greetz from southern Canada (MT). Got my start with two gifted clones too!

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Will your situation be compromised if/when these plants start to stink? You're venting unfiltered air right out a window during the day and kinda sealing up the window at night. If the vented air could become an issue or having your house filled with the smell of growing pot isn't a good thing, then you need to make plans to deal with it.

Good luck, and welcome to growing!

Wow! Those girls at 2.5 weeks flower look awesome!. Bet they're huge now.