Hello Everyone,
It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted any updates with the indoor cannabis garden.
This is mostly because things have been moving along a little slowly.
I've encountered the challenge of a fungus gnat infestation. A small black fruit fly looking insect that has proven immensely difficult for me to eradicate. I've been spraying daily with this "Safer" brand insecticidal soap, which is a neem oil free soapy concentrate that is supposed to be pretty safe for most plants. It hasn't caused any harm to the plants and does seem rather safe, however it has not completely gotten rid of the gnats, but does a great job of killing off the flying adults and has kept the population very low.
This daily spraying makes cleaning of my grow areas a much more frequently needed chore that is not enjoyable due to the filmy substance this insecticide leaves behind. To put it bluntly, it's a pain in the ass to clean daily, but at least my grow areas are very clean as a result.
I've switched my tent to the 12/12 flowering light cycle about two weeks ago and have two adult plants in there.
One of them showed the first signs of female today!
The smaller of the two has still not revealed sex.
I will be happy no matter what happens because at least I have one known female and it is the larger of the two plants! Very exciting!
This is the moment where months of tedious work and care for the plants pays off.
I've always been very lucky with my grows and have never had an all male scenario. I've even had grows where every single plant turned out female, and nothing is more exciting than when this happens for a cannabis grower.
The plant on the right is the female! The one on the left is still unknown. I don't want to take any guesses because then I feel I'll jinx myself, but I do feel it looks like a female plant.
These are not the largest cannabis plants I've ever grown, but they are very healthy and nicely stress trained to grow in a bushy form and should hold the weight of heavy buds just fine.
This is the plant on the left, and we can see the branches have been manipulated with LST training clips. It's a squatty plant and has relatively fat leaves. I'm hopeful it is a female.
In this photograph of the plant on the right, we catch a glimpse of the wispy white pistil, the clear cut indicator of a female cannabis plant.
I've also never grown under lighting quite as powerful as what I'm using now, so I expect the yields will be substantial compared to previous harvests, despite the plants being squattier.
It may even be beneficial to have this nice distance from the lights for optimal bud growth and minimizing of potential light burn. I'm currently running the main Phlizon light at max power with no indication of light burn for over a week now.
Given that this flowering area is small, I feel I commenced flowering cycle at the perfect time, and the plants are now in the final "stretch" phase.
Things are going to get exciting from here.
Let's take a peek over in the vegetation room.
These are the three I've been keeping in vegetation. They have already been transplanted into the final pots and will probably be ready to move in about 2-4 weeks. I'm going to grow them as big as I can get away with since they are not topped and bushed out.
It's also apparent that I mutilated the main stalks with LST clips. I'm not sure what I was thinking, I was just having a fun time with these clips and didn't really think it through :D
But either way we will adapt and overcome any problems that occur because of this.
The plant in the middle has continued to be my favorite of these three. It seems that the other two might be the same genetics, and this one in the middle is something different. It's hardier and seems to be doing a bit better in this environment than the other two. I have no fans currently for this grow area, but I will get one soon. My box fan burned out at the same time my 3D printer fan burned out. I've been having some bad luck with fans lately.
Some of you might remember that two weeks ago I planted some of this microgreens lettuce in some 3D printed planters that I designed. I really have never seen lettuce quite like this stuff but it indeed tastes like lettuce and grows very small.
Let's check out how the lettuce is coming along.
The growth is exploding in my very sexy little planters. The lettuce should grow to about three times this current size, and I will have some delicious tasting micro lettuce to add to my meals. Awesome!
How about the Graptopetalum/Sedum succulents? Let's take a look!
They are also in some sexy 3D printed pots. I didn't design these one's, found them on thingiverse and really love them. They have drain holes built in and the tray is connected as all one piece.
The succulents are doing really good :)
The green onions I regrow from the grocery store are nothing to brag about, but they have been steadily producing fresh shoots and providing me with fresh green onions whenever I need them!
That is pretty much it for now. Within the next week I am planning to start four of the Big Mack Superstar cannabis seeds that I got from 
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