"My New Adventures in Home Gardening" or "Yep, I'm growing Cannabis...

Hello friends, I think the last time I posted about my home gardening adventures was about a month ago. I want to tell you how this last month went and what I am doing different now.

But first, I wanted to take a minute to show you the Pomegranate Tree. The blossoms are looking a but more uh... fruity.

I'm going to eat plenty of these when they get fat!

And some of them will end up in the compost I'm sure.

Now, I figure is it kinda late into the season, but I decided to see what happens with these!

The pack says 10-20 days for germination. We'll see what happens!

Now, about the fish tank setup. Here is what I learned.

I had a hell of a time trying to keep the PH down. While there did seem to be some nutrients to be had with the fish in the tank, I don't feel like it was nearly enough. Also, the light situation wasn't great.

While I had some pretty ambitious ideas about continuing to grow this way but in a bigger better setup, I do ultimately want to create some decent cannabis, or at least try to. I tried the tank, it wasn't the best option, but it was fun to do, and it was certainly a conversation piece.

I decided that I would try and move these plants as carefully as possible into soil to finish out their grows. I do wanna try more of this in the future as I learn more.

On my last post I tried planting the sturdiest looking one of the bunch right into the ground out back. I won't show you a photo, because that would be showing you the photo of a corpse. Yeah, dead. Lesson learned. That shit is stressful as hell for a young plant.

But was there there a way to get these from the tank to the soil safely and with as little stress as possible?

Over a couple of weeks I started to drape the hanging roots from each net cup up around the sides of the cups so they wouldn't be just completely hanging in the water. But I always made sure the water level stayed at a level where the cups were getting wet. Then I would let the water drop below the cups to see how well they would take that. At some point they looked like they were dealing with that pretty well, so I began taking them out of the tank and sitting them near a window for some light and wind, living out of some cups and getting watered by keeping the rock wool fairly moist.

After a while they seemed to look cheerful in cups, so I carefully, one by one move them to soil in pots. This first one is the seed of Strawberry Cough. It was has been in soil for about a week or so. The lower leafs show how it looked prior to going into the soil and the top sections show greener, perkier looking leaves.

This one here was the tallest of the bunch, from a seed of Strawberry Banana Kush and just went into soil today after spending some time in a solo cup.

Okay so I chickened out with the water growing. I know. But I wanna call it a learning experience. Who knows, these plants may still turn out to be pretty terrific.

My last try at this gave me this big sucker!