1st Grow. CFL Grow

Kevdank · Mar 11, 2011

HippySmoke said:
I hate ball checking... clones for the win!

i kinda find clones end up with thin, twiggy branches while seed ends up with thicker colas. of course this is just personal experience and there are many factors involved, just my 2 cents

cocobuds · Mar 12, 2011

Looking good man.. My plants are about the same size, but still vegging. Im using your journal to take the next step into flowering.. I LST'd with elastic sewing patches. They are mesh bands about 1/4 inch wide and are perfect. The elasticity gives it a little "give" and its easy to adjust the tension. Also, its kind of wide so it wont cut into the plant either... Looking forward to hearing whether or not you got girls. Will be back.

theoldmerchant · Mar 13, 2011

Kevdank said:
the pre flowers will show up in between those things you circled and the branch so at least your looking in the right spot, my baby didnt show pre flowers till 12th day 12/12

Thank you for the + info sir.

stoneyluv said:
some plants do take a week or two to show hairs.... i have some that show hairs during the veg cycle (24hour). i have a diesel now that is weeks away from flower and she has hairs already.

Well hopefully next time I see her she should be a hairy bitch!

StickyMcGrass said:
My baby is almost 2 weeks in flowering and it took her alittle over a week to show her first hairs, so don't worry your doing great

Thank you sir, always eager to hear about the grow.

HippySmoke said:
I hate ball checking... clones for the win!

Amen brother.

Kevdank said:
i kinda find clones end up with thin, twiggy branches while seed ends up with thicker colas. of course this is just personal experience and there are many factors involved, just my 2 cents

I need to get some clone experience in after this grow for sure.

cocobuds said:
Looking good man.. My plants are about the same size, but still vegging. Im using your journal to take the next step into flowering.. I LST'd with elastic sewing patches. They are mesh bands about 1/4 inch wide and are perfect. The elasticity gives it a little "give" and its easy to adjust the tension. Also, its kind of wide so it wont cut into the plant either... Looking forward to hearing whether or not you got girls. Will be back.

Good deal bud, cheers let's smoke a bowl.

Well I had quite the oral emergency and had my 4 impacted wisdom teeth pulled. The ordeal went terribly and from the time I went into the dentist to the time they had me on an operating chair was less than 48 hours. Worst days of my life for sure though, and I thought I was a tough bastard too. Hah guess not. Anyway been down with the fam since surgery so hopefully I can head up to my place to check and see if my bitch is turning into a bitch yet. Stay tuned gents, and pass the blunt :leaf:

Drampire · Mar 13, 2011

Lookin good! Think I'll sub and keep an eye on it. Check out my grow on the bottom if ya have time, always open to feedback.

King Blunt · Mar 13, 2011

Yeah Im subbd too. Your girl/maybe guy is looking good. Hope it is a she, but if not take some pollen. I too am growing in rubbermaids. You should check out my grow. Its on my profile or something. Anyways best of luck bro. Respect and peace my man.

stoneyluv · Mar 13, 2011

I feel your pain dude!!! my fingers are crossed that you have hairs!!! I'm sure if it's a female your mouth won't hurt as much!!!

StickyMcGrass · Mar 13, 2011

Sorry to hear about the wisdom teeth, I got my appendix, wisdom teeth, and broke my toe all in the same month, I understand how shitty that can be... can't wait to see what you get in flowering

theoldmerchant · Mar 16, 2011

Flower Day 14

So I'm two weeks into flower. I came back from down south to disaster. She was in a pretty fragile state, my room mate said she was fine while I was gone but apparently not. I flushed when I saw the state she was in, and then gave a feeding with 1/2 str nutes and molasses foliar feeding it. Have pics of how she was looking when I got home, and then about 4 hours after I fed and watered. Then have some from today, I am really really happy she came back so fast and strong. Amazing plant really. If someone could explain exactly what's going on in the tight undergrowth, I'm not exactly sure what I'm seeing. Anyway, that was the worst week of my life hah. Thanks for the support though, wisdom teeth are a fucking killer. Oh I also transplanted it and built a new cabinet. Have pics of both.

theoldmerchant · Mar 17, 2011

Flower Day 15

She seems to be coming back quite well from the little dehydration spell.

theoldmerchant · Mar 20, 2011

Flower Day 18

Was gone for three days out of town. Came back to good growth. Watered her up and retied her back down. Have before and after pics

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HeeferBud · Mar 20, 2011

Looks promising! I'm doing 2 double stack rubbermaids myself for my first grow, I went from clone and have had 5 in flower for 2 weeks now, I lst the hell out of them for 3 weeks and it helped with height but I gotta say, when the canopy growth goes through the bottom chamber into the top the lst is a pain at first, I solved it by corraling each plant with string around the bush. I then did the same with the entire box, string around them all to guide em through. Just a thought for when your bagseed gets bigger. But I'd recommend using uncle Bens topping method above fourth true node instead for 4 colas instead of lst (until past first chamber) as you grew from seed. Just my experience and opinion. Or are u keeping Rubbermaid box to one chamber?

I had 5 impacted wisdom teeth... I was "blessed" with an additional freak wisdom tooth.. 1/4 size... The other normal one was impacted horizontally into it. It was sheer hell. 2 separate days of 3 & 4 hours of prying, pulling and dental drilling to get those bastards out. Freezing wore off twice. Worst ever. Had my hash handy and it saved my life after. I feel the pain for anyone who had impacted wisdoms hucked out and not gassed.

Subscribing and reppin.
Heefer

theoldmerchant · Mar 21, 2011

I'll check out your grow Heefer. Wisdom teeth are a bitch. I topped back in veg. I have a diagram I made real quick to show how I've done the LST so far. The red lines are where my string is tying the colas to the pot. I grew out of the rubbermaid and updated to a cabinet. I have a pic of the new setup like a page back or so.

Flower Day 19

I'm trying to figure out what I should do about trimming because there is a TON of brand new growth that looks really really healthy under alot of the thicker leaves, and I really wanted to cut away some of the bigger, not as healthy looking leaves away. Allow for that good looking under growth to come up. Thoughts on this?

jestacrazy · Mar 22, 2011

nice i wana follow the lst

HeeferBud · Mar 22, 2011

theoldmerchant said:
I'll check out your grow Heefer. Wisdom teeth are a bitch. I topped back in veg. I have a diagram I made real quick to show how I've done the LST so far. The red lines are where my string is tying the colas to the pot. I grew out of the rubbermaid and updated to a cabinet. I have a pic of the new setup like a page back or so.

Flower Day 19

I'm trying to figure out what I should do about trimming because there is a TON of brand new growth that looks really really healthy under alot of the thicker leaves, and I really wanted to cut away some of the bigger, not as healthy looking leaves away. Allow for that good looking under growth to come up. Thoughts on this?

Lol how stoned was i when i went through this thread, obviously missed a couple pages. Looks good! Haha i may end up using whole closet if they get too big for rubbermaids. Gonna post some pics tomorrow I just noticed all the red and white hairs that have suddenly formed.

As far as trimming... I have had considerable advice against trimming from alot of farmer buddies. Better to lst again then trim just my opinion. Let the plant produce food with weak leave versus cut it off and make it work to produce another doesn't sound efficient to me.

theoldmerchant · Mar 22, 2011

Flower Day 20

Well I fed her with some Super Bloom and Molasses earlier today and she is looking real good afterwards. Changed out the bulb so now I have a 26w, 32w, and 55w bulb. All 2700k. I've been pruning here and there throughout the whole grow so I don't know. I haven't cut off much, I kept all the cuttings I've done and it's a very small amount. I just cut off leaves that get absolutely no light, she is looking okay though. I'm also trying to clone her, hope that goes well.

stoneyluv · Mar 22, 2011

she looks very happy all tied up!! good luck with the clone!!

HeeferBud · Mar 22, 2011

I'm sure it'll Help your case for new growth. More light more bud for cfls even with it deep into flower so I'm sure it won't hurt yah. Looks good. I just picked up to 23w UVB reptile cfls to try an boost my yield/thc

StickyMcGrass · Mar 22, 2011

I love your diagram...

theoldmerchant · Mar 23, 2011

stoneyluv said:
she looks very happy all tied up!! good luck with the clone!!

Thank you sir, hopefully I'll be able to share some nuggage with you one of these Thursdays. I think the clone is doing well, although I've never cloned so I wouldn't know. It doesn't look dead though yet!

HeeferBud said:
I'm sure it'll Help your case for new growth. More light more bud for cfls even with it deep into flower so I'm sure it won't hurt yah. Looks good. I just picked up to 23w UVB reptile cfls to try an boost my yield/thc

Yeah I had this bulb I just hadn't plugged it in because of temps, but we are running AC now so no worries. Never heard of using those bulbs, those are the ones for snakes and such?

StickyMcGrass said:
I love your diagram...

Thank you sir, hard MS Paint work hah.

theoldmerchant · Mar 23, 2011

Flower Day 21

Well I'm three weeks into flower, and I'm pretty happy. Except for some of the leaves and the white shit on them. I was told it's most likely a pH imbalance, which I'm prone to believe because I have never pH'd my water.

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