My First grow

lookg good man, can you get a shot of the fliter at some point

also i wouldn't worry about pruning my friend just uses a screan to move the leaves so there is a space for air

Well the screen is at around 10-11" above the soil, so alot of foilage and possible bud spots down there, i may do a 2 harvests if i can keep the bottom places healty.

Filter is still a work in progress, i thikn it might be working but not clue at all I can't smell it....??

I'm also as soon as it shows sex to take some clones from the bottom as well. hopefully get something going pretty good.

youre doing a lot for such a small space

how is the smell in the cab compared to outside it

Suprisingly nice. I'll know for sure when i water then in a day or 2, the smell is always worst right after watering.

I'm just waiting for them to start stinking and then hope that what i've done so far will keep it from being smelly at all in the apartment or anywhere around it.

I'm having to adjust and tie down all the heads every day to keep them under control. I tied down the longest last night and had to retighten it because it was pulling vertical again.I just hope i can keep them controlled through flowering as the plants getting big as hell now.

nice progress

Well another day with no sex shown, i think little noduals are coming in though and the nodes are starting to split and alternate, but i feel like i'm getting behind, i know i need alot more red scale, i have 4 daylights and 2 42ws and a uvb in right now. They seem to keep getting larger, is this due to the flowering, or is this due to having too many daylights i used to veg as well?? Or both.

Just getting a little concerned its going to be a fk'n huge plant even with the training i'm doing. I can always tighten down the heads and restring the top again. If push comes to shove.

Have ran the uvb for about 6hrs of the total 12 today, mabey more, not sure, but weening it up to being 12/12 - uvb/off. I can see the growth speed turning up a little when it is on.

Will update later with pics, mabey tommorrow.

Just another little update.

Vegged 3weeks, flower 2weeks so far. almost a week with the UVB ramping up to 12 on with it.
Watered today with some nutes and picture is just taken after.

Also repositioned some of the branches and heads to be able to pull in opposite ways for training. When can i prune below the plant for better airflow, and i do plan on taking clones when it shows sex, and if its a female, so the prunings cloning them would be nice.

Day 14 flower, still no sign of sex. I'm not sure if its just taking awhile for the plant to sex naturally or if its because at the beginning my times and dark times were inconsistant, swapped over a weekend from on in the day friday to on at night satuday, to back to being day sunday, then day monday. And have been regular since then.

So is there any way to tell why type of hybrid i have, i'd somewhat like to know, seems indica dominant, which i honestly don't prefer too much, but something is better than nothing, and this is a first try so

Any suggestions?

Also notice my lemon basil on the right

those are some nice plants for a rubbermaid, i hope i can get nice ones like that

I just hope its a girl. Then it'll be a nice plant.

Just a little update.

Day 18 flower, still no sign of sex that i can see.

Came in today from a trip, had to go no way out of it, walked in shocked it looked horrible......I though the neglect possibly killed it. LAst watered on thursday, back sunday night.

Looked like this...Such a sad beaut. Just after watering.




Being bone dry as i figured and promply watered it up to 1/4 gal plain water. I pulled and cut some of the lower larger leaves at first trunk node which were rather brown and getting sorta crispy from lack of sun, then lack of water. I figured i would trim the lowest largest leaves at the bottom that were a very thin small, and looked pretty brown bad as in horribly dry. Smaller lower first and 2nd node leaves from the head branches coming out at trunk, this both opened it up for cooling, and more strengthening of the limbs. i do hope it wont take away from some of the newer growths on the heads at the lower part. Also Gave it about 1/4 gal plain water. Perked up rather nice. About 2hrs after slight prune and the added water.

This is 2 hrs later after the slight trim down low. Hopefully this wont haunt me.


This is the leaves i trimmed as you can see below, theres a few green that could have stayed, some were looking 1/2 bad, others ok, some yellowing and out!....hope that it'll convert more power away from those new leaves below the canopy.....TO the canopy and flowers. ANd mabey show a little female part or two. Alas still nothing.



Thanks again for looking, and keeping up with this.

how often are you watering?
they look over fed.
the droppy leaves

Did you not even fking read............the whole explination of the droopy leaves were from lack of water being gone for 4 days. I also mentioned the fact that i took the pictures just after watering after the 4 day dry spell. Plants look the same overwatered as underwatered......Read, damn.

Overwatering??? WTF man.

oh. dont get mad.
i had overwatered my plants
and they looked like that.

Oh i'm not, just suprised you said that, after about 2 paragraphs of trying to spill it out to explain the hoooooribly drooped leaves, scared the crap out of me when i saw it. Was expecting it not to look like that, ie first underwatering so far.

Sorry if i came across getting mad, just shocked. Thats all.

hows the smell

Almost non existant, open up the box, and its very faint. Right after watering is always the worst time, thus far. When it starts budding, theres no telling how strong it will be.

I think i may have some female parts starting to show, small cone or tear drop looking shape, but its still undeveloped.....Mabey sometime this week it'll show. I'd like to at least get 1 clone!

plants are looking much better bro~
and my fault about the confusion earlier

Little update today.

Female parts are getting more defined, hopefully it wont turn hermie. Any idea how much more vertical growth is going to be coming in before it peaks out. I retied down some of the heads, giving another few inches of vertical room.

Can see some of the cone shaped parts coming in, rather small about the size of a pin head. Hopefully i'll get pretty good bud sites at each one of my nodal growths.



Rather large canopy for the size.

Did a bit of tucking and adjusting to get some of the inner nodal growths to more light, hopefully will expose alot more to get more light in for bud development, and i do think its a female! Its showing the preflower parts, no hairs yet.



When and how should i start pruning to open up the canopy for all of the inner nodal growth to flower as well, you can see the thick area below the screen, there are 6-8 node sites that arn't gettin gmuch if any light as there right in the thick of the leaves and below.

Not sure about your questions but DAM the plants look healthy as fuck!!! good job man

The more i look at the plant and its features the more and more i'm thinking its closer to a sativa than indica, based on the growing patern and the fact that its heads are starting to get long as you can see in the pictures coming up in a few.

I think what i've done to be the epitome of using a screen to its advantage long after the point i should have started using one....its playing out perfectly, i just wonder how much more growth is it going to have before it begins fully flowering?

I went around and did more tucking of leaves trying to expose inner nodal growth more, and its starting to speed up tremendously in the inner growth.......i'm no closer to sex than i was yesterday, i still have visible cones (not balls as fas as i can see) but no hairs visible at all. I'm just going to continue what i've been doing, tying down and tucking leaves as they get larger, i'll probobly add a 2nd tier or a vertical column if i run out of horizontal fill space.

I need to get a more concrete stable carbon filter that works, noticed today my carbon settled inside the filter cloth, so it was only blowing across it not through it......gonna have to figure out how to fix this problem in the morning.......Smell is fine as of now, i just don't want to possibly have an issue, would rather fix it before theres a chance for a problem.

Questions?

Should i get flowers (bud) from all of the nodes now exposed to light, or what?
How much longer till i know for sure its a girl?? and before full flowering begins??
I'm getting more confident its a sativa more than indica.....would this be a good assumption?

Looks like i'm right around 3weeks Veg and currently on 21 days Flower...... lol

Notice the Blue tape on the 6th head up top in the pic....little breakage, 1/2way so i slapped rooting hormone in the break and taped it back, easy does it for a few days till its healed, how long do breaks take to heal normally??



And if anyone remembered that i had another 2 i had going 3weeks after the first started, its currently from seed on ~ 4-17-08, its a bit stunted as the larger is soaking up ALL the light, it just peeps by, which is a plus as well.



Hope you've enjoyed.