Northern Lights Cabinet Grow..First Time

I doubt it will hurt her too much arch, today my timer fucked up, again... my third timer,
while i was out and my girls got an extra 5 hours of sleep but when i opened my doors they were and are now the prettyest ive seen them yet, im thinking they liked their extra shot of beauty rest??

yea maybe, acting like teenagers during the summer with no school, sleeping in til noon everyday haha.

CHIEF PUFF PUFF said:

hey Arch, I was thinking the same thing Kush said. You need to repot your girl before her buds start to appear. All you have to do is put soil in the bottom of the new bigger pot and sit the smaller pot inside of it and continue filling the new pot with soil. Then water your plant before you transplant it. Take the plant turn it upside down and carefully take the plant out and put it into the new pot. No fuss, no stress

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hmk024 said:

Watering your plant prior to xplanting helps with keeping the soil together. It will elminate the chunks that fall off when its out of the pot, that can pull or tear fragile roots. Water it and let it solidify the soil more, then xplant and u will be set! Your ladies wil definetly want more root space. Im seeing its all balled up at the bottom of the ones in party cups that still have 2 more weeks to go. Hopin they dontget stressed out too much.

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Good advice bros. Will come in very handy. I was under the wrong impression that it was better to transpalnt dry, don't know why I thought that though. +Rep! And to you Arch next time I can for braving the xplant.

hmk024 said:

shouldn't hurt it, she will handle it well. One of my powerstrips kicked off and my plants didnt get 2 hours of the 12/12 period, they seemed fine. I think if u do it a few more times with 24 hour dark period it might send it into shock and she will do crazy things. Also might add after you water it, sometimes newly packed soil will pack down further, might want to readd some to the sunken holes that might appear, hoping u know that but who knows! gotta throw my tidbits where i can!
When i xlanted my girls to the square pots, the roots were all over the sides of the party cups, definetly thinking rootbound for the farther progressed plants. But this harvest is the last of the mohiccan cups, onto bigger grounds from now on!

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Thanks for looking out.. I did pack the soil in and water afterwards to see if I had left any void zones. Was all good. Those air pockets can be bad.

hmk024 said:

oh haha, forgot to add, maybe rig up some new pots with the LST guides on them for xplanting in the future!

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Its all good man. Ill post some new pics soon. I just want to get her through this next few days. I am switching her schedule tonight so I can monitor her during the day.

grilledcheese101 said:

I doubt it will hurt her too much arch, today my timer fucked up, again... my third timer,
while i was out and my girls got an extra 5 hours of sleep but when i opened my doors they were and are now the prettyest ive seen them yet, im thinking they liked their extra shot of beauty rest??

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Nice..yeah I looked in on her this morning before the lights went out. She is no worse for the wear and maybe even a little perkier.

hmk024 said:

yea maybe, acting like teenagers during the summer with no school, sleeping in til noon everyday haha.

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I want to do that..lol

homer371 said:

Good advice bros. Will come in very handy. I was under the wrong impression that it was better to transpalnt dry, don't know why I thought that though. +Rep! And to you Arch next time I can for braving the xplant.

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Thats the main reason that I joined this forum. Lots of cool people and helpful. Good information sharing = good weed to me..lol. Glad its helping us all.

Arch

Did RIU change its formatting? I load up the home page and it looks totally different and I cannot directly access my profile etc?

its my theory they are changing the logo from christmas to new years

jp

Right on man. It makes it a pain to get to My Rollitup..lol. I am going through private messages to get there.

same here, damn riu! fix this problem!

my rollitup is still up there at the top, its white and just hard to see, LoL.

Everything is normal on my roll it up& profile?- mine hasnt been telling me when a post hits a sub'd thread-which sux.

mines white but not clickable. hopefully will be back to normal soon.

Till then lets smoke a bowl!

JP

justparanoid said:

mines white but not clickable. hopefully will be back to normal soon.

Till then lets smoke a bowl!

JP

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im on line thru my phone& ive got all the riu pages bookmarked-thats probly why i can still get to all my stuff.

I had a hell of a time signing on to RIU, I just thought it was me. I did not know what was wrong with the site when I finally got on. I could not click to get to my thread.

CHIEF PUFF PUFF said:

I had a hell of a time signing on to RIU, I just thought it was me. I did not know what was wrong with the site when I finally got on. I could not click to get to my thread.

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I had a bunch of trouble going to my private messages and this cfl forum for a bit.

hows it goin arch?! im tryin' lst on my little party cup.just tied it over lastnite.gota becarefull huh,it tried to up root,so i tied it down oppisite direction. Excited to see what its done when i get off work. Work is for people who cant grow for a living!!lol

homer371 said:

Good advice bros. Will come in very handy. I was under the wrong impression that it was better to transpalnt dry, don't know why I thought that though. +Rep! And to you Arch next time I can for braving the xplant.

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I also thought that it was better to repot/transplant when the plants were dry. hmm...guess we were wrong. Def +Rep guys! Thanks!

I've been watching. Lookin great arch!

Ok folks..finally got her back on dayight lighting schedule. I cant help it but I love to peek in on her once or twice during the day when I am not busy. Took some pics this morning after her second 24 hour dark period after she had been transplanted into a new pot. Its almost twice the capacity of the previous pot. She does not look any worse for wear. I took a soil ph and it was a bit alkaline so I went ahead and gave her a really good flush with a few gallons of R.O. water. I ph all of the water I feed her ahead of time and let it sit for a few days to allow for chlorine to evaporate. She is sitting happily back in her cabinet.

Thanks for all of the support to those that have posted recently. Its very cool to have a support system. Muches Gracious Amigos!



p.s. can I tell you how much I love the plant tie wires for LST..lol.

Looking good Arch! Nicely done with all those growth tips...Cant wait to see her hit puberty and become a hairy bitch...lol How long are you gonna veg for? I might start vegging 2 months cause I'm thinking about trying to pull monthly harvests. Running 4 plants in veg, and 4 in flower...sets of 2 staggered by one month each. So any given time, i'll have two plants 4 weeks old, two 8 weeks old...the vegging plants, and two 12 weeks old, and two 16 weeks old, the flowering plants. Though i might push everything back one week, depending on how long they take to finish in flower. I gotta take a lesson on LST from you though, especially if I plan on vegging out 8-10 weeks...lol

Sup Meta! Thanks bro.. I cant wait till she gets nasty either..lol. I am hoping that by next week she will start flowering. I vegged her for 37 days, then went 24 hours darkness before going to a 12/12 light cycle. I may have vegged longer but I had concerns about growth height. Once I am finished with this grow, I will have a little better understanding on how things are. Then again different strains will grow differently so who knows. I would like to veg for 45 days. I think I can my next grow with the right pot. I am looking for something with a lot of volume but not a lot of height. I have a few leads. The longer the veg the higher the yield. If grown properly. Its only me and the wife that I grow for so I will just do back to back grows. I was wondering how a fem'ed seed non auto flowering would do from seedling on 12/12 lights. If that was a possibility then I will most likely start it the middle of next month.

Arch

I was all about the Femmed seeds, then I read that they have unstable genetics, and are more likely to hermaphrodite later on in growth. I personally have no experience growing with them, but that makes me think I might just take clones. Also, i saw a video of a plant someone had grafted 6 or 7 strains to one plant! Talk about a mother!!! I don't know if my thumbs are that green...but food for thought...Keep up the good work!