Northern Lights first grow ever! (For me at least) Feel free to post comments!

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So, this is my first grow ever, and I'm grow-dumb. I'll post some pics, and hopefully I'm doing things right. Feel free to post suggestions/comments here, I can use all the help I can get!

This is after approx 4 weeks of 24hr continuous light from cool white CFLs.






What is wrong with this plant? Two of the others are looking the same way - I'm thinking nute burn, but I don't know :(




Male or female? Or can't tell yet?
 
Dr High

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starting to look female but it still needs time to develop. and that does indeed look like nute burn. flush them with plenty of water. Keep on growing.
 
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Dr High said:
starting to look female but it still needs time to develop. and that does indeed look like nute burn. flush them with plenty of water. Keep on growing.
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Thanks Doc!

How are they looking? They're about a month in, I was going to wait for them to get 1.5/2 ft tall, and then switch to 12/12.. Good idea or no?
 
ijustgrowGREEN

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good lookin plants sue, great pics too :). what strain of NL are they? what seed bank are they from? i have a monster NL goin right now (my avatar). good choice on the 24 hour light during veg. everyone seems to be going toward 18/6 these days, but i'm with you on the 24 hours ! keep your cfls as close as you can without burning. like 1-2" away. and if you were thinkin of misting plants, plse dont. lol lookin good though, keep it up! oh yea, and welcome to RIU.
 
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ijustgrowGREEN said:
good lookin plants sue, great pics too :). what strain of NL are they? what seed bank are they from? i have a monster NL goin right now (my avatar). good choice on the 24 hour light during veg. everyone seems to be going toward 18/6 these days, but i'm with you on the 24 hours ! keep your cfls as close as you can without burning. like 1-2" away. and if you were thinkin of misting plants, plse dont. lol lookin good though, keep it up! oh yea, and welcome to RIU.
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Holey! That's huge! Hopefully mine will get that big!!! 4 out of the 5 turned out well, the 5th is stunted, it's still growing, just very small...

I got my seeds from PeakSeeds. Do you have a journal as well? Haha, i'm jealous!
 
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So a bunch more pictures - I'm going to keep this journal up to date, hopefully... And we'll all see how I do on my first time!

As of today - which I'll call WEEK 4 - These are the numbers:

Plant 1: 6"
Plant 2: 4.75"
Plant 3: 3.5"
Plant 4: 3"
Plant 5: 1.5"

I don't know about #5, should I keep on letting it grow - or just get rid of it and start over?











Do any of the above look female/male yet?







This is poor plant #5... Should I keep going with it, or just start over?
 
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GoldenGanja13 said:
I am flowering some Northern Lights, you can look through my album at her grow, and flowering period.
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Am looking at it now - hopefully I can get my plants that big!!

I've attached some pics - any of those look female (the first 5?), and what should I do with the last plant (the last 3 pictures), is it salvageable?
 

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na, dont have a journal up, but i should've made one :( . the plant in the last 3 pics can definitely be saved..... what happened to make it grow that way anyways? to fix, you can simply stint it. shove a fairly stiff object into the soil about 1/2" from where the stem emerges from the soil and tie the stem off to that..... good luck and i'm interested to see how they turn out
 
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Like above says, yeah it can be saved.
But I would cull it. You have better one's to take care of, matter of fact very nice looking they are.
The last one looks like a cutting from a lady in flower, toss it.
 
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smilone said:
how do i talk to people n how do i find freinds up on hear
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Click name and that will take you to there page, then you can befriend from there, albums, personal board, statistics, there post etc.

Chat with them just click there name and there you go.

Scales to right of post, Like mine click those and thats saying thanks.
 
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For some reason it didn't come out in the previous post, but i"ve numbered all the plants, and will refer to them by number now :)

as for heights, this is what we have now:

1: 6"
2: 4.75"
3: 3.5"
4: 3"
5: 1.5"

I'm trying to save #5 by staking it up, we will see how it does in a week.
 
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A little update from today, so far these are the heights I've gotten.

1: 6.5"
2: 5.5"
3: 4"
4: 4"
5: 1.75"

I'm worried about the the stems - a couple of the plants are looking like that? is that normal?
 

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those are your seed leaves, or cotyledons. it's completely normal for them to brown, shrivel up, and die. no worries there. looks like your getting tight nodes with not very much internodal space... very good job. they'll be nice and lush and full of budsites when you do flower..... keep it up :)
 
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Oh, and two more questions - when is a good time to top/fim - and what should I do, top or fim?

Thanks!
 
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