View Full Version : First grow, some pics, etc.
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 03:27 PM
After lurking for a while and reading, reading, reading I've decided to post some pics of my first grow and current set-up. Right now I've got three plants in the closet and two others on a window sill just staying alive until I figure out what I've got in the closet. The seeds came from a friend of mine that does small scale commercial grows, not sure exactly what they are, clearly a couple of different phenos. The two plants that seem more Indica dom started at the same time but one germed in one of those peat moss pucks, the other in soil, the one that started in soil has grown faster from the start, presumably b/c it had less resistance developing roots. The more Sativa dom started a couple of weeks later directly in soil. The soil I'm using is the Miracle Gro organic stuff. I've been using some cheap Home Depot fert. I haven't been checking Ph b/c I'm mostly just experimenting this time around and don't have the testing strips. The hard water from my tap seemed to be causing problems early on so I've since switched to distilled water. I've been experimenting with foliar feeding a bit. I feel like they've been growing a bit on the slow side. About 2 1/2 months in veg for the older two plants, started on 24h then switched to 18/6 about a month into veg. Fimmed (tried anyway) the two older plants about a month ago. Tomorrow they will have been on 12/12 for two weeks... still not sure on sex. I didn't really take any pictures until a couple of weeks ago.
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 03:45 PM
alright, I can't seem to add pics or edit my original post... oh well
BeFree
04-19-2009, 03:50 PM
Try uploading to photobucket and shooting us the links, my friend.:jointsmile:
besafe
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 04:03 PM
Good plan Free...
closet1.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=closet1.jpg)
This is the closet set up at the moment. Twin bulb t12 fluro fixture augmented by 23w CFL floods on the two bushier plants to get light under the canopy. Fan from an old humidifier blowing up from below. Will probably pick up one of those 150w Sun System HPS units before too long.
headshake
04-19-2009, 04:21 PM
alright, I can't seem to add pics or edit my original post... oh well
hit the reply button, then click go advanced. use the drop down arrow next to the paper clip. you can add five pics this way. it's a lot easier and more convenient (especially for your readers!).
as far as editing, i think you only have 10 minutes after you post to edit.
-shake
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 04:28 PM
This is the plant that seems to have a bit more Sativa character than the others. A bit of nute burn on a couple of the bottom leaves, but looking really pretty since then. Hasn't been topped or fimmed.
Sat1.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=Sat1.jpg)
Sat2.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=Sat2.jpg)
This is the more Indica pheno that started in the peat moss. It's looking a bit wilty here, but has perked up with a good watering. A couple of burnt tips from touching the CFL floods, but notice the nine fingered leaves.
IndA1.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=IndA1.jpg)
IndA2.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=IndA2.jpg)
This is the taller of the two more Indica phenos. The middle finger of most of the bigger fan leaves is deformed and curled under... not sure why. It seems healthy other than that.
IndB1.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=IndB1.jpg)
IndB2.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=IndB2.jpg)
IndB3.jpg picture by warfrat73 - Photobucket (http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss193/warfrat73/?action=view¤t=IndB3.jpg)
The tallest is a bit over 12" the shortest a bit over 8". I probably would have vegged them more but I didn't want to waste much more time if they all turned out to be boys.
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 04:37 PM
Having trouble figuring the picture thing out...under posting rules it says I can't post attachments.
headshake
04-19-2009, 04:42 PM
yeah, i know. i'm pretty sure everyone posts pics before they have 50 posts.
-shake
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 04:47 PM
grrrr... insert image function doesn't seem to be working for me... oh well
headshake
04-19-2009, 04:51 PM
use the attachment function in the "go advanced" reply section.
-shake
quarteroy
04-19-2009, 05:32 PM
Go in and make photo albums in your profile then right click on image "copy image location" then use the symbol in the posting tools that looks like a sunset and paste the location in there done. good luck.:jointsmile: you can do big or small but not really a link from big to small depending on where you take the link from.
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 05:42 PM
Alright, here's the closet:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1742-closet1.jpg
Here's the slightly more Sat pretty lady (fingers crossed):
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1748-sat1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1749-sat2.jpg
warfrat73
04-19-2009, 05:49 PM
Here's the droopy (looking better now after watering), more Indica pheno with nine fingered leaves:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1743-inda1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1744-inda2.jpg
Here's the taller one with funky curled under leaves:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1745-indb1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1746-indb2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-picture1747-indb3.jpg
KillerBudG
04-19-2009, 08:37 PM
Decent lookin plants man good luck and keep up tha good work.
~One~:rastasmoke:
~BudG~:rastasmoke::rastasmoke:
headshake
04-20-2009, 03:52 AM
the plants look pretty good. the second one is a little weird though. no worries.
i like all the gear that you have. (walmart is my friend too!). i have the exact same pots and was planning on getting some of those flouro fixtures too!
keep it up man!
-shake
warfrat73
04-22-2009, 03:42 PM
The smallest pretty of the plants has very clearly developed pistils overnight. I know that normally the size can be an indicator, but in this case the she was started two weeks later than the others. I'm feeling reasonably sure that short of the other two is a boy, but I'm still not sure about the taller one. I'll post pics later.
While I'm still not sure where what I have with these the one confirmed female, seems like she might be worth cloning because she's just so pretty. I know it's generally considered easier to clone plants from veg but is it worth a try from flower?
warfrat73
04-23-2009, 01:58 AM
Wow, that was really embarrassing to read, I was in a hurry to get to work, but ouch... holy typos.
warfrat73
05-01-2009, 07:38 AM
A few weeks now into flower and the two smaller prettier ones are girls... funny how that seems to work out. The bushier more Indica type that I fimmed seems to be putting up four top colas, with a couple of side ones coming up strong to meet them. Pictures forthcoming.
Jerry Garcia 2007
05-01-2009, 11:47 AM
Looks great so far.:thumbsup:
I think that leaf problem is from heat stress. I have had that happen when leaves have touched the florescent bulb, (they do get warm near the ends) no worry though, They looked to recover well from it.
Yes you can clone after going to flower it just takes a little longer, also do not be alarmed if you get some really funky looking leaves after the clones root and start growing. After a couple of weeks they begin to look normal again, It is from the stress of going from flowering cycle back to veg.
JG
jakezking
05-01-2009, 12:07 PM
Really pretty plants all. I'd agree with JG on the burned leaves - I have no experience growing inside, but awhile back I sprayed my plants with too highly concentrated Neem Oil, and my leaves look much like your burned leaves; therefore, I'd say the burn is either from the lights touching the leaves or your foliar feeding of too highly concentrated nutes for the leaves to absorb (I've read some of foliar feeding being tricky).
I saw your other post with questions on the pretty impressive list of strains - I didn't read it as I only have a few minutes online, but hopefully you have some packets of each and will treat us all to a log featuring them - looking forward to it, as well as a continuation of this great log. Continued good luck, warf!
warfrat73
05-01-2009, 04:10 PM
Thanks for the kind words all. It's about 10-12 days on from those first pics. The plant with the funky leaves has been dispatched because it was a boy. As you can see from the new pics I did pic up a 150w HPS last weekend, the girls have been under that since Sunday. I've given one weak dose of Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Bloom and they're due for another today or tomorrow.
Here's one lady. looking really good and bushy. My fimming experiment seems to have worked well here. You can see a little one in the background. That's actually the same age as this lady, but suffered some root damage when I transplanted it carelessly. It had been chilling in the window.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-update-picture1841-floweringb1.jpg
warfrat73
05-01-2009, 04:18 PM
This is the plant that seemed to have a bit more Sat genetics, she may have gone into flower a bit on the young side, but looking good none the less... In the background you can see a wee little one, that was one of the ones that was sitting in the window, it magically popped from a seed I had given up on, thought I'd just pop it under the HPS even though it's on 12/12. Probably set the Fluoros back up somewhere and let it veg out there for a while in a couple of days.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-update-picture1837-floweringa1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-update-picture1838-floweringa2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-closet-grow-1-update-picture1839-floweringa3.jpg
albatrossSKY
05-01-2009, 04:24 PM
healthy looking plants, they seem to be enjoying the hps huh?
keep up the good work!
warfrat73
05-04-2009, 04:54 PM
Just a couple more pics... then off to The Dead in Chicago.
Here's another pic from the top of the plant that I fimmed, looks like eight colas, as this bushy lady reaches up towards the light:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-2-picture1891-dscf0157.jpg
here's a pic from the side, kind of washed out, but you can see all the stems reaching up, and get a sens of the secondary budsites starting to really take off:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-2-picture1892-ind1.jpg
Here's the top cola of the lady that I didn't top (looking a lot more purple in the pic than in real life):
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-2-picture1890-sat3.jpg
and here's a pic of one of the secondary budsites:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-2-picture1888-sat1.jpg
It's really amazing how much they seem to be just taking off (noob says what?).
jakezking
05-05-2009, 08:13 PM
Ahh - all the lil' buds... I can smell them now. Really nice work on those plants, warf!
warfrat73
05-13-2009, 05:21 PM
Here's another update 8 days on from the last. Again, these are unknown hybrids from a friend of mine. I forget exactly when I started flowering. Run 150w HPS, Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Bloom nutes.
This is the girl that I topped. Looking pretty good to me. Some of the lower leaves seem to be giving up the ghost, but from what I've read that's normal.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-3-picture1927-topped1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-3-picture1928-topped2.jpg
warfrat73
05-13-2009, 05:24 PM
Here's the girl that I didn't top. She's getting me a bit giddy. Looking really nice to me.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-3-picture1930-un2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-3-picture1929-un1.jpg
warfrat73
05-13-2009, 05:36 PM
One more of that Cola...
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-3-picture1931-un3.jpg
camoxnhx
05-13-2009, 05:56 PM
*JAWS ON THE FLOOR* damn man i just got as giddy as you. man oh man your end product is going to be the shit! BTW NICE GREEN THUMB:)
warfrat73
05-18-2009, 11:47 PM
I'll start with the straggler...
This was one of my original three plants. I re-potted it after about 3 weeks in veg, tore up the root ball pretty good and thought it was done for. I stuck it in the window and just let it chill. It's in the background in my May 1 update and just went back under the lights within a day or two of then. At the time it was about 8-10" it's now pushing 20" and is pretty much the same height as the other untopped plant. When I started the grow this one really took off out of the gate, seems to be a really quick grower. Between the early root damage and spending a bunch of time in the window and the fast early growth I figured it might hermie from the stress, but so far it seems all female.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1962-runt1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1963-runt2.jpg
warfrat73
05-18-2009, 11:54 PM
This is the plant that I fimmed. I don't recall exactly when it went into flower, first or second week of April I guess. It's looking like it's got a bit of a nitrogen deficiency or else a pH problem. Doesn't seem serious at the moment, I flushed it yesterday and will keep an eye on it and up the N content on the next feeding. The hairs are starting to turn brown a bit. A bit of a close up of two of the colas.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1964-top1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1965-top2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1966-top3.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1967-top4.jpg
warfrat73
05-19-2009, 12:01 AM
Here's the one that keeps on impressing me. The seed that this one came from took forever to sprout and it started vegging about 2 weeks after the others. It's about 20" right now. I just noticed what looks like minor nute burn in these pictures. I flushed it yesterday so it should be ok. This one seems to be just a generally agreeable plant. Of course I don't know how it smokes yet, but I'm definitely planning to re-veg and cut some clones... wish I knew what it was. I'm figuring that I'm about 2 weeks from harvest; we'll see.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1968-un1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1969-un2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1970-un3.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-4-picture1971-un4.jpg
Italiano715
05-19-2009, 12:25 AM
Damnnnn, looooookin good!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Keep it up the good work and you will soon have some lovely bud for your consumption!!
headshake
05-19-2009, 01:24 AM
It's looking like it's got a bit of a nitrogen deficiency or else a pH problem.
are you referring to the yellowing of the leaves a bit?
looking good. i re-vegged a lady after harvest because she was a bad bitch, too! she looks like a little bonsai at the moment. can't wait to take some clones.
keep up the good work!
-shake
stonedrone
05-19-2009, 01:56 AM
Them girls are lookin' pretty, that's some nice work.
warfrat73
05-19-2009, 02:02 AM
Yeah, the yellowing of some of the upper leaves. I'm not worried about the lower leaves. But you can see on the overhead shot that a few of the leaves are yellowing a bit and looking a bit curled. I know that Nitrogen deficiency is pretty common late in flowering and that the buds pull nutes from the leaves. I guess it seems to my unexperienced sensibility that I'm a little bit farther out from harvest for it to be normal.
warfrat73
05-19-2009, 02:05 AM
oh yeah, mental note: pick up a decent magnifier and check out them trichromes
warfrat73
05-20-2009, 04:06 PM
Upon further review I think that the fimmed one is root bound. Canoeing of the leaves, mild yellowing. Probably doesn't make sense to re-pot it this late in the game huh? Next time I'm using bigger pots.
headshake
05-20-2009, 07:21 PM
could be a pH problem that is affecting nitrogen?
just a thought.
-shake
warfrat73
05-20-2009, 07:33 PM
gots to be me a pH test kit. Just got the standard issue Radio Shake mini microscope on the way to work, those trichs don't stand a chance against me now.
headshake
05-20-2009, 07:38 PM
sweet! good investment warfrat! you can pick up a pH kit for an aquarium (freshwater) at petco or the like for ~$6. and then you can get some pH up/down for ~$3 each.
it made a huge difference to me. my water out of the tap was over 8! yikes.
depneding on your water's pH, you might have a nute lockout. you want to aim for somewhere between 6.3 - 6.8.
now get some work done!
-shake
warfrat73
05-26-2009, 06:59 PM
Another week or so on...
here's the topped one. A bunch of the lower leaves turned yellow and fell off. I bought a pH test kit, but it's not very accurate. But from what I can tell it's right in range in the high 6s. I flushed it twice a few days apart and gave it a light feeding with Veg nutes to hopefully address what appeared to be late flower N deficiency. It seems to be doing a bit better and the leaves have darkened/perked up a bit.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2083-top1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2084-top2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2085-top3.jpg
warfrat73
05-26-2009, 07:04 PM
This is the one that I almost killed re-potting it early in its life. It started flowering about three weeks later than the others without proper vegging. It shot right up and caught the other un-topped plant, and is now hands down the frostiest of the three. I've read that stress can increase resin production, I wonder if that's what's going on here.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2086-runt1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2087-runt2.jpg
warfrat73
05-26-2009, 07:12 PM
Here's the other un-topped plant. Still looking good. It's been on the same schedule as the ragged looking topped one but seems to be responding much better and is much healthier.
The whole thing:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2088-un1.jpg
Some of the lower bud sites:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2091-un4.jpg
The Cola:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2089-un2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-5-picture2090-un3.jpg
Right now the Trichs are about 25/75 Clear/Cloudy. I just gave it a light feeding hoping to fatten the buds up a bit in the last couple of weeks here. Any sense on when I should switch back to just water for the harvest, best guess I'm still around two weeks out. Any input?
headshake
05-26-2009, 09:03 PM
looking good warfrat! how much longer do they have to go?
-shake
warfrat73
05-26-2009, 09:36 PM
Hard to say Shake. As this is my first go round and they're unknown seeds I have no real idea. I'm planning on harvesting early in the window, maybe 75/25 cloudy/amber to increase the head high/up quality of the smoke. But I don't know how long it'll take them to go from the 25/75 clear/cloudy to the 75/25 cloudy/amber that I'm looking for. Just going to play it by ear (by which I mean microscope) for now.
headshake
05-26-2009, 09:40 PM
yeah. my bad warfrat. i didn't see the bottom of the post where you had put that info. and i was just asking about a general time frame, but you answered that with the unkown first grow part.
checkin the trichromes is the only way to go though.
how long have they been flowering for?
-shake
warfrat73
05-26-2009, 09:48 PM
My record keeping isn't great. But, it was probably the second week in April, since I started the log on the 19th and said it had been in flower for 2 weeks (but when I thought about it later figured it had probably only been 9-10 days). So that puts us at about right about 7 weeks (amazing how much longer it feels). So I'm thinking my two week guess has got to be pretty close. In which case today's feeding should maybe be the last.
headshake
05-27-2009, 12:35 AM
sounds about right. just keep an eye on those trichs!
-shake
warfrat73
06-01-2009, 03:55 PM
June 1st update.
First, the grils in their closet. I'm still planning on moving things to the basement, but the project ended up being a bit bigger than I thought. There's a little girl there on the bottom left, been basically under 12/12 since germination because... well, I don't know (but not getting enough light way down there). The two tallest plants are about 22". I finally found something to do with some old video tapes (prop up the topped plant of course...)
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2130-girls.jpg
Here's the topped plant again. Looking all sorts of ragged. I'm going to fill out a trouble shooting form in another thread just to rule out the possibility that there's something wrong other than standard late flower N deficiency. As of yesterday the trichs were nearly all cloudy.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2134-top1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2135-top2.jpg
One of the top colas, about 3-3 1/2":
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2136-top3.jpg
warfrat73
06-01-2009, 04:08 PM
Here's the one that was the runt. It's looking really good. It's about three weeks behind the others in flowering. Compared to the other two plants it's much frostier and the calyxs are much chunkier. Trichs on this are still mostly clear.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2131-runt1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2132-runt2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2133-runt3.jpg
warfrat73
06-01-2009, 04:12 PM
And here's the one that has been the beauty queen. I think I'm going to need to stake her up. As you can see she's starting to pull N from the lower leaves. She's about 22", as you can see from the photo about 7" of that is top cola. The trichs are almost all cloudy with a few clear stragglers as of yesterday.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2137-un1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2138-un2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2140-un4.jpg
One of the lower bud sites:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-update-6-picture2139-un3.jpg
the image reaper
06-01-2009, 04:23 PM
real nice, good work !:thumbsup:
headshake
06-01-2009, 07:30 PM
looking good warfrat! keep up the good work!
-shake
Jerry Garcia 2007
06-02-2009, 01:08 AM
Looking very nice:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Can't wait to see those babies ripen, you mine as well stake them now while you can still see the stem. Those buds look like they are going to get huge and put on some serious weight.
JG
warfrat73
06-08-2009, 05:39 PM
Well, here's the topped one. It's not seeming like it's progressing much. I flushed it again today and then gave it a light feeding. Very few trichs, crispy leaves. I gave it a Cal/Mag boost last week. It's looking crispy even though it's had water, I'm pretty sure I'm not overwatering, but then again it doesn't seem to be taking much up lately. Under the microscope the trichs are small and about 100% cloudy.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-8-picture2197-top1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-8-picture2198-top2.jpg
warfrat73
06-08-2009, 05:42 PM
Here's the one that was the runt. Still looking nice and frosty. It definitely stretched more than I would have liked from going into flower so small. But nice dense buds and big calyxs. A definite candidate for re-vegging/cloning.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-8-picture2195-runt1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-8-picture2196-runt2.jpg
warfrat73
06-08-2009, 05:47 PM
Here's the untopped lady. Looking a bit crispy. You can clearly see the spotting that made me think that there was some Cal deficiency going on. Watered today with some molasses, treated with Cal/Mag last week. Continuing to fatten up. Only a few hairs have turned so far. No amber trichs showing yet, she's taking a bit longer than I thought she might.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-8-picture2199-un1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-8-picture2200-un2.jpg
Italiano715
06-08-2009, 08:47 PM
Looking damn good! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
warfrat73
06-19-2009, 09:18 PM
Well, I would have expected to have harvested by now, but they seem stubborn.
Here's the topped one again, looking all sorts of ragged and crispy. Haven't seem much change in her except for crispiness. Maybe a bit more trich development and a wee bit of fattening up, but that just might be wishful thinking. Still not much on the trichs. There are some visible under magnification, just the odd amber popping up at this point, despite a lot of red hairs. If trich development is the best indicator of potency then this lady might just be destined for a butter bath. That crispiness is bothering me, she's been getting water, only light ferts. I'm thinking that's from what I'm pretty sure was a Cal deficiency.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2256-topped1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2261-topped2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2257-topped3.jpg
warfrat73
06-19-2009, 09:22 PM
Here's the original of the untopped plants. Like her topped sister she's looking pretty crispy. In the third pic you can clearly see the spotting that led me to the Cal deficiency diagnosis. Quite a bit frostier than the topped one. Still mostly cloudy trichs with the odd amber.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2258-un1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2259-un2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2260-un3.jpg
warfrat73
06-19-2009, 09:32 PM
Here's the one that was the runt. A couple weeks behind in flowering, kind of spindly b/c of lack of proper vegging. I'm kind of amazed though that this and the other untopped plant are almost exactly the same height (within a couple of centimeters). This one has yet to show signs of the Cal deficiency that the others showed. This one is in different soil than the other two though. They are in a mix of MG Organic Potting Mix and perlite, this one is in just "topsoil" and perlite (I'm pretty sure that's what the bag said, it's basically just washed dirt, much heavier and more dense than the MG mix). She is by far the frostiest, and has much bigger calyxs than the others, I'm really hoping that she takes well to re-vegging. It'll be interesting to see the difference in potency b/t this and the topped plant, if trich development is a good indicator of potency, then this one should be a beast. Trichs are pretty much all cloudy, an odd clear and an odd amber.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2253-runt1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2254-runt2.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-19th-update-picture2255-runt3.jpg
warfrat73
06-29-2009, 08:31 PM
Well, there must have been a bit more Sativa in these ladies than I thought. They seemed to take forever to finish. I harvested today and they were only around 15-25%, but I did want harvest early in the window to emphasize the social high. I chopped the topped plant all the way, I might need to do more trimming on it as it had a lot of leaf compared to the bud. The other two turned out better (I've gotta think of names for these things). I left some growth one those plants to reveg them.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-29-update-picture2325-harvest.jpg
Here's the topped one, cut and trimmed:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-29-update-picture2332-top1.jpg
Here's the top cola of the one that was the runt. It didn't produce a ton, but it seems to be the best quality, hopefully the reveg will take and I can rock some clones.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-29-update-picture2335-un3.jpg
Here's the top cola of the other untopped plant, it's pretty dense. Pretty good production I'd say all told:
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-29-update-picture2334-un2.jpg
Here are the two untopped plants after I cut them. I wanted to leave enough so it would reveg, hopefully leaving the flowers on won't mess it up. I thought about trying to pull those last little buds off, but it didn't seem worth it.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-29-update-picture2328-runt1.jpg
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/warfrat73-albums-june-29-update-picture2333-un1.jpg
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