Is it Indica?

Hello and good morning all,

I posted in my grow log these questions, but haven't got an answer. I bet I get an answer from my buds here in NM.

I have 11 plants growning. One of them is a month old. All the others I planted after I got my new equipment. Two of the seedlings seem to be growing better than the rest. One of these two, I have a suspision that it is indica. I know during the time these bag seeds were collected I had some dank. Maybe a seed or two of good smoke got mixed in.

Please look at the picture below and tell me what you think. It has been so many long years sense last time I grew any, I'm unsure.

Also, when my income tax return came in I bought 2 each, 2' fixtures, and 2 each, 2' 3500k, and 2 each, 2' 6500k floresent tubes. Now my plants are getting that plus the two 6500K CFL's I already had. It looks like the totel lumens are 7600.

When they get bigger I will add the other two 2700k CFL's I got. I think it will need more later. When I add the remaining two CFL's, I got about 10000 lumens. Enough for the grow till finish? You tell me. I got my doubts.

Well that's it. Any thoughtful comments welcome. :rastasmoke:

I hate to be a downer Pepurr but it's really hard to tell at this early stage of growth. Usually Indicas have the fatter broader leaves and the nodes between leaves are shorter than a Sativa. But, you also have to take into acct. the hybrids out there. The indica/sativa mixes.

Those are some very healthy looking plants. They're not stretching so you have enough light getting to them.

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Originally Posted by Totah Sam

I hate to be a downer Pepurr but it's really hard to tell at this early stage of growth. Usually Indicas have the fatter broader leaves and the nodes between leaves are shorter than a Sativa. But, you also have to take into acct. the hybrids out there. The indica/sativa mixes.

Those are some very healthy looking plants. They're not stretching so you have enough light getting to them.

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Totah Sam...dead on, couldn't have said any better

It's ok Totah Sam. I kinda like sativa better. With indica I get very lazy, and sleepy. A cross would be intresting I recon. I'll just have to give them time and see what mother nature has in store for me. :hippy:

Cool beans on the lights! I have them going 18 on, 6 off. I had thought about going 24/24, but I have read that anything over 18 is waste. Also that the plant grows roots when it is dark. I want them to have healthy roots to support some fat nugs (lord willing). :thumbsup:

Hopefully in a month they will be a nice size and still healthy. I have been thinking about tieing them down later. Crap! I can't remember what you call it now. Oh well. You know what I mean. :stoned:

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Originally Posted by pepurr

It's ok Totah Sam. I kinda like sativa better. With indica I get very lazy, and sleepy. A cross would be intresting I recon. I'll just have to give them time and see what mother nature has in store for me. :hippy:

Cool beans on the lights! I have them going 18 on, 6 off. I had thought about going 24/24, but I have read that anything over 18 is waste. Also that the plant grows roots when it is dark. I want them to have healthy roots to support some fat nugs (lord willing). :thumbsup:

Hopefully in a month they will be a nice size and still healthy. I have been thinking about tieing them down later. Crap! I can't remember what you call it now. Oh well. You know what I mean. :stoned:

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There is debate going on about that. I do know that 24/24 can spawn more hermies than what you would normally deal with. Any stress on the plant can have dire consequences on the sexing of your plant.

You can go to 20 hours of light in Vegetative if you wish.

LST is the term you're looking for(low stress training).

Looks to be mostly indica, pepurr.

Don't know a lot about CFL issues....I have used them before,but prefer HPS or metal halide.

Have you started nutes yet?

Yeah a little hard to tell but those ruffled leaves would leave me guessing Indica, I have a Grape Krush sprout that looks like that.

Nice to see your grow going, mine is in full swing and I'm enjoying it very much. I'm doing 24/0 on my veggie garden.

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Originally Posted by coolslayer

Looks to be mostly indica, pepurr.

Don't know a lot about CFL issues....I have used them before,but prefer HPS or metal halide.

Have you started nutes yet?

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I'm really thinking the same cool. The new leaves on it are much wider compared to length than any of the others. Also it has been a much darker shade of green than all the others.

Haven't started nutes yet. The potting soil I am using has heat released nutes that are supposed to last 9 months. The analysis of the potting soil is 10-8-6. One of my friends gave me some Plant food spikes that run 6-12-6. I plan on using the spikes when I start flowering them. Hopefully, that will be enough for some good healthy bud. I don't have the funds to buy all that fancy Fox Farm nutes or the like.

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Originally Posted by Anonymouse

Yeah a little hard to tell but those ruffled leaves would leave me guessing Indica, I have a Grape Krush sprout that looks like that.

Nice to see your grow going, mine is in full swing and I'm enjoying it very much. I'm doing 24/0 on my veggie garden.

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Grape Krush.....mmmm. Is Grape Krush a pure Indica, or a hybrid? One thing for sure. I sure do like all them cleaver names they give to pot now days. I hope people keep reason around when deciding on a name. Like for instance the name Kush used so often. I've even seen that damned Legal Bud banner calling their crap "Something Kush". I wouldn't put the name Kush on anything unless its origin was the Hindu Kush Mountain Range. But that's just me.

Lights: Now that they have been under 18/6 for 1.5 weeks, wouldn't it shock them to fart around with the light timing now? What about roots? Shouldn't they have a fair amount of dark when starting out to give them a good root system? How much difference does it make going 24/24?

I'm hoping to have big enough plants to start budding after 6 to 8 weeks. It would be nice to get them to harvest in as little as 3 months. That's my goal. Maybe if I can get nice cuttings off them before flowering, I can get a system going such that I can get a harvest every 8 or 12 weeks.

One other thing, even though this question is an early one. When taking a cutting, have any of you ever did it and not used the clone root hormones? Did you have success? I figure if it indeed works (cloning with out hormones) it would be slower, but it would save my poor ass the cost of hormones. Input anyone?

Thanks for your helpful advise.:hippy:

Dip N grow is very cheap and it's my understanding it has a cult following of sorts, $8.95 for a bottle of highly concentrated stuff, I was 9 for 9 with my clones the first time I ever tried cloning.

I have never tweaked with lighting but I do not believe you'd have a problem increasing it, just don't go below 16 hours/day.

There is much debate about what the dark period does for vegging plants and I have no idea, my halide only goes off for moves/res changes.

6 to 8 weeks should be enough time to grow that 12" needed to start flowering, maybe not even that long.

:)