First grow (flowering stage only) with pics

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Originally Posted by growdemon

OMB, ive done what you are suggesting and my results were poor, light & leafy buds, they looked fat and thick, but it wasn't. I did it as an experiment and from what I can tell, is it stunned the flower cycle tremendously because the plant had to heal it self then revert back in to a flower stage all at the same time. so as its healing its also producing buds,, which in turn created leafy buds, aka swag

but it could have been the strain who knows, every plant & grow is different

I also have purple wreck! this shit smells killer!

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"Heal?" ...I'm not breaking stems, I'm just bending. They have never shown any "Ill effects" from it, heck, they don't even seem to care! I would never pinch/break a stem in Flower as it would react as you mentioned.
Here's a pic from my first grow, the branches were almost 90 degree's to the Trunk at times...No problems at all. Then again, maybe it has more to do with my strain as far as the size and stem structure.

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cool, looks great
yea those look leafy to me, but anyhow mine were way way more leafy, prob the strains

here are a few pics of non super-cropped, very thick & dense. unfortunately I don't have any super crop pics, (it was a few years back)

Calyxes starting to fill and merge. Aroma really starting to deepen. Tonight I'm going to try and get good shots of flowers from each plant because one of them is clearly different from the others.

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Wow!.....Just frickin' WOW! That is a great shot and one hairy bud! Very impressive Sir. :greenthumb:

Suddenly it's become noticeable that one of the four girls has a distinctly different flowering pattern than the other three. Three of them have flowers which more or less look like this Attachment 297266

But one has denser, more "pagoda" shaped buds Attachment 297267 The differences don't come out in the pictures very well, but just standing looking at the plants its very obvious. Now these are from seed from an Afgooey X Lemon Skunk cross. No back-crossing; this is f1. So is this type of phenotypic variation common? Sorry for the noob question, but um, I'm a noob. Just want to make sure seeds or pots weren't mislabeled.

Got a few decent trichome pics. In the first the capitates are water clear Attachment 297268 But are my eyes deceiving me or do the trichomes on this bud seem to be getting cloudy? Attachment 297269

Man is it getting stink in this room. Funky, heavy sweet odor, almost dank. Not what I was expecting!

yea, ive seen that before with hybrid seeds. I've had perfect blends of 2 crosses, then others that leaned more to one side or the other, all from the same strain. But not the same plant! (male or Female) The ones from the same plant were 100% consistent.
so I guess if you had the same male, crossed with 2 different plants of the same strain. they wouldn't be exactly the same or vise versa. But all the seeds from each plant should be near identical

I would imagine breeders, grow so much how seriously do they know every seed will be exactly the same. I think that's impossible, they may be close but unlikely to make it 100% the same. Probably why there are clone only strains too!

Maybe, there is a way now a days, with all the hi tech stuff out there.
HA, buy some seeds, w8 a while then buy the same seeds again and compare.

My, they look young but tasty. Very nice job. F1 expect some variance, but you get hybrid vigor.

Chromophore, you take some great pics!...and your girl's are looking awesome. :thumbsup: I would love to see what you could do with my stumpy strain, that would be spectacular I'm sure.
Then again, all that bending down to look at 'em might strain your back! Hahaha
Your girl's have some really cool formations, the pistol's are very impressive. Got them all "tied up" huh? Some girl's just need to be restrained....Uh-oh, where's mama catbud's?
I'm gonna get it now!

Added a 4x4' T5 HO rack to to the grow room. I scavenged it out of my seedling tent, which is currently idle. Running 2x54w 3000k and 2x54w 6500k in the unit for a total of 216w. Despite the color imbalance introduced by doing this, I am now able to spread my plants out and let them breathe in light. Under just the 600w HPS they were confined to a light cone that was simply too small for plants of this size. The tallest bud is now 6'2":D. Anyway these T5s are rated at 5k lumens per bulb, so I added 20k lumens. My HPS runs an Ushio Ultra HD bulb that "on paper" is rated at 96k lumens. So assuming this is accurate, I have 116k lumens over a grow space of 30 ft². So that's about 3.7k lumens per ft². I can now let the canopies open up and get much needed light to the interior. The buds are literally exploding at this point.

Attachment 297441 One girl seems to be following her mother's Afghan traits in flowering: Attachment 297442 This plant's buds are very dense and really sticky already (Afgooey!). The other three girls have stretchier buds, perhaps reflective of their Lemon Skunk father: Attachment 297443

Despite being lankier, these flowers are striking in ways my camera can't capture. The pistils are long and brilliant white, against deep green, frosted foliage. They are truly gorgeous. It's amazing to me how beautiful the flowers are when they don't have the same color and contrast-rich appearance that flowers from most other plants have. Such a simple color palette, yet such a striking appearance. I honestly find it hard to stop looking at them.:stoned:

6-2 quite the grow