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kl thz manQuote:
Originally Posted by babystarbud
Day 50, flower day 1....well its almost 2 i think but ill call it one for ease of calculation.
they had a good flush yesterday, followed by a full dose of bloom fert.
im using a 10-9-19 which is called vita-link and is a two part fert with micro-nutes included. its actually a hydro-nute, but has a dosage for soil on the bottle also, which is basicly half the ammount, (2ml of each part per liter of water)
some slight signs of over watering, but they did get a bloody good flushing the other day, and i dont want them going all floppy on me again, so i think u got the right idea oldgrowerdude, little and more often.
no probs pezzo.
oldgrowerdude, the pots are 9 inch wide at the top by 7 inch high, which makes them approx 2 gallons i think. thanks for the complement, it dosent help having an old camera thats probably less than 1 megapixel, but hey it does the job. will try to get my mates at some point which is 3 megapixels....should be much better pics for some bud-shots.
as far as smell goes, they deffinatley smell more than my last crop, which was a bag-seed sativa dominant...but these smell more like nice rich hash than skunk/weed.
its kinda worrying because i get de-sensitised to the smell, so i have to be carefull to air-out the house every few days, which i uppose is also good for the plants.
i have a good inline fan sucking the air out of the closet, up into the loft but ive got it wired so it turns off when the lights go out, and when the lights go out, you can really smell them if your in the same room. other rooms are ok aslong as the doors shut.....i have got a carbon filter, but the smell hasnt reached the point where i think i need it yet, although i think it might do in a week or so.
one of ur fan leaves is doing the same as mine man! curling under, look in the second pic on the left.
Is that coz u overwatered it when u flushed it or was it doing that already?
yeh, theres a few doing that, it only on the darker coloured leaves so im hoping its over watering, next few days will tell...hope its not root-bound.
i just checked some of your posts, how of ten and how much do you water, what size pots are you using?
plants are at different stages, started em at different times...
used to have a spray thing, which i used to spray untill top was wet. plant grew well but kinda slow.
i read on a few grow guides and such that u have to water untill water comes out the bottom of the pot. did that, it grew at the same speed and a while later i got this problem.
now just making a puddle of water on the surface once every day or so.
200ml will saok the whole of my pot wiv a little water coming out the bottom so i dont use that much, somethin like, well to wet the top thats all. 25 ml?
i did water my big plant tho, left a puddle on the top, water went straight thro and poured out the bottom! the pot is 11 inch high and 9 inch diamiter so... The soil is like rock u cant push ur finger thro it!
sounds like you got the same soil troubles i have got...too dense...
the grow guides are assuming that your soil has good drainage properties....trouble is when the soils too thick, excess water is trapped and held in the soil, instead of running out the bottom, so... by watering untill you get run-off water is infact oversaturating the soil if your soil holds to much water.
which makes guessing ammounts and intervals for watering difficult.
the top few inches of soil appears bone dry and solid hard, but there is water locked away underneath.
its not ideal,
im gonna let them wilt slightly before i water next,
but i imagine ill be watering about 1 litre per plant every 3 days at the current rate they are drinking....but ill just have to play it by ear....watch this space....they were flushed goodstyle and fed bloom fert about mid-day on the 16th of december...so i predict next watering, when i see first signs of wilting either on 18th/19th.
sorry i cant be of much help, im kind of a beginner at this, its only my second real grow and i didnt have this drainage problem first time round (different soil)
Oh those are 2 gal. you should be in great shape then! Check out this set of pictures on pruning methods and my favorite to use on Indica strains "pinching" or "supercropping". You just squeeze the main shoot with your fingers (until it gives a bit) and it stops vertical growth and the plant bushes straight out! Its the perfect time to try it to if you were interested.
The one near the bottom where the guy is squeezing the plant with his fingers is the supercropping method.
http://www.drugs-forum.com/growfaq/1270.htm
You sure are freaking out alot about the soil but they look really good regardless of the slight error I think you will pull this off just fine :smokin:
thanks for the link, thats interesting ive kinda been thinking...
from my previous grow i know that some of the secondary flowers dont quite breach the canopy of fan leafs, resulting in little shitty buds on them, so i just chop 'em off at the main stalk?
ive done a picture showing the bits to be removed in red, the light green squiggles represent the bulk of the leaves, does that look about right?
That looks perfect dude another good diagram, I would make those pruning cuts EXACTLY 2 weeks in so you can appropriately decide what branches will grow the strongest buds (pruning bud plants is truly an art).
Man I'm so glad I came across this thread there really are no good pictures/guides for this strain so this is an Invaluable document to the cannabis communtity as a whole ;) . And by the way if you were to try the pinch method you would pinch right below where your main cola will form to improve side bud growth (ill try to get some good pics of it with mine.)
well yesterday, one of the plants flopped again, so they got another flush-type watering, but with no feed.
perked right back up again. these things can really drink!
so im having to step up my watering shedule, i think to every 48 hrs atleast.
im not sure if its good to use fert every time when watering this much, maybe a half dose, or a full dose every other watering.
im gonna fed then tonight, a liter of water each to damp down the soil, let it drain off, then a second liter with the fert added....see how it goes from there.
im not sure im gonna go chopping anything off, as most of the secondary flower site have streched and have thier heads in the main canopy.
that said, the primary flower hasnt streched yet, im not sure how dramatic this will be as its my first indica, hopefully it wont be as pronounced as it was in my last grow.