First Hydro-W/F White Widow

Its about 22 hours after the snip took place. I love watching the change happen. Im going to wait 2 more days for the fim to get good and set in and then start upping the nutes. Im going to bring the ppm up from 820 to 900 using Latewoods 1-1-1 recipe for veg and top off with Liquid Karma and phed water for the first week. If I dont see any burn within 2 days of the new nutes I will probably go up another 50-100 ppm.

Im contemplating going ahead and getting a switchable 250watt hps/mh or maybe go ahead with a 400. Im sure I will have heat issues with a 400 unless I made a cooltube which will be just that much more $. Though I do love to build shit so it would at least be fun building a cooltube. Im gonna have to check my lumen chart again to see if 400 is way more than I need anyway. Thoughts? The cab is 3w x2d x6.5t

Thanks for all the encouragement guys. I really appreciate you sending a little time my ways.:thumbsup:

What do you mean when you say you "fimmed" your plant? But yeah man check out High Tech Garden Supply for a mh/hps switchable system for around 180 bucks. Dude... do a 400 watt system... trust me.. you will regret not going for the higher wattage systems later when you want to grow more plants than just the one. Plus.. with a 400 watt system you can grow in an area as big as 4X4 with no problem. I buy all my shit from them and have had no problems with any of their stuff plus they have excellent customer service!

Fimming is trimming 80% of of the newest growth that comes after a new leaf set. By trimming the plant reacts by making multiple main shoots which end up as colas. Instead of just 1 huge stick of bud... you get 4 or 6. Its like topping but modified. Check this guide out. Easy to do, and oh so bad ass.

Guide-Fimming and Topping made easy:thumbsup:

Now that you mention that you may have 4 huge colas, I am awaiting your bloom with great anticipation :). I think my plant will take 8 weeks to finish blooming. I will be introducing koolbloom in 1 week from now.

Here is today's fim close up update. Its amazing watching the changes that occur each day and I dont even have her on full nutes yet. Tomorrow is the big day for nutes. I think I will post one more day of the fim close up unless more are requested and spread out the pics a little.

I have been thinking about koolbloom and almost ordered it when I got my nutes way back. I didnt want to make this first hydro too complicated though, but if things keep going as good as they are, I may go ahead with it.

I also ordered a 250w mh/hps today. The 400 was basically the same price, but when I looked at lumen output it was already higher than the recommended amount at optimum growth. I just wanted to avoid the heat issues that would be involved with the 400 in the small growth space and if I somehow get a bigger place to grow, I will just shuck out the bucks for another as I would probably have seperate veg/flower rooms at that point.

looken real nice. I need to start toping-feming my mj plants so theycan be more bushy.:D

Heres another pic of the fim in action on day 4. Its hard to tell what the hell is going on from the pic. Its like a knot of new growth that is going to go wild within the next couple days. Whatever it is, Im diggin it. It appears that there are 6 offshoots which will hopefully turn into huge deliciously sticky cola's.

I turned up the nutes today. I went ahead and set the 1-1-1 to 1000 ppm and hoping for no burn because tomorrow is a long day away from home. It had roughly 4 hours or so to get a taste before lights out, and all looked good last I checked before that soo.. cross your fingers for me.

Pretty drunk right now so im gonna just call this post off before I make more of a fool of myself.

Peace, love, and thanks for stoppin by!

Nice man.
Seems like that FIM was perfectly done. :)

Puffzter

Turns out the fim didnt take. It didnt make itself plain obvious until I was poking around Josie today. I noticed it was growing the same way it was before, 1 main stalk. A little disappointing, but at least it isnt to late to try again. I cut the new growth back more this time. If I cut off 80% last time, I went for 90% this time by comparison.

I have noticed another tendancy that I wonder if others experience. Early morning when I check on her, all the branches and leaves are pointed skyward like she is ready for a good day. By 4 hours before lights out, the leaves and branches are sagging like she is tired. It makes sense to some degree to me, I am just a tinge concerned. It wouldnt bother me much except she is very compact. Only about 5.5 inches tall and has 7 nodes! I was trying to keep her from stretching much with the cfl's, but that seems a little excessive. Ive started raising the light more to induce a bit of stretch and thinking I need to prune the lower branches that are touching the hydroton when the upper leaves get large enough to ensure good health. Is this correct or am I just way off base here?