2 amateurs armed with bag seed and a closet

Hey TGF,

They are very healthy plants. They have had a lot of attention and we haven't spared any expense we can afford for them.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/3...78a20ec0fa.jpg
Betty is female alright! :D there are definitely pistils there and they are much larger now. She's just over 20" tall. I added some notes to the flickr pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/canuck-grower/tags/pistils so you can see where they are. I have some new pics posted there as well that are much better! I have been using the macro function, before that I couldn't get anything good that close at all. I got one really close up that I posted above, but there are 2 more, not as close but some sort of visible pistils. Betty has them on the top 4-5 nodes.

Lucy (formerly known as plant #9) has some small pistils as well. She is only 12" tall, but very nice looking.

The other plants are Number Two and #4 (no name yet). There's one more that we think might be a male and aren't really paying attention to much. Didn't give it any karma or anything because if it's a girl, it's not one of the best anyway.

It's Day #41/14.

Today we got them some thrive alive, liquid karma, and foliage spray as well. we'll see how they look over the next week. We also took quite a few cuttings so they might take a bit to recover.

We got some rockwool cubes, a tray cover and some rooting gel and cut just over a dozen clones. They're under 2 daylight CFLs on 18/6. One of the lights is about an inch away from the cover, and the other is a good 5-6" away. I need to get a better fixture for them because right now most of what's holding them up is duct tape! I'll post pics when I can.

That's all for today!

-canuck

oh yeah and make sure that you click on the little All Sizes button above the photos on flickr to see the bigger sizes! those small ones on the main page are not the largest.

Day 43/16

Taking those cuttings and giving them some thrive alive and liquid karma seems to have helped out Betty and Lucy. All of Betty's new growth at the top has pistils on it and she's starting to smell really nice. Lucy has more pistils as well but I couldn't get any clear shots of them yet.

Another shot of Betty: http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?i...3600016zp1.jpg

One of the plants is male for sure, but we didn't clone that one at all so that's alright. Still waiting on a couple that we thought looked feminine but are taking their sweet time to start flowering. If we end up with 2 females that's just fine.

I gently tugged on a couple of the clones and they seem to be in there after only 2 days so that's a good sign. I've been airing them out a few times a day and wiping the moisture off the cover a couple times a day. Some of them are perking up from their droopiness.

We put 2 clones in one rockwool cube just to see if they would join together into a super-clone. Hopefully that experiment turns out well.

Well my buddy's here and we're going to smoke a :bonghit: so that's it for now.

-canuck :jointsmile:

betty is gonna grow lots by the looks of things... :)

Hi Abattoir,

Thanks for stopping by. :) Betty still looks good after we took 12 cuttings from her. Since there are 12 more Bettys she will grow lots and lots for a while yet. heh. We are hoping that she'll concentrate her effort into one big cola though.

I've found 2 branches on her that have alternating nodes now, 2 1/2 weeks into flower. One of them is on a lower branch mid-way up the stalk, and the other is one of the new nodes near the top.

I'll try and get some photos up today. Imageshack isn't working for some reason so I'm going to finally try and ask an admin on this board what's up! Hopefully I'll be back later with some pics.

-canuck :jointsmile:

Here are some pics from today. I still cannot believe how fast they are growing and I have been saying that since the first week! :D

Betty - over 21"

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/567...0015pk1.th.jpg http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/6...0014gy4.th.jpg http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7...0021qw6.th.jpg http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/5...0024il9.th.jpg http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/5...0020xi6.th.jpg


Lucy - about 13"

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/1...0007kg7.th.jpg http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/346...0008te2.th.jpg http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/9...0010rq0.th.jpg

Tomorrow I will have been a member on this board for a full week, and hopefully I'll be able to attach pics here. If not then I might have to wait a week or so longer, guess we'll find out next year! Ha ha.

Happy new year everyone! :dance:

-canuck :jointsmile:

nice log. Plants are coming along nicely.

Shov

Hey thanks for checking out the log shov. :)

Well now that I have 50+ posts and been around for almost a week I can finally attach some photos here. Fuck yeah!

So this will really be all for this year. Some that are a little older, around where the flickr photos left off. I have to guess that most of these are from the 3rd week. The aluminum foil is down off the walls so I had started reading this board and other sites by then.

I think that's Betty in the first, but I'm not sure when it's from. 2nd and 3rd are all the plants. The 4th pic is of a freshly trained plant. 5th is Betty with 2 of her friends in the background like bodyguards... except they're smaller than she is.

The containers between the pots are a sugar and yeast mixture for some extra CO2. My bedroom doesn't exactly have great ventilation so I'm not sure they're getting as much CO2 as they would outside. Now and then we will put a 2L bottle with some sugar-yeast stuff in the closet, but honestly I think that they are just fine without it. Better safe than sorry though. This first batch wasn't great and didn't put out all that much CO2. In a 2L bottle you can cap it and the stuff starts fermenting and putting out lots of CO2. Well, as much as you let out.

-canuck :jointsmile:

Looking good keep it growing.
I have attached a pic of what i do for my cheapass co2. This way it stops the smell and foam getting into your grow room, the other benefit is you can see the co2 bubbling out of the second tub and that way you know when it is working. After a few days co2 production will die off a bit, just shake the pop bottle and it should get better. Once this stops working then change the sugar/yeast mix.

Hey LH, cool CO2 bubbler. I think I'm going to build one today if I can find some tube around this place. The last bottle I made up lasted for days and days, shaking it up like you said. If you cap it at night I think it helps too. Most mornings I can't even just open it or it will fizz like mad, have to ease it open over the course of an hour or two.

-canuck :jointsmile: