Shov's Bubblegum Grow

Here's the grow. Not a great pic, just want to show the layout and relative size. There are a couple more 2' x 4' cardboard sheets w/mylar that I removed to access and photograph the grow.

The right hand plant in the bucket is a female and 26" tall, in the left hand bucket the plant is 22" but has not shown yet. The flowerbox is home to about 5-6 LSTed plants, one is female. There are also other few plants here and there. Any males had been dispatched.
They are all doing pretty well, I think.

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Shov

thats what me like fe see

lookin good shov, whats the head count now?

love, kp:p

There are two main buckets with a major and minor plant each. The flowerbox has, say six and maybe three other pots.

So, down to 13 plants.

Shov

can't wait for their new wigs to pop out...

love, kp:p

Wigs are going to pop?
Should I buy a syling brush? <G>

As far as the cropping is concerned, I still am waiting to see how I did. Maybe I Fucking missed!

Shov

i like to see the wild do's myself:D

you know, hair all over the place?

love, kp:p

BTW, there are 14 total, seven in the box.
I have the one fem in the box, I wanted to wait for a second and then pull the rest, leaving the two LSTed fems. But I think I'll go and remove the plants from "her" side of the box and wait (hope)for another fem out of the remainders.
Princess,You really in BVI? We're going to Tortola in May (if I didn't already mention that elsewhere).

Shovelhandle

whoa...the second largest plant in the buckets looks that it will be a male. Please, send positive vibes that it is not.

Thanks,

Shovlehandle

*Crosses fingers that it's a female*

ty.
one of the "stand-by" plants in the small pails is female. I gathered up the transplant materials this afternoon and brought them in to warm. Maybe x-plant tomorrow am. I'm thinking of a 3 gal even because the plant is maybe 12-14" tall.

Shov

hi shov, sorry, but i'm not in bvi (anymore) but thanx for the thought! who knows, maybe one day you'll all be at my place as judges for kp's cup! :D

pixies?

love, kp:p

Maybe 12-14"...

Try 9" lol
She is the runt of the crop so far but now has a 5 gal pail to call her own. We'll see if she can put out some bud in the next 8-9 weeks.

I removed the two males in one 6 gal pot, one was a beautiful 24+" and the other was the triple leafed plant. : [

So, the count is down to 8 plants, 3 or 4 have shown female (forget without looking).

L8R

Shov

pics! pics!

.....please?....

love, kp:p

I am headed out to pick up the new 3000K T5 tubes. I'll photo the grow later today.

Shovelhandle

Some plants have shown sex and the males have been 86ed. This is where we are at now with four fems and still three to decide.


Here's an "undecided" living in a smaller pail. Quite dense growth on the bottom of this plant. The top was FIMed and the leaves are very mutated.
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Thes next two photos are of the largest fewm plant (26"+) and a pot-mate who has been tied out to get some light. These two have been FIMed and each look a bit different.
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Here is a fem in the flowerbox. Her two box-mates are doing well but have not shown yet. Hoping for fem as we have pulled a few males out of the box already.
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And finally, the runt fem that I put in the larger pail a couple of days ago. Her and the other small poted plants seemed to have wetter soil and related growth problems than the others. Hopefully this 9" fem can turn on in the next eight weeks or so.
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Shov

You know shov, I've heard an old wives' tale that for strains capable of producing the full 11 leaf blades, if they actually do it, it means they are happy!!!!
(I think you have happy plants!)
I'm going to pick up my pepper seeds this PM... my friend was supposed to dro pthem off but has been out sick this week... those little PPPs I have going for a sativa-influenced outdoor seed crop are ready to be flowered! They are going into 12/12 tonight!

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"Undecided" is the last male, which is too bad because it took to the FIM really well. The top leaves after the cut were very twisted and deformed but many tops were starting there, it could have produced a nice top.
Oh well, so all three plants in the box are females.

So, a total of six females, all looking real good. All the containers looked a little dry so I'll water them with the K/P suppliment and TopMax. Last time I fed with the fish/kelp ferts w/ molasses and TomMax. Next time I'll just water.



Shovelhandle

Almost two weeks of 12-12. Many bud sites on each of the plants.

Here is the flowerbox with three lst. They look very healthy considering they grew up in that box starting with over a hundred others, living in the shade of the other plant buckets. Folks thought that removing the other plants would disrupt the root system and such. That does not seem to be the case here, fortunetly. They don't show any signs of lamp burn or other trauma the other plants experienced. It is difficult to see the bud sites, but there are quite a few. These are bonus plants.
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Here is Runty. She was recently transplanted from a small black pot (see earlier pics). I think she experienced nute lockup due to overwatering and fertilizer but it is curious as I watered/fed each of these plants the same. Some plants just didn't dry out as quickly as the others, I guess.
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Here's Big One and her side kick. She has some lamp burn and other minor problems but is growing pretty well with tons of bud sites on all the branches.
The side kick is basically a single main branch, kind of looks like one of the lower branches of the Big One.
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Thank you for the look-see

Shov

Plants are all doing great. I do have to do some major arranging this afternoon as the geometry of these plants and the grow space are not optimized. As you see, I have one big mother of 35" with her sis, the wee one, less than 12" and the three in the flowerbox. I had been tying down the three but decided that they could get more and even lighting by standing them up, so that;s what they are doing now. The Big One is going to have prime space, as it is going to provide most of the yeild. The other two vessels will have to be fit in as best as I can. The lighting is one 4 lamp T5 for side lighting, a 2 lamp T8 on the top and the 2 HID lamps for the top/back.

I'll photo some bud when I do this arrangement. Oh ya, the grow space really smells from the fish/kelp furts that have spilled on the floor and decomposing. I'll shovel that up best I can and save it in a bucket of soil to finish composting.

Shov

She's Big. <G>

Shov

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:) I like big one... lol

that sucks most of the good plants were male, but i guess it just happens...

great log

hey... do you really live in the orkney islands?

Looking good so far, shame about the males, but i've done grows before where 70% were male, and other grows where 100% were female... i guess it's literally ALL about luck lol. I supose not only with sexing, but also infestations and all the like.

OK, I just did a page with three photos andeverythink and it's nothere,

I'll try and upload pics firsto.
[attachment=o113795] This is a pic of the top of Big One.

Shovel

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OK, I just did a page with three photos andeverythink and it's nothere,

I'll try and upload pics firsto.
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Ahh, nothing better than seeing a lovely plant, maturing into a proper woman!

Top of the big One.

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Tha three fems in a boat. Hadr to photgraph as they have nice, stinky buds hidden everywhere!

Shov

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The three fems in a boat. Hard to photgraph as they have nice, stinky buds hidden everywhere!

Shov

Looking good dude :greenthumb:
keep up the good work....

:hippy:
Slayer

how big is the "boat" and WHAT is the boat? i like the idea...

love, brooke

It's a window "flowerbox", Brooke. All the plants started from this box, hundreds of them. I took a few out early on and put 'em in buckets. Then I had to thin the boxes eventually as they were tight as could be. Now that the females are all sorted out and the males removed I had these three plants LSTed to the sides. As I have 2'x4' of side lighting, I had to let them stand up to get the best light. I took a day or two, but they straightened right out.
The box measures aprox. 30" x 7" x 7".

The plants in the boat really have a different statute to them, like they're dancing together...salsa or something. They look very happy to me.

Thank you...Shov : ]

I don't live in the Orkney Islands, Orangeman. I'm just taking a virtual vacation from Antartica to Orkney Is. to Gough and plan to canoe up to Cape Town. lol
Im actually in New England, USA.

Shovelhandle

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I don't live in the Orkney Islands, Orangeman. I'm just taking a virtual vacation from Antartica to Orkney Is. to Gough and plan to canoe up to Cape Town. lol
Im actually in New England, USA.

Shovelhandle

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Shame your not in the real England. We could smoke up.

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I don't live in the Orkney Islands, Orangeman.

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hahahahaha... that was ME lol

i was jw, cuz my mums uncle or somethin lives up there, hes got loads of land... i wanna go there sometime... and plant some pretty flowers...

sorry Abattoir Dream and Orangeman.
I often have many windows open at the same time and I'm always confused..... :)

Shov

one of the plants in the flowerbox. nice photo, I think. I set it on my desktop. <G>
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This is Runty. Doing pretty good, actually.
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Shov

AD, I have a globe, shows S. Orkney Islands near Antartica. Where's yer uncle's spread? Up north there? Just curious, like I said I'm in NW New England. Shovelhandle

Here's "Runt" now at 14" tall.
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These three are looking very good. 15-18" tall now.
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"Big One" and her bucket-mate. 36" tall
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Shov

Hey shov, those buds look tasty! I like that critter you've got in the first pic too. :jointsmile:

(if you mentioned it before I forgot, what kind of seeds did you plant?)