1st timer, w/Hydroton, could use a little help...

What's up guys. Been a little busy at work and blah blah blah.

First, thank you all, again, for the invaluable advice that you've given me so far. I don;t know what these plants would look like without it.

[attachment=o164940] a lil fuzzy, but you get the idea

So, as for the plants. Today is day 50 of flowering. I chopped one of them about a week ago. She turned out to be a raging hermaphrodite. So I'm down to three. The 1 big mango and 2 purp.

I'm still using Technaflora nutes, the "new" recipe. I've also started using FoxFarm's Beastie Bloomz (for 1 week) then switched to ChaChing last week.

Here's the mango. The first pic is the top of the plant. The second pic is the top bud of the lowest branch. I've been reading what I could find about this mango strain, says somewhere that its a 10-12 week floweing plant. If that's true, I have a long way to go. But I guess I understand why that could be. It took about 2 weeks to show real signs of flowers, then it stretched about 10 inches over the weeks 3-4 and most of 5. Now its just filling out. Trichs are almost all clear still, cloudy in some spots, maybe 5%.

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Here are the other two. They're still about 1/4 the size of the mango, but I'm assuming that they'll finish much sooner. The one on the right has some scars of natural selection. Since I'm concentrating on the mango, and blasting them with 1500-1600ppm, I decided I'm not going to adjust the levels to accomodate the smaller plants, I burned them for sure. Trich's on these are almost all cloudy, I saw 1 or 2 amber in my field of vision with the 30X handheld microscope, so less than 1%.
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The clones are doing well too. I'm going to experiment a little with the mango clones. Since I already know what this plant likes to do if left untrained, I want to know what else it likes too. A couple weeks ago I fimmed 1 of them, yesterday I started LST on one, and I havent decided what to do with the 3rd one yet. Any suggestions?

Hope all is well in everyone's garden. Leave me some input, thanks again.

T

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Originally Posted by TMusic

What's up guys. Been a little busy at work and blah blah blah.

First, thank you all, again, for the invaluable advice that you've given me so far. I don;t know what these plants would look like without it.

[attachment=o164940] a lil fuzzy, but you get the idea

So, as for the plants. Today is day 50 of flowering. I chopped one of them about a week ago. She turned out to be a raging hermaphrodite. So I'm down to three. The 1 big mango and 2 purp.

I'm still using Technaflora nutes, the "new" recipe. I've also started using FoxFarm's Beastie Bloomz (for 1 week) then switched to ChaChing last week.

Here's the mango. The first pic is the top of the plant. The second pic is the top bud of the lowest branch. I've been reading what I could find about this mango strain, says somewhere that its a 10-12 week floweing plant. If that's true, I have a long way to go. But I guess I understand why that could be. It took about 2 weeks to show real signs of flowers, then it stretched about 10 inches over the weeks 3-4 and most of 5. Now its just filling out. Trichs are almost all clear still, cloudy in some spots, maybe 5%.

[attachment=o164941][attachment=o164942]

Here are the other two. They're still about 1/4 the size of the mango, but I'm assuming that they'll finish much sooner. The one on the right has some scars of natural selection. Since I'm concentrating on the mango, and blasting them with 1500-1600ppm, I decided I'm not going to adjust the levels to accomodate the smaller plants, I burned them for sure. Trich's on these are almost all cloudy, I saw 1 or 2 amber in my field of vision with the 30X handheld microscope, so less than 1%.
[attachment=o164943][attachment=o164944]

The clones are doing well too. I'm going to experiment a little with the mango clones. Since I already know what this plant likes to do if left untrained, I want to know what else it likes too. A couple weeks ago I fimmed 1 of them, yesterday I started LST on one, and I havent decided what to do with the 3rd one yet. Any suggestions?

Hope all is well in everyone's garden. Leave me some input, thanks again.

T

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fimm them once they get about 3 sets of branches and they'll do great i'd chop the ones that are all cloudy and leave the mangos to get more light i did this and everyone loved it

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Originally Posted by TMusic

Thank you both... The neg rep was from a couple guys, one that I called ignorant in a politically based thread, and the other was from a guy who swore that mylar is a waste of money and has the same reflecting abilities as aluminum foil. He was going on and on...I told him he needed to smoke a joint.

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Damn TMusic, he negged you for telling him to spark a fatty? All the + Rep for ya that I can give!!! If they can't handle the heat, why the fuck are they even in the kitchen???

that's what I'm sayin...

Oh golly gee wiz and holy poopiness, TMusic. Those are some nice healthy-looking plants, complete with big gobs of dankish sugar buds. Thanks for the update. I'll bet you that mango is going to be some damn nice smoke. Looking forward to harvest pictures and smoking reports, if any.

Suggestions? Can't think of many except that I suggest you keep up the good work, get as much light as possible to the bud sites, consider using a screen to maximize space and light, and invite me over to help with the harvest. All I ask in return for helping with the harvest is to keep any finger hash I end up with on my hands. Oh wait, I was going to ask if I misunderstood you, or did you say that you were FIMing/topping during flowering. If so, this is generally a bad idea. For one thing, topping sometimes shocks the plant a little, and ends up slowing down the growth, or even completely stopping it for a week or two. Your plants won't flower a week or two longer to make up for it, so you end up with decreased yield.

I just bought the 3 part series, Open Sesame, Beastie Bloomz and Cha Ching. There goes a quick $66, but I'm assuming it will last quite awhile, and be very beneficial to the bud and resin production. Haven't started flowering yet, but looking forward to seeing the results. I was wondering if you have any advice or suggestions about using these, before a virgin bloom additive adder starts the regime. Anything you can think of, no matter how seemingly insignificant.

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Damn TMusic, he negged you for telling him to spark a fatty? ...If they can't handle the heat, why the fuck are they even in the kitchen???

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Ah you know people, the biggest waste of carbon on this planet... A bunch of friggen morons IMO. Present company excluded of course.

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Originally Posted by Opie Yutts

. Oh wait, I was going to ask if I misunderstood you, or did you say that you were FIMing/topping during flowering. If so, this is generally a bad idea. For one thing, topping sometimes shocks the plant a little, and ends up slowing down the growth, or even completely stopping it for a week or two. Your plants won't flower a week or two longer to make up for it, so you end up with decreased yield.

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i thought it said that too and i was gonna say bad idea but then i reread it and i think he means his new clones that he took thats why i wrote that as from the pics they don't look fimmed

The flowering plants areen't fimmed or topped, they're just growing untrained. I was refer-ing to the clones.

so i think I'm going to start flushing soon. Do I do it with ph water or do I keep up with anything that I'm currently feeding them. I have to keep in mind that the mango might have 3 weeks left so can start cutting anything early?

Once you start flushing you should not be feeding them anything, with the possible exception of a flushing agent, which is basically sugar water. I suppose you could flush the mango for 2 weeks and the others for 1, or something like that.