And that's the end of DAY 83. Up next DAY 86! :)
TGF
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And that's the end of DAY 83. Up next DAY 86! :)
TGF
~DAY 86~
Checking in on our test-clones. They have been in flower for 17 days now. We originally said that we would flower them just to see the sex, and then throw them out due to their puny sizes, BUT I cannot tell a lie. We are going to flower them all the way through just to get some nice bud to smoke whilst we are waiting for our larger crop to dry, which has not yet even been flipped into flowering. We will be doing that today also.
I'm super excited about the nice looking tops that these things are developing. The hairs are coming out very nicely. The three on the left side that are still small are the 3 that we missed the first time around cloning. We are flowering them very early after rooting, but they're really just to show us what sex these three plants were:
10 (big plant in the left side), 11 (original thrown out, but we have a beautiful short top growing and LST'd), and 12 (thrown out suspected to be male and very spindly, but we still have a clone).
Let us know what you think! :D
TGF
More pics of the rubbermaid flowering box. Dont let your plants grow into your lights, they will burn. :( Its coming back slowly but surely. "Damn, youse an ugly bitch", but hey, I'll still SMOKE IT! Ping! hehe
TGF
The last pic are the 3 that we don't know the sex of yet...guess what? So far 2 of them (11 & 12) are confirmed FEMALE!! Only one more to go! Damn we's gots lotsa bitches!
~DAY 86~
Good news and bad news. :) :(
Ok, here's a look at our right-side, which I will now refer to as our "main flowering room," because what'dya know, we're gonna start flowering the 5 big plants we have in there!
Look at the one in the rear corner. #13. Sh*t, f*ck, damn. It's looking wierd. Yellowing leaves. Some getting brown and crumbly. Not good. What is it??? We dont know. Magnesium Def? Maybe. Phosphorous def? Probably not possible yet. Mosaic Tobacco Virus? Very possible :( We shall see. Luckily it's not affecting all the plants.
Couple more pics of the afflicted plant.
One wide shot of the main flowering room.
Look at these roots go! They were so READY to get out of those stupid plastic wrappings. They have exploded out into the hydroton. This has allowed the plant to bush out on top. We definitely learned something here. Don't let your roots get rootbound. I honestly knew about this but I didnt think ours were rootbound until I unbound the roots!! LOL
Well, reason we are taking them out like this is that we had them in that plastic tray covered with hydroton, but there was no drainage, we were simply watering them by hand. We will now install our Ebb & Flow (flood & drain) system. Wee hee. Auto watering is awesome.
So to install this system, we must completely remove all of the 5 plants and the hydroton, clean it out, install drainage, cut some holes, etc. I will show you in the upcoming pics. WHAT A ROOTBALL!
*packing a bowl, sparking it up....mmmm*
:rasta:
TGF
Gotta install the ebb & flow system.
Drill holes into planter,
install drain spouts,
make hole in wood for drain spouts,
cut out intake holes to provide more intake.
The last thing on that list was done because our negative pressure was too high and we had to leave a flap of the door open to provide extra intake. Now we shouldn't. It's not pretty, but I dont have a jigsaw. :)
TGF
Couple more pics of the afflicted plant. :(
Putting the plants back in the main flowering room. I have put the plants in different positions. The afflicted plant (#13) is int he front-most corner now so I can keep an eye on her. I have also tried to give each plant the most room possible to grow, while still keeping the high number (5) of plants in there. :D Also, topped it off with some more hydroton. :D
Oh by the way, this reminds me, before we put them back in and stuff. We did test our ebb & flow system and it drains PAINFULLY slow, but works. It fills pretty damn slow too. We might get a larger pump to fill faster but I dont think that will increase the drainage time. Hmm? Well it works for now. Just fill for 15 mins, then drain for 15-20 mins. Twice a day. Any questions?
TGF
Here is the left side, from now on just to be called our veg room. We have our mother plant, Mambo #5 in there in the back. We have #10, sex still undetermined in there. We also have our beautiful #11a, a top from plant #11 that we have tried to keep as short and compact as possible. If you remember, we performed LST on her a little while ago. She's taking to it just fine, it seems.
TGF
Oh, and if you look at pic #3, that is a pic of some heat damage on Mambo #5. Damn, I though CFLs were supposed to be cool! :mad:
Note: we did change our CFLs from 23 watters to 42 watters. to try to keep the plants down. This might have (well, for sure has) affected the plants.
Second run of clones. Most of these came off of the 3 plants that we did not know the sex of at the time. That would be #10, #11, & #12. We also have a couple #6s up there since we cloned it and ditched the original runt of a plant. It looked horrible. Onward!
Look at those roots man! WHOOOO. Thems some vigorous plants. Someone said cloning was hard?? I cant seem to kill one. ;)
TGF
We've transplanted all the small rockwool cubes into their new, bigger homes. We are also attempting to FIM!!! I honestly dont completely know how to do it, but from what I understand, you just "pinch" off the top new growth, less than full topping. Well, I did it. I think to plant #11b or something. I also topped a couple other ones. They're overflow and I really dont have a place to put them, so they are my experimental clones. :D
pic #3 & #4 are the attempts at FIMing. I dunno. We'll see. If anything, it'll be topped. LOL.
Off goes the humidome. Closer come the lights.
TGF