1st time grow as a trial run while I'm waiting on the seeds to come

I had a plant last grow go 20+ days into flower and not show sex, then when it did it exploded and just about caught up to its Sisters.

Your girls are beautiful. Looks like you HAVE done your homework!
Personally I go 1 gal of container size per expected foot.
Lsd is a rediculous strain. Wicked strength, excellent mix of sativa/indica effects.
Some of those strains should only be attemted after you get a lil more experience.
Anything diesel or sour can be bug/mold weak prone. Those girls are best suited to colder times of the yr. Just my experience...
I can not stress strongly enough that you MUST make your area an environment unto itself. I belive that you cant have enough air fitration or flow/exchange. This comes with the caveat that YOUR AREA M U S T BE SEALED. I find it best to have an overpressure in my room. More air going in than out. Neutral is acceptable, but NEVER underpressure. The reason for this is even if you do have a small leak it is blowing OUT of your room, not sucking UNFILTERED air in. Dont know what your budget is but a very cheap and effective fiter is pantyhose. Any questions plz feel free to ask. I am by no means a botonist but i've been doing this for years and may be able to help you avoid the hard/expensive pitfalls/failures i've had.

Health, happiness, and prosperity to you.

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Your girls are beautiful. Looks like you HAVE done your homework!
Personally I go 1 gal of container size per expected foot.
Lsd is a rediculous strain. Wicked strength, excellent mix of sativa/indica effects.
Some of those strains should only be attemted after you get a lil more experience.
Anything diesel or sour can be bug/mold weak prone. Those girls are best suited to colder times of the yr. Just my experience...
I can not stress strongly enough that you MUST make your area an environment unto itself. I belive that you cant have enough air fitration or flow/exchange. This comes with the caveat that YOUR AREA M U S T BE SEALED. I find it best to have an overpressure in my room. More air going in than out. Neutral is acceptable, but NEVER underpressure. The reason for this is even if you do have a small leak it is blowing OUT of your room, not sucking UNFILTERED air in. Dont know what your budget is but a very cheap and effective fiter is pantyhose. Any questions plz feel free to ask. I am by no means a botonist but i've been doing this for years and may be able to help you avoid the hard/expensive pitfalls/failures i've had.

Health, happiness, and prosperity to you.

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Thanks for the advice! I am building a smaller box for now and I have installed the fans so far. I didn't know about the pantyhose, good tip.

I have a couple of new pics, bad quality as I took them with my phone.

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The hopeful ladies are going into their 2nd week of flowering and I still can't tell if they're going to be girls.

Alright, we are officially 2 weeks into the flowering period as of today and I believe that little flowers are coming out (not sure though, it could be my noob eyes deceiving me :(). I will take some macro pics of them at 7 pm EST and post them.

I built a nice light proof enclosure (finally) out of pvc pipes and 100 micron nylon tarp. I installed a different reflector (enclosed) for my 400 hps and used the batwing reflector for my 105 watt fluorescent light (see pics). I also installed 2 fans, the one at the top is for exhaust and the one at the bottom is for intake. I have the intake pipe bringing air from outside through a window (see pics also).

What I had thought what was going to be an uneventful grow, it's starting to become a nightmare for me. My ladies have become afflicted with curling of their leaves and yellow spots and in some places, holes. I honestly don't know what to do.

And now for the pics:

these are of the enclosure that I made. I threw ontop another layer of nylon for added protection from light filtration.

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Here's a pic of the ladies:

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Here's some pics of their affliction:

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And lastly, some pics of the interior of the flowering room:

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this photo is going to be my main veg/cloning area once I get comfortable with growing:

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And lastly, these pics are of my 3 clones, 1 "ak47" little lady and 1 bagseed that I germinated and stuck in soil.

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well, it seems that the attachments didn't work. I'll re-post the pics in a bit.

I may have some unfortunate news.......my plants may be males from what I can tell. Could I get an expert's opinion? And if indeed they are male, is there anything that I can do with the leaves? brownies?

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I think you're right. Those BASTARD males! I must be one of the luckiest persons when it comes to female to male ratio. Last year 6 out of 6 seedlings were female, this year 10 out of 12 were female. My friend grew 7 plants from seed and 4 turned male this year. A few years ago 9 out of 10 I grew were female(too bad I fried 6 of them).