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Well, to quote stinky - hope this helps the decision somewhat. You can probably find more on it if you look. I just came along it and decided to send it along to youQuote:
Originally Posted by bijnas
Stresses and problems:
Things that can cause stress and eventual hermaphroditism among your plants, and the ways to prevent them, include the following:
-Light leaks. Check during the dark period to be certain no light is coming through cracks or ductwork.
-Heat stress. Keep temperatures below 85 F at all times. 75 or thereabouts is comfortable for your plants during their lights on cycle. Spikes up to 95 will not kill the plant, but are a source of stress. Night temperatures should be only 10-15 degrees F less than day temps. Low temps are also dangerous, and if you grow in a cellar, lift your plants up off the floor on shipping pallets or a table.
-High humidity. Humidity more than about 50% runs the risk of mold in your buds. Again, cellars can be dangerous. An application of Kilz oil-based primer on exposed moist concrete is a way to help kill and prevent mold that is already present. Old carpeting can also harbor mold spores. Moldy buds are dangerous, can cause respiratory ailments, and should NEVER be smoked under any circumstances.
A rootbound condition. Allow about a gallon of soil per foot of main stem that your plant will finish at. A plant flowered at 1 foot will be very happy in a 3 gallon pail with PLENTY of drainage. Holes drilled up the sides of the pot are wonderful to help aerate the roots, prevent root rot, and aid in uptake of nutrients. A plant that has been aggressively trained and pruned will naturally need a larger pot- just use your instinct when choosing pot sizes. Free pots can be found out back of the Hadley Garden Center on Rt9 in Hadley MA in a large wooden crate. They should be thoroughly bleached before use. The square white pots sold by Liquid Sun in Putney VT are IDEAL for flowering indoor soil-grown plants, and I typically finish a trained plant at 24? in a pot like that.
The last thing you want to do is go rootbound during flowering.
Good luck :)
More Ms. Stinky wisdom - This was actually a reply to someone flowering with 2 liter pots
Here's the problem with tiny pots:
Not only do you have wild fluctuations in moisture, and it's hard to keep up with watering, but the amount of actual media compared to the amount of root mass is relatively small, and you'll see problems with soil chemistry too, resulting in nutrient lockouts.
Bigger pots time! First, and do this right away, FLUSH the pots well with plain tap water at pH 6.7 to rinse out any excess fert salts. Let the plants chill for a day or so, long enough to dry the soil out again. Now find a pot that is about a gallon per foot of stem height- your plants look like they would like a 2-3 gallon pot. Take your favorite soil mix and add more perlite if it is not freely draining. Find the level that the plant should sit in the pot, fill the pot with soil until it will hold the plant at that level, put in the plant (turn the whole thing upside down and slap the bottom of the pot hard- the root ball should slide out with no damage), and backfill around it with the rest of the soil. The soil surface should be the same in relation to the STEM, and an inch below the rim of the pot. Now give a LIGHT watering with a ~1/4 strength fertilizer solution. If you have superthrive, now is the time to use it- only 1 drop per gallon! more is not more, lol
very good advice ... JackForest is correct about the SuperThrive, too - ONLY one drop/gallon ... that stuff is surprisingly concentrated, can kill plants if overdone (ST is a great rooting-aid, but that's all it does, don't fall for all that crazy advertising on its label, reminds me of the old 'medicine-show' days :D) ... your plants look nice, keep it simple, and don't 'overlove' them ... :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackforest
Hah, I wish I could take credit for that advice. But I was just quoting the talented StinkyAttic.Quote:
Originally Posted by the image reaper
I'm just merely spreading information to where it's needed :thumbsup:
Perhaps you can find the largest pots your rubbermaid can accommodate 6 of. Actually may not need 6 if they are not a female, can't remember if your seeds were feminized.
Anyway, they look great :thumbsup:
No, they're not feminized, just bagseed for thsi first grow. I have 10 seeds of Blue Dynamite from Next Generation Seed Co. for my next grow, but I didn't want to grow those on my first since I had no experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cede2Weed
So should I just keep them in the 2 liters and wait til flowering to see sex? And transplant the females? Is it okay to transplant during flowering? I still don't really understand the pre-flowering thing, I can't tell the difference yet I guess.
from what I have read, if you pre-flower for sexing, then go back to veg, it will add anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks to your length to harvest. You could then use that re-veg time to trnsplant your females into larger pots. Hopefully a more experienced grower will offer more advice here.
Wish I had link for you, but I also read you need one gallon of sail for every foot of height at harvest. More with LST and SCROG. This has me reconsidering my veg time on my personal grow. As I simply do not have the space for all that dirt.
My recommendation would be to assess your goals for this grow in terms of height and work backwards from there. I assume the perils JackFrest and ImageReaper mentioned would be mitigated if you were to limit the size of your plants by going to flower early. Anxious to hear others opinions.
Good luck, they look great so far!
Yep those plants are going to get awfully root bound in those pots..
I'm with cede2weed on that one, find the biggest pots you can fit, probably square ones, and transplant now or maybe go to 12/12 now and repot the females as soon as they show.
Just been doing the same shit.
Added the top part of the box because the lights were starting to burn the plants. I also stopped LSTing because the plants are soooooooo bushy already. I did some timming to let light get to the more important nodes under the foliage. I also think I'm dealing with a few different strains here. Some of the leaves are most definitely indica, but others have thin leaves and seem like they might be a cross but more sativa dominant. I guess we'll see. Still can't figure out the pre-flowering thing, so I don't know what the plants will be so I don't want to transplant them. I'm going out of town this week, so I'll have a friend take care of them, and when I get back I'm going to start 12/12.
So here are some pics:
1: plantsss
2: the extreme bushiness
3: inside of top
4:new box
5: trimmings
Looking good, Bijnas! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Can't wait to see the growth when you return
you AND bombdiggity are goin on vacations from your plants!? There is gonna be such crazy ass growth coming
Cant wait!
Well, something has apparently gone wrong and the people looking after my plants are retarded maybe. But they called me last night while I was just really really high, and were all worrying me about my plants having splotches and shit. Then I started asking them some questions, and apparently the MAX temperature in the box was 114! So I don't know whats happened, because I never had a problem with temps. I had them take out two light bulbs, and make sure all the fans were in order. I'm going to have them give me an update tomorrow.
Here are the shitty camera phone pics they sent me:
oops, here are the pics:
Damn! 114 degrees? thats pretty hot! were the people watching your plants not under the relization that plants don't like temps over 85 degrees?
Sorry to hear about that man:( I hope your whole crop isn't burned
Well, I left instructions (very detailed) and Jorge Cervantes Grow Bible. SO it leads me to assume they're just stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by gpickett6224
OMFG!
I just got a call from the ringer in my apartment complex, a friend told me that the cops were in my apartment and they were arresting people.
I don't know the whole story yet, since it's still happening and I haven't been able to talk to anyone who is in the apartment. But from what I hear, two plain clothes cops came to my building in an unmarked car. The people I left in charge of my apartment, were apparently smoking, and the cops just came in because I guess the smelt it. Then they apparently searched the apartment and found my rubbermaids. They also found a note that I wrote for instructions for caring for the plants. They then arrested the girl who was "in charge" of the apartment for cultivation. And now she's in jail. So I don't know what's really going down, and I'm really really worried.
I'm supposed to go back home on Sunday, but now I'm worried they might be looking for me? I checked NORML and in my state more than 5 plants is a felony, and I had 6. So now my friend is in jail and I don't know if I have a home to go home to. Will the cops notify my landlords, will they evict me? Am I going to get arrested when I get back home and go into my apartment? If I come forward at her court date and say that they were my plants, will I get charged and they'll acquit her? She was taking care of them, so I wonder if that actually counts as cultivation, and me coming forward would just get both of us in trouble? Are they going to look up my lease and arrest me anyways?
If anyone knows anything, please, omg tell me what I should do!
You f**ked up. You dont tell ANYONE you are growing let alone let people watch over your plants, do you understand the gravity of whats going on?
When a law states its ILLEGAL you want to stay out of the obvious yes? So why the hell would you let your "friends" look after YOUR house and PLANTS... There isnt much you can do. The cops have your details obviously from your place you were renting... and at that why would you grow in a place YOU DON'T OWN :S
God.
You could try and take them to court saying they barged into the house and searched it against your friends word and did NOT show a warrant. But then again, it isn't your property and the landlord has the right to search your rental property.
Pretty much, if Marijuana is illegal in your country.. Stay away from it. If you cant stay away... KEEP IT TO YOURSELF.
Good luck. Hows the grow? :hippy:
why were the cops at your apartment anyways?
well its illegal and in most places they take this very seriously. enjoy yourself t ill you get back as much as you can because im sure there will be something waiting for you. sorry man.
Holy shit dude thats got to suck !
I wish u the best of luck for whatever happens
Bijnas, really, really sorry to hear this. Friends...
In all seriousness, contact a criminal defense attorney. I believe you stated your city in an earlier post. The reality is, despite the code, they have much larger problems to deal with. Someone called them, and they had to respond. The case must now be disposed of. The easier they can dispose of the case, the easier things will go on you and your "friends". Unless you have a criminal background and are under some sort of probation you are not going to go to prison. You are going to get in trouble, no way around that, but they will probably drop it to a misdemeanor. You may have a suspended sentence and a short amount of unsupervised probation. Basically, some bureaucracy is going to use the threat of jail to get you to pay them a monthly stipend until you "debt" to the all mighty government is paid.
Best advice I can give: Do not freak out and make things worse. Get a lawyer. Know the sun will come up and you will get past this. You will be a little lighter in the pocket and a great deal wiser.
Growing dope is kewl, but some kewl things need to be kept to ourselves, especially when dealing with young people, no offense.
Good luck and please do keep us posted. Man, first they fry your plants, then they party in your place and out you. Really hope it is not your girlfriend. Anyway, good luck and take care.
For anyone who is wondering whats going on, check out this thread about all the legal shit im going through right now:
http://boards.cannabis.com/legal/154...ce-please.html
Well I was cleaning my apartment after the bust and I remembered I had this in a book:
Hey chief,
I read what you went through in the "Bust" thread, and I also think you handled the situation pretty well, considering the flack you caught for it over there. I'm sure you've learned some serious lessons from all of this, and I hope things blow over as quickly as they came on, giving you the inspiration you need to get something going again one day.
Best of luck to ya. :thumbsup: