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enhanced - haha shit, i remembered to measure the plants, but i almost forgot to post it lol... i totally went off reading some completely unrelated stuff and just remembered... the FIM'd plant i now standing at 25" tall, the other to are 31".
I killed the hermie a week or so ago... but when i killed it, it was about 36" tall.
the hermie was looking in really really sad shape and i didn;t care about it enough to try and figure it out, but i suspect it was a pH problem
hahaha wow... you have no idea how stupid i feel right now for having not thought of that... hahaha thanks shake!Quote:
Originally Posted by headshake
no worries my friend. lol.
it's kinda a pain in the ass, but it's worth it.
-shake
ssssoooo much better!! shake... you are the man! i don;t know how i didn;t think of that... the funny thing is, I have done exactly this already with the clones upstairs (prep'ing a couple mothers for the next grow that I'm going to use to make clones for a SoG grow next round I think).
Its amazing how I sometimes overlook the most obvious solution lol
the one on the close-right is the one i put something under.
edit: damnit, i tried to rep you, but silly boards are making me spread it around some more first!
lol. you just needed a reminder.
the ladies look amazing by the way!
-shake
Woooo.:stoned::stoned:
Starting to ripen up man!!
Can't wait to see all the orange hairs and furry buds. The odor and thickness of the calyxes will increase plenty more in the next week or two. :jointsmile:
They look damn great. :greenthumb:
begood syde
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Were these feminized seeds? I would be very curious to see a comparison of the males and females in veg but you didn't have any males except the hermie.
Nope, they are not from feminized seeds, I did have a 5th plant early on, but it had a pretty short life from a light falling on it and me not noticing for a couple hours :\ it had just barely popped out of the ground and was starting on its first true leaves when it happened, so I don;t think that'd be of much use :(
i did read your thread (i think it was yours) about having male plants that were very bushy and fem plants that were much taller though, seems very interesting, considering I think there was 7 plants? seems like too big of a coincidence in this case to not be linked to the sex gene somehow. would be really interesting to see if that characteristic would continue if you breeded them.
That would be interesting but since I don't know the strain I probably can't get any males again. I just couldn't think of a good place or want to expend the effort to keep males alive. So if I ever decide to make seeds they will all be feminized. The reason I'm thinking about the possibility of Cali Orange Bud genetics is that this page: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/i.../t-207224.html has the only reference I could find on this phenomenon via google. Here's the quote:Quote:
Out of the 10 Orange bud seeds 9 sprouted, ended up with 4 females, the most of them were males unfortunately, too bad the males looked better as the females did, weird thing is that 3 of the females are pretty tall and lanky, while ALL of the males are extremely short and branchy. Usually it's the other way around.. Anyways, got the 1 short female right below, pretty tight internodal branching, definitely gonna make some seeds with her.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...buiten2005.jpg
interesting! as much as i don;t want to say its too bad i didn;t get a male... well... for the sake of the experiment, its too bad i didn;t get a male lol.
I do have 5 more seeds, I'll have to try and remember to keep an eye out for that when I use them... not sure when that will be though, I'm hoping to do a SoG setup next round that i'll use clones from this grow as mothers for the SoG.
So I didn;t get around to my usual Sunday pic update... so here it is now!
Everything is still going pretty good... I noticed a little nute burn on the bottom leaves, which of course is completely my fault, i knew i was kinda pushing it, so I gave them a little bit of a mini-flush with my watering yesterday.
pic 1 - plant #2's top
pic 2 - plant #3's top
pic 3 - one of plant 4's top (FIM'd plant) - kind of a crappy picture, lots of leaves kinda got in the way
pic 4 - tight macro of plant 3's top that that shows its trichs pretty good
pic 5 - wide angle of the canopy - #2 is the one in the back, #3 is front-left, and #4 is front-right.
I'm thinking these guys I believe have a minimum of 2 weeks to go, but probably at least 3 more realistically... anybody have any thoughts on that based on these pics? i;m planning to give them one more shot of bloom nutes on the next watering and then I think i'll start going water-only
Im glad you found a solution to your high problem syde. I actually am using the shelving unit in my closet to hold my clip lamps and I found the best way is to use dvd cases. My shelves are about 10 inches apart so I couldnt really raise my lamps, still looking amazing tho, Thanks for the measurement as well, I should be able to reach that height, Im going to ahve to get 2-4 more 40 watters tho, the 23 wat bulbs dont do a good enough job.
Im glad you found a solution to your height problem syde. I actually am using the shelving unit in my closet to hold my clip lamps and I found the best way is to use dvd cases. My shelves are about 10 inches apart so I couldnt really raise my lamps, still looking amazing tho, Thanks for the measurement as well, I should be able to reach that height, Im going to ahve to get 2-4 more 40 watters tho, the 23 wat bulbs dont do a good enough job.
Loooooking goooood. Nice ladies you got there Syde00! Keep it up my friend because your doing something right! :jointsmile:
heh I actually had something perfect to put under the plant, had an old spindle from some speaker wire that was just the perfect height :)Quote:
Originally Posted by EnhAnceD
If you can find them - i'd recomend these ones (don;t buy them from this URL since they are crazy expensive!)
GENERAL ELECTRIC Fle29hlx/2/Xl827 Lamp, FLE29HLX/2/XL827
those are what I;m using in the reflectors - 2200 lumens for 29w, the 4 biggers ones I have in there are 2700 lumens for 42w - so the 29w ones give about 8 more lumens per watt
Thanks Italiano :D I have to give all the credit to all the excelent contributors on this forum though, I couldn't of gotten this far without all stuff i've learned here :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Italiano715
As great as the plants are looking, I;m looking forward to chopping them down and seeing them make me look like this :stoned: lol
speaking of reflectors, I just made another one with cardboard and tinfoil haha, its working great. I find it funny this is working, alot of people didnt think I could do it and complained how it was so hard, its interesting not hard. eitherway, looking great again.
Sunday night pic update! here we are at day 49 of flower, some hairs are starting to turn a nice deep orange!
pic 1- plnat #2s top
pic 2 - plant #3s top
pic 3 - one of plant #4s tops (FIM'd plant)
pic 4 - close macro of one of the tops
pic 5 - the overall setup
no sign of any amber trichs yet, i know these plants have a bare minimum of 1 week left, but i think its going to be closer to 2 or more. going to see if i can pickup a cheap microscope locally so i don;t have to rely on the camera to see them
good looking ladies you've got there syde!
radioshack for the microscope.
-shake
thanks alot shake :jointsmile:
I wish we still had "normal" radioshacks here! I'm in Canada, and radioshack a few years back changed to 'The Source - by Circuit City"... all they sell now is really really really crappy consumer electronics for the most part :( even before then, radioshack in Canada started heading that way anyways... the american radioshacks are so much more cooler!
edit: hrm, although, the source's website says they do have a microscope on clearance price atm... don;t think i've seen anything like that in the stores themselves, wonder if the web version stocks a little more
LMAO! that's one of the funniest things i've heard in a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by syde00
good luck with your 'scope search.
circuit city just went out of business in the states. lol.
-shake
nice girls ya got going there cant wait 2 hear a smoke report:D
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Originally Posted by headshake
haha yeah i know... radioshack is kind of by defination, uncool, but for the purpose its suppose to serve, yours are way better ;)
yeah, i heard about them going under in the states, i wish the source would go under.. they are just a big waste of space imo :p
nice looking buds dude. Considering we are using the same kind of lights I am looking forward to the upcoming weeks. I remember when radioshake left, I was like wtf, the source, screw them. Not that I shopped there, but I still never liked the source either. Ironic tho how circuit city went out in the states but lives here in canada, yet the shake is alive and thriving in the states but dead here. Oh well. Cant wait to see final product.
Well, its earlier than i normally do a pic update, but i had the girls out for a drink tonight, and i couldn;t help but notice how awesome #2 is looking
I've also noticed a little bit of the leaf tips curling UP... i know your suppose to hit a N def. late in flower, is this what it looks like at first?
they also seem to be getting alot more sticky! i can feel it all over my arms where the plants brushed up against them
pic 1 - wide angle shot of plnat #2 - its by far the largest - #3 hasn;t as many buds because i took additional clones from it, and #4 is FIMd
pic 2 - one of my many curling leaf tips
pic 3-5 random bud porn!
drooling dude. Man oh man. Hey I was wondering if you could put up a few pictures with the top of your lights, more like just your lamp setup. I have a really similar space and grow as you and Im curious/need some examples. My closet has shelves in it that i keep raising, and I am using similar lamp clips such as yours and Ive pretty much been clipping on both sides with y splitters but the light is all around the plant, not just on top. I dont like the shelves, want to put something I can just adjust you know. Again, amazing job on the buds man.
sure, here ya go
basically I just have a rectangular wooden square i made out of 2x2 that i hang from some hooks at the top using chains and then clip the lights onto that.
I've had a few different versions of the square thing... basically a few different sizes.
as you can see with what i have right now i;m pretty much at my max height... what i was going to do if that became a problem was make another wooden square thats not quite as wide and then clip the lights on horizontally instead of vertically and change the others in the middle to use more direct sockets instead of prong adapters to get them a little higher too... luckily i haven;t had to do this though... my plants haven;t gained much height at all in the last 3 or 4 weeks
very nice. I think my room is just alot bigger. the clip lamps I bought are more like desk lamps, I found the exact ones you have at canadian tire but there like 4 bucks more than the ones I have. I like how its set up. I may have to try something like that. And I have the shelving in there already so I could probably just measure the width of the room and add some 2x2 to hold the clip lamps. hmmmm I dunno. Im frusterated. I picked up this cronic 140 a ho and its way to strong. lol. My head feels like its gonna pop. Thanks alot for the pics btw.
ya, those ones i have came from canadian tire lol
the setup i have i find has worked fairly well... i wish it was a little wider and deeper though for this type of grow... i;m planning to try a sog grow next go around which i think will work out better in that box... either that or throw the plants into flower earlier than i did, they are just a little bit too large for the cab imo, and i think the secondary buds are suffering because of that
Welll.... after 58 days of flowering, the day to chop finally came! I read about a trick about using binoculars backwards to see the trichs since I knew my camera wasn;t cutting it, i found a bunch of amber trichs a couple days ago, so I gave it about another day and a half and chopped em today!
Heres some pics of the final plants
pic 1 - plant #2 - this one I think is the real bread-winner of the bunch
pic 2 - plant #3 - looks a bit sparse because I took a bunch of extra clones from this one
pic 3 - plant #4 - the FIMd one
pic 4 - the plants hanging
I have the plants hanging as a whole at the moment, but when I come back home later I think I'll cut the branches and hang them individually.
plan is to hang them for about a week and then trim and cure with mason jars
looks to be a wonderful looking harvest m8! Kudos to that! Now time to dry, cure, and get BLAZED!! :jointsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by syde00
wow dude, that is very impressive. I havent changed my light setup yet, But thanks alot for the imput. Im going to wait until next grow to see the difference. but ya man that makes me very hopefull since we both ran cfl grows.
Thanks guys :)
Yeah I found the CFLs worked pretty well, not that i really have a frame of reference yet. My lower buds are definatly nothing to write home about, but I suppose that was expected for the most part... it probably didn;t really help that my plants stretched a bit more than I had anticipated and the box got a little more crowded than I had orignally intended.
All in all though, I'd say it was a pretty successful experiment, I do think the CFLs are probably a little better suited to a SoG or SCroG setup, I;m going to try a SoG on the next round, I have the mother plants vegging right now... the plan for that grow is going to be take cuttings from the mother, once they have rooted I;m going to top them as early as possible, give them a few days to recover from the topping and grow out the new tops slightly, then send them into 12/12.
the idea will be to have alot of really small topped plants - the FIMing was cool on the current grow, but I think the extra shoots from FIMing compared to what topping would have been, was basically just not really worth it, the middle shoots just didn;t grow tall enough and got crowded by the fan leaves off the other shoots so they didn;t get too much light.
I think the mothers for the SoG setup should be ready to start taking cuttings from in a week or two
Hey,
I have just finished reading your grow log the plants look great.
I want to start growing myself and was wondering how much in terms of weight did you get per plant?