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a couple of different phenos and one odd stretchy plant that's still just starting to flower.
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a couple of different phenos and one odd stretchy plant that's still just starting to flower.
Thanks, was wondering, and they look great!
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this is the skinny girl. tallest of all it had tree tops. I busted one tip accidentally and bent the other two over to try and even the canopy. This one looks like it will be the last one standing.
How tall is she, looks like 4-5 ft, huge.
They are in 5 gallon pails and that plant was about 30", I'd guess.
How many indoor harvests you you usually get per year? Those girls are looking nice. They're keeping daddy busy! :)
Photos of the grow area and each plant from the most indica leaning to the sativa end. The sativa #9 is the tallest but barely starting to flower. I think 11 or 10 hours of light may help this or putting her into darkness for a day or three. I had to supercrop the tops on #9 as they were getting pretty high, as are #s 8 and 7.
Photos from #1-#9
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And my redneck grow area with white cardboard reflectors to keep the light on the plants, where it's needed
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Redneck?...Hahaha, looks good to me! Great looking Girls Shovelhandle, I aspire to such results. Love these Grow logs, I need to do one start to finish as well.
Nice grow man!
My ex was a carpenter for Ryland homes (cheap construction, CHEAP materials, over priced pre-fab houses)! He used to bring home end rolls of off brand stuff that was like tyvec. No printing, solid white. We'd tape & staple sheets of it from the ceiling to form a tent around the grow. Shit worked great, & my favorite price. FREE! I love cardboard too. Pretty rugged, & takes paint well. You can reconfigure your walls to conform to ea grow, more practical than plywood. Paint? One coat for cardboard, 3 coats for plywood. I use white tyvec type for putting things like this together. White is good, but it like it because it keeps its tack even when wet. Purchase price a little bit more than duct tape, but you don't have to ever reapply, it sticks much better. I like your set up, practical, functional & not over priced! :) :) :)
Noticed you using some bags, for some of your indoor(cats camper grow), not used that small a size. Benefits over pots?
Used big soft pots outdoors, and in greenhouse. Really like the way roots can go through bottoms to make root zone bigger.
Growing some really nice plants!!!
I use 3 gallon bags, love 'em! But when I tossed all the other strain and had only nine plants left I transplanted into 5 gallon pails. I have a couple of 5 gallon grow-bags but I like to keep them all the same.
Quessing with bags that size, you must cut to transplant, one time use.
well I usually do not transplant from the three to a five gallon. But I did cut the bags to transplant this time. $.30 each, cheap enough.
Pick a nice one, and you've got a Xmas tree in the house
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Originally Posted by tlranger
Yeah! & if you have one with that piney smell, you've got it made! MERRY CHRISTMAS! ;)
I can't get a piney smell from a glade pine scented air freshener. I don't sniff so great, I guess. But I can inhale. :jointsmile::stoned::rasta::rastasmoke::smokin::pi mp:
Hey! Like the party you're habing on your post! Which one am I? LOL! ;) ;) ;)
:hippy:
Party on dude!! Sounds like a movie line. :jumphappy::rastabanna::woohoo:
Shut down the grow lights and misted all the plants. Took photos while I was waiting for them to dry so to turn the lamps back on. I tried to center one plant in each photo.
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Hey Shovel - why do that? Is that for foliar feeding or another reason?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shovelhandle
Outdoor plants and house plants all love a bath once in a while, so do crop plants. You can add a little something nutritious or just water and a surfactant. They do like it
BTW, I was just doing a preliminary estimate of cost savings for electricity by running from seed directly to 12 hours of light instead of the usual eight weeks of 18 hours a day of lighting for the veg period before blooming. It looks like a HUGE difference even if the crop takes twenty weeks total 12/12 compared to eight weeks of 18/6 and then 10 weeks (or more) of 12/12. It would be more like 12-14 weeks for most of the phenotypes and possibly more for the one late bloomer. From the looks of it I should pull good yield anyway.
[QUOTE=Shovelhandle;22608 from seed directly to 12 hours of light instead of the usual eight weeks of 18 hours a day of lighting for the veg period before blooming.
Pretty amazing, have done this several times in my SOG system and only seem to grow almost individual buds, with little or no branching, yours look great.
Ranger, is that from seed, or clones? My seedling bush out, but my clones can give me just a big single cola if I go 12/12 as soon as they root.
-- So how did the old wives tail hold up? Did that seem to give you a higher male to female ratio. Can you remember the early High Times mag telling us vegging less than 8 wks raised the number of males? I took that as fact for years & just went with it, but it doesn't seem to be true. Beautiful girls!
-- My RH hasn't went over 21% since I turned the heat on, sometimes as low as 17%. So I spray mist often. Sometimes foilar feed, but always a few drops of dish soap in which ever I'm using. Keeps the buggers away! :) :) :)
Ok, that's true, but I'm thinking about extra early in green house and temp may play a role in my variety. Starting a bunch for outdoor very early, seems like they sex right away, move some under lights 12-12 and they keep budding, move others outside into garden where the days are starting to get longer and warmer and those will slip back into veg for the summer. That way I didn't spend much time transplanting males.
But have read on forum about plants having to reach a maturity, before they really start budding, so quessing you guys are right!:jointsmile:
Shov, since they took a little longer to bud, I'm wondering if a compromise may be in order, like maybe trying 2wks of veg before 12/12? Just a thought. I'm always looking to tweek things here & there. Next time I take clones, I'm sticking one straight into 12/12. I usually give them about 1wk to start developing roots first, but since clones are chronologically the same age as the mother plant, it SHOULD flower just as fast. Unusually if I see I'll be out of smoke before my outdoor harvest, I'll take a couple of clones & put them in flower as soon as they root. If going into flower straight from the cut doesn't slow them down, that would give me a faster, shorter SOG. Be a great way of growing out a fast seed crop too, when you find an exceptional male. :) :) :)
clones are a totally different grow style, imo. I do 95% seed plants. So many seeds, so little time.
Do consider that the natural source of many sativa were in the tropics. In the tropics the length of day and night are very smell compared to artic zones. On the equator 11.5 hours of light may be winter and 12.5 hours for summer ( I guess, or something like this). So a hybrid with traits of the topical gene source may like 12/12 hours right on through. And a little bit of extra dark to flower 'em.
That ^^^ makes sense.
Good Info! That would explain the Indica strain I have from Hawaii. It's growth spurt really doesn't occur until 12/12. I wonder if they would like a shorter veg time than 18/6?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shovelhandle
Interesting, I should look into that.
Very Interesting. My current group of flowering girls are also "Indica dominant", and the fastest growth I ever saw on them was the first week that I went to 12/12. I grew them at 18/6.Quote:
Good Info! That would explain the Indica strain I have from Hawaii. It's growth spurt really doesn't occur until 12/12. I wonder if they would like a shorter veg time than 18/6?
Interesting, I should look into that.
18 hrs light is perfect veg, just don't veg so long to keep them a more manageable size at finish. Remember, most strains add another 2/3 in size while in flower! But Shov is right about the sativas. But most of the sativa strains found have at least a little indica in them to speed them up, make them shorter, denser & faster. I think pure sativas are a pain in the ass indoors! I'll leave lugging around the big pots to Shovel, he's not afraid of those big tall ladies. I'm only 5'2" & they just beat me up! ;) ;) ;)
Shovel
You smokin the different types yet? Have a favorite?
TLR, I am smoking the summer harvest. All Mr Nice Seeds product. Shit, NL5 x Sk1 and the European Outdoor.
OMB sez " I wonder if they would like a shorter veg time than 18/6?
Interesting, I should look into that." My one late bloomer pheno definitely needed a shorter light period to begin flowering. I've grown out Neville's Haze a few times and I could have had better/quicker results with a shorter day length.
I will be putting up some new photos of the grow later today showing the lower buds tric development and the upper buds filling out very well. The plants are now on 10.5 hours of light a day. I will also check for tric color on the lower buds. It will be impossible to harvest the all the bottom nuggets before the tops finish but that's fine. The one late bloomer is going strong. It needed to increase in dark time to get going. I'll finish it with 10 hours/day of light. I probably won't be smoking any until they are harvested and cured. We'll see later today if I can guess when harvest may begin. It will be in stages as the different phenos are maturing at different rates. Thanks for watching, gang!
Can't wait for the next pics! You know I'm a voyeur & like watching! LOL! I once had some sativa bag seed that just wouldn't bud under 12/12 either. It was a pain having different strains, different heights & different requirements. That's the grow that led me to love clones! All from the same mother, same height & requirements. I'm lazy, would rather sit back, watch them grow & smell the flowers than work my butt off! But I guess I'm not all that lazy, otherwise I'd just sit back & watch yours grow! LOL! ;) ;) ;)
I did update on MNS forum if you don't mind checking there, Cat. This grow thread is getting long at 5 pages and the plants still have a while yet to go. Thank you! :hippy:
I have recently discovered that my canopy temp was a bit warmer than I thought. But now we are having a severe cold snap so I'm having to keep an eye on the area getting too cool. Gotta go check that out now.
Just a couple of quick update photos of a couple of plants.
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