lookin damn good man, ive been watchin for a while-i hope my rhinos turn out that good. Can i ask you how many gallons/litres/inches your pots are that your using?
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lookin damn good man, ive been watchin for a while-i hope my rhinos turn out that good. Can i ask you how many gallons/litres/inches your pots are that your using?
looking nice.
here is what you have to look forward too...
3 different rhinos a couple of days from harvest...
Fat ass buds, but how are those tricomes? There's a lot of white hair still...they look like they could use more time. Are you avoiding couchlock?
cheers daze. yeah they do look like they need longer but tricomes are round about 20% amber, probably a bit less. getting chopped in the next few days for sure.
Omfg those buds are coming along well I'm lovin every update! Can't wait to see them later on :D.
Actually, those plants aren't white rhino. The seedlings that were started at the time of this grow log were though. Too bad all but 1 of them died :( Oh well, I have lots of white rhino & ak-48 seeds left, plus I asked for c99 seeds for christmas :D All 4 of those monsters are just bag seed, but I'll take a pic of the 1 surviving white rhino next time I get a chance. It is really small cause it was severely stunted, but it finally started growing again. If its a female, its getting cloned.
Smokin Dope: I'd give the seedlings a few weeks under fluorescents, like 2-3 total, then put them under that 1kw hps. They grow sooooooo much faster once they get some proper light.
MrGreenFingaz: Those are 5 gallon pots. They were transplanted into those pots on Oct 16th. See the pic I attached, thats what they looked like. They vegged from Oct 16th to Nov 11th in the 5 gallon buckets under that 1000 watt hps. 3 weeks and 5 days of vegging under 1000 watts turned them into that second pic. Thats what they looked like at day 1 of flowering
Dicklewis: I'm looking forward to that next harvest. This time around though, I'll at least get 4 different kinds of bud, cause each plant is from different bag seed.
And everyone else, thanks for all the kind words :cool:
Pics: Oct 16th - Nov 12th
Buds are looking amazing dude! :clap:
:joint1:
Splift -High....Woot!
Love -Calijay
On my way to go check on the girls, pic will be up this evening :cool:
Where are the pics?!
Sry for the delay, left the camera lol. Anyway, here they are:
More pics. Check out the way that one bushy top is shaped. That's what happens when you FIM right before flowering, like 1 week before and don't let it recover. Instead of 1 cola you get a cluster fuck of small ones that make a really big one. Couple different FIM'd tops and a regular one for comparison
Damn. I knew I'd be so impressed the next time I was to see those plants! They are coming along really well man! I actually believe I'm just as eager as you are for these things to be ready to chop down!
Nice!
Let me know if you get any herms on the white rhinos.. I've been having problems with mine.. seeds were Nirvana Standard.
nice work splifted.just gone through your whole process an i gotta say it fuckin impressive fa first grow man. i was just wonderin, what does fim mean
im confused.WEEDOS
Thanks for the kind words man, I'm proud of my girls :D
FIM'ing is a method of topping where you leave behind some of the growth instead of making it a clean cut. This can cause you to get 3-8 new growth tips instead of just 2 like a standard top. Its pretty cool.
Pic borrowed from www.drugs-forum.com/growfaq
YEAH splifted nice one man but the diagram has confused me, doyou cut the top and the shoots from the leaf joints aswell?
Nah, all you cut is the 2 sets of leaves that are poking out of the top. Like you know how at a top you have immature leaves that haven't opened yet and kinda point slightly up? Just cut off all but the very bottom of those. From the bottom, the leaves kinda look like a tear drop, fat where they are connected and skinny toward where the tips are forming. Cut down into the fat part leaving just a little bit of green still attached to the stem. Basically its just like a sloppy top.
FIM stands for "Fuck, I Missed!" according to the grow bible. Like someone was trying to do a normal top but didn't cut it all off by accident. Then I guess they left it and shat once they got 3-7 new tops instead of 2. There is no exact way to FIM, its more of a hit and miss type thing. Just leave some of the green around the edges when you cut the growth tip off. If you cut too much, you'll get your 2 normal tops. If get it right, you'll get your 2 new tops and then some more will start to form in the center where you left that junk. We tried to FIM like 7 tops on that one plant, but only managed to correctly do like 3 lol.
cheers for the briefing mate ill try that along with lst hopefully ill get it right with mine gotta go man i need a spliff LATAZ
Well, i half-assed some macro shots check it out. Last 2 are some decent nugs i picked up for 40 an 8th.
Ok, I'm gonna do a breakdown plant by plant with front and top pics. The first one is the "Blueberry Mid-grade" plant. It was the one that I only LST'd and never topped once. Its starting to smell kinda dank & fruity. It is by far the least seeded of the 4, I could only find maybe 3 seeds on the whole plant. Definitely the strongest indica of all the plants, it didn't stretch one bit until flowering.
This is the plant we topped at the 6th node then LST'd it. It has the fewest total buds, but by far the most large colas of any of the plants. Has a kinda pungent slightly rotting fruit aroma. Can't wait to weigh this one, it looks like it will be our 2nd heaviest yielder. Squeezing the buds shows that they are already dense, and they should continue to swell over the next 3-4 weeks
This is the plant that showed sex earliest of them all, and has showed no signs of hermaphroditism. This plant we LST'd and got about 7-8 main growth tops with a bunch of little bitty ones. It is definitely a stronger sativa variety, and looks very similar to Sloth, both in leaf structure and the way it grows. Long lanky branches that aren't as thick as the Blueberry Mid or the topped one. Even so, it appears it is going to be the heaviest yielder of them all.
We FIM'd a few of the 7-8 new tops that formed from LST'ing and the main top and left a few of the new tops un-cut to compare yields. After FIM'ing, the plant was only given approximately 1 week to recover before switching to flowering. It has given quite interesting results, with the FIM'd branches forming like hand-sized cluster of smaller nugs instead of a slightly fatter single cola. Stay tuned for reports on how those branches yielded vs the non-topped ones.
And last but not least, Sloth. This has been my retard plant since the beginning. It looks similar to the other sativa dominant plant, and is pretty stretchy. It was the first one to hermi and by far has the most seeds, with some almost mature seeds only 5 weeks into flowering. It is also the most crystalized & exotically fruity smelling one of the bunch. I've pinched a nug and dried it in the microwave, and caught a decent buzz off 2 rips....this thing is going to be a beast ladies and gentlemen. It appears that it will be the last one to finish flowering and probably the skimpiest yielder, but I'm really excited about seeing the finished product. The smell when you pick off a seed to look at it is amazing. Smells so fruity and sweet. The one that looks like it has a more tart fruity smell as opposed to the sweetness of Sloth. This plant was the first one of all of the plants to get LST'd, and it also had a few tops FIM'd to keep the stretch down since it and its twin were taking off compared to the other two.
Some more bud porn for ya :D
:eek: I lovez zee bud porn!!! lol! Lovely pictures man they just lookin' more beautiful with each update :D.
Damn your buds look sick man. What type of light are you using and damn, I need to LST my next plants for surew dude. I just dont have enought space to do all that. Good grow man, they look far out and your gonna have a nice harvest. Keep'em green man!!
Its a 1000 watt hps. The bulb is a hortilux superHPS which puts out 145,000 lumens, and we got it in a cool tube :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Weed4Life
splifted, i love you... a man after mine own heart...
my pix won't come up, but i'm fond of lst'd monsters myself;)
love, kp:p
they do look rather nice, how many heads on one plant!!!
im gonna have to try some of this LST shit, nice going :)
amazing
Yeah, the little bit of extra veg time pays off in the end I guess. I don't think I'll ever just grow trees, unless I have a lot more plants and am in a hurry. Something about 12 colas on a single plant makes me :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kindprincess
Next time I check on them, I'll try and give you a head count. Just of the big colas tho, cause some of them have like 40 something mini-tops.Quote:
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Thanks for all the kind words guys, I love this site because of ppl like yall.
god damn.. those look fucking delicious.. gotta post pics of the harvest when they are... props on that
That was a kick ass update dude, it sure as hell put a smile on my face. I can't wait to see what that second one weighs myself.
Thanks for stopping by my thread Splif. Sounds like you are blowing it up around here. Maby I will have to go back and read the whole thread, just have dropped in now and then, but this thing just keeps getting better.
How long do you usually veg for? I am just doing a bunch of test grows right now with different veg times, nutes and systems, soil, hydro and next coco, so I would like to know what you like about your set up and what you would change if you could, if you have the time to post your thoughts.
Adieu
Man, school's out for the semester, I have nothin but time blue :) This is still my first grow, so I guess i "usually" veg for 2.5 months, since thats what we ended up with this time. Lol, we weren't planning on vegging quite as long since we were planning on having more plants, but my friend kinda killed 22 out of 27 seedlings we had in a rapid rooter flat.Quote:
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Another thing that led to the long veg time was we started a group of White Rhino seeds from nirvana around Oct 30th (The 5 bag seed plants were already big enough to flower at this point) and for some reason we decided we would wait for the 10 rhinos to catch up and just flower them when they were like a month old. Well....lets just say my friend isn't too good at caring for seedlings, and of the 10 white rhinos, we have 2 like 4" seedlings (planted oct 30th, its Dec 18th and they have like 2 or 3 sets of leaves....)
So although we weren't originally going to veg them for 2.5 months, I think it worked out great in the end, gave us plenty of time to train the plants and experiment with different methods of training to see what works for us. I had some interesting results from some experiments, like FIM'ing a top on a LST'd plant only a week before flowering.
What I found works the best for the most even canopy with the most large colas is topping around 6-7 nodes & then low stress training. Where you top the plant, the main stem will quit growing up you know, so if you tie it over, you'll get about 2 colas for each node below the cut. The plant I did that to definitely looks like it is going to yield the most, and i have about 10 just giant colas on this thing, compared to about 4-6 big colas and lots of other little nugs on the other plants. (pics @ bottom: day it was topped to present)
What I'd change: I'd like to start growing from clone, because seed takes too long. We need to find a good mother. Thats going to happen next grow when we start only bought seeds. Also, I wouldn't veg quite as long, since I'd have more plants. That 1kw can definitely support more than 4 big plants, so I wanna get my money's worth. I wouldn't change a thing about the soil /nutes though, my plants loved the ocean forest soil + the fox farms system :eat:
You got any tips bear? I'm still a noob, and I lucked out and had success my first round. One thing I would suggest to fellow noobs is READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. I've read every grow article in high times, the indoor/outdoor bible by jorge cervantes, every grow faq on the net, and tons of posts on this and other sites. Doing your homework before starting makes life so much simpler. But then again, it is a weed and will grow like one, so don't try and over-complicate things either (i'm bad about this).
Of all the different styles of training we tried, topping once then LST'ing appears to give the most even canopy / highest yield / most large nugs.
We topped it then waited a couple days then tied it over. As the new tops formed at the nodes, they grew straight up in kinda a mess. Then we trained the new tops away from each other, like from each node you got 2 tops, I'd tie one top to the left, one to the right. And got this.
Hey, man. I told you in the chatroom, but wanna proclaim my love on the public boards, too. LOL
Love your LST skills. Wish I had skills like that. :(
Looking forward to your harvest! Hey, check out the new addition to 'my' growroom, the Cab of Life. *angels sing*
EXCELLENT GROW, SPLIFTED!
:clap:
TGF
good job spliff... i'd like to talk to you... stop by some time:)
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthrea...t=94127&page=3
love, kp:p
Hey Splif, well so far so good, I will try to make some time to read the whole thread and then give my two cents. Your right about 4 plants under the 1K, the only time IMO that you want that sanario is if your running 4 DWC buckets and can pull of 4 to 6 OZ per plant. I like the LSTing, but with my room I don't really have a need to do it, but occasionally when growing out different feno types I will have some that take off and do need to be tied down for their own safety.
Do you have a goal that your trying to meat with your next grow or two? I mean, do you want to try to run 15 plants and pull a pound, or something like that?? I may be able to give you more input if you have an idea of what you want to accomplish over the next few months.
PS, read, read and read more is some good advice. Adieu
Haha goals eh? Well, the *goal* would be 2.2 lbs, 1 gram for every 1 watt, but thats wishful thinking. I'd love guesses as to what I might yield this time, as pulled out of ones ass as they may be lol, cause I have no clue by looking. But yah man, were definitely planning on going with more plants/shorter veg time next time and taking clones before flowering (we didn't this time cause it was just bag seed). I don't really have a need for the LST'ing in that room either, i have tons of space, but since we only had 5 plants, we decided we were gonna go for max yield off them. That and originally we were gonna let the white rhino seedlings get big enough to flower before flowring the 5 big ones, but the rhinos did us the favor of kicking the bucket so we didn't have to wait quite as long after all lol.Quote:
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