My first grow

Deaner,

That is a beutiful sight.

What I did at this point in my last grow was a do heavy pruning and remove all the large fan leaves. This allows light the get to the lower buds and promotes growth of the budlets. The plant will look kind of naked when done but will quickly rebound with new leaves in days. Then trim any leaves that grow directly over a bud only.

I will go back in my log and get a pic of what my plants looked like after pruning and post it for you.

Here are the pics of my plants at the start of week 4. As you can see I left the top 4 sets of fan leaves on all the colas except the ones over the center of the plant, I also left some of the outer fan leaves. The main reason for the pruning is to get light to the as many buds as possiable.

Then in the other pic I removed all the under growth to get good air flow and all the small branches that will amount to nothing, I do this so the plant won't waste energy on growing small buds only the main buds.

Can't get the pics to attach will post next, have to reboot:)

One other thing was when I pruned the lower branches I cloaned them and ended up with 36 very healthy plants.

ooops first is wrong pic but results of this pruning.

Hopefully this is the correct pic.

here a few pics of some leaves that I think got munched on. some of the leaves are curling at the tips like in the photo. Thanks for the advice on pruning i did a little this morning, trying to get rid of the undergrowth that is making watering hard. I've heard both sides of the pruning the leaves argument, but you obviously know yer shit so I will do some more pruning. The other pics are my new ones the big ones are a week out of the dirt, the little sprouts are only a couple days out. The question marked ones are big bud, the satori has me excited, the article in high times about mandala confirms my suspision that they carry the right seeds for my needs. Thanks JG for taking the time to help me so much.

mylar diamond sheeting>foil hands down

nice grow :thumbsup:

:edit: is that foil?

its one of those emergency blankets, mylar i think, i hate the shit, the tape comes off, the mylar tears, ive spent so much tme trying to keep that thing on the walls. I wanna upgrade to the nice stuff when cash permits. eventually will line the whole closet with some good 2 mil mylar or something better, never heard of mylar diamond sheeting, is that the thick, kinda insulated kind? 97% reflective it says at the grow shop, but its expensive! like 100 bucks to line my whole closet.

heres a comparison of my trimmed smaller plant next to my tallest, a couple bud close ups and an overall shot

its starting to look crowded in there. I assume its better to have them pushed a little into each other and the wall, then out of the sun, not touching? Am I right? Other than that they just keep growing and flowerering, looking yummy. I got some really great local stuff, wow, ive been in the wow shit for a few weeks, a little dry spell, and bam! :jointsmile::stoned:

veg room has been relocated, very nice, so much light and mylar, its like a tanning bed. Got exhaust for the flower room, 250 cfm sucking from the hood of my light. Got a couple in veg I'm eyeing for moms, hard when you don't know whats what as far as sex. My veg room is so nice, I can grow 8 all the way to harvest in there if I want but they will only be making 8 weeks or so before they hit the flower box, will get pics posted tommorow, tommorow is day one of no weed til harvest, gotta take a break so I can go back to being normal for a while, decrease my tolerance a bit. Fuck me, I hate it, but it's the way it's gotta be. Least my veggin room is really nice, they are getting lst'd and fimmed and topped and I'm just learning and experimentin on stuff, gonna be some beauties in there, just hopefully a good portion of girls.. This is my last time being stoned for a while unless i land in some cash or someone hooks a brutha up,if not then fuck em when my girls get harvested.

ok, at what point do i change the nutes? I heard I switch to straight water at some point near the end, i was thinking 3 weeks but wanna make sure. I will just keep doin what I'm doin til I hear otherwise. They getting Sweet, and botanicare bloom nutes. Growing every day, smellin better everyday too, some of the hairs have turned a little rose, so much trichomes, I got a bit on my camera when taking some shots in there. They are at a month into flower now, I'm thinking another month, but if ones done a little early.. well that'd be great! Soon as one goes out another will go in. Perpetual stone from march of '08 til death. :dance::woohoo:

Damn Deaner they look like my plants!!!! You have graduated to a true grower by the looks of your plants:)

As for nutes keep them going untill the end of week 7, then go to plane water. You are close to the stage where the leaves will start to yellow. Do not be alarmed by this, it is normal. I would not do any harvesting till after week 8. You are about to go into the ripening stage and red pistols are a signal of the begining of this. The buds will beging to swell and put on weight they will also start to get that powdered sugar look.

I reccomend reading up on trichs so to determine when is the best time to harvest, by looking at the trics they will be 3 differant colors Clear, Cloudy, and Amber, these colors can help you at harvest and determine when the plant is ready to harvest.

Other than that great work!!!!!! :)

thanks i was wondering about the leaves and i will mark the end of week seven on my calender. gotta run, i will get some pics up soon.

here they are in order from left to right in order of the soonest to harvest to last (in my guesstimation)

heres some buds, they always look so much better before i compress them. these are also end of 6 weeks flowering shots. the one on the right is of my favorite, i think its the farthest from being ready to harvest. I am seeing the trychs thru my camera, so thats good when it gets time to start really watching them in a few weeks.

Was beginning to wonder what was going on in your grow.

I see everything is fine. very nice pics. The last pic in the individual plants is a monster:) what strain is it?

If you just finished week 6 they are looking great and you learned well grasshopper:)

Just keep the temptation at bay.

hey thanks for checkin in on my lil grow man. I dont know any strains, the big one, the bottom photo, is a seed from a freinds grow, it was good stuff, fruity and stout, my first plant actually. A buddy just said I should bend the colas down so they get more light, like bend them out at a 45? I just dont see anyone else doing that in pics. Keep in touch with my log JG, you have helped all along. I will get my veggin plant pics on here soon, when I find my camera, short term memory loss my ass! Any chance I will get any seeds from these plants?

Oh, big question:
would seeds from brickshitweed grown outdoors in british colombia be worth planting indoors or out? I got a stealthy lil spot in mind outside that I may start them a month before spring indoors, and let them grow in the alaskan summer sun. also maybe wonder if they would fair ok indoors, worth the trouble since I already have alot of seeds? I'm thinking its decent shit that was just left unattended, flavor is spicy, kinda indian foodish flavor, exotic, or maybe thats just the taste of shitweed. Not sativa, hybrid maybe.

Good question.

With the amount of good seeds you already have that will be enough to satisfy your personal needs but if you want to do a gorilla grow for distribution you could go the bag seed route, keep in mind you will only get mid grade price for it.

I am going to do a few gorilla grows this season by investing in some outdoor strains and using cloans.

As for getting seeds from your current plants you need to do selective pollination at around week 3 of flowering. First you need a pollinating male, take a paper bag and cover a branch or cola of a male and shake. Then go to a female lower branch that is starting to flower fully cover with bag and shake again, mark that branch for easy indentification at harvest. Only these buds will have seeds not the entire plant by doing this.

Left to right
overall shot on left
then tallgirl and j5 together
then tallgirls top cola (closest to being ready I think, opinions?)
then bottom is j-5's top cola (2nd closest I think)
I named them for ease of keeping track, names are very creative huh? keep it simple senior is my motto.

now a couple of bestgirl (top left and middle) and a couple of fatgirl (top right and bottom),notice the second pic (middle of top row) ,those are budsites going all the way to the bottom, i thought it was cool. bottom pic is closeup of fat girls top cola. After the pics I pulled bestgirl down a bit to let in some light cuz she looks to be a long ways out, and the tops getting cooked.

here they are, my vegger's. Please look up if u havent already cuz my flowering shots are pretty nice. They are getting the rough treatment with lst, topping, and fimming, its getting crowded and am hoping for some advice on which to throw into flower first when it comes to that.. i have 5 speed queens 1.5 month old, 4? bubblegums same age, a female cheese same age, 2 bigbuds only a couple weeks old and 2 satori same age. there could be one or 2 that im wrong on strain though.

top row left to right:
left 6, right 5, 2 big buds and 1 satori
bottom row: lst in action, red node, is this normal, ok?

Very nice pics Deaner. You have some major buddage going on there.

As for harvest can you see the trich's to see the clear, cloudy, and amber?

It can be up to 11 weeks before a plant is ready, 8 week is a minimum.

As for placing plants in the flower box put the 5 speed queen in first.

best i can tell they are white and clear, but im goin off my camera and zoomin way in when i look at the pics later, thought i had something around the house to see them, but im really not looking until 8 weeks, so end nutes end of week 7 then start looking closer at trychs at end of 8 weeks?

and when, age wise is it good to throw veggers into flower? i think i did a month last time and am happy with my shorter plants, nowhere near 42"s like yours JG! i got my female widows today, yahoo, wanna worry bout the ones in flower and veggin first, and getting good clones before they come out of the baggie, so i figure the widows about june.

Deaner,

To get good yeilds I find a veg of 6 to 8 weeks is best, ( longer veg bushier plants, more buds) :)

Keep in mind the first week and half is considered sprouting stage, not veging. So your speed queens are 4 1/2 weeks into veg.

yeah i dont count the sprout stage, the date they have on the pot is the date they went into the 2 gallon pots which is probably around a week or so in a paper cup first getting only water. The oldest went in 2 gallon pots on 1/16, i just worry about them goin into flower with most of the plant on one side of the pot or some other lack of symetry caused by lst, and the end up tippin over when the get to flowering. With 2 out my space issues will be under control. I am also wondering if I'm giving them nutes too early, they start getting nutes when they get into the 2 gallon pots and into the veggin stage. but they look ok so probably ok.

ok, so end of week 7 is end of bloomin nutes, but there is a big difference in maturity with these girls, i am givin them a half watered down mix of nutes today. How longs it take for all the nutes to get flushed out so they are ready? i guess a week of straight h2o is good, but only the one plant is a week away. Am i thinking correctly or am i way off here? 2 of them are just bursting with new growth, so this means they have a good ways to go right?

Holy smokes, NICE GROW!!!!

my plant ive been calling bestgirl is really beggining to worry me. alot of brown and yellow leaves, and the buds look a long ways from being ready, can the plant die before the buds mature? hopefully im just being a little paranoid. Could i need to water and/or give more nutes?

heres some pics, they look like seeds, but they are shootring out hairs so im ok right? please comfort this anxiety laden stoner..

please look and tell me something.. Looks to be in trouble but the buds are a ways off (I think) from being done. little top leaves are dying and I'm worrying..

And look above for my other pics of possible problems, help a brutha out!!

JG!! Help!! I dont think them are seeds cuz the hairs, i squished one and it was like a zit. Both those are my best plants, the one with the seed lookin things looks so good, and the yellowing one is by far the biggest producer.

I started 12 clones, 6 bubblegum, 3 speed queen, 3 cheese, so maybe tommorow, a couple go in to the flowering room!

That fatgirl is a hermaphrodite...

You should post in the plant problem section....maybe someone can help....

i am weak. Did some sampling with the quick dryng in the oven and hit it, and wow, i think this gonna be some really good stuff, better than 90% of the bud i see around these parts. Taste kinda shitty but guessin its cuz its too early. got real stoned but the good happy, dance fever, slap the wife on the ass, kinda stone. lasted 45 minutes which was surprising cuz thats actually a long time for me. i think fat girls balls arent balls but calyxes, big fat round bursting balls are girl balls right?

definately a hermie!

its seems true, and thats what im hearing, but the balls continue to burst and bud, they have the red hairs squirtin out, they pop out and turn into flowerish things and then just kinda roll out into the budness, if its a hermie will it wreck my other females?, wish i had more time to be on here researchin, i may be wasting my time with a log, time better spent reading old stuff, no time to learn shit cuz i waste it here, i just wanna chop some shit down so i can smoke it, cant buy a loupe in this damn town, people dont know what a loupe is, people are very stupid and a loupe isnt exactly a common thing, so where do i get one? who do i ask? i steal one from a jeweler right? the jeweler at walmart didnt even have one. fuck me, guess i gotta use a credit card and order one, super.

Deaner,

Sorry I am on vacation and haven't been checking in as often.

First off you DO NOT HAVE A HERMI!!!

What you are seeing are the final stages of ripening. Mine looked similar to yours at this stage I also thought I was going to get seeds but had none.

You don't have to have a loupe, a good magnifing glass can work.

yeah, though they looked like balls, i went with my gut, the bud on that plant looks really special, wish i could capture the photos better. j5 and fatgirl are getting really frosty, j5 will have the best yeild for its little size, i think i got cloning down now, well timing is everything right? i will post pics of bestgirl, i am worried, looking so dried up (the leaves), but its huge, and id guess double what any of my others will yeild, so its gotta make it, but the buds are only growing, not ripining, maybe i got one of those 13 week to flower sativas?

so fatgirl is still fatgirl, came close to calling her lola, l-o-l-a loooo la,
i would have loved her just the same, but i like my ladies all lady.

I see absolutely no evidence of actual male sex parts on that plant. If those of you who voted hermie would save that image, go into edit, and circle what you believe to be nanners, we'll have a look.

HOWEVER when you [deaner] says 'flower-looking things', I think 'uh oh male flowers' since female flowers don't actually look flower-y. The males, however, have a form that does look like tiny flowers with pale yellow petals.

so heres some pics of bestgirl, as you can see, this is my biggest yeilder (I hope) and its maturing the slowest, and getting the yellowest and dryest, most the leaves are gone or dead, and the bud is just shootin hairs. Can a flowering plant die before the buds mature? The rest of the plant seems healthy, the stems are springy, like a boner, so it seems healthy.

i guess i will know the sex on those other 2 soon ,and all my clones look good, stickin straight up and zero yellowing on the leaves. 6 bubblegum clones from 2 different plants, and 3 from a speed queen, and 3 from a (i think) feminized cheese. Big clones, no nutes, aquafina water, dome, in groban cubes. light is whatever they get in the veg area, not in the lights, just enough they could see each other but not enough light to read a book.

wow deaner,
They look great excellent job.

Oh my god, you have some incredibly dense buds on those suckers! *mouth watering*