California Orange Bud CFL grow

Definitely another female there...Maybe they are showing because of the 24/0 schedule they are on. Whatever your doing, your in the right path. So keep it up and keep us posted because I will be here till the end! :thumbsup:

Look at them little monsters. They arent taking and lumes hostage! they are looking healthy and the fact that there so lushish green makes them all the more better to look at. keep up the great work!

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Jake~ thanks! they do seem to be growing great, maybe I have some beginners luck :thumbsup: my ph pen showed up yesterday, so i am pretty eager to try it out... i calibrated it and tested my tap water, but I haven;t had a chance to check run-off water yet... so really just been screwing around with it heh. the girls are scheduled for a watering tomorrow so i'll let you know how the run off test goes!

Anyways, today is day 29, thought i'd do another pic update, i'll be doing one final pic update before i start flowering. I'm going to be away for a couple of days so I didn;t want to start flowering while I wasn;t here, so I'll be starting that on Monday, which would put them at vegging for 33 days. I think there going to be a little taller than I wanted to be. all 4 are in the 9.5-10.5" range, so I suspect they'll be about 11-14" by Monday as they seem to be picking up some rapid height ever since I transplanted on Sunday, i had to raise the lights by about an inch twice this week already, and i;m going to raise it 2 more inches tomorrow before i take off.

pic 1- right after i made fun of all her for being sad mopey she started perking up alot, go figure!
pic 2 - haha looked at the pic now... it looks kinda weird because i had just flipped the handle over the pail and must of caught a branch
pic 3 - still my fav! this is the fim'd one... i think i might of fucked it up though (read pic 5). this one i think sadly is going to be a male... if its true what they say about them growing faster... its been ahead the whole time, and i set it back with the FIMing, but its already ahead again
pic 4 - from the right angle, this one totally looks like a christmas tree! i think christmas might be coming early this year haha
pic 5 - this is another pic of #3, this is where i cut it to do the FIMing.. i wasnt quite sure what to expect to happen, but the branches from the node below shot right up, which made me think I had just done a topping instead... but then a couple days later that shoot started growing out of the main stem... is this what is suppose to happen with a FIM? I wasn't sure what it'd look like

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Hey if you don't mind could you help me out on this??? I kind of know how to fim but when can i start it and can you explain how to do it like you did??? and you just fim the main top of the plant rite??? and also how many times do you think i could do it while in veg stage??? Looking forward to your response thanks man

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Hey if you don't mind could you help me out on this??? I kind of know how to fim but when can i start it and can you explain how to do it like you did??? and you just fim the main top of the plant rite??? and also how many times do you think i could do it while in veg stage??? Looking forward to your response thanks man

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Just pinch off about 1/2 to 3/4 of the top with your finger. That's what I do, but be careful not to pluck the whole thing off, otherwise you just topped it :stoned: You can FIM a plant as many times as you want, but a lot of times depending on the strain it may only respond up to a certain point. Which in other words, if you have say, 6 main tops and you try to FIM each top to promote more growth, then maybe 3 may respond to the FIM postitively and the other 3 may not do anything. Then again, they may ALL respond to it. Never grown any of your strains so I don't know, but just maybe do some FIM and see how you like it. Below is a link on FIMing and how to do it! Hope it helps.

P.S. Sorry syde, i know he asked you, but i couldn't resist. :thumbsup:


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Just pinch off about 1/2 to 3/4 of the top with your finger. That's what I do, but be careful not to pluck the whole thing off, otherwise you just topped it :stoned: You can FIM a plant as many times as you want, but a lot of times depending on the strain it may only respond up to a certain point. Which in other words, if you have say, 6 main tops and you try to FIM each top to promote more growth, then maybe 3 may respond to the FIM postitively and the other 3 may not do anything. Then again, they may ALL respond to it. Never grown any of your strains so I don't know, but just maybe do some FIM and see how you like it. Below is a link on FIMing and how to do it! Hope it helps.

P.S. Sorry syde, i know he asked you, but i couldn't resist. :thumbsup:


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Thanks man you are the best!!!!:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Hey jlve187, I know italiano answered ya already, but i just got home from the long weekend and just thought i'd say that I basically followed this: http://boards.cannabis.com/grow-faqs...made-easy.html thread about how to do it... but italiano got ya covered already I think

Italiano, np about answering! I wasn't around for the weekend anyways

camoxnhx, thanks very much! some more pics here for ya!

today is day 33 and will be the plants final day of veg! All of them are about 11-13" tall, which is pretty much dead on what i predirected they'd be last week. I've swapped my CFLs around and here is what I am running now:

4x 29watt (2200 lumens @ 2700K) - in parabolic reflectors, one directly over each plant
2x 22-26watt (1600 lumens @ 6500K) - in parabolic reflectors, one shared between 2 plants
4x 43watt (2600 lumens @ 2700K) - these are not in reflectors, and are hanging sort of in the centre area between all the plants

this is a total of 22,400 lumens (19,200 @ 2700K + 3200 @ 6500K).

I think all of my plants are showing signs of sex, I know #3 already was before I left, but after doing an inspection today, I think I might actually have 4 females! what are the odds!

pic 1-4 are of plant 1-4 respectively as usual

pic 1 - this is the only one that i'm really unsure if its female or not... i couldn;t find any hairs like the others, but I also couldn;t find any balls... and this kinda looked like hairs about to pop maybe?
pic 2 - can see a hair both on the left and right
pic 3 - this was he already-confirmed female, but i found an orange hair!
pic 4 - couple hairs on the left

pic 5 - just a bit more of a wide angle shot showing the grow... some of them are a little all over the place since I had them all out and inspecting them for hairs

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Hey jlve187, I know italiano answered ya already, but i just got home from the long weekend and just thought i'd say that I basically followed this: http://boards.cannabis.com/grow-faqs...made-easy.html thread about how to do it... but italiano got ya covered already I think

Italiano, np about answering! I wasn't around for the weekend anyways

camoxnhx, thanks very much! some more pics here for ya!

today is day 33 and will be the plants final day of veg! All of them are about 11-13" tall, which is pretty much dead on what i predirected they'd be last week. I've swapped my CFLs around and here is what I am running now:

4x 29watt (2200 lumens @ 2700K) - in parabolic reflectors, one directly over each plant
2x 22-26watt (1600 lumens @ 6500K) - in parabolic reflectors, one shared between 2 plants
4x 43watt (2600 lumens @ 2700K) - these are not in reflectors, and are hanging sort of in the centre area between all the plants

this is a total of 22,400 lumens (19,200 @ 2700K + 3200 @ 6500K).

I think all of my plants are showing signs of sex, I know #3 already was before I left, but after doing an inspection today, I think I might actually have 4 females! what are the odds!

pic 1-4 are of plant 1-4 respectively as usual

pic 1 - this is the only one that i'm really unsure if its female or not... i couldn;t find any hairs like the others, but I also couldn;t find any balls... and this kinda looked like hairs about to pop maybe?
pic 2 - can see a hair both on the left and right
pic 3 - this was he already-confirmed female, but i found an orange hair!
pic 4 - couple hairs on the left

pic 5 - just a bit more of a wide angle shot showing the grow... some of them are a little all over the place since I had them all out and inspecting them for hairs

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Thanks for getting back to me!!! Hate to be a pain but what do you like better fimming or topping? and what did you do to your plants???

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Thanks for getting back to me!!! Hate to be a pain but what do you like better fimming or topping? and what did you do to your plants???

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i can;t really say which i prefer honestly... i hadn;t done either before and just thought i'd try something. It seems to me like i could try doing a FIM but have some wiggle room that if i screwed it up it would probably come out as a topping instead... so i knew i wouldn;t be killing it.

all i did was use some sharp shears to cut off about 80% of the new growth like that post i linked and italiano gave ya a link for

Hey now!
I love Cali Orange bud. Those are some nice thick specimens, there.
Good luck Syd, I'm just watching and grinning for ya.

MP

Think I have a hermie... but i;m a little confused about it.

so plant #1, the one that has been my enemy since day 1, I think might have gone hermie.. not really sure why, as im pretty sure i am pretty light-proof, and aside from that, they have gone pretty much untouched except for watering with the same nutes as the others.

but i;m also not totally sure its a hermie... having not actually seen male. anyways, what i;m seeing looks exactly like other pics i have seen that people have said are males... but... it also kind of seems like hairs are emerging from what i believe to be polen sacks, so confused to say the least.

this plant doesn;t seems to have the least hairs on it so far out of the 4, infact, i think ive only seen them along the main stem so far.

anyways... maybe somebody can let me know.

pic 1 - this is along the main stem, a few nodes down from the top... you can see some white hairs here, but it also kind of looks like they have come out of what looks like the sacks that you see in pic 2. if you look at the hair on that node in the back left you can see it best, it kinda looks like the hair splitting one of those sacks open at the top and coming out, which i expect will look much more like the one in the front left later today or tomorrow.... you can also see the one in the back right that looks to be doing the same but is not as far out.

pic 2 - this is of one of the branches that shows kind of a cluster of the sacks that i am seeing all over... which again, i believe to be a characteristic of male polen sacks.

pic 3 - this is just another one like pic #1 showing what kinda looks like hairs coming out of the sacks... this pic doesn;t really do it justice though... my camera won;t focus on a macro much closer than this :\

anyhow... any thoughts? i;m confused to say the least.... the only thing i can think of is that perhaps this one is a different phenotype than the others and maybe its just a little different... this one has seemed a little different almost right from when they were seedlings.