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damn your out doing youself there, keep it up
Hello Kush, Grim, Mobay :) ........... Thankyou for the encouraging words guy's. There very much appreciated I can assure you :) .
This grow is comming along as a decent average grow, one of the reasons I was very unsure about doing another grow thread is because the last couple of grows were very dissapointing to me. Also quite embarrasing :o.
They are about four and a half weeks into flowering, so they about half way now give or take a week;). I'm seriously considering buying some bigger buckets and re-potting them because the roots are so extensive it's become virtually impossible to stick my finger in the compost to test how dry it is.
I have quite a few different pics so I'll just upload them ;)
Thankyou all ................ love mand xxx:)
A few more :)
Oh and can I just ask for anyone's thought's on re-potting at this stage of flowering .............. would it be benifcial or would it take energy away from the bud development and put it into root development instead ?????
Thanks ............ love mand xxx:)
It may put the plants into shock and then they would require a recovery period. I'd ride it out and know for the next time.
By the way, I wish my plants looked like yours.. wow
Dion
Hi Mand!
Your ol' long lost bud here. How you doing? Hope all is going very well for you.
Repotting. I would think that the root ball is about as developed as it's going to get. My thoughts would be to make sure they're getting enough nutes/water and leave them where they are. But are you doing these any differently than you've done in your past grows? Why more roots this time?
Marc
P.S. Amazing how well these plants look for how bad they were doing at frist with all the browning leaves. And to think you almost trashed them! How's Runty?
They look smashing Mand! I hope to know half as much as you do about growing before I'm an old maid!
Good to see you growing up a storm!
Hello dion :) Thankyou for you're reply love, but I'm affraid by the time I read it I had already re-potted :o .
Hopefully there hasn't been any adverse effect on them. I bought some large household buckets, and transplanted them as quickly as possible in a area where the light was pretty dim so as to avoid any light exsposure to the roots.
Hello Marc :), to be honest love I've been feeling a bit poorly just lately. Nothing much just a bit of an upset tummy, must have eaten something that didn't agree with me :o .
Hmmm you know me I'll ask a question but still do it anyway :o , but as for more roots ? , the only thing I can think of is because I'm using different seeds ........ maybe that's it ???
Now "Runty", what a strange plant that is, I've never grown one like her before. I'll post some pics and the last two are of her. She does have quite a few buds but they are all very tightly packed in against the main stem and because of her "build" the leaves are stopping any light getting to them. Really I should have taken advice off "Kush" quite a few posts back and bent her over, but room is a bit of a problem so I just left her.
So I think that because she has buds that aren't as mature has the others, when all the rest have been harvested I might try to lean her over a bit if that is possible ;).
Still looking on the messenger for you Marc when I'm on but just not seeing you there, hope to catch you soon :).
Hello LV :) I have absolutely no doubt that you already know much more than I do :). The truth of the matter is I'm just a very lazy grower, if I can just leave them to it and grow as cheap as possible then I'm happy .
I'm sorry I haven't visted you're grow thread recently but I've just not got on here much just lately, I'll get sometime later tonight though;) .
Update ............. Well the plants are in bigger buckets now because of the roots, they were so packed into my normal sized posts it was impossible to poke my finger in the compost.
They are coming up to five weeks of flowering and the plants are just over ten weeks old. I would like to see a little more bud devolpment but they have another 4 -5 weeks to go yet so I'm keeping my fingers crossed they will "thicken out a bit" :o
I'll just post some pics, the last two are of "Runty".
love mand xxx :)
A few more .......... :o
love mand xxx :)
mand i love your threads gal. you have had some intresting problems with this grow.to watch you deal with them as cool as you like is just diffrent class.hope yer bellie gets better.the postman.
Hello Dave :) I honestly thought they weren't going to anything at the begining with the leaves going "rusty", but all they needed was a change of compost.
As for putting them in bigger buckets, they would have been ok but I thought I'd give them a little treat ;)
Anyway Dave I've recently given them a little test again just to try and get some idea of what to expect, just wiped a ciggy in the resin. I have absolutely no doubt at all these will be the most potent I've ever grown, even just a wipe of fresh resin hit home hard. So when the buds are harvested and dried, well I'm looking forward to it :)
Be few more weeks though yet;)
Quantity wise, I'm looking at an average grow which is good enough for me :)
love mand xxx :)
nice work mand. That looks like alot of green to me :} I got some questions if u dont mind.
Do u not believe in mylar or some reflective surface? or mabye just a money thing? I mean, do u think it will effect ur yield alot?
Also is that a large spider web of some kind to the upper left of the picture?
If so, regular spiders dont hurt plants? or do they eat some unwanted insects?
Hello Bob :), I know I always tell people I'm very good at growing leaves but not so hot with the buds :o .
I did have my son paint another outbuilding out in white paint last year to give it some reflective quality but when it come to moving the growroom we found out that the electrics weren't working in there. I keep meaning to get someone to fix them but I still haven't got around to it yet.
As for this growroom, I've never bothered to get it painted or lined with reflective material, it's just one of those things I keep meaning to do but never get round to it .
When I say I'm a lazy grower, I really am honestly:o .
Oh yes, I've seen the spiders web and I've seen the spider (it's gigantic) :eek: ........ I'm not very keen on spiders so it's a case of I'll leave it alone and just hope it does the same for me ;), I always leave the door open a bit just in case I have to make a quick exit.
Spiders are very good to have in there, they will eat all the other bugs and things, but it still gives me the creeps :o .
love mand xxx :)
Hi Mand,
Looking good and your macro shot you posted in the Grow Lounge looks pretty good too! Glad you got the camera figured out.
"I always tell people I'm very good at growing leaves but not so hot with the buds"
I can almost bet you that if you let these plants go as long as they needed to go based on trichs and not the pistals/hairs or just how they look that you'd have some huge buds and I bet twice as much when done. But I know you're low on stash so I betcha, a bazillion dollars, they they get hacked before their time. ;) Which is fine. Not hammerin' ya Mand. Just flappin my lips.
LOVE YA!
Marc
Wow, runty has become amazing. The buds look nice and it should turn out excellent. I would just leave the spider be, it could help with a possible pest problem. Keep it up.
Happy Toking :rasta:
Extraordinary log mand.......you are quite an o natural grower......inspirational. Just a quick question as to how far you keep your 1000W lights from the plants.
one love:thumbsup:
OUTSTANDING LOG MAN!!
your plants are beautiful! straight up, hope you really enjoy, those are some bad bitches!!
excites me, hope to have something like yours!!
later man!
slim
I agree with marc benson. I think ur yield will be just fine. Unless ur used to 5 pound yields or something crazy :} hehe
Hello Marc :), Oh dear I'm so "hit and miss" with the camera, I really don't know whats going to turn out :o.
To be honest Marc I'm in no rush, and I promise to leave them, well untill I think the time is right ;). The buds are there but the veggitation is pretty thick so the light is not getting through all that well.
Apart from the little problem at the begining this is a much more relaxed grow, it's an average type one much more what I'm used too.
I'm planning to do the next one a little different, try and create a small bush affair. I've got ten femminised Orange Bud seeds, so I'm going to just grow five, keep them low, pinch once when quite small let them go a bit and then pinch again. With only five in there I should have the room to let them spread a little ;) .
Anyway Marc, back to this grow, the seed company say eight weeks flowering but I think prehaps more like nine or ten will be needed.
By the way Marc, things are very busy here at the moment, my daughter and her partner have just bought a new house, they got it cheap but it's a bit "run down" so I'm helping all I can because her baby is due in October and it's all panic stations to get things ready, well liveable at least ;)
Hello kush :), Runty is certainly a strange looking one that's for sure. She does have buds but they are all tightly against the main stem.
I suspect that she take longer than the other ones to reach harvest, also she will be terrible to trim down as well because she is so tightly "packed together".
Oh the spider will stay there Kush, I can promise I'm not going anywhere near it :eek:
Hello Buffalo and thankyou :), I've only got 400 watts I'm affraid. It's done quite well though it will be eight years old this October and I'm on my second MH bulb and third HPS bulb. So you can say I've had my moneys worth out of it.
The height ? ................. Well that's a bit of a balancing act really. I would guess about up to a yard. I want it as close as I can but I have to try and get the light to spread over all the growing area. Also I tend to move the plants around every few days so they all get a turn directly under the light.
I'll add a pic so you can see :).
Hello sjacobs and thankyou too :), I always say that growing is easy, well it is untill a problem crops up :o .
Honestly love, if I can grow then anyone can and that's the truth ;).
Hello Bob :) It's looking like an average one, I never weigh it but we are talking about a few good ounces.
I would weigh it this time just to see, I had a really good set of kitchen scales that would measure ounces and grams, but my son decided to see how hard he could press on them, of course he broke them ............. but it's ok he's only twenty three years old :rolleyes:
Thakyou guys ......................... love mand xxx:)
Hmmm I just best mention on the pics above the second and the third pics are the same bud but on different camera settings ;)
love mand xxx :)
Hello again :), Sorry for keep posting but I've just had Runty taken outside to try and get pics of her buds. It's impossible to get any decent pics indoors of her because they are very tightly close to the main stem, and to be honest the camera is acting a "pain in the arse" today for some reason :confused: .
Oh the last pic is one of my new friend :rolleyes:
love mand xxx
wow mand. the pics just keep getting better and better.. how much longer you think you got in flowering , 2-3 weeks? i know you said when they're ready, was just wondering if maybe you had an idea?
anyways , they look great!!
can't wait to see your yield...
enjoy!
slim
say mand, from your own opinion how would 1000W MH change things in your garden. I also use 400W but have decided to upgrade to the big 1000watter:dance: ...........I use a 15sqft space......with excellent ventillation.......If you could bestow some wisdom upon me it would be much appreciated
Ps I was attracted to your log because of the ww from soil , I have 10seeds coming from buydutchseeds.com real soon
thanks again............
one love:rasta:
looking sweet mand i love looking at these updates of yours they just look better everytime
good luck with it mand
cheers all :)
camera pics deff getting better. Second exposue was better. less washed out. That would be.. second pic u took of same bud.
LOL nice spider shot. he looks a bit camera shy heheh. intresting idea, if regular spiders are the cure to all bug problems :P or preventitive medicine. hehe
p.s. UR comment about ur 23 year old had me rolling off my chair :P way too funny
Those plants just look so good mand.....I have learned a great deal from you in such a short time. Your patient, relaxed approach should remind us that nature has a beauty and a power that man will never match.lay back and let her do the work.
one love....
a dear friend recently sponsored my happiness with a finely cured NL masterpiece. I am in awe
:stoned:
Well hello Mand.....sorry i havent got to check out your thread in a while working a lot restricts me from having a bunch of free time. Therefore i cannot give all my time to our lovely boards....like i used to:D :D but anyways your ladies are looking very wonderful and I cant wait to see your harvest. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!:D :stoned: :D :stoned: :D :stoned:
much love nasty
P.S. Very nice pic of you Mand.....quite striking i must say
Hello sjacobs :) How long till harvest ? ................. Oh dear it's a bit difficult to tell.
Well they are around five and a half weeks into flowering now, the seed company say eight weeks. So it maybe about three weeks to cutting the first one, prehaps a little bit longer.
I think it's going to be a staggered harvest sjacobs, some seem to be a little more advanced than others, Runty inparticular is much slower than the rest she is only just starting to produce resin, whereas the others have been producing it for quite a while now.
I'll just see how they go ;)
Hello Buffalo :) Wisdom ........ me. Oh dear that's something I've never had said before love :o .
Anyway I don't know much about lights, but I'm sure 1000 watt would make quite a big difference in there ;). I learned what I know about growing from a small book called "A Guide to Growing Marijuana in Cool climates" by Don Irving. It only has about forty odd pages in it but when I started I found it totally invalauble..
Anyway I bought it because the first time I tried to grow, not one seed even germinated :o. So I bought the book follwed the instructions and did my first grow outdoors, I did ok as well just lost a few buds to bud rot because of the damp weather.
Well then I thought I had best try growing indoors, because it was more secure ;). The book had two pages about indoor growing and it reccomended a MH/HPS conversion lamp. So I found a growshop, and told the chap what I wanted, and that was it, I've grown about two to three crops a year since 1998.
Hello busteruk, Thankyou love :) ......... I'm just waiting for the buds to "fatten up" a bit. At least I'm keeping my fingers crossed they do :o .
Nice to hear from you busteruk :)
Hello Bob :) Oh the dammed camera, sometimes it takes really nice pics and others I just can't do a thing with it:(
You know Bob my daughter, she is coming up to twenty five now. She is independent, expecting her second baby in October, just gets on with her life and to be honest I'm very proud of her.
My sons twenty three and twenty one, totallty dependant and absolutely hopeless. They go through life without a care in the world and seem to have a different girlfriend each week. I don't think boys ever grow up :rolleyes:
Although I'm still very proud of them as well ;)
Hello Hungry :) Isn't work a bloody curse ;)
I'm pleased to hear from though Hungry :) ........... Oh don't expect too big a crop, just kinda average for me ................ I hope.
The avatar, "all slap and light love", if you saw me in the street you wouldn't recgonise from it ;) but thankyou very much :)
love mand xxx:)
:p
:thumbsup:
Hello Rekap :) , Well without a doubt the shortest post I've ever seen, but it's always good to hear from you ;) ........... Thankyou :)
Well I've been far to busy again, hoping to get a little relaxation time later to night :)
The plants are 40 days into flowering today, and they are they are just under 11 weeks old in total from seed.
Not much else to say really so I'll just post some bud pics.
love mand xxx :)
Just a couple more ...........
love mand xxx :)
I feel that I am unable to continue with this journal, I am sorry about this and I have given my reasons on this thread .......... http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=67453
I'm truely sorry and hope that you can understand.
mand
Mand...come back...puh puh puh pppllleease!?
at least email me at hushmail...same moniker. late
Sweet Jeebus thats an evil spider.
And are those plants frostbitten or are they trichomes?
Yes. Bump.Quote:
Originally Posted by latewood
Mand, please come back.
Please. :)
Good vibes sent your way... :)
Hello Latewood, Tom and Turtle :)
Well I've started a thread where I can throw my little tantrums :o
This isn't the place for that, this is a grow thread were I only concern myself with telling and showing .............. a grow ;)
That's resin Tom, in all honesty the pics don't do them justice I'm affraid. Normally the buds at this stage are coated in resin, but these plants the buds are becoming encased in it.
It may sound a little presumptous of me as there are still quite a few weeks left to harvest, but in my mind the grow is already a sucsess. I know that if anything was to happen now such as hermies, seeds, bud rot or anything of that nature I can cut them and have smokable weed.
At the end of the day that's all that matters ................ :)
Thankyou guys ................... love mand xxx :)
Eh, kids and their hurtful words :thumbs down:
i dont really post on the site anymore, but i awlways stop in to see how a few people are doing, and i'd hate see you go ;) cheer up :p
damn mand dont go out like that, shit you and postman got me to start growing again. it was the love in here that made me start up again. but i know how you feel. btw did you sleep to close to a 1000w hps bulb? your suppose to use the hand test not the face test :D :D :D :D .
Wow, those are looking fantastic.
Jealousy.
Happy belated Mothers Day---> where I my damn manners right? ur my mom!!! LOL:D :D Mand Its been so long Ive just had lots of stuff to deal with other than my plants, thats why I havent been on as much but I'm still here. Its just my plants have not been growin the way they should and its because of the heat so I should be switching to 12/12 this week I dont expect much cause they dont look as healthy as I hoped but I cant do anything else to fix the problem:( Anywayz Mand enough about Me what about u I jus read someone made some BS comment about u but from what I see, I see a beautiful person and a lovely lady who cares about others and is willing to give the time and dedication to help others on this site when they need it.. So Mand in a way I do love u for basiclly getting me passed my 1st grow and teaching me the important Basics that I needed to learn. Your the BEST and F anybody else who dosent think so.:p
PS ur grow son