My first grow

Looking real nice, keep doing what your doing. they all are looking real good.;)

So what are some signs that they need water/nutes asap? It looks dry, but it all looks great and I've heard enough times on here not to water everyday, even every third??

You can put your finger into the soil about an inch and if it's dry you could probably use some water. So yeah best way to check it is by doing that. From looking at your last pictures they do look dry. I water every day lil by lil. So the top soil is lightly moist.

The best and fool proof way to check is a moisture meter, second best is the bucket lift, after a good compleat watering ( when water drains out the bottom holes) let them sit for a half hour untill all excess water has drained take note of the bucket weight. Now the plant is watered for at least 4 to 7 days ( this is very dependant on bucket size, time in bucket and size of root growth) somewhere in thoughs days you will notice the bucket weight drop significantly in a 24 hour period that is when the plant has used up almost all the moister and is in need of watering, repeat as above. Another thing to look for is the leaves at the very top where new growth is occuring the leaves will be reaching for the light when they are happy, when the water supply is low they start to lay down to the horizontal position.

Hope this helps.

these are just my original 3, the one on the left being my favorite.

How tall are they, how many shoots, are you still LSTing?

The first one looks almost ready to flower in about a week. The other 2 about 2 weeks more.

Also I don't know if you want to preserve genetics by cloaning but the time to take cuttings is fast approaching. you may want to start ordering supplies for that.

not sure on the cuttings, I have a bunch of seeds now, definately should get some clones on any plant I might want preserved, can I clone anytime now or is there a better time? I also have northern lights, bubblegum, blueberry, and some mystery seeds, I just wish I knew who I ordered them from. Both orders came back fast and perfect. 65 seeds all thanks to the internet. Not sure what I want to try first. I am really wanting to start flowering in two weeks, will the other plants be ok to flower with the originals? Then I could have a second batch sprouting when these start flowering. Get all the unknown bagseed stuff out (unless it's the shit) and just stick to the bought seeds. I know the oldest had a fruity taste and was potent and gentle, and so perfect for the ladies.. so I will clone that one fer sure, just hope it's a girl.

When you clone, you take your cuttings just before you go to 12/12 you need to prune the smaller branches that will not turn into turn into big cola's and will depriving energy from the main cola's. At this point you will not know if it is male or female but you will soon by the mothers in the flower box when sex is known keep the females discard the male cloans. The reason for this is you want to keep the genetics going until you have time to sample the final product. It sucks to grow some bud then smoke it and find out it some of the best you ever had, now it is gone forever because you never took a cutting to keep the genes going.

if you want to make sure your cloning a female clone it in flower,starts a little retarded and slow but soon picks up,i took clones of one plant right after i harvested,i personally preffered the clones from flowering better than those i took in veg because with the flowering clones,all the little callyxes shot out into branches,excellent for training,1 plant filled a screen 19 inches by 13 inches and another ended up 12 inches tall but 3 feet wide in all directions

Atsar,
you are right about the growth of a cloan taken after flowering, I did the same out of inexeperiance with cloaning, my cloans are bushing and doing things like being covered with preflowers and branching way more than starting from seed. My feeling is though that these are not good mother characteristics.
Since Deaner has such a big stock pile of seed I feel it would benificial to take cloans for mothers only, this is so Deaner can find the best plants faster and determine the best qualities of each plant before going into full blown cloaning.

I will admit I am a noob to cloaning and you may be better at answering this. Which cloans make better mother's (before sexing, after sexing, or is there no difference) that can be kept under low light like a mother box and control the growth for long periods till you determine the best plants?