Rubbermaid CFL bag seed grow

The idea is to use a small pot to start and gradually increase the size as they get bigger (not allowing it to get rootbound though). Why? Well, the lady will use more of the soil up than if you were to put it in a bigger pot to start with. The roots will move down and to the sides of the pot then chill and soak up water. You DON'T want them to be root bound though.

As to whether or not you should repot or not, I don't know. If you are to do it, I'd do it ASAP, before they get further into flower. I transplant once sex shows, so I technically transplant in flower but a lot of people don't.

Ok so it seems like its been a few days since I updated. Had a little scare when watering them yesterday plant B(pic2) all her leaves were super droopy and soil was bone dry gave her a liter of water over a few minutes so the soil would soak in as much as possible. Plant E(pic3) is showing sex, but seems to be a few days behind the rest. Other than that they are doing amazing here are some pics.

I've decided to go against transplanting this late in the game and to help with the height issue I will soon run into I've setup the top of the grow tub so it can be lifted up as needed and I'll use white poster board to wrap around the gaps.

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Ok back from a weekend away and wow the growth has been amazing. All the plants are about 1.5 ft tall with lots of bud sites. I'm starting to wonder if I could safely remove some fan leaves without majorly hurting the plants? I made some changes to the grow box, i removed the bottom tub and have the top tub suspended above to adjust for height and allow me to space them out a little more they were very snug and over lapping with the base. I also put 2 desk lamps on the ground aiming up into the top to give the bottom bud sites more light. So far following the FF feeding schedule has worked perfect no nute burn or lock as far as I can tell. Any comments more than welcome.

I wouldn't be worried about pruning its never done harm to my plants that I can tell. just do it all at once. I like to 'lollipop' my plants. every node i take everything off the bottom 1/3

but wow everything looks great can't believe those are in a rubbermaid. great work gsosure :thumbsup:

Thanks for the info. Took me a min. to figure out what you ment by lollipop, but I think its a little to late now, almost all the lower branches have bud sites and I'd hate to cut them. I was thinking of going and just triming all the fan leaves that are in the way out. think that would do anything? Just trying to figure out how to give them more light and room.

Ok well made some changes to the grow room to give me some more height and that seems to have helped a lot. I did notice that on all the plants the top like 6 stems of fan leaves are red on top but green on bottom (pic 4) I was thinking it could be temp issues at night the box gets down to upper 60's and lower 70's. Other than that the plants are looking amazing starting to see lots of bud points and trichs forming. cheers all :hippy:

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Ok well made some changes to the grow room to give me some more height and that seems to have helped a lot. I did notice that on all the plants the top like 6 stems of fan leaves are red on top but green on bottom (pic 4) I was thinking it could be temp issues at night the box gets down to upper 60's and lower 70's. Other than that the plants are looking amazing starting to see lots of bud points and trichs forming. cheers all :hippy:

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Wonderful! Things are looking lovely m8! Can't wait for the following weeks! :D

I wouldn't worry about the purple stems. I've looked for answers on that myself and find all kinds of answers. Some being phosphorus def., stems just go purple in some strains when they enter flower, etc. It could be due to the soil because I use the same soil and I get it EVERYTIME. The way I dealt with it although I never worried about it was to put more ph down in my water (my tap water is off the charts, its very alkaline).

I honestly think it helped. My new growth would always be green and lacking the purple. So my advice would be to check your ph run off and water ph. But all in all, it's nothing to worry about.:stoned:

Yeah thats what I was getting as well when I was searching so I figured well I have a few subscribers I'll post a pic and get their opinion. I don't use tap water because I won't even drink it so no way I'm letting my plants have it, I buy pre ph'd water from the local fish store 6.5 - 7 every time. ( yeah I know I'm crazy) Thanks for the reassurance that its nothing to worry about, the rest of the leaves and plant look amazing so I'll just mark it up to nature. I added a new Co2 jug yesterday as well and I swear the bug spots just blew up over night and they got much taller one is about 4 " from kissing the lights. Temps were a little warm this morning sitting at about 81', but they aren't canoeing or anything so I think my temp gauge is just to close to the light bulb. Anywho thanks for the info. I prolly won't upload any more pics for the week unless something major happens just to save space and so the next pics will look hopefully amazing. Also just ordered a new macro lense for my new Canon so I can get good pics of the forming trichs. woot cheers.

well woke up this morning to some bad plants.. 2 of the 3 have gone hermi.. Lots of little ball sacks.. I do have 1 that while its not the biggest plant.. it doesn't have balls. pic 1 is plant A and pic 2 is plant B...