CFL Closet Growbox.

k, just a pictorial update today. i don't have anything clever to present or any new questions, so here ya go.

WW on the left, PS on the right, and a pic of the both of em to give a better idea of size and such

Hi,

If I could offer one word of advice, it would be to snip the tops of the power skunk as soon as possible. I think if you don't do that now, in around a week you're going to have a tall, unwieldy girl on your hands. At least it'll bush out a bit when you do that too.

The plants look awesome though. I'm impressed as hell.

:jointsmile:

Joe~

i actually have clipped the top once, and didn't really want to start pruning it regularly for fear of stressing it out. But i had been thinking something needed to be done about the skunk's height, your advice just prompted me to finally do something about it.
as i've mentioned, i did LST the skunk (the first pic) in order to help with the height issue, and improve yields. So it's actually the side branches that are reaching up so high, one in particular (the second pic). What i decided to do was kind of LST that side branch also back along the length of the main stem, taking the height down and preventing it from blocking off most of the leaves of the other side branches. You can see top and side views of this in the 3rd and 4th pics. The final pic shows ho much this has reduced the height of the skunk compared to the last pic i posted of it inside the box, as you can see it's significantly further away form the lights after having that lone branch tied down.

ok, right after that last post i decided to do something about the further sideways stretching branches too. you can see in the pics from the 23rd a second branch that looks like it's reaching up almost as high as the one i just tied down, however it's actually reaching towards the back of the box. So i got some more string and tied those branches back towards the main stem around the curve of the pot (no pun intended). you can see the outcome of this new tying in this pic:

hey GeddaLiddleHI , plants look great :thumbsup: have they shown thier sex yet ? hopefully u will have all ladies :D if u don't alrighty know. want2beagrower:jointsmile:

well they're feminized seeds, so they BETTER both be ladies, hahaha. But yeah, the white widow is showing female preflowers, nothin on the skunk yet though.

hey GI , using feminized seeds that's great :thumbsup: but becareful !!! i've read in a couple of threads here of grower's using feminized seeds & they turning hermie on them from heat stress & other reasons so becareful !! r u planning on cloning ur ladies ? want2beagrower:jointsmile:

yeah, i've heard of that stuff abotu feminized seeds as well. comes from teh fact that they're created from hermie parents. That lack of a Y chromosome is how they get fiminized in the first place. But yeah, that's why i've been trying to reduce stress on them as much as possible, and why i was avoiding clipping the skunk for so long. I think going with that LST bend instead is gonna work out better anyway. And, as i think i've mentioned, i use a different fert method than most other growers. Rather than mix up some normal strength nutes and alternating between that and plain water i make especially weak fert and use that every watering, similar to the nutrient content and conditions of rain and groundwater...been workin pretty well so far. Of course my plants are some kind of mutants and needed nutrients way before most other growers would say to start on nutes anyway. (see the earlier pages for THAT fun) I am planning on cloning them actually, moslty because i only have this one power skunk plant... i've got 3 more WW seeds, but i'd rather start froma clone anyway since this one's been looking so good. I actually have a clone started on the skunk from when i accidentally brok of the top of the main stem when attempting my initial LSt bend. I know it's generally practice to clone from a lower branch, but why waste a good section of cannabis, right? I'm not sure how this actually affects the clone, but it hasn't died since being treated with rooting hormone and going into the medium, soooo...

hey gi :jointsmile: trial & error is the best , isn't it ? that's the only way 2 learn 2 grow better :thumbsup: would have never thought 2 clone the main cola though if i broke it off accidently :thumbsup: does she / he (don't know skunk's sex yet ) have roots yet & r u still using the co2 bottle ? want2beagrower :jointsmile:

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