First dedicated dryer grow 6 Norhterns and 3 Afghanis

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Originally Posted by kindprincess

have you considered using yarn? i won't cut...

your babies look great! kudos!! and it appears were are in the same battle, i've got some spider mite hitchhikers that came from my friends... rrrr, time for the neem...

kp

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The only thing with yarn is I find it hard to untie to adjust. I have this rubber string in mind with a little stretch to it so that it's easy to untie, won't cut, and gives a little. but that has to wait for my last payday. As for my light problem I think I'll spray them tonight then wrap in saran wrap(very lightly) and let them sleep in the flower room in there own corner then move them back under the MH bulb tommorrow. Most of the affected leaves were the damaged one from before or bottom sucker branches so the really sad weak ones were pinched and the bottom of the plants will be sprayed since it's only the bottom 4", I'm lucky I caught it this soon.

kp it seem like this could be an evenly matched battle between the two of us, I look forward to the challenge.:p

do you move your plants positions daily??

doing this alone helps keep them all the same height and LST'ing the rest will give you a nice even canopy.

looks good

I turn them daily and rotate them according to height. The shortest go right under the light where it is most intense, and the taller ones go to the sides to give the short ones a chance to catch up, as the height proportions change I flip the plants around. Jaz and Mrs. BL are lsted everday just a little more. the others are level so I'm just maintaining height with them at this point.

i put screws in the side of the pot, tie the branch, and just wind the yarn around the screw; to adjust, simply unwind and rewind.

kp

I'VE HAD IT! OMG I should have learnt the first time but of course I figure I can make it work. So I took off Bella's top the same way I took off Casey's and Jaz's tops! So I've cut all iffy lines and now useless lines. I kept the tops of Jaz and Mrs. BL tied gentally but will not me tightning them. I figure I'll just tie what I absolutly have to and raise the lower plants to the light. On another note my second batch of clones is starting to root. The only thing is that the only clones that are taking are the northerns, the one Afghan that started taking stopped at little root nubs and is very slow going. So now my goal is to get a few afghanis rooted and I refuse to lose those tops! especially because 2 are Afghanis. Anyways I sprayed for mites last night threw them in white garbage bags and put them back in the flower room to sleep, so I can keep the same light cycle. Then this morning went to move them back and it occured to me that the needed to breath and I could have killed them but the bag was plenty big and they were fine.


QUESTION OF THE DAY

When do you let the clones go if they haven't rooted yet? To some strains take longerto root than others? And if the clone takes well will clones taken from it root well too? And what's the shortest top of a plant that can root, since thestem is so think(keep in mind Casey, Jaz And Bella)?

eta I'll move to yarn when I get some soon

New pics are totally up to date. Check them out.

wow chrissy there looking great.. if i had batteries i would take pics of my last alive plant lol.. its look good. so how you been? sorry i havent been on forums lately. =\ umm ya go by my thread real quick and keep it alive! lol its dying :( ok well thanks chrissy.. be back in like 10min with pics! xD

Hey guys, thanks for pooping in. I know you're there even if you don't want to speak up.

Good news today, The 2 Afghanis from my first batch of clones have roots! So all of my first clones rooted! And Caseys top is showing a little nub!

So that means with my cloning method Northerns take 1 week to get roots and Afghanis take 2 weeks. So that should give my Northerns a little head start before the Afghanis take off in height.. Now I gotta wait one more week for the rest of my clones to take. In thats time Mrs. BL and Jaz should be out of the stage 2 dryer and I can switch them all over to the MH bulb. Then I want to pick the best clone of each plant and make mothers till I harvest this round. Then one or two mothers of each strain.

I figure next time I only want 5 plants in the flower room but we'll see since I'm estimating how much space these plants will take up. But then that means that I have to chop some clones but that gives me a chance to pick the best clones.

I hope you're all having a lovely day, It's cold here but the sun is shining right on my spot So I'm soaking up the rays and good karma to share with all of you.

Hey chrissy, there's some sun here too and it's so nice. Yesterday was gorgeous out! Anyway yes we're reading even if we don't always speak up. Your girls look beautiful and happy! Too bad about the tops getting broken, but it seems to happen to many of us newbies. I know I did it. :jointsmile:

Hey Canuck! Haven't seen you here is a while. I'm actually kinda happy the tops broke, now that the guilt has worn off. In two cases(Jaz and Bella) it helped with the height difference, amd with all of them the tops broke while the mainste was horizontal to encourage the branches to catch up so now It seems like I will have 4-5 main colas. Plus if the tops all root they will make wicked bonsai moms. So maybe this was just fates way of setting me up for the next few crops.