My very first grow

[Opie Yutts]

Some people skip flowering completely, some flower for several months.

What a dork. Of course I meant veg.

[Hydroponic Cabbage]

bad news...two of my plants appear to be males. I separated them from the others; so hopefully they're not

[Hydroponic Cabbage]

My last two plants are female; so I'm really happy about that. I'm about three weeks into flowering, I think the plants look pretty good so far. They're aprox. 3' tall; but not really sure how much taller they are going to get.:question: I will continue to update with pics :thumbsup:

[Opie Yutts]

not really sure how much taller they are going to get.

Looking real good so far. I'm guessing they could get up two feet taller than they are now. Thanks for the update.

[Opie Yutts]

I have a suggestion for you.

Fan leaves are important, but not as important as your precious bud sites. Always do your best to leave fan leaves on your plant. However if some are blocking the light from a nice bud, or bud to be, be sure to move, bend, gently break but leave intact, or completely remove the them, in descending order of preferance.

[Mr. Clandestine]

I also don't like to remove any fan leaves, or any other foliage that aren't likely to harbor any good buds. Instead, I've added supplemental lighting to the bottom of my plants, which seems to help buds areas that don't receive as much HID light fill out better.

I've made a very simple fixture that adds lower light, doesn't produce much heat, and can be placed directly between the pots...adding plenty of supplemental light to the lower branches. This may not be very economical if you're growing a large number of plants, but it works just fine for ten plants or less. Here's what I did:

I took a 150W desk lamp, added (2) 2-into-1 socket extenders (giving a total of 4 open sockets), and added four 32W (I think) CFL's. Just be sure that the overall wattage of the CFL's doesn't exceed the original output of the lamp, and you shouldn't have any problems with heat, shorting, etc. I also keep all of my growroom utilities plugged into a industrial sized surge-protector, just to be safe. But I've never had a problem with any of the utilities, or the surge protector, getting overloaded or hot.

Give that a shot before you start relentlessly cutting branches that aren't receiving enough light. Your plant will need the precious energy from those leaves when in full-bloom.

[Opie Yutts]

Great idea.

[Hydroponic Cabbage]

Thanks for the advice guys :thumbsup:...What I'm going to do is see how many leaves I rearrange first; until I can get some cfl's

[smokenss]

ive found that moving leaves in gr8( just tuck them behind the clostest bud site), but im trying extra light too at the moment with 4ft fluros its seems to have worked ok so far 17 days into flower and the plants r more compact than anything others iv grown b4.
happy growing

[Hydroponic Cabbage]

I'm 4 weeks into flower now...I think plants look o.k.; they're about 4' tall. I'll update with pics a little latter