2nd grow

[cwesto]

Jerry, another 2 weeks huh?? Do u think i should start easing up on the main stem top to let it strart growing up again, while still keeping the plant horizontal and continuing LST?

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

What I have found is after performing LST to the main kola, after a coulple of days it has started growing up to the light again and will pass the new axils. So I tied it down again and got 2 to 4 more new axils growing I kept doing this for I think 5 times maybe more. Plus when the new axils reached 4" I tied them down and more Axils came out of them, now for the last week I have just let them grow up vertically no more LST. One other thing I did was whenever a fan leaf formed over a kola or axil sprout and could not be moved out of the way, I pruned it. I did this alot to the leaves over the center and it paid off with little if any shock to the plant, after removing the leaf the sprout grew and within 24 hours filled the spot with 2 leaves.
Now I have 10 to 18 Kola's per plant growing at 8" to 12" high in a true SOG style they look like nice hedges in a bucket. I am going to induce Flowering today or tomarrow.
I did take a cutting from each plant to try and sex them but on day 6 no positive sign of either sex yet.

Now this is the way I am doing my grow and it seems to working quite well for me you may want to do this or experiment continue LST on half and let the others go and see which does better.

Good luck and wish you a great grow!

[cwesto]

Did some more LST and twisty tying today. The side shoots are apearing pretty wuick now, so i twisty tied alof of the bottom fan leaves out of th way, since the plants is bent all over the place alot of fan leave were getting bunched up and not allowing light to any of the future bud branches.

Ill try and get some pics up tonight after my night class. :thumbsup:

[norkali]

Do u use both those products through the whole grow or just veg??

Are both the wet betty an growth excel by Advanced Nutrients?

Also will those be alright with my full FoxFarm package?

Just veg. Yep, they're both by Advanced Nutrients. I think they would compliment the Fox Farms nicely; that's what I'm doing. :thumbsup:

[cwesto]

So I left town last wednesday for about 4 days. I came back and couldnt believe my eyes. Here are some pics from today, see if u believe ur eyes..

Pic 1 - A birds eye entrance :greenthumb:

Pic 2 - Profile of the back row of garden

Pic 3 - A stem that got really twisted during LST, I think it looks cool, hope its still healthy

Pic 4 - The lookout, chillin in my hoody, protecting the cigs.

Pic 5 - A birds eye exit.

:rastabanna::jawdropper:

[zebulon]

Wow Cwesto ,your plants look great:thumbsup: and they are growing nicely....and the LST looks really good....nice work so far:thumbsup:...
I think you will have some really nice sticky buds in a few months....any sings of pre-flowering ???

(That vicious land weasel is so cool..)

[Shovelhandle]

:thumbsup: Real nice.

Shov

[cwesto]

Zeb, no preflowers yet that i have spoted, i am seeing the begining of alot of secondary growth whcih is kind of like a preflower psych outs . Another crazy thing happened also, on of the grow branches seems to have managed to top itself in a way. I never tied it down because it was so much smaller than the rest of the branches i wanted it to get extra light but it has misteriously split off into 2 different grow branches by itself.... no blade necessary.

Thanks guys

[norkali]

Wow. That's weird. Things are looking good. When do you think you'll induce flowering? How are they now?

[cwesto]

I was actually thinking of inducing flowering tonight, im not sure yet tho, i was kind of trying to wait for the prefloweres. But..... i think 4 out of the 6 plants have alternating branched which from what i kno means that the plant is mature enough to start flowering.

Ill try and get some pics up tonight of my plants seeing as how the last pics are about a week old now.

PS Norkali they look really good, i have have some of the lower fan leaves turning yellow andbrown and dying but im pretty sure that is because of a couple reasons. 1. The LST has laid some of the fan leaves down on the soil, so they may be burning from left over nutes that got on em, 2. They are not getting enough light since the plant is getting pretty bush now a days. Besides that i have noticed a very small bit of what looks like ozone damage, but im not sure. I think all is going pretty well tho.