My first grow

[SmokeStack2]

Some one needs to show you what a male looks like in a early stage of growing balls haha. Funny how well we know a female.

[SmokeStack2]

hahaha on the grants we wish the Goverment would just grow us 20ft trees. Like a Billion lol.

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Deaner,

What you are looking at it the section where leaf meets stem about 2 to 4 nodes down from the top of a branch. Look for a tiny ball growing there. If there is only one ball on both sides of the node and a little white hair coming out of it it is a female, if there are more than one ball or it has balls on both sides of the node then it is male.

Your plants are going into the strech phase and won't begin to go into full flower for 2 weeks. I seclude the males as soon as I identified them let them grow a few more days to make 100% sure. I would have tossed a female once if I didn't do that.

[atsar]

the 1st pic is a female pre flower and the 2nd pic a male pre flower,look on the main stem,just where the branches shoot out,that's the best place to find them,the last pic is trichromes,you likely wont see many until after 2-3 weeks flowering

[deaner]

I've seen a few white hairs, looks like on all except the one that is supposed to be a cloned female. THank you very much, and the trichomes are those white crystals, or the hairs? I'm goin searching for balls now..

[atsar]

the trichromes are the crystals

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

The white specs on the leaves are trichroms. You won't really see them until after 4 weeks of flower. They will have this tiny stem with this glob on top, you can only see them with magnification, hence the loupe. The trichromes containe the THC.

[deaner]

I am planning on a veg box, kinda stealthy, heres the spaceI have:
(I will go another route if it's no good.)
48" high, 34" wide, 21" deep.
This size is perfect, but I could go a little bigger if I have to.

I wanna be able to veg enough plants to keep 1 600wt. busy for now, and double that eventually. So I'm thinking 10-15 plants in the veg box. I want to be pulling a plant out of flower and slappin another one in, a constant flower room, constant veg. Hows my size look, for my goals? Oh, it's gonna be lit with 4x 2' flourescents on top.

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Deaner my veg box is 36''x36''x36'' with a 400w mh I can fit 12-2 gallon buckets in, florals will work, maybe in your favor you can control growth better, so timing will be easier. They grow fast as hell under the MH.

[deaner]

Update on the flowering girls: I am still only giving them botanicare pure blend pro bloom, 2/3 strength last watering, going 3/4 next, then full strength, but I'm thinking of adding sweet for the metals, magnesium deficiency makes the leaves rigid and grow where the edges and tip start going up a little? Anything else to add to up my yield/quality and not take chances of screwing something up? I've heard molassis, but tend to stick to what works and hesitate at this point to mess with anything when I got 4 at the most females. My speed queen and bubblegum are looking very healthy, the cheese is slow, only 2 (or 3 some got a lil mixed up) have sprouted. 2 clones, that I had in clone tub for only a couple days, dropped the lil starter cube in the dirt, they look real good so far, they are my best freinds starter plants, hope he gets into this, then pretty much all my closest freinds will be growers, yahoo! Lots of good bud around and its been so hard to find anything decent except one sack of pungent grapefruity, lemony, pine solly stuff (any ideas of what strain tastes/smells like that?)that wrecked me I got from a freind, hoping to get clones from the grower but he is one of those smart/paranoid types that must remain in the shadows.. 3 big tokes and even a heavy smoker like me is toast. Most the stuff around here, you could smoke 2-3 bowls and still be only a lil stoned. I am taking it very easy now so my huge tolerance will deminish a little before my stuff is ready. I love this new hobby so much, I smoke mostly for depression, it works wonders, and just growing it helps alot.