My First Georgia Outdoor Grow

[dylan]

Plants are lookin' good! I wouldn't worry too much about them being close together. Some are bound to be male, and they will be pulled later.

Keep up the good work.

[dgsgandalf]

Yeah, i figure i'll have to pull about half of them anyway. If any of the remaining plants are just way too close, i'll LST them to pull them appart.

I honestly didn't really think about the roots growing together. The good news is that most of my plants are indica dominant, and indica's tend to grow tighter compact root balls. So maybe it won't matter too much.

[dgsgandalf]

Oh, and by the way, i keep forgetting...

Happy 4-20!!!!!

[dgsgandalf]

Hey guys, i was just doing some research about the Lowrider 2, and it appears that the male plants start showing signs of flower as early as day 17 and the females as early as day 21. Today is day 23 or 24.

If you look at the first picture in post #79, the growing top looks different than any of the other plants in the pictures i took that day. I'm thinking that the LR2's are already blooming. I'm probably heading out to the patch tomorrow to check things out and maybe even pull some males, who knows.

I'm excited!

Peace:rastasmoke:

[dgsgandalf]

Sure enough, the LR2s are already flowering... on day 23... wow...

Of the 5 i have out there, 2 were definitely male. They had balls and everything, so they got the chop 2 of them are still too undeveloped to tell, but i think i have 1 more male and 1 more female. And finally, 1 was definitely female with long white hairs growing out of her nodes and even top. Unfortunately, my hand was pretty shaky today (I get that way under stress and tired; weed helps) and most of the pictures suck.

I did fertilize them all today. I figure if they're f***ing blooming, they can probably take some nutes, right? The patch with the blooming LR2s got about half strength Miracle Grow flowering nutes at 15-30-15 and the MK/MG patch got Miracle Grow veg nutes at 24-8-12. We'll see how they look in 2 days and i can determine what to do.

Here are the pics. The MK/MG patch looks pretty similar, except that the plants are all still a bit smaller. I think i planted them too soon. The sun isn't hitting them all day just yet, it's still too low on the horizon.

Pic 1: Side view of the healthiest plant i had. Unfortunately, it was a male LR2 and it got the chop!
Pic 2: The same male LR2 as in Pic1
Pic 3: The balls on the second LR2 male that also got the chop
Pic 4: Female! Long white hairs at the node
Pic 5: One of the TS plants. They're all growing fast!

Let me know what you guys think!

[SnSstealth]

good stuff!!! glad everythings going ok...
WT

[dgsgandalf]

I went out to the patch today. Everything looks good. Sure enough, 1 of the remaining unsexed LR2's was a male and one was a female. I got some good pics of the first female LR2 but it's still kinda hard to see the hairs on the second one.

The MK MG patch is looking good as well. I was worried at first that they weren't growing fast enough, but then it occurred to me, it's still April... They'll be just fine

I'd like to report on the smell today as well. The LR2's had a delicious skunky smell that i can already smell from a foot away. The MK and MG both smelled very sweet, almost like sweet basil. The TS didn't really smell at all, but i guess that's the sativa dominance coming through there.

I fertilized each patch with almost full strength nutes. The reason i decided to switch to full strength today is that one of the MG plants had some yellow in the leaves (a little too much for me) and i figured they could use the extra energy anyway.

Pic 1: LR2 #2
Pic 2: TS 1
Pic 3: TS 2
Pic 4: TS bugs
Pic 5: LR2 #1

If you guys would look at the fourth pic, i found some bugs on one of the TS plants today. I think they're just little green hopper bugs, but i'm not sure if i should be worried. Can someone help me out?

[dgsgandalf]

More pics. These are of the MK MG patch. Due to the random arrangement of the plants, i'm still not sure which is which unless i'm looking at the patch, but they all look pretty much the same right now.

The last pic is of my smallest plant. It's in the corner that probably gets the least amount of light.

[dylan]

Lookin' good. Are you going to top them?

[dgsgandalf]

I was thinking about it. Never actually topped before. This is my first grow that will actually finish (hopefully).

I was going to wait until the kids show pre-flowers to top them. Will that be too late? I was also going to LST them if there were too many females growing too close together.

Also, i don't know how these strains respond to topping. I imagine the Mango and Master Kush would be just fine, but i've never even heard of the Thai Stick strain before, and i have no idea how it will respond.

Any ideas? What would be the best time to top them if i was going to do that? Now or later?