Flowering log / Picture log

[daihashi]

ok.. so I couldn't hold back.

Here's a pic of my monster plant. Well one of the colas (side shoots) I talked about anyway.

Pic 1: Showing the actual length of the cola from the main stem to the top.

Pic 2: A shot away from the cola. Trying to show as much of it as possible while seperating the rest of the plant.

Pic 3: Another shot, similar to pic 2. A little sharper image though.

Pic 4: Lower into the canopy where you can't see.

Pic 5: even FURTHER down into the canopy where you can't see.

Keeping in mind the problems I've had this past week or so what do you guys think? I'm hoping they fully recover and start to swell soon.

[daihashi]

Forgot to add. This is day 19 of flowering.

[daihashi]

with the light leak issue addressed it seems that one of my late bloomers has started sprouting out alot more pistils.

Before it was like 1-2 per node.. this morning I woke up and there was like 8-12 per node. Was afraid I'd have to chop her.

Soil is still pretty moist. I like for it to get pretty dry I was hoping for it to be dry by saturday but I may have to wait till sunday or monday to feed them.

Here's my first feeding schedule for them:

1/2 Dose of Age old bloom (Full dose is 5-10-5)
5ml Botanicare Bloom Booster (0-12-8)
1tbsp Black Strap Unsulphered Molasses
1 serving of Sweet (don't know the exact dosage off the top of my head).
PH water to 6.8

I've thought about throwing in a scrog to go on top of my LST right now but honestly it would be too difficult to water the plants at this point. I don't know how I would reach the back plants with a screen in the way.

[rottenfork]

keep it up man!!
youll be toking on some nice buds in no time!!!!

[daihashi]

keep it up man!!
youll be toking on some nice buds in no time!!!!

Thanks for the words of encouragement. Despite the plants growth I've felt like I've been moving backwards in progress instead of forward.

It's good to hear some positive every once in a while to keep yourself motivated.

[daihashi]

Fed the plants today, the soil felt slightly moist but the pot weight suggested to me that it was time to just go ahead and water.

I fed them the following:

1 Tbsp Molasses
5ml Botanicare Bloom Booster
1 Tbsp Age Old Bloom
15ml Sweet
Water PH'd to 6.8

The 3 gallon pots drank just under 1 gallon and the 5 gallon pot drank slightly over 1 gallon. Not bad I'd say.

3 of my plants are looking pretty awesome. However 2 of my plants seem a bit lanky. Looks like they were stretching for the light as the nodes spacing are further apart.

The only thing I could think of was that these 2 plants were in the back of the room and maybe they were affected by light leak.

I've remedied the light leak and 1 of the plants really started to start shooting out some pistils. The other is still slow.

So today I've gone ahead and re-LST'd these plants to try to create some additional shoots to make it a little more dense and put them in the front of the room to get better light.

Here's a photo of the entire room:

pic 1: Picture of the entire room posted February 26th.
Pic 2: Picture as of 12pm today.
Pic 3: Overhead shot

Sorry it's really hard for me to get good pictures with the HPS on. The color makes the plants look smaller when they actually have a little bud on them and are pretty large but you should be able to see the growth that has occurred in the last week and a half.

The plants in the front have been LST'd one last time and raised to be even with the canopy. The plants in the back have not been re-lst'd and are sitting even on the ground with the big 5 gallon plant in the middle back. their canopy is as tall as the big plant now.

[daihashi]

I've decided to show growth in pictures I should continue to 2 pictures. One overall shot of all the plants and then 1 shot of one of the colas.

These pictures will be the same angle each post (with the occassional bonus shot) and will compare with the previous week's posting.

So to get this log down that track here are my 2 shots this week

Pic 1: Shot of all Plants Feb 26th
Pic 2: Shot of all Plants March 8th
Pic 3: Detail shot of cola Feb 26th
Pic 4: Detail shot of cola March 8th

edit: Yes those cola shots are the same cola shot at pretty much the same angle.

[daihashi]

I keep forgetting to add this to my picture posts.

This is day 22 of flowering.

Hoping to flower for about 50 more days or so.

[daihashi]

Here are some bonus pics of the main plant. Something to look at until the weekly picture update on saturday/sunday.

Day 25 Flowering.

Pic 1: Overhead view of my plant.

Pic 2: Example of 2 cola's easy to spot from the front. Notice how budding goes all the way down. It continues most of the way to the main stem.

Pic 3: Sideview Overall picture of the plant. Mostly to show that there are MANY cola's that are like the previous picture (30 or so).

Pic 4: another sideview/overall pic from a different side/angle.

Pic 5: Side view of the cola from pic 2. Was only able to capture about 3/4 of it's length on camera.

[daihashi]

I couldn't resist. 1 more before tomorrow.

pic 1: The Cola from last week March 8th
pic 2: The same cola today, March 14th

edit: Forgot to note. This is day 28 flowering. Hopefuly another 5-6 weeks and I'll be done.