My new grow :)

[herbie the love bud]

Thanks for the info Herbie! I took the clones and moved them to a starter tray in new rapid rooters. They hadn't kicked out a single root . I went ahead and put new root stimulator on the stems again and placed them down in a rooter each. I also put the dome cover over to help... do you think that I should do that or not? I thought high humidity would help, if not then I will take it off.

Yeah they were too wet and that was inhibiting them. Don't worry they are going to be ok now. Get some perlite and spread it in the tray. Just like a 1/4" deep. Then lay your rooter grid on top of that. FOr now just spray them down nice and humid and leave the dome on. That will due for a couple of days. Then you can add the water over the rooters and the excess will drain into the perlite and keep the rooters just moist enough.

herbie the love bud Reviewed by herbie the love bud on 08-29-2008. My new grow :) Ok so I thought I would start a thread monitoring my new grow. They are still babies with just seedling feed right now but I decided to try out the gh flora series nutes... was using floranova series but I remember getting a better yield off the gh flora series nutes. Anyhow... as time goes on I will be wanting some helpful hints in ways to improve my yield. I am using a 400 watt hps light for this with a 3x3 hydrohut mini 170 cfm fan with an elf carbon filter. Rating: 5

[SAP420]

Thought I would kick out another set of pics for those of you who are following. She is kicking out super long pistils. I have never seen a plant kick out pistils that long. Usually with this strand I have alot of short pistils kicking out everywhere. She smells like the bomb though. More potent than I ever remember. Anyhow tell me what you think. Thanks!

[SAP420]

I plan on blooming the shit out of her since she's all I got . I hope the kool bloom will help out. I haven't used any kool bloom but will introduce it in week 4 of feed.

[hatecable]

that first pic makes me want to hold hands and sing carols around it.
looking good man.

[SAP420]

LOL funny shit man.... fuck it, I would take a weed tree over a Christmas tree any day. How did you get the pic on your username?

[SAP420]

So does anyone think that I can cut the big unnecessary fan leaves off the plant and only leave the bud sites in tact to help the buds absorb more of the light than the large leaves? I've heard of people doing that so that all the energy is focussed more into the buds rather than the leaves absorbing it all. Just curious!

:jointsmile:

[hatecable]

If you look up at the top of the page in the green bar you will see "User CP".. thats the control panel. Click that... go down the left side till you find "edit avatar". I just googled "funny avatar pictures" until I found one that fit me and most will give you a link to it. Just put that link in the custom avatar box and then save changes.


As far as the fan leaves go. Ive hear of that too, but I think it also had to do with airflow getting through the plant and more light getting to the other leaves that do more work and less storing energy. I think. Dont quote me on it.

[herbie the love bud]

So does anyone think that I can cut the big unnecessary fan leaves off the plant and only leave the bud sites in tact to help the buds absorb more of the light than the large leaves? I've heard of people doing that so that all the energy is focussed more into the buds rather than the leaves absorbing it all. Just curious!

:jointsmile:

No. I prune regularly and even posted something here with pics on pruning (maybe it should be a sticky;-)), anyway, the buds rely on the fan leaves to collect the light for it. Let's say you were in mid bloom with colas. If you cut off all your fan leaves, you would stop the plant and it would feebly try and push all of the fan leaves within the bud themselves to try and grab light.

What you can do (and should do) is trim off all of the fan leaves lower than the canopy of light and remove all of the pop corn buds that are not connected to a cola.

However, in YOUR situation, that will also cause the plant to shoot its growth upward and you would outgrow your tent because you brought them into flower too tall. So this time live with it and identify at harvest what bud sites were not worthy, and on the NEXT run use that knowledge of your plant to prune that crap and send the energy to the colas.

[d4twamp]

Wut's up Sap,

How r the babies doing comin back good I hope

I wouldn't prune anything I don't have to. if it's a branch that isn't gonna give me much bud it might be better off living the rest of it's life as a clone. you've got some space in the bubbler I see

D:S5:

[SAP420]

Wut's up Sap,

How r the babies doing comin back good I hope

I wouldn't prune anything I don't have to. if it's a branch that isn't gonna give me much bud it might be better off living the rest of it's life as a clone. you've got some space in the bubbler I see

D:S5:

Actually the babies died man. I messed them up putting them in the bubbler. I shoulda put them in my dome tray setup and then once roots showed.. into the bubbler. Well I learned my lesson on that.