New and Improved: Featuring Sour Northern Lights x Nevilles Haze

[daihashi]

Pic1: Shot of middle/lower canopy of 3 plants side by side.

Pic2: Shot of plants in the grow hut. The light is about 5 ft up now and the grow hut is 7ft tall. Good news is I think the plants are done stretching.

Pic3: Doing my period soil runoff ph check like a good boy. My nutrient solution was at 5.6ph and my runoff was at about 5.6ph. So I am within a good range for my plants.


I estimate these plants have another 5 weeks to go.. 6 weeks tops. They're really starting to pick up speed now on the budding.

[Weedhound]

Excellent. :greenthumb: They look terrific Dai. That IS starting to appear orgy-ish with all those plants in there growing so nicely.

[daihashi]

You ever realize there's a problem in your grow and you try to convince yourself it's no big deal, but really deep down in your heart you know you should correct it even though you're 5-6 weeks out from harvest... only to have 2 friends reaffirm that you should transplant.

UGH!!!! Yeah that happened to me today. My plants were obviously rootbound although I'm convinced they probably could've made it till harvest I decided to err on the side of caution. 2 friends also said I should probably transplant even though I didn't see any symptoms of lockout.. only rootbound symptoms.

I have to say I realize why I chose to always go up 2 gallons at a time instead of 1. I transplanted from a 2 gallon pot into a 3 gallon pot and there was barely any room to properly fill the soil in around the plant.

In either case I've transplanted 6 out of 7 plants and will probably transplant the last pot tomorrow. That plant is in a 1 gallon pot and I will transplant into a 2 gallon pot.

So now I'm stuck with 2/3rds of a bag of canna coco I probably won't use again and some 3 gallon pots; although I'm sure I'll use this stuff up eventually.

Either way the plants are looking great and the budding is starting to pick up.. trichs are also starting to form. I suspect in another week the trichs will really be looking nice and frosty.. currently they look more like a light sprinkling. I am hoping for these buds to look like they were doused in sugar... yum yum in my tum.

[daihashi]

well.. i took 12 cuttings today, dipped them in "dip and grow" and put them into rapid rooters.

I am hoping for a high success rate. This is my first time taking cuttings but I believe i did everything right. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.

[d4twamp]

Sup D, Howz'a bout some pix of dem' clones bro...I'm curious to see how fast they root...As I've got some SNLxNH beans in Oasis cubes right now...the most vigorous plant of those will become a mommy along with a MK I'm waiting on to sprout...keep up the good work...

D:thumbsup:

[daihashi]

Sup D, Howz'a bout some pix of dem' clones bro...I'm curious to see how fast they root...As I've got some SNLxNH beans in Oasis cubes right now...the most vigorous plant of those will become a mommy along with a MK I'm waiting on to sprout...keep up the good work...

D:thumbsup:

You know the reason I haven't taken pics of the longs is because I'm kind of confused.

My clones aren't dying.. They are actually still perky as if they were still on the plant. But the problem I am having is that they aren't showing a single root either!

So my plants are neither dying nor are they rooting. I don't know wtf to think. I figured after 7 days I would see at least 1 little root.

[Mr.GoodMorning02]

lol dai...i'm no expert on cloning but maybe it has to do with your rooting compound. because if they're still living then they must be taking up h2o straight through the stem and not forming roots since they're doing well without them. Maybe dab them with some dipngrow, if you haven't already.

about your transplanting issue, if you're using 1gal pots and now 2gals...i'd prob trans again into 3-5gal if you have the space or time. IMO bigger is better...but the plants need a gradual increase throughout. i'm sure they'll be fine though. im in 5gal buckets of coco myself and the girls are loving it. If i could have gotten them in bigger containers i think they'd appreciate it. well i hope i helped in some way. good luck buddy.

mgm

[daihashi]

lol dai...i'm no expert on cloning but maybe it has to do with your rooting compound. because if they're still living then they must be taking up h2o straight through the stem and not forming roots since they're doing well without them. Maybe dab them with some dipngrow, if you haven't already.

about your transplanting issue, if you're using 1gal pots and now 2gals...i'd prob trans again into 3-5gal if you have the space or time. IMO bigger is better...but the plants need a gradual increase throughout. i'm sure they'll be fine though. im in 5gal buckets of coco myself and the girls are loving it. If i could have gotten them in bigger containers i think they'd appreciate it. well i hope i helped in some way. good luck buddy.

mgm

I cloned them with dip and grow. I may just be jumping the gun here though after talking with some other people. I'm going to give it a total of 3 weeks before I start freaking out.

My transplanting issue is fine. I'm very familiar with transplanting the problem was that I was trying to avoid it because:

1: I did not have any more coco medium and had to go buy some (crap is expensive). 28 bucks

2. I did not have any round 3 gallon pots and they were kind of pricey (think I spent like 15 bucks total for 10 buckets).

3. Plants in coco are not like plants in soil. When a plant in coco get's rootbound it's not the end of the world. As long as you stay on top of watering them before they dry out then they'll be fine. Problem is you'll still see clawed leaves/ downcurled canoed leaves.

I didn't particularly like seeing that and decided, after other people affirmed what I already knew what I should be doing, to transplant into just a SLIGHTLY larger pot.

My roots and plants are done stretching upward and the 1 gallon increase will be just enough to keep the plants comfortable.

I typically trans plant from 1gal, 3 gal, 5 gal. However this time I was trying to make due with just 2 gallon pots. I was trying to fit within a certain space limitation and I didn't have enough coco medium for 3 gallon pots.

Anyway; thanks for the input. :hippy:

[Shovelhandle]

hope that your clones fire off lots of roots. I've been watching my clones slowly develope into little plants, I hope they will burst forth with heavy growth when I get them under 400 watts MH

[daihashi]

hope that your clones fire off lots of roots. I've been watching my clones slowly develope into little plants, I hope they will burst forth with heavy growth when I get them under 400 watts MH

Thanks.. I do too. This whole cloning thing is new to me and a complete mystery. I'm hoping that they start having little shoots come off soon.

Hopefully in another week or 2 I'll have a full set of roots ready to be setup into hydro under a 400 watt MH for a week or 2 and then start them flowering after that.