First Grow: What do you think? Many Pics!

[homegrow1967]

Anyone wanna give me some feedback on some of this stuff? I will be keeping this going for sure and any help is needed! Thanks!

Grow Room: The set up is about half my closet made air-tight with a white shower curtain. If I had a guess at dimensions, I would say it is about 3'x2.5'x4'tall. The exhaust is an old floor furnace piping that runs from the basement out the roof. I removed a piece of it in the closet and hooked a 50cfm exaust fan with 4" ducting to go out the roof, and the intake is a hole in the floor revealing the basement. You can see in the pics that the air is all purified.

Lights: I am using 2 fixtures right now. Fixture A consists of (6) 23w 6500k CFL's and (2) 13w 2700k CFL's. It goes over the 2 "babies". Fixture B consists of (4) 23w 6500k CFL's and (1) 13w 2700k CFL. It goes over the big pot with all the "back-ups" incase the 2 good ones are males. (shutter)

These pics are the contents grow room and the room itself.

homegrow1967 Reviewed by homegrow1967 on 11-14-2008. First Grow: What do you think? Many Pics! Anyone wanna give me some feedback on some of this stuff? I will be keeping this going for sure and any help is needed! Thanks! Grow Room: The set up is about half my closet made air-tight with a white shower curtain. If I had a guess at dimensions, I would say it is about 3'x2.5'x4'tall. The exhaust is an old floor furnace piping that runs from the basement out the roof. I removed a piece of it in the closet and hooked a 50cfm exaust fan with 4" ducting to go out the roof, and the Rating: 5

[homegrow1967]

Ok, now for the good stuff. This is Day 18-19 of veg from seeds in a paper towel.

Plant A:

[homegrow1967]

This is Plant B. I would like some thoughts on this one if you guys do not mind. When normal plants grow shoots and colas, there is usually some sort of semmetry(?) with the leaves. Well, Plant B seems to only grow one side of a shoot at a time, in either direction. These pics should help explain.

All Plant B also 18-19 days from seed.

[homegrow1967]

I might also add that I cut the lower 3-leaf beginner leafs out so the undergrowth can flourish on both! This created much visual improvement in just 1 day.

[LuciferN]

Nice setup, be sure to check the temperature. You got a nice kit of lights there, I'm quite sure they will be happy. The plant look healthy. Usually the MJ plant have a relative symmetric grow but this depend on a lot of conditions and the strain too change that. On my grow I got have a clone that got a little light burn and it made it grow in a weird way, don't worry your plants are not some kind of aliens ! :S2:

[jdsoil]

Looking good so far! From seed you usually don't see asymmetrical growth on the branch internodes until the plant is 'ready' for flowering. As you can see your B specimen doesn't want to follow those rules. Maybe it will be a real branchy one. I like your light fixtures by the way.

[homegrow1967]

Thank both of you for looking and taking the time to post! This is truely my first grow so any info or tips help tremedously. Temp and humidity fluxuate, but always 77.5-81 degrees F and 45-55% humidity. I have a hygrometer inside I am going to take a couple of pics to see if they stretched any since last night. I am actually trying to get them to stretch just a little bit to get ready for some LST. Is there any harm or benifit from removing the big, fat 7 leaves that are blocking the undergrowth, like the 2 beside the main cola on plant A?

[HARDDON]

Your plants are doing fine.

STOP CUTTING LEAVES.

They are abit undersized although very healthy. However if you continue to cut leaves, you are cutting power supply to the plant new growth.

Cease this practice at once. Only cut when :

you are topping a plant.
leves are dead / almost dead.

Those leaves are there for a reason. If you care about your plants, stop cutting them.

Days 7 - 28 determne gender. You are likely to force males with your cutting leaves.

[homegrow1967]

Just as promised, here is a couple of updates. Notice how the big fan leaves on plant A thinned up and actually have space between the blades now.

1st pic is Plant A
2nd is Plant B
3rd are the "back-ups"

[HARDDON]

That under growth you want will NOT flourish now that yo have cut their power supply.

Each fan leaf is dedicated to the secondary growth. The fans are there for a reason.

In flower, if you cut the fans, you will cease the flower growth.
In veg, if you cut the fans, you will cease the secondary growth.

It is a weed. Leave it alone.

Oh...lose the 2700K lights during this stage. Useless. Replace with more 5500K + bulbs.