"Kinda wild" Trial grow

[mainegrown]

sounds like a fun project to me..
i find the doing is half of the fun with this hobby..
-J

[Vancefish]

Today is two weeks. Technically plants one and two are a couple days older, but close enough.

I have tons of new growth. Plant one now has three finger leaves on the two forming branches and the next set of branches has leaves starting to unwrap.

Plant two is just about one day behind plant one with the same branch leaves. Just a tad behind though. This ones twisting original leaves have staightened out to normal. However you can see one of the newer leaves has a little twist.

Plant three is catching up to the other two very quickly.

I'm going to start nutes sometime this week.

Pics 1 and 2 are plant one from top and side.
Pics 3 and 4 are plant two (with twisted leaf)

I'll post again with plant 3 and the row

[Vancefish]

ok first two pics are plant 3

Last is the row

Staring to get excited! :thumbsup:

[Vancefish]

I also wanted to mention that I've noticed differences between the three.

Plant one has leaves that are bulgy in the middle then kinda smooth out to the point (less jagged). When you look down at them.

Plant two has thicker leaves when you look staight down at them, and the edges are very Jagged).

Plant three has shorter stockier leaves then either of the other two. Short stocky and Jagged. I also have noticed that plant three's leaves always look a little dusty compaired to the other two.

All this from the same bud too!

[MonkeyBone]

They are really stretched! But they look healthy, that's what counts most!

:thumbsup:

[Vancefish]

I guess I don't understand stretch then.:wtf:

I measured the height of the plants last week and the first set of leaves are the exact same height as last week. The only change in height is the new growth out the top. All this new growth is Jammed together at less then 1/4 inch between nodes. In the side pic of plant 3 you can still see the "seed yoke" stuck to the side of the stem(hasn't fallen off). This too is exactly the same height from the soil it was five days ago.

Were these stretched already a few days ago, before the new CFLs? If stretch isn't a plant growing tall to get light (which these arn't). Then what is it? Are we talking the leaves kinda pointing up instead of hanging?

Now I'm all confused. The stems are not growing(although they look thicker to me today). The original seed leaves (Round) are my original measuring point and they are still the same height from the soil as last week.

Which leaves 1/4 inch between nodes is "really" stretching?

Dang-et!

This enquiring mind wants to know (Before spending money on good clones)! After all this grow is just to test the waters and see what I might do wrong. :thumbsup:

[mainegrown]

i think that you are right vance.. they are not stretching... they DID stretch already.. that is why they have a couple inches above the soil for the first set of leaves.. and a 1/4 inch is stretch but i think that it is in the OK margin.. i allow/encourage a bit of stretch before the first set so that when i transplant i have some room to work with.. ya know?
unless you are pumping some serious lumens onto the babies then they will stretch a bit between nodes and that is ok unless you have a 1000w MH on em then something is VERY wrong.
have fun and if i am wrong someone will step in but i am fairly sure im right...
-J

[Vancefish]

Cool, thanks Mainegrown.

I thought they may have been a little tall last week when I added the 3 CFLs. However since then they have gotten not only the CFLs, but direct sun light every day as well. I've been watching the growth (checked about every 30 min ) and thought I was seeing almost no stretch. I've seen pics of some tall lanky girls out there, some with a foot+ between nodes. I plan to have these under a stronger light source ASAP. Just don't have the $$ this week.

I may put these into flower after another week or so as well. I'm thinking of buying some clones soon. These could all be males, so not sure yet. My reading seams to be up to par(pun intended):thumbsup: So, who knows. Still need to try some LST and might just chop a top off to see how a healing works out on this plant for myself.

Thanks again.

[mainegrown]

give em a try if these is your 'test crop'.. see what LST topping and all that is about..
i would let em go until you see pre-flowers. then you would know wether er not it is worth flowering them.. i kinda got really lucky and i was SO outta smoke that i just threw mine into flower WAY early.. i think that if i had waited until they were around a month older they would have been so much better looking now.. and they can only be forced into flowering just so much earlier then they want to..
you can only force nature if you are willing to accept the consequences.. like small/low yield plants
play with ur gurls for a while in veg.. let em grow and bush out. top one, bend one and let the other just go au natural..
just my :twocents: take it or leave it, but its free all the same
:greenthumb: good luck bro
-MG

[redtails]

Looking good Vance! I agree, test 2 method on each plant, but make sure to put spacers under the topped and especially the LST plants because you want to still keep the canopy at the same height. That's the pain I'm working with now. I have my first to flower all LST'd up and in a 3ish gal pot & the other two flowering naturally in 1 gal's but they're getting taller already even though the smaller pots are like 6" shorter...Oh, I also dig your light setup, looks pretty pro for just a cheap DIY project!