Raiz' First Grow Log - 3 White Widow Seeds from Nirvana

[redtails]

Both of those things you mentioned help out with scrog, hopefully Finn will chime in more. He seems to have the delicate balance of stretch down pretty well :thumbsup:.

[bigtopsfinn]

Both of those things you mentioned help out with scrog, hopefully Finn will chime in more. He seems to have the delicate balance of stretch down pretty well :thumbsup:.

I'll put in my :twocents: :jointsmile:

Here's the 'guide' I used: http://boards.cannabis.com/closet-ca...ly-ladies.html <<Topped and trained clones vegged for 8 weeks. Personally I haven't tried topping because I don't want to slow down my veg time, plus the Trainwreck is such a vine-y, scraggly growing plant that the branches are easy to put into good positions.

For next time, you can try starting with LST first, then put the screen on earlier and lower (as long as you have room to pull shoots back under and water your pots). Another thing I found helps is the twist ties. Kind of hard to explain, but I pull up the longer branches from the middle of the branch and tie it to the screen, so that the nodes at and above the tie point and are all pulled up against the screen. Might be hard to do at this point with your thick stems however.

If you need any help I'm usually around. Happy growing :jointsmile:

[raizla]

Nah, I totally get what you're saying finn (as only someone growing would). To get some of my bud spots up to the screen, I currently try to pull the leaves/fan leaves above the screen, and hope that the leaves will hold the bud spot above the screen. Sometimes, it works, sometimes it falls back through. Using twist ties would definitely work, although many of the branches would get covered up by the uppper fan leaves unless I trimmed off the fan leaves... do you do this? Mostly it's the main stem and it's fan leaves that are getting in the way.

On the clones I'm growing now, I'll try some LSTing... if I get a chance. The folks are flying out from the midwest in a couple months, and they'd probably croak if they knew I was growing.... so I may have to put the clones on hold.

[raizla]

Watered today. Decided to experiment a little more and added 1 tablespoon of Grandmas Unsulphered Blackstrap Molasses to each gallon of water (3 gallons total). It's only been 4 days since the last water. Last time I waited 6 days between watering.... and I wanted to wait 5 days this time. However, all of the pots were dry, and Camara was really dragging the ground, as you'll see in the pic.



I need to get a better camera to get you guys pictures of the buds as they come along. I don't feel like this old sony 5 mp with a small lense really does them justice.

[bigtopsfinn]

I don't cut my fan leaves. I try to keep everything below the screen until I see hairs, then I let it all grow up. In the meantime, I pull the fan leaves under the screen and under the canopy. Some try to poke back up, some don't. It a 2-3 week process for me. Once I'm 2 weeks into 12/12, I just let it all grow up.

One thing I forgot to mention, the 'problem' you're having with your main stem is because the longer one shoot is on the top, the thicker it'll grow. So it's kind of a balancing act to keep all the shoots a similar size throughout veg with topping and LST.

Anyways they look nice and healthy :thumbsup:

[raizla]

Yeah, today is Saturday, and there wasn't a post on Friday. I know how upset you all were. Well it wasn't my fault. Cannabis.com seems to be "busy" lots of times when I log in. It's pretty bad some days, and I just have to walk away for an hour, and then come back. I think after this grow is finished that I'll switch to another website for future grow logs.

Finn, again thanks for the advice. I'll try to limit the amount of time that the top is the top. This should help with my next grow.



Watson's main cola


Scarlet
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[raizla]

So, we're 2 weeks into flowering. Hopefully I'm as far along as I should be. What do you guys think?

[Dutch Pimp]

looking pretty good...:thumbsup:...(I assume you can see the female sex hairs, now?)

I would just let them grow...no more bending, cropping or breaking.....let the bud sites form..

...if you have the height/space under control?

[t3hn00b137]

Those are looking awesome raiz! I can't wait to see what the buds look like. Good luck with company. That is never fun.

TehNoobletimp:

[raizla]

looking pretty good...:thumbsup:...(I assume you can see the female sex hairs, now?)

I would just let them grow...no more bending, cropping or breaking.....let the bud sites form..

...if you have the height/space under control?

Oh yeah, the bud sites (if you can call them that this early), all have nice white hairs coming out of them. Yeah, they've been growing without much training for about 4-5 days now. Up up and away.