First Grow

[Coachgee]

Hey Canniwhatsis keep up the good work man.:thumbsup: You know I want to start LST my of lush but I need to get clones off her once I make this move. So when are you going to flower again?

Well keep it up and I will be checking in on you periodically. Good luck bro.

[canniwhatsis]

Hey Canniwhatsis keep up the good work man.:thumbsup: You know I want to start LST my of lush but I need to get clones off her once I make this move. So when are you going to flower again?

Well keep it up and I will be checking in on you periodically. Good luck bro.

Haven't flowered yet!

My method of LST isn't yet approved by the cannabis world,... so if I were you I'd stick to the traditional spaghetti bowl of string tying stems back to the planter,.... ( Tho you will note there is some string and zip tie's used in my grow as well. :S1: )


Anyway, I took some more pics tonight just to update the grow, and I've got some questions :wtf:

I'm growing in Happy frog soil, and made the mistake of putting my CLONE from the dispensary straight into a 3 gallon pot. (More reading on this site say's that's not the best way to go ) None the less that's where she is, watered with tap water left to set at least 24-48 hours, (No Ph tester )

Now to stop beating around the bush!

I've noticed that the new growth has slowed a bit, and the leaves are bright green as they come in,... and don't start getting nice and dark green/purple until they've fully matured? :wtf:

No signs of nute burns, but I seem to be lacking something.... Should I start feeding?,... if so What?.... Or I'm just tripping :hippy:







I"m gonna look over the "plant problems" stuff tomorrow, ( Couldn't log on for the last hour since the sight was refreshing,... and it's now almost 1am! )


Anyway, here's the pics,... the colors didn't come out as well as I'd hoped in the pics, but it's a bit more drastic difference IRL.:what:



Pic 1: Overveiw
Pic 2: Random foliage on a 2"x3" screen! (that's one potential top every 1.5"!! :jointsmile: )
Pic 3: Branch fan leaf laying over one of the older more mature leaves,... Look at the color difference!,... you can see several other half mature and sprouting leaves,.... is there any problems there?
Pic 4: Here pretty soon I'm gonna have to start weaving the branches!

[Vancefish]

The young leaves just look like that. It takes a while for them to darken as they start to absorb light and photosynthesize. :thumbsup: I always thought it looked cool, and even my three month old plants still do this.

However (and I hate to say it) But, unless your getting a lot of dust on your plant, you may have spider mites. Because Colorado didn't have a rough winter for them (housing them indoors state wide) I think they are everywhere.

Go to an ACE hardware or Lowes/ Homedepot and buy a HOTSHOTS no pest strip. Put it in with the plant for just a few days and it will kill them.

Otherwise I think your plant looks great. I don't think you should weave it. But it's your learning experience.

[Coachgee]

Haven't flowered yet!

My method of LST isn't yet approved by the cannabis world,... so if I were you I'd stick to the traditional spaghetti bowl of string tying stems back to the planter,.... ( Tho you will note there is some string and zip tie's used in my grow as well. :S1: )


Anyway, I took some more pics tonight just to update the grow, and I've got some questions :wtf:

I'm growing in Happy frog soil, and made the mistake of putting my CLONE from the dispensary straight into a 3 gallon pot. (More reading on this site say's that's not the best way to go ) None the less that's where she is, watered with tap water left to set at least 24-48 hours, (No Ph tester )

Now to stop beating around the bush!

I've noticed that the new growth has slowed a bit, and the leaves are bright green as they come in,... and don't start getting nice and dark green/purple until they've fully matured? :wtf:

No signs of nute burns, but I seem to be lacking something.... Should I start feeding?,... if so What?.... Or I'm just tripping :hippy:









I"m gonna look over the "plant problems" stuff tomorrow, ( Couldn't log on for the last hour since the sight was refreshing,... and it's now almost 1am! )


Anyway, here's the pics,... the colors didn't come out as well as I'd hoped in the pics, but it's a bit more drastic difference IRL.:what:



Pic 1: Overveiw
Pic 2: Random foliage on a 2"x3" screen! (that's one potential top every 1.5"!! :jointsmile: )
Pic 3: Branch fan leaf laying over one of the older more mature leaves,... Look at the color difference!,... you can see several other half mature and sprouting leaves,.... is there any problems there?
Pic 4: Here pretty soon I'm gonna have to start weaving the branches!

Your plants look nice. You might want to go get a ph tester liquid set..Or a aquarium ph tester for run off water. You can give them nutes while there vegging. I bought a starter kit from my local hydro store.(RECIPE FOR SUCCESS). Vancefish is rite your plants look good. And if you think you have mites take care of that ASAP....:thumbsup:

The young leaves just look like that. It takes a while for them to darken as they start to absorb light and photosynthesize. :thumbsup: I always thought it looked cool, and even my three month old plants still do this.

However (and I hate to say it) But, unless your getting a lot of dust on your plant, you may have spider mites. Because Colorado didn't have a rough winter for them (housing them indoors state wide) I think they are everywhere.

Go to an ACE hardware or Lowes/ Homedepot and buy a HOTSHOTS no pest strip. Put it in with the plant for just a few days and it will kill them.

Otherwise I think your plant looks great. I don't think you should weave it. But it's your learning experience.

Vance you hit it rite on the knobe...:thumbsup:

Good luck and Happy Growing...:hippy:

[canniwhatsis]

The young leaves just look like that. It takes a while for them to darken as they start to absorb light and photosynthesize. :thumbsup: I always thought it looked cool, and even my three month old plants still do this.

However (and I hate to say it) But, unless your getting a lot of dust on your plant, you may have spider mites. Because Colorado didn't have a rough winter for them (housing them indoors state wide) I think they are everywhere.

Go to an ACE hardware or Lowes/ Homedepot and buy a HOTSHOTS no pest strip. Put it in with the plant for just a few days and it will kill them.

Otherwise I think your plant looks great. I don't think you should weave it. But it's your learning experience.

Thanks Vance and Coach,... Probably just the time while waiting for the server to re-boot and drinking too damned much beer got me thinking something might be wrong.:glugglug:

Vance, it's just dust I look her over REALY careful every day, couple times to make sure your dogs didn't transfer any of them little devils onto me, so far we haven't had a mite on a single plant that's been in this house! :thumbsup: I plan on keeping it that way

I was kinda joking about weaving the branches,... tho as the branches on the branches start to fill in I'm not gonna have a choice!

Realistically I'm trying to get the main cola's on the branches to hit the sides of the screen, and I'll let the secondary branches do their own thing unless there needs to be some filler, or one starts getting to riley. (probably a good one for cloning anyway)

Before anyone say's it,... I"ll have a crowned plant with lots of vertical growth off the screen towards the middle and not so much towards the outside. (already happening) This is where the 2nd screen comes in, to let the outside of the first screen catch "UP" before flowering.

Time will tell if this is gonna work, I sure hope so, but there's nothing saying plans cant change along the way!


Thanks for the input guy's, I'd throw some rep out there,... but the server wont let me!

[420SourD]

even tho my plants got demolished by my puppy ive been following your grow log looks like its comming along nice germing seeds atm hope to have my own going soon

[canniwhatsis]

Vance; After talking to you today and getting a better grasp on what I've been somewhat fretting over, (And what you're seeing) I agree, mites are a bitch! (actually did manage to find one tonight, tho it was in the soil? )


I checked out the "HOT SHOT" strips,.... ummmm,.... this is a small booth, and even the grow room in construction is small ish 4.5x6.5'

This thing will kill everything in my entire basement for 4 months!

Problem is that my cats spend most of their time down there, and I don't have OUTSIDE ventilation for my grow room as of yet!

So the HotShot is a no go.





I did pick up some Neem oil tho, and have sprayed the entire plant with it, as well as the topsoil.

Tonight was the night she wanted water, so hopefully the Neem will get in to the leaves and drive those little bastards off before long!

[canniwhatsis]

After looking over the damage on pringles plants and even pulling a leaf to look at under a microscope and see those little bastards, I went out and got a micro scope from radioshack. The white specs I'm seeing on my leaves seem to be cloudy trichomb tops, they're certainly not the kind of damage seen at your work. Anything that I zoomed in on that I thought might be a might turned out to be a speck of soil, or other kind of dust. I combed over the plant looking for anything until the lights turned off!


I'm working on getting the grow room sealed up and cleaned out today, and this weekend. And I've got a HotShot's strip I'll hang up in there anyway when I'm done just to be safe.

Thanks for the help! :thumbsup:

[Coachgee]

After looking over the damage on pringles plants and even pulling a leaf to look at under a microscope and see those little bastards, I went out and got a micro scope from radioshack. The white specs I'm seeing on my leaves seem to be cloudy trichomb tops, they're certainly not the kind of damage seen at your work. Anything that I zoomed in on that I thought might be a might turned out to be a speck of soil, or other kind of dust. I combed over the plant looking for anything until the lights turned off!


I'm working on getting the grow room sealed up and cleaned out today, and this weekend. And I've got a HotShot's strip I'll hang up in there anyway when I'm done just to be safe.

Thanks for the help! :thumbsup:

Good luck Cann I know the filling...My father in law had mites and I tell you those little basterds kicked in overdrive the last week of havest in his Hydro cabinet... Buds were dried out it was horrible.... Back then I was young and all I was doing was trying to kill the little basterds...Good luck bro seal it up tight and fight hard.:thumbsup:

[canniwhatsis]

Thanks Coach! I took today off of work and spent most of it playing with the kids

I did get some work done on the grow room tho, combed over the plant again,.... and again,... and again,...... and,... well you get the point.


I've got picture's on the camera from doing a bunch of work with her, over the last couple day's (pulled the screen off, then put a new one down. ) Just haven't had time to post them.



Need to get back in the basement now that I have a fresh beer and keep working! :thumbsup: