I've decided that since this will be my first successful grow, I'm not going to mess anything up by trying to do something I've only seen done on videos. I know nothing about cloning, and I don't have a propagation tank or heater mat to properly clone much of anything.

All the plants have perked up. I need to get a pair of trimming sheers though, to clip off the bottom leaves that are drooping from lack of light. I put up mylar, and even jerry rigged putting some of it on the soilless mixture. The water is in a reservoir on the bottom, so I think when I have time, I'm going to make a mat so shine the extra light back up at the bottom leaves.

These plants are my best friends [sad, I know]... so thinking about clipping off the bottom leaves is, to me, like clipping off my child's toes.

I need something for bloom, as it's about to exit the vegetative growth stage. I want to use something natural, like Peruvian Sea Bird Guano mixed with Mexican Bat Guano and a heaping serving of earth worm castings. I'm keeping up with the molasses regiment, though.

I think when this grow is over, I'm going to put in another 2 air stones with a higher output pump in the reservoir. I'd do it right now, but the reservoir is under my soilless mixture which is holding my girls, so it'd be a huge pain in the ass to do that right now.

Any idea's on maximizing yield? This is... my only source of medicine that isn't off the black market. This has to last me from the end of curing, until I finish curing the -next- crop, so.. the more flowers the better.

Also, what's a better time to harvest for medicinal use? I'm using mostly indica, and a few have about 20% sativa in their genetics. Should I harvest them when they have clear trichomes, milky ones, or amber ones? I want something that will lock me to the couch, but won't lurch my stomach [I'm kind of sensitive to taking one too many puffs of Indica, usually ending with me calling to my domestic partner "Honey, get me the bucket *blargh*"]. However, I'm not opposed to the soaring, uplifting high that gets me to actually work and function.

In other words, any advice [at all] is welcome, wanted, and appreciated