Colorado MMJ patient first time grow spring'13

[Dabs4all]

My light is now 6" from the top of the plant and no signs of light/heat burn. I'm kinda leery of letting it closer.

Last nights nug pix...

[Dabs4all]

So I've been watching the SS that had signs of both preflowers and if it had any female traits they were overpowered by the male.
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Here's a pic of what I think is either a calyx that didn't have time/failed to sprout pistils, or a stamen that doesn't have an anther cap. I'm not sure so gurus chime in please.
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This is how it's life ended.
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[Dabs4all]

Here's some pix of the female SS now that she is sprouting pistils.
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Here's some 30 days of flowering pix I checked the trics the other day and they're still clear but sticky!!!
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Also I have a question since I've read info from both camps on trimming, Would it be a good idea to cut the 4 big shade leaves coming out from the stalk in pic 1546. They are blocking light and there is nothing to tuck them behind.

[Dabs4all]

The buds were weighing down the branches pretty bad and since I moved the circulating fan up higher the top has more sway than a skyscraper(fan's on lowest setting). I decided to fix this with a couple of stakes and a roll of plant tie wire. All of the lower branches are now sitting in a loop in the wire and then secured tightly to the stakes for support(I secured the stakes to the outside of the bucket so I didn't disturb the roots). I also supported the top with an adjustable tie wire. I fed the Super Skunk two days ago with the same nutes as the Mazar adjusted to the FF weekly schedule, she's got a lot more pistils but no buds yet.

[Dabs4all]

I picked this up when I got the stakes to start my babies in since the soil is too hot for them. I'm gonna mix perlite in also.

[Dabs4all]

Well this morning I was greeted with single bananas and male flowers with multiple bananas in each from top to bottom. :cursing:
Damn this sux, I tweezed as many as I could and I'm willing to bet I could still find more. The trics are still about 50/50% cloudy/clear it's 40 days into flower. So....

Should I cut my losses and cut-n-hang it so it doesn't get to the SS if it hasn't already, or just keep pulling bananas for another month or so?

[Esteban1]

What are you down to, 2? Sorry to hear ya sprouted a few males. Personally go with a numbers game (this grow started with 15..... A few died & one pulled <male> & down to 12). Can be frustrating at times! Peace


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[Dabs4all]

What are you down to, 2? Sorry to hear ya sprouted a few males. Personally go with a numbers game (this grow started with 15..... A few died & one pulled <male> & down to 12). Can be frustrating at times! Peace


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Nope down to one Super Skunk in flower(17 days in). I've got three Great White Shark bagseed babies in that "too hot" soil(stunted and stressed), and I started a few more in the new seed starting medium(one popped today) so I'm gonna keep on rotating'em and solving problems/upgrading equipment until I get it dialed in. I'm either going to start playing the numbers game, get some feminized seeds, or fire up the ez-cloner.

[Dabs4all]

Yesterday I used all the leaves with trics on them along with the lower buds to make some milk with after decarbing. It was like a car that's wants to start but cant kinda felt it, went away, kinda felt it, went away etc... Oh well on to the next one...

Here's some death and trics pix.

[Esteban1]

Been there, it'll work out in the end. Peace