First grow (flowering stage only) with pics

[budbro28]

they look great my friend.

[OMB]

Wow....Just wow. That 2nd pic is amazing. How many megapixel? Great Shot, and amazingly frosted, that will be some potent medicine.
"Welcome to the Jungle..." comes to mind with your grow...awesome.

[Chromophore]

OMB I use a Canon 5D MkII which has a 22MP sensor, but most of theses type images have been cropped. I shot these with a 180mm Macro lens. I'm not entirely happy with my photographs so far because I can't get things to be completely still. This is important, because at such magnification you have to stop your aperture way down to get everything in focus. That means a long shutter speed, and the main air exchange fan creates just enough movement to make problems. I could shut it off but things heat up real fast when I do. I'll keep playing with it. Maybe I'll get some good ones tonight.

[Chromophore]

Managed to raise my HPS almost 5 inches and that really opened up the light. Did some more thinning because I have a ton of bud development in the low to mid canopy and it's just dense in there. I hate taking healthy fan leaves but I need to get some light in there, and because the big colas are so heavy now that they want to fall over, I'm forced to stake and tie things up, and that makes it even more crowded. But the bud production now is just jaw-dropping. I simply can't capture it properly in a photo. There are buds appearing in every nook and cranny of the canopies, even growing sideways out of other buds :jawdropper: My grower friend was over again last night and he was blown. He thinks I still have 2-4 weeks to go as some plants are ahead of others and the trichomes are still clear, and he says the production is still ramping up and the plants are still green and lush, making him constantly shake his head and giggle.

Here is a pic of two of the plants after staking Attachment 297795 The plant on the right is the one I am really excited about. The colas are still filling in (some stem still visible between buds) but the calyxes are plump and bright green. But what really intrigues me about this plant, is that the colas are up to 16 inches in length (one may end up 2 feet in length if it fills in completely), and the trichomes are incredibly dense. Almost all water clear. My friend was amazed that this plant is putting trichomes on stems, petioles, and even on the larger fan leaves! He just looked at me and said, "dude, this plant is a winner". I wasn't able to get good close-ups last night, but here is a couple of pics closer up on that plant:

Attachment 297797 and cropped a bit more Attachment 297798

All four plants back in the room and really you can't even see most of the action. It is truly a jungle. Attachment 297799

The fragrance of these plants is intriguing. Really hard to describe. There is a definite musky, earthy dark tone, but also something heavy and sweet, like caramel and sour apple. One plant definitely has some skunk to it, but the other three are really dark and sweet. It just keeps getting better. Waiting for harvest is almost agonizing.

[OMB]

Best damn first grower I ever saw...:thumbsup: Chromo? I can see why your friend just giggles looking at your forest, but the anticipation is a killer, no?

[Chromophore]

A few more trichome pics. Wow, photographing under an HPS is a challenge. Really harsh, unforgiving light. Before I harvest I'm going to pull these out into normal light and see if I can get some decent macro shots. These plants deserve it.

Anyway, here are a couple shots of trichome development on pheno #4, which is the plant I'm most excited about Attachment 297811 and Attachment 297812






here's a shot showing the trichome production on the petioles and surfaces of the larger fan leaves on this plant Attachment 297813 I think the Afgooey mother's traits are really coming through in this plant. Sticky, stinky and still a ways to go. All I can say is, wow.:dance:

[OMB]

Love those Macro shots Chromo. That Pheno 4 is amazing. I sure understand why you would want to clone her! :jointsmile:

[Chromophore]

Current batch of clones. OMB you can see the two pheno 4 flowering twigs in the rear. After one day they look ok. I'm wondering if I should remove all of the flowers from them and just let the small fan leaves remain. Also note the offending rockwool cubes. I don't like the fact that there is a plastic wrap around each one because it seems like it would suffocate them, but nowhere have I found instructions on whether to remove them or not. :wtf: The heat mat is keeping things up towards 68F this time as opposed to 55, so hopefully that will stimulate growth a bit. The tray is being held away from direct contact with the heat mat by some wood blocks. I may remove them and see what my temp reaches. I'm in a basement office space and it's cold in these parts, so that may be the way to go.

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Also, I was careful this time to apply rooting hormone to the lower node area first. I then lowered the twig into a glass of water until the water level was just above where I wanted to make my final angled cut. I then made the angled cut under water. There are two reasons I wanted to try this. First because it keeps rooting hormone from coating the fresh angled cut and possibly blocking water uptake. And also to prevent an air embolism from forming at the cut site, which will prohibit capillary action and starve the cutting. An old florist's trick.

Onward and forward.

[OMB]

Looks good Chromo! Now comes the waiting game...I would try and get the temp to 75 degree's on those cuttings, but either way it's a big improvement over the 55 you had. Cutting of the flowers?...I don't know my friend. I would think that would actually be a good idea, but I would be concerned the twig would concentrate energy trying to repair the cut instead of rooting.
You might consider adding a drop of Big grow to a cup of water and spritzing/watering with that mix, anything to encourage root growth with those flowering cuts.
Biggest thing with the 3 I took in flower was being patient.
It took 3 weeks for them to root and "turn" back to Veg. Glad to see you have plenty of stem....worst comes to worst and they didn't "go", you can cut 'em again as Weezard
explained and get another shot with the same cuts.
Breathe on 'em, talk to 'em and keep them warm brother. Everyone likes encouragement!

[Chromophore]

From a few days ago. Such graceful, beautiful plants. I never really appreciated them until I grew them.

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