HARD ON'S SOG ALTERNATIVE

[red662]

lookin good hd, i have 2 say, with the limits u where workin with it turned out ok, i havent been able 2 post pics cause the cam i am usin is a cam phone and wont take quality pics, but lookin @ ur pics above id say they r lookin pretty much the same, i only have 8 females left all nice bud sites growin right through the canopy and with the mylar, its gettin all the light needed.
one question, the tallest i have is 5foot, r so, i was gonna bend it r weigh it down to slow it growin upwords, cause i only have 6footodd. so what would u reckomend, tiein it so it bends in one direction and rotate daily? so the whole lot is gettin the lighti it neds r? what would u do??.ill try take some pics but i have 2 take em from the grow room and in2 the house 2 tal=ke a decent pic and with the size off them now, thats not easy nosey neighbours.
any help appreciated.
peace

[HARDDON]

Bending and tieing down is best done prior to flower or just as flowering starts. Once flower starts, the stems can be very brittle and snap quite easily as the the outter tubes of the plant begin to hollow out.

Also, the plant is set in its flower tops and bending can alter the light coverage on the flowers..which could be good or bad.

You would need to look at the possibilities.

If you still have a foot left, I would keep rotating it. Any growth after 3 weeks of flower is minimal and mostly girth as opposed height, although height will continue some what.

I wouldnt attempt to weigh the top top down....if you decide to bend it, which is fine, do it slowly, little by little....an inch or half inch per day. DO not over do it on any single day as a snap would throw it into shock and cease growth for a week or two.

Shitty pics are better than no pics

[RastaKaze]

hey hard havnt been on in a while, nice job just out of curiosity how much vertical space u have? not including the pots obviously

[HARDDON]

hey hard havnt been on in a while, nice job just out of curiosity how much vertical space u have? not including the pots obviously

After I remove the space for lights and containers, I am left with about 16" of height.

THus the bending over

[arathi]

Props to ya harddon, I just finished reading your full SOG log.

Boy thats a doozy!

[HARDDON]

Yea a SOG from seed is a job indeed

I now have 8 plants total inside.

3 are under the LST grow, and 5 turned out hermie. I think the dude I got my seeds from sold me a bunch of fucking hermie seeds

How the fuck i gonna get 5 hermies outta 21 plants?????

Its cool cuz i dont have room for them anyhow

I am happy with these so I guess its cool.

Here are todays update:

[red662]

thnxs again HD so the best time would b start off flowerin, another one 4 the nxt grow, i have certainly discovered a lot on this grow. the plant in questin is just over 5foot, i have prob another 2 foot 2 play with, but when i higher the light 4 this 1 oplant the rest off the babys r 2 far away from the light(up 2, 2foot)so i have 2 keep it as close as possible, just have 2 take care off her a bit more than the others no biggy, i just hope she smokes well,lol.
im still workin on the new phone 2 keep u in the light, cause without pics u cant really help me, tghe pics from the phone r 2 shite 2 put up. so ill get them up asap.
21/2week in2 flowerin so i need comments, and advice so i need 2 get a decent cam
peace

[Max Blast]

Hardon,

Just for the record my current (and first indoor) grow is one plant from a seed from a hermie. I got it from a grower with a very large production facility that uses clones only. No matter what, all big growers will get a few seeds from hermies from time to time. It is just part of Mother Natures survival system for the species.

The point is that my plant turned out to be female with no hermie tendancies at all. Although I cannot say that ALL seeds from hermies will be female, I can say that they will not ALL be hermie.

Hope this lends some insight,
Max Blast

[HARDDON]

So you are saying hermie seeds dont guarantee hermie plants....

Therefor, its prolly a good thing then if you get a good plant with heavy trichomes but its a hermie to let it grow.

It will pollinate itself and thus produce good viable seeds.

Is this correct?

[Max Blast]

Hardon,

All I can say is what I have experienced so far. My plant came from a seed from a hermie and it produced a female with heavy trichomes and no hermie tendancies (I am about 7 weeks into 12/12)

I would be a little nervous about leaving a hermie in the same room with prized females as I would think it might be possible for the hermie to also pollinate the others. But, that has not been my friends experience in his 185 plant grow room. He was a little surprised that I got even a few seeds out of his crop.

As I said it is my belief that all large grows will produce at least a few seeds and it is a crap shoot as to the gender of the resulting plant. I just got lucky that mine turned out to be female. Other than my personal experience with this one seed and one plant all else is just conjecture.

hope this helps a little bit,
Max Blast