2 weeks until harvest...

[Nochowderforyou]

high all,

I have some pictures I'd like to share with you.

Here is my current experimental grow.

Vegged under 100W of CFL's, flowering under 1 150whps bulb. I love growing small plants and messing around with techniques and all. This time around, I was brave enough to do topping. As you can see from the pictures, it has split into 2 main tops, instead of 1, which I usually do.

I def. encourage anyone growing in small spaces to try this method. I have doubled my yeild easily from my last grow. :thumbsup:

The strain is Strawberry Cough x Big Blue. So about 50% indica, 50% sativa, a perfect mix in my books, and she will be getting the axe in about 2 weeks or so. I started flushing today and will continue through till harvest.

Any comments, questions, always appreciated. I would like to thank old member Harddon for telling me about this technique, and High Times for giving me the final boot in the ass :rasta:

Peace

Nochowderforyou Reviewed by Nochowderforyou on 12-31-2005. 2 weeks until harvest... high all, I have some pictures I'd like to share with you. Here is my current experimental grow. Vegged under 100W of CFL's, flowering under 1 150whps bulb. I love growing small plants and messing around with techniques and all. This time around, I was brave enough to do topping. As you can see from the pictures, it has split into 2 main tops, instead of 1, which I usually do. I def. encourage anyone growing in small spaces to try this method. I have doubled my yeild easily Rating: 5

[Nochowderforyou]

more pictures...

[syrrus]

what seedbank?
How long from seed to bud?
how tall did it get?
What did you do differently in this grow?

[Rekap]

at what age did you top?

[Nochowderforyou]

what seedbank?
How long from seed to bud?
how tall did it get?
What did you do differently in this grow?

1. Ha ha! No seedbank friend. It was an accidental crossing of 1 female Big Blue, and 1 male Strawberry Cough. Long story short, I thought the S.C was a female, B.B got pollinated, the result was about 4 dozon seeds. I got the Big Blue from a private source, as well as the Strawberry Cough.

2. From the start to right now, approx. 90days.

3. It's not done growing yet, a few more weeks, at this moment, it is approx. 1.5-2ft in height.

4. What I did diff. in this grow, is I did a method called topping. Instead of having 1 main cola, I tried this easy cutting tech. to get 2 main shoots. All I did was cut completly of the new growth shoots, and left about a 5mm stem on. In a matter of a few weeks, I saw 2 new growth shoots emerging, instead of the traditional one. I have doubled my yeild from last time so far just by looking at it.

I also used some organic ferts for feeding during its veg stage, and cut out some not-so-nessesary ferts.

I used Fish Emulsion 5-1-1 during veg., after 1 week of flowering, I give it 15-30-15, then I give it 3 seperate feedings of 10-51-10 when the bud starts swelling, then flush heavily for the last 2 weeks.

I cut out 8-7-6 fert., and 10-15-10. I found my MJ plants had no reaction and was proven useless to me. It seemed with those numbers, my plants still yellowed up and showed def., telling me that they have no effect on them at all.

[Nochowderforyou]

at what age did you top?

I topped at about 4 weeks of age, from seed. It is hard to go by a timeline though as every strain varies.

For an easier thought though, I topped at the 5th node up. I cut of the emerging main shoots, leaving a small 5mm stem. In a matter of a week or two, I saw it had split into two :thumbsup: Just what I wanted.

Thanks for the replies! Peace :rasta:

[skippi563]

thats a nice plant kinda looks like mine mine was all floros though heres a couple of picts. ichopped it weds. had to a little early but had to do it it smells so sweat drying

[Lakota]

Man I gota get some going....Great Pic's

[skippi563]

lakota you really need to grow if you can its well worth the efforts,and the smoke is the best.

[Nochowderforyou]

Nice pics Skip! You achieved that from flowering with CFL's as well? Nice job, cudos! :thumbsup:

Nothing is better than smoking on on your own homegrown after 3-4months of waiting...so very patiently...

Right now, the buds are swelling up a bit, a the smell, is best described as, a fresh bowl of fruit. It has a very, sweet smell to it, not sugar sweet, but fruit sweet. Like a cantalope maybe. Nonetheless, smells great, and chop time will be in about 11days or so...

I checked the trichs a few days ago. My best guess is it was about 20% cloudy, 80% clear. In about 11 days or so, they should be all almost 100% cloudy, just turning amber...perfect peak time for myself imp:

Thanks for the replies all! Peace