Gen's grow

[Gen]

Good morning, this is the 9AM marijuana report. Hydro girls are growing slowly, but surely. I believe the reason they have not kept up with the soil grow is because the hydro plants get 30w and the soil plants get 65w and outside sun everyday. Which says if I want to keep mothers or clones growing slowly, just use a lower watt of light. Duh!

The soil plants are doing well on 12/12. No major catastrophies yet. Keep yer fingers crossed. That's all folks, have a great day.

Stay tuned, same bat channel, same bat time.

[Gen]

Here are the photos.

[mobay]

hello Gen checking out your grow, doing good.

[Gen]

Thanks Mobay.

The cotledon leaves on a couple of the hydro plants were turning yellow. I sprayed with dilute fish emulsion and gave them a little extra food.

[BkSkillz]

its gonna be really intresting to see how much bud u'll produce with 10 day old sproutings i hope it works out for u.. nice grow so far

[Gen]

Thank you Bkskillz.

This has already been done and documented by growdoc on IC. I am a mere novice.

[turtle420]

Hey turtle, how large are you growing your white widow and with what lights? It would be interesting to compare bud sizes.

Hello Gen,

I'm growing my mother plants right now... I'll take clones from their secondary growth. Right now, I'm "cloning for sex"... I took clones, and placed them 12/12 so they show their sex. Once I know for certain which are my females, I'll take cutting from her for my actual grow.

I plan on doing a SCRoG setup. I'm running a cabinet (20"x40" with a 48" height)... lights: 400W MH + 600W HPS. I'll veg with the MH, and run both bulbs when flowering time comes around.

It'd definitely would be interesting to compare buds.

Keep up the good grow Gen,

-turtle420
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[turtle420]

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[Gen]

Thanks, turtle.

How about posting some pictures?

[grow4fun]

Those soil plants look very healthy, the hydros.......probably just not enuf light , water ph, nute strength.
What I wanted to mention is that those soil plants look waaay too small to be flowering now. Even SOG hydro growers won't flip 'em until 8" - 1 foot tall, and it's because they'll grow faster in the hydro. [And even in that situation you get more by letting them go to more like 14" before going 12/12, and then pruning away the lower part of the plant when it gets taller].
In soil, you should veg those plants in the 4" pots until they're thoroughly rooted; roots hanging all out the bottom of the pots. That's definitely required before flowering, so they have a good root system to take up nutes right from the start of the critical early-flowering period (the first 2 weeks of 12/12, when the plant kind of decides how big/what quality of bud it's going to produce).
By that time they should also be around the 8", maybe even a foot (better).
Then put 'em in some larger container of some good soil (2 gallon pots, or even 3). It does of course mean waiting another couple weeks while they veg, but the flowering time is set -- you'll have to wait 8 weeks for that regardless. That's a long time to wait for the tiny amount of bud you'd get going into 12/12 now.
Wish I'd read your post yesterday..................... have a nice day