FIMming a seedling?

[Kush Over]

Herein lies the problem; different growth and environmental factors.

If I'm not mistaken, your plant's roots are sitting in a three to five gallon DWC system -- not sure on the size of that white bucket down there with the air and water pump tubes dangling out of it. My plant is sitting in two gallons of shallow soil intended solely for height reduction in response to the stretching during flower induction [ I loathe tall, narrow buckets ]. This plant was intended for a space less than a yard in height, and the pot and all falls under even that.

I'm also pretty sure you've invested a couple grand into this, whereas I've only probably put in close to five hundred, if even. Talking about fertilizers / nutrients, additives, odor killing methods, genetics from wherever, gadgets, etc. -- anything involving cannabis and it's growth. Hell, you could have even given those CO2 for all I know! That's almost seldom heard of with me.

Not only that -- the claustrophobic growth conditions I use in comparison to your wide open space that's considerably more ventilated is hard to ignore. A plant will generally grow better if it's not having to compete with walls.

Your strain is -at the least- some good mid grades you found in a bag, but I'm willing to bet it actually came from some form of seed bank. Please note, that and most of this -- like a picture -- is pure speculation. You could very well have something completely different I'm ignorant in regards to. My strain couldn't possibly qualify for the Crackhead Cup, much less anything with prestige. But that's the beauty of it -- that a plant this fucked up is still growing, fattening up, and will inevitably yield.

I ran into a lock-out three days before that picture was taken for another thread. The picture was intended to show, at a distance, what the lock-out did; and with this information in hand I was hoping to get some help on it, but with close to two hundred views, almost a week of waiting, and no answer I'm starting to think it was in vain. Thankfully I managed to save it and salvage what I could before it did anything else. So, in conclusion to that, the plant was pretty well nuked, but the basic concept on what FIMing and Topping produce remains.

Another thing is my plant is only just barely eighty days old, that's from seed to present and that's including the time it took to germinate and sprout. I have no idea how old that plant is, but I'm guessing it took some time to get like that. Although I'll admit it's beautiful and in a completely different league from mine.

I'm more for getting the little bastards in and back out in as short a time as possible. Any additional delay kills my buzz, so to speak.

That's not to say I wouldn't grow something like Malawi Gold or a Haze, but I wouldn't want to wait twenty weeks for it to recuperate WHILE flowering to produce that. It's not a technique I'd personally practice when I'm trying to keep things to a minimal.

The string suspension is great, but I like to be able to move my plants. That wouldn't be possible unless the strings are suspended from a great big long stake in the center of the mass holding each of the 'suspension cables' up.

Or if the ceiling comes separate.

[Krogith]

Just because the plant is bigger does not make your flowering time longer the plants flowering cycle is just the same. Also the string can be something comming off each plants bucket or if in a pot can put like the tomato's wire things also. The higth factor of plant and grow time is still the same Time Frame. Theres just so much extra roots with Non FIM that you get much more Buddage.

[Kush Over]

..Just because the plant is bigger does not make your flowering time longer the plants flowering cycle is just the same..

That's not what my personal experience has shown me. I'm sorry if your own has shown differently, but like the point in the discussion I'm trying to make it really runs down to genetics and environmental conditioning.

And besides, I didn't say it'd take longer to flower because it was larger. I said it'd take longer to produce the growth mass that the plant in Zandor's picture possesses -- well, maybe not in hydroponics!

The more I look at it the more I can comment. Some of the buds look like they're tipping a little close to the horizontally inclined side, though. Maybe they're supported somehow that I can't see in the picture?

Could be those strings you're talking about.

I don't know.

Speculation.

..Theres just so much extra roots with Non FIM that you get much more Buddage..

Ever hear of mycorrhizae fungi? :rasta:

[Krogith]

i think were on the same page imo cause i thought you were saying theres a longer budding process but once you have got higth with your grow stage ( thats where it might take longer growing process ) but yeah you really need to get hydro because i can seriously get around 1 inch of groth on my tops a day if not 2 when power feeding. Yes that pic does have strings holding em helping the buds stay up, or im shure a few would be drooping quite low due to weight :smokin: and no never heard of that.... altho if your talking root stimulant i use a root groth formula on my own to accerlate them also( hydro grows so much faster)

[Kush Over]

We are on the same page, that's what I thought, too. Vegetative growth to get the height and basic shape after training [ big variable; depends on method ]; then the flowering which, I agree, takes almost the exact same time as any other of the same strain.

I thought about getting the stuff for a DWC system after realizing that it probably would help me better in the end, but '03s organic grow for me was the shit. I had a plant that I topped only once and got three ounces of some of the best shit I'd ever smoke. I don't think I'll ever quite grow a plant like it again. It'd probably put the one I have now to shame many fold, potency wise.

To think the seed came from the worst mid grades I'd ever seen.

But anyway. That mycorrhizae fungi is some good shit. Very natural root stimulant; improves water and nutrient uptake, especially phosphorous. I'd look into it. It's probably one of the main reasons that organic plant that I was talking about was so nice, to be honest.

[Krogith]

Looked at my root shit and it's got it in it as 3rd ingerdent =p

[Kush Over]

There you go, bro.

That shit's good. Forms a symbiotic relationship with the plant; in return for food it gives the host a boost.