My plant..

[JunkYard]

Sweet Sativa!

Kush, I hope I can get mine as healthy looking as your's...Nice and bushy! I love it! It does have a funny color to it, though. Did you say that would go away? No matter, it looks very healthy!

I'm getting one of those lights, and some flouros, too. One plant is enough for first round.

Keep us posted,

[sheist]

so wait.. u switched the 12/12 to 10/14 forcing it to bud??

[sheist]

u flowered it at the third node, which meant about 2 1/2 weeks..right? and you got that many budsites and STILl growin??

[karmaxul]

The roots grow to where the oxygen is oddly enough and not the light. It is interesting the tap root went to the side and did not grow to the bottom of the pot. Do you have a cold floor or somthing or trim the tap root to grow more stout. I would some times take a clone out of the tray and put it in a 8oz cup to veg. When I put in a one gallon to flower I would trim the roots on the bottom hoping they would grow thicker thru the soil. Dont know if it really kept the plants shorter as I supercropped them but it is somthing to try.

One love
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[Kush Over]

..It does have a funny color to it, though. Did you say that would go away?..

It's the digital camera and the lighting -- the plant, in person, is an emerald green. Very beautiful for just 150 watts at 1.3 foot distance from the bulb. Personally, I still can't believe that's one plant -- all that from a few minute cuts.

...so wait.. u switched the 12/12 to 10/14 forcing it to bud??..

I originally only vegged it under 98 watts of mixed spectrum CFLs -- high and low kelvin. I did this for three and a half weeks under a 24/0 light schedule. During that entire vegetative cycle, the 24/0, it grew to about a foot with little more than a centimeter between each node. Then I switched it to the 12/12 regimen, kept it there for a week, then switched to 11/13 the following week and kept it for another week. Now I'm on my third week, going on the fourth, and it's on 10/14 and to stay at that until harvest.

So, in order, that's...
3.5 weeks / 24/0
1 week / 12/12
1 week / 11/13
Until harvest / 10/14

...u flowered it at the third node, which meant about 2 1/2 weeks..right? and you got that many budsites and STILl growin??..

I flowered it only after I had seen that the seven main stalks were health and had the beginning of alternating nodes, which was about 3.5 weeks. Well, a little less but I had to transplant to the container it's in now and wanted to let it recuperate for a couple extra days to add up to three and a half weeks in the end. And one of the only reasons it even has that many budsites is due to the Topping and FIMing, which were started at the plant's third node when it was about a week old.

Oh, and it's still growing all right! Must have packed on another .7 inch or so over night, but it's slowed substantially.

...Do you have a cold floor or somthing or trim the tap root to grow more stout..

Nah, my grow box pretty much never goes under seventy degrees and never goes over ninety. It might be that I transplanted about five days before inducing that initial 12/12 cycling. The roots and plant are still growing strong, so I'm not too worried.



All right, I'll be on later tonight. Thank you for posting and visiting, hope I maybe inspired some people -- maybe given some ideas. I'm still taking suggestions, so if anyone has any I'd be greatly appreciative. I'll try to post pictures tonight, so stay tuned.

[busteruk7]

looking nice kush

[sheist]

Thats like full out forcing the buds to sprout flower.. i didn't kno u could control the flowering stage

[Kush Over]

Thanks, busteruk7. I try.

..Thats like full out forcing the buds to sprout flower.. i didn't kno u could control the flowering stage..

You can't control it, per se. You can control the hours of light and dark to simulate, in nature, the planet's Northern Hemisphere [ or Southern ] tilting away from the sun. The shorter day lengths and longer nights tells the plant that it's time to begin producing -- that winter is on it's way and that it'll die if it doesn't start doing whatever it has to do. In this case buds intended to produce resin laden trichomes to protect seeds from pests and the environment.


Anyway, guys and gals, I'm going to throw a couple more pictures up here. Same foot long ruler bit so you can all make visual comparisons. Color in these photos is a bit better, as is the lighting. But they still do the plant no justice -- much greener in person. I can also see hairs on the plant from a distance now -- guess that's a good thing, eh?


[ LoL. Looks like a mug shot. ]

[mand]

Hello Kush I have to say love that is a very intresting plant, I really like the idea of multiple pinching, I actually keep meaning to try it myself but I'm affraid I just never get round to it

Also the 10/14 cycle, I do gradually adjust down to 11/13 in the flowering stages but I've never gone as low as 10 before. However it makes perfect sense to me, tricks the plant into thinking "Oh dear winter is coming, I'd best hurry up with the flowering"

Hmmm and a shallow pot as well ............................. please keep the updates up kush, this I find to be a very good looking and intresting plant



love mand xxx

[Kush Over]

Well, hello and thank you, Mand. .

Yes, it is an interesting plant, isn't it? The plant was very interesting to watch over the first two weeks of it's life. Namely because of that reason -- the pinching -- which caused so much spontaneous growth that the plant literally out grew it's first box.

I made my way through a 11/13 schedule a week before the 10/14 that's it's currently in. I did it primarily because I wanted to find out the sex of the plant -- was getting a bit anxious. Plus I wanted to flower soon, anyway.

The shallow pot was to conserve a little space for the plant. It's a retired 2 gallon reptile terrarium with a single half inch diameter hole in the center at the bottom. The roots really haven't taken up much space from what I've seen -- not nearly as much as they should be, which could be good since it'll allow for a little more growth. I like it because it's got a decent sized medium capacity, and it's only about five inches tall -- more head room for the plant, as I mentioned.


I guess I'll throw up another picture. Same mediocre quality, but this time a more recent overhead shot.