First Grow Log - 1000W, 12-plant SCROG **Pics**

[Dan K.]

Yeah, i completely agree. We only topped one before low stress training them all. It grew the biggest main tops, but the others produced a lot more tops, but a lot smaller tops with a few big ones and weren't really all that even. Too bad it decided to hermi too. Oh well, I can deal with seeded bud lol, I only have 4 plants so i'm not about to toss out the two hermis. Plus they're not that bad of hermis.

We vegged for approximately 2.5 months (planted in the first part of September) and they have been flowering for 17 days (16 in these pics)

See the one on the left was topped, the one on the right was LST'ed then we FIM'ed all the new tops which resulted in a whole lot of little ones which aren't as even.

Sorry, not trying to bogart your thread, I'm just a little high and I feel like talking lol.:stoned:

did you LST the one on the left as well? Yeah, I'm looking at at least 2 months of vegging if not a little more. Sucks to hear about your hermis, good luck with those, my plants already have many more tops than the one you had on the left, but that one on the right looks awesome

[Splifted]

I've never harvested before, but the one with the fewer big tops looks like its going to yield more total than the one with the lot of little tops, simply cause it has like 12 really big stems and thats it and one serious main one. I'll let you know which way works out better in a few weeks.

The one on the left was topped, which meant it stopped growing right there, and branched off in to those two colas at the top of that pic. The rest of the nodes below the top grew up into tops when we tied the topped part down. Count the pairs of two, each side has about the same number, but a couple of the ones that came up way from the bottom did so on the same side cause of bending. We must have cut it on the 6th node, I'll confirm next time I go look at them.

Plant count:
I have one that was topped then LST'ed, one that was only LST'ed, and 2 that were LST'ed, then I FIM'ed and LST'ed all the resulting tops, cause they were fast growers. Check out the 3 budded tops I got from FIM'ing right before flowering.


Pics:
First one was one of the LST caused tops that wasn't FIM'ed.
Second one is one that was. Lol, we weren't planning on flowering, but they got big fast so we went ahead and did even though we had only cut them like days before. So if anyone was wondering, thats what happens when you don't wait for them to recover from topping before floweirng :stoned:

[Splifted]

Also man, what kind of soil are you using and what you feeding them lovely ladies? They are an absolutely beautiful shade of green. Mine are kinda yellowing out a bit due to them not being fed nitrogen anymore and they've had a few slight mishaps along the way but nothing severe. So if you're looking at around 2 months total, how much time is that left before flowering? Not long huh? Your plants should be the size of mine in a week man, once they're that size they grow quickly. Isn't it exciting watching your babies grow up into big beautiful ladies? Haha I'm sure the first time is the best, just like with anything. You look like one noob who did his homework first man, congrats, I have seen a lot of "1st grows" on these threads and not many look that nice.

[chicago_white_guy]

hey kevin,
do your plants have varying shades of green naturally or is it the pictures? you may want to check the deficiency charts that are out there if it's not in the pictures. keep it up!

[Dan K.]

hey kevin,
do your plants have varying shades of green naturally or is it the pictures? you may want to check the deficiency charts that are out there if it's not in the pictures. keep it up!

I'm not exactly sure what you mean here, the newer growths are a lighter shade of green, but that's perfectly natural, other than that the plants are all the same shade of green, it could just be the light bouncing off of the mylar and creating the illusion of different shades.

[Dan K.]

Also man, what kind of soil are you using and what you feeding them lovely ladies? They are an absolutely beautiful shade of green. Mine are kinda yellowing out a bit due to them not being fed nitrogen anymore and they've had a few slight mishaps along the way but nothing severe. So if you're looking at around 2 months total, how much time is that left before flowering? Not long huh? Your plants should be the size of mine in a week man, once they're that size they grow quickly. Isn't it exciting watching your babies grow up into big beautiful ladies? Haha I'm sure the first time is the best, just like with anything. You look like one noob who did his homework first man, congrats, I have seen a lot of "1st grows" on these threads and not many look that nice.

I am using some generic soil mix from osh with 3/4 soil, 1/4 perlite and a pinch of dolimitic lime. Next time, I'm going to do closer to 50/50 cause I'm having a lot of problems with compaction right now. I'm feeding them Fox Farms Grow Big at around 6-7cc/gal right now, Liquid Karma about 5cc/gal, and Super-Thrive B1 (8cc/gal every other watering). Every third watering is just R/O H20, no nutes. At about 3 weeks I think I shocked a lot of my plants, some of them definitely had nutrient burn and they began growing 1 and 3-pronged leaves and stunted growth, so that delayed them a bit, noobie mistake, but they've recovered nicely and everything looks beautiful now. I really did do a lot of research before this, I'm hoping for 2 lbs. total harvest, that's about 2 oz's/plant, so I want to veg them as long as possible. Currently I'm planning to flower them anywhere between Dec. 10th - Christmas, but I'll just have to see, really it'll happen when 75% of my screen is full.

Thanks for all your compliments, I'll try and update the pictures a little more often, also if you want any pictures of anything taken let me know.

Your plants look beautiful!! :rasta: That one with 4 tops is a monster :thumbsup:

[Splifted]

I am using some generic soil mix from osh with 3/4 soil, 1/4 perlite and a pinch of dolimitic lime. Next time, I'm going to do closer to 50/50 cause I'm having a lot of problems with compaction right now. I'm feeding them Fox Farms Grow Big at around 6-7cc/gal right now, Liquid Karma about 5cc/gal, and Super-Thrive B1 (8cc/gal every other watering). Every third watering is just R/O H20, no nutes. At about 3 weeks I think I shocked a lot of my plants, some of them definitely had nutrient burn and they began growing 1 and 3-pronged leaves and stunted growth, so that delayed them a bit, noobie mistake, but they've recovered nicely and everything looks beautiful now. I really did do a lot of research before this, I'm hoping for 2 lbs. total harvest, that's about 2 oz's/plant, so I want to veg them as long as possible. Currently I'm planning to flower them anywhere between Dec. 10th - Christmas, but I'll just have to see, really it'll happen when 75% ofy screen is full.

Thanks for all your compliments, I'll try and update the pictures a little more often, also if you want any pictures of anything taken let me know.

Your plants look beautiful!! :rasta: That one with 4 tops is a monster :thumbsup:

Haha, the similarities between us noobs is crazy. For our final transplant, we also used 3/4 generic organic soil mixed with 1/4 perlite with some dolomitic lime mixed in as well. And we fed grow big and big bloom & superthrive, every other watering, except the superthrive which was every watering.

I assume when you say you're having problems with compaction, you are talking about when you try to water it doesn't want to go right in and kinda pool up where the dirt has hardened? I had that problem, where the soil kinda bricked up and it wouldn't get wet under the surface and the water would just run down the sides of the pot instead of absorbing.

If thats the problem, try adding a dash of liquid dish soap into your water before watering, it acts as a wetting agent which nullifies the surface tension of the water, keeping it from beading up, and making it absorb more readily into soil. It also keeps any splashed up water from beading up on the leaves.

Dish soap is also used as an emulsifying agent & wetting agent when mixing up some neem oil to spray on. It allows the neem oil to mix with water, since you know water and oil don't mix, as well as making the leaves get nice and evenly wet, instead of it beading up and running off. Just a nice little trick i picked up somewhere.

[Dan K.]

Haha, the similarities between us noobs is crazy. For our final transplant, we also used 3/4 generic organic soil mixed with 1/4 perlite with some dolomitic lime mixed in as well. And we fed grow big and big bloom & superthrive, every other watering, except the superthrive which was every watering.

I assume when you say you're having problems with compaction, you are talking about when you try to water it doesn't want to go right in and kinda pool up where the dirt has hardened? I had that problem, where the soil kinda bricked up and it wouldn't get wet under the surface and the water would just run down the sides of the pot instead of absorbing.

If thats the problem, try adding a dash of liquid dish soap into your water before watering, it acts as a wetting agent which nullifies the surface tension of the water, keeping it from beading up, and making it absorb more readily into soil. It also keeps any splashed up water from beading up on the leaves.

Dish soap is also used as an emulsifying agent & wetting agent when mixing up some neem oil to spray on. It allows the neem oil to mix with water, since you know water and oil don't mix, as well as making the leaves get nice and evenly wet, instead of it beading up and running off. Just a nice little trick i picked up somewhere.

I was talking more along the lines of every time we water, the soil becomes more compact in the pot so we're constantly having to add new soil to avoid the roots being exposed. Does that make sense??

I'll look into the liquid soap, I think I'm going to start using molasses as well to give my weed a little better flavor. We decided to throw up the screen today so I'll let you know,

Kevin

[Splifted]

I was talking more along the lines of every time we water, the soil becomes more compact in the pot so we're constantly having to add new soil to avoid the roots being exposed. Does that make sense??

I'll look into the liquid soap, I think I'm going to start using molasses as well to give my weed a little better flavor. We decided to throw up the screen today so I'll let you know,

Kevin

We've been feeding with organic natural cane brown sugar, and as soon as we run out we're gonna switch to molasses. Can't wait to see that screen. I'm going to look at the girls tomorrow, I'll get more pics. 4 days makes such a difference during flowering.

[cture]

Dan K. What type of lamp are you using?