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Thanks for stopping by my thread Splif. Sounds like you are blowing it up around here. Maby I will have to go back and read the whole thread, just have dropped in now and then, but this thing just keeps getting better.
How long do you usually veg for? I am just doing a bunch of test grows right now with different veg times, nutes and systems, soil, hydro and next coco, so I would like to know what you like about your set up and what you would change if you could, if you have the time to post your thoughts.
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Man, school's out for the semester, I have nothin but time blue This is still my first grow, so I guess i "usually" veg for 2.5 months, since thats what we ended up with this time. Lol, we weren't planning on vegging quite as long since we were planning on having more plants, but my friend kinda killed 22 out of 27 seedlings we had in a rapid rooter flat.

Another thing that led to the long veg time was we started a group of White Rhino seeds from nirvana around Oct 30th (The 5 bag seed plants were already big enough to flower at this point) and for some reason we decided we would wait for the 10 rhinos to catch up and just flower them when they were like a month old. Well....lets just say my friend isn't too good at caring for seedlings, and of the 10 white rhinos, we have 2 like 4" seedlings (planted oct 30th, its Dec 18th and they have like 2 or 3 sets of leaves....)

So although we weren't originally going to veg them for 2.5 months, I think it worked out great in the end, gave us plenty of time to train the plants and experiment with different methods of training to see what works for us. I had some interesting results from some experiments, like FIM'ing a top on a LST'd plant only a week before flowering.

What I found works the best for the most even canopy with the most large colas is topping around 6-7 nodes & then low stress training. Where you top the plant, the main stem will quit growing up you know, so if you tie it over, you'll get about 2 colas for each node below the cut. The plant I did that to definitely looks like it is going to yield the most, and i have about 10 just giant colas on this thing, compared to about 4-6 big colas and lots of other little nugs on the other plants. (pics @ bottom: day it was topped to present)

What I'd change: I'd like to start growing from clone, because seed takes too long. We need to find a good mother. Thats going to happen next grow when we start only bought seeds. Also, I wouldn't veg quite as long, since I'd have more plants. That 1kw can definitely support more than 4 big plants, so I wanna get my money's worth. I wouldn't change a thing about the soil /nutes though, my plants loved the ocean forest soil + the fox farms system :eat:

You got any tips bear? I'm still a noob, and I lucked out and had success my first round. One thing I would suggest to fellow noobs is READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. I've read every grow article in high times, the indoor/outdoor bible by jorge cervantes, every grow faq on the net, and tons of posts on this and other sites. Doing your homework before starting makes life so much simpler. But then again, it is a weed and will grow like one, so don't try and over-complicate things either (i'm bad about this).


Of all the different styles of training we tried, topping once then LST'ing appears to give the most even canopy / highest yield / most large nugs.

We topped it then waited a couple days then tied it over. As the new tops formed at the nodes, they grew straight up in kinda a mess. Then we trained the new tops away from each other, like from each node you got 2 tops, I'd tie one top to the left, one to the right. And got this.
Splifted Reviewed by Splifted on . White Rhino & Bag-seed Grow Log w00t It was time for a new name & a new log, so here we go. Got 6 white rhino seedlings. Well, 6 and a half, cause my two headed mutant. Also, have 4 approx 2 or 2.5 month old plants, lots of training LST'ing has been done to these hoes, cause we're planning on flowering them once the rhinos are ready. We have the space and the lighting, I know they're going to be huge. So maybe one more month of veg, the rhinos are about a week above ground I believe. Rating: 5