Growing for my future. (My first sucessful grow) (i hope).

[growinforthefuture]

And saw vast improvement. Here are some fresh pics. I am afraid the biggest plant is a male. The damn thing is situated in a way so that i cannot get to it without moving other plants. tomorrow i will confirm its gender. The other plants have produced at least 4 definite females (or at worst hermaphrodites), and thus far there is but one confirmed male. What is with the plant in this last picture? all of the other plants seemed to recover while this one and the one right behind it which died for some reason, have not. All in all it has been a productive 2 days of growth here at the farm, and I hope to post pics of the female flowers tomorrow morning. i am just too tired tonight.

[growinforthefuture]

well i have removed 4 males, 2 of them were removed not a moment too soon, as their flowers were about to open (i think). anyhow, there are at least 3 females, and like 12 or so undecided, many of these are small plants, but i will be traveling to another part of the world in late may so the time to bud is now!
QUESTION: Do male flowers typically develop faster and show before females? or am, I just having all males.

[Chronic Chrissy]

Yes they tend to pop out first

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here are some pics of the pre-flowers on my female plants. it was hard to get pictures of them, but in real life you can see them. there are actually flowers on one of them, like little 3 calyx buds, but the pics i got of them were all too blurry. anyways i lowered my lights down about 10 inches... they are like 10-20 inches from the plants now, but it is cold as a witches tit outside so its nice and cool in there. the female flowers sure are slow to get going indoors. i guess i usually do not see my (outdoor) plants early in budding much, and not very often like i see these girls.

[growinforthefuture]

well after the unusually warm temperatures of the first week of flowering, the second featured sub-zero wind chills and snow. this caused the grow area to drop unexpectedly in temp. the low in there Saturday morning 1 hour after the lights went out, and immediately before i installed a heater was 43 degrees F. I have noticed a slowing in growth, but today the plants seem to be doing better. here are a few pics of the biggest plant and the undeveloped female flowers... come on girls do this shit! I have been watering every 3-4 days. hit them with the nutes, and then hit them with an equal amount of pure watr a few hours later, mostly on the edges of the containers to get an even moistness and prevent dry spots.

i think i'll get an ounce and half off that plant... what do y'all think? :smokin:

[growinforthefuture]

well i got 4 females now, the 2 big ones, and 2 smaller ones that are in round pots in the middle. small plants. my heater (round thing in middle) has a fan only mode, and a thermostat. it can blow in all directions or just straight out. it is a good heater for a grow room, doesn't seem to damage plants. anyways, the walls are up better providing really nice reflection. it is like having extra lights.. i am about to build a water, sugar and yeast co2 system. anyone have experience with these systems?


any advice? i need to get more pics but my camera battery dies while i was up there. tomorrow. oh btw i am on 10/12 (L/D) seems to be working fine. i am gonna used this accelerated day toi see ifg i can get the remaing 4 plants to sex. i got 2 more sizeable plants vegging still, under the HIDs by light, under the sun by day....

[4x5]

What are your temps? those plants should have bounced back by now (still droopy).

[Chronic Chrissy]

CO2 will be a waste with those plants.

[growinforthefuture]

i think that stagnant air, and too cold of air over the past few days is their main problem. they did bounce back at one point, but seem to be struggling again due to the cold. i think better air circulation and co2 would help them, with the heater and the lights i think i can boost the tempos to levels where co2 would be useful... wouldn't co2 help small plants become bigger?

also they are not that droopy, thefan was blowing on them just right in the pictuire to make it look like those leaves are hanging down alot more. they ar actually quite erect when the fan is not on them, like the right side of the largest plant...

[Chronic Chrissy]

Ok how do I explain this. CO2 will only be absorbed from the air if the plant has the means to process it, so when your plants are 100% you add CO2 and it boosts you up. But if your plants don't have certain building blocks the CO2 would just be a waste.
Oh and if your plants look like that because of the fan then you need to turn the fan down.