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daihashi · #26 (**permalink**) Mar-08-2008, 12:05

Fed the plants today, the soil felt slightly moist but the pot weight suggested to me that it was time to just go ahead and water.

I fed them the following:

1 Tbsp Molasses
5ml Botanicare Bloom Booster
1 Tbsp Age Old Bloom
15ml Sweet
Water PH'd to 6.8

The 3 gallon pots drank just under 1 gallon and the 5 gallon pot drank slightly over 1 gallon. Not bad I'd say.

3 of my plants are looking pretty awesome. However 2 of my plants seem a bit lanky. Looks like they were stretching for the light as the nodes spacing are further apart.

The only thing I could think of was that these 2 plants were in the back of the room and maybe they were affected by light leak.

I've remedied the light leak and 1 of the plants really started to start shooting out some pistils. The other is still slow.

So today I've gone ahead and re-LST'd these plants to try to create some additional shoots to make it a little more dense and put them in the front of the room to get better light.

Here's a photo of the entire room:

pic 1: Picture of the entire room posted February 26th.
Pic 2: Picture as of 12pm today.
Pic 3: Overhead shot

Sorry it's really hard for me to get good pictures with the HPS on. The color makes the plants look smaller when they actually have a little bud on them and are pretty large but you should be able to see the growth that has occurred in the last week and a half.

The plants in the front have been LST'd one last time and raised to be even with the canopy. The plants in the back have not been re-lst'd and are sitting even on the ground with the big 5 gallon plant in the middle back. their canopy is as tall as the big plant now.

daihashi · #27 (**permalink**) Mar-08-2008, 14:02

I've decided to show growth in pictures I should continue to 2 pictures. One overall shot of all the plants and then 1 shot of one of the colas.

These pictures will be the same angle each post (with the occassional bonus shot) and will compare with the previous week's posting.

So to get this log down that track here are my 2 shots this week

Pic 1: Shot of all Plants Feb 26th
Pic 2: Shot of all Plants March 8th
Pic 3: Detail shot of cola Feb 26th
Pic 4: Detail shot of cola March 8th

edit: Yes those cola shots are the same cola shot at pretty much the same angle.

daihashi · #28 (**permalink**) Mar-08-2008, 14:43

I keep forgetting to add this to my picture posts.

This is day 22 of flowering.

Hoping to flower for about 50 more days or so.

daihashi · #29 (**permalink**) Mar-11-2008, 19:10

Here are some bonus pics of the main plant. Something to look at until the weekly picture update on saturday/sunday.

Day 25 Flowering.

Pic 1: Overhead view of my plant.

Pic 2: Example of 2 cola's easy to spot from the front. Notice how budding goes all the way down. It continues most of the way to the main stem.

Pic 3: Sideview Overall picture of the plant. Mostly to show that there are MANY cola's that are like the previous picture (30 or so).

Pic 4: another sideview/overall pic from a different side/angle.

Pic 5: Side view of the cola from pic 2. Was only able to capture about 3/4 of it's length on camera.

daihashi · #30 (**permalink**) Mar-14-2008, 17:31

I couldn't resist. 1 more before tomorrow.

pic 1: The Cola from last week March 8th
pic 2: The same cola today, March 14th

edit: Forgot to note. This is day 28 flowering. Hopefuly another 5-6 weeks and I'll be done.

daihashi · #31 (**permalink**) Mar-15-2008, 13:54

well. Looks like I'm going to have to flush a couple of the smaller plants instead.

They are coming out at ph 5.9. One of them is acting like it has heat stress. This is likely due to ph issue.

While 5.9 isn't horrible (still out of range for soil though)it's far from ideal.

Since I fed them today, flushed them two weeks ago, and they are not stressing too bad I will wait a few days to flush them again. I am running low on sweet ( I spilled 3/4 of a brand new container 2 weeks ago or so) so I want them to try to uptake some of the stuff I fed them today.

I will probably run the flush on tuesday or at first signs that they are getting worse. Which ever comes first.

It was my own fault. The first time I flushed them with 3 gallons of water since I had just gone from 1 gallon containers to 3 gallon. I thought this was enough. I probably should've done at least 6 if not the entire 9

. It was really weird because the PH was stablilized 2 weeks ago at 6.5

Any one have any thoughts on that? I know no one is really participating in this thread but some input on the fluxuating ph after a flush would be helpful.

smok3y · #32 (**permalink**) Mar-15-2008, 17:46

Nice grow box man..

Plants are looking good, cant wait to see the finished product..
Good luck

daihashi · #33 (**permalink**) Mar-15-2008, 17:54

Day 29 Flowering

ok I went ahead and flushed 2 of the smaller plants. I will do the other two at the next watering.

Here are the weekly pics

Pic 1: Overall shot March 8th
Pic 2: Overall Shot March 15th
Pic 3: Shot of Cola March 8th
Pic 4: Shot of Cola March 14th

edit: Please use the oscillating fan as reference for plant growth. On the 8th the plants were standing on about 8 dvd cases each. Today they are standing on none or 1-2.

Combine the fact that I've been lowering the plants with their vertical growth. Not bad.

2 of these plants are very indica and 3 of the plants are very sativa. It's interesting because the seeds came from the same bag.

daihashi · #34 (**permalink**) Mar-17-2008, 18:19

Just incase anyone is curious.... they do smell fairly strong. Reminds me of Sour/NY diesel.

Crystals are starting to form on the leaves and the buds have fattened up slightly. This is all from a bag of shwaggity. From what I can tell the genetics aren't bad the grower (probably mexigrown) just didn't do the optimal job harvesting it.

From what I can remember though this stuff was really good.

I save all my seeds and label them ranking them in 5 categories on a scale of 1 - 10.

Aroma, Density, Flavor, Quality of High, overall.

This one had an overall ranking of 6 and a High quality of 6.

At the time the aroma was not all that great. It was fairly dense though.

So hopefully I can bump this up to a 9 overall ranking after harvest.

I wish I had taken some clones off my big plant. She's so beautiful and I'm suspecting will be a decent yielder (3oz +, hoping for 7oz+ though based on 1/4 oz dry weight per cola.. there are about 30 main colas and 10-15 smaller ones.)

daihashi · #35 (**permalink**) Mar-23-2008, 15:39

well no picture this week. The batteries are dead and don't feel like getting any because I'm a sick baby. heh

One thing interesting to note is that 2 of my smaller sativa dominant plants are starting to outgrow my very large sativa dominant plant.

Also the buds are completely different. On my 2 smaller sativa plants they seem to be producing fluffier buds and on my larger sativa it seems to be making really dense buds.

Crystals are forming but they're tiny tiny. Hopefully as the buds plump up so do the trichomes.

daihashi · #36 (**permalink**) Mar-23-2008, 17:30

Forgot to mention. Today is day 36-37 of flowering.

SnSstealth · #37 (**permalink**) Mar-23-2008, 19:09

looking great dai!!!
:Smokebong:
whiskeytango

daihashi · #38 (**permalink**) Mar-25-2008, 08:21

man.. I went to check my plants this morning before I left for work. Everything looked as normal. Then I decided to enjoy the fragrance of each plant. I just gently touch a flower top on each plant and smell the scent on my fingers.

Well of interesting note 2 of my plants smell very unique.

The 3 sativa dominant plants all smell very similar however the two plants that are either a hybrid or indica dominant smell unique. One plant smells alot like lemon!!! The other plant smells alot like some kind of mango or papaya.. a type of meaty fruit like that.

I really wished I had taken clones now, oh well. I should have an interesting variety of smoke come harvest.

daihashi · #39 (**permalink**) Mar-26-2008, 20:46

Welp. watered 2 of the plants today with plain water.

3 of the other plants got a flush. I had two plants that were sativa dominant that have needed a flush probably for the last 2 weeks but I had been putting it off because they were still showing good bud growth. Well the leaves were starting to show eagle claw symptoms so I flushed them with 9 gallons of water today.

My big plant I didn't think needed a flush but I ran the runoff PH just incase. It was right at 6.0, it may have been lower as I didn't wait to find out if it was going to drop another 1 - 2 points.

I ended up having to flush it with 65 gallons of water!! YEESH!!! That's 13 times what is recommended. I finally got the ph stable at 6.6. I gave it a full dose 1 gallon serving of nutes.

Geez, peat is a pain in the ass. I think from now after I transplant them into their gallon containers I need to use 100% soil instead of my fox farms/Promix mixture I'm using. I was trying to save some cash but it's proving to be a pain in the ass toward the end here.

On another note I believe a number of my plants may be rootbound. I'm not sure if I should just go ahead and leave them be or go ahead and transplant them into new containers. I have up to 6 weeks to go since I'm halfway through week 6 of flower.

Going to post this in basic growing section and see what people suggest.

SnSstealth · #40 (**permalink**) Mar-27-2008, 07:19

d....are you using fox farm ocean forrest? how big are the pots? gimme your specs, well....put your specs in so myself and the true experts, stinky, rhizome, wh..we can tell ya alot more if you give us all the info...few pics will be great too.....we use ALL fox farm for ours...in 3 gal pots....had a situation kinda similar...may just need to make more drainage holes....the fox farm nutes are made to be takin by their ocean forrest organic soil mix too....

whiskeytango

daihashi · #41 (**permalink**) Mar-27-2008, 09:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnSstealth

d....are you using fox farm ocean forrest? how big are the pots? gimme your specs, well....put your specs in so myself and the true experts, stinky, rhizome, wh..we can tell ya alot more if you give us all the info...few pics will be great too.....we use ALL fox farm for ours...in 3 gal pots....had a situation kinda similar...may just need to make more drainage holes....the fox farm nutes are made to be takin by their ocean forrest organic soil mix too....

whiskeytango

My pots for the smaller plants are 3 gallon pots. The big plant is in a 5 gallon pot.

All the plants are in a 50/50 Mixture of fox farms ocean forest and promix.

I just flushed them yesterday and they already have additional holes in the pot for drainage.

I'm confident 3 of the plants are rootbound but with up to 6 more weeks to go I don't know if I should go ahead and repot them or just let them deal with it for 6 more weeks. I'm not sure exactly how long these should flower due to the fact that they were bag seed but I can tell that they are not even close to being done. New calyxes and pistils still popping up. 95% white pistils on all the plants.

I haven't even bothered looking at trichome color yet due to the fact that they look like they still have a long way to go.

I probably won't have pics until this saturday. What do you think SnS? Transplant or try to hold off?

I know transplanting will probably give me bigger buds but it'll probably add another week or two onto my flower time

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