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sneakers · #20 (**permalink**) 07-13-2007, 05:50 PM

Day 36 (2 days into flowering)

I placed the plant into 12/12 a couple of days ago. I think I am seeing what appears to be some hairs forming on a couple of the nodes. There have been 2 hairs on each side of the stem at each node for a long time and I don't think those are female flowers. What I am seeing now might look a little different. I am making a run to Walmart today to get some more 2700 K CFLs and will look for a magnifying glass also.

I have kept up the LST on this plant pretty good. Everytime it grew a couple of inches or so I would tie the top down. While it never did get very tall, it is amazing at the number of tops now. It looks like they are all racing to see who will be the tallest and be the main cola. It almost appears as a canopy of only tops.

I have been trimming quite a few fan leaves from the plant. It wasn't until I started trimming off these leaves to enable light to reach the lower growth that the canopy of tops started to form. As these leaves get big, they too have to be trimmed. It seems that there is always another layer of top growth under the existing canopy. I have tried to leave several of the largest lower fan leaves for the plant to use for photosynthesis. I'm not sure just how many should be left for optimum value but it seems to be working good how it is.

I now have the nutes at about 900 PPM. It seems to love it. There is 1 leaf that appears to have some burn on the tips of the leaf. I'm not real sure what caused this but everything seems to be ok now.

Although the smell gets quite strong at times, the odor only seems to come in stages. It will smell strong for awhile then it seems to go away. It reminds me of a bush my grandmother used to have that would put off a smell like bananas just a couple of times a day.

Here are some new pics.

Are there any particular precautions I should take as it adjusts to the flowering cycle?

#20 (permalink) 07-13-2007, 05:50 PM
sneakers Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 690	Day 36 (2 days into flowering) I placed the plant into 12/12 a couple of days ago. I think I am seeing what appears to be some hairs forming on a couple of the nodes. There have been 2 hairs on each side of the stem at each node for a long time and I don't think those are female flowers. What I am seeing now might look a little different. I am making a run to Walmart today to get some more 2700 K CFLs and will look for a magnifying glass also. I have kept up the LST on this plant pretty good. Everytime it grew a couple of inches or so I would tie the top down. While it never did get very tall, it is amazing at the number of tops now. It looks like they are all racing to see who will be the tallest and be the main cola. It almost appears as a canopy of only tops. I have been trimming quite a few fan leaves from the plant. It wasn't until I started trimming off these leaves to enable light to reach the lower growth that the canopy of tops started to form. As these leaves get big, they too have to be trimmed. It seems that there is always another layer of top growth under the existing canopy. I have tried to leave several of the largest lower fan leaves for the plant to use for photosynthesis. I'm not sure just how many should be left for optimum value but it seems to be working good how it is. I now have the nutes at about 900 PPM. It seems to love it. There is 1 leaf that appears to have some burn on the tips of the leaf. I'm not real sure what caused this but everything seems to be ok now. Although the smell gets quite strong at times, the odor only seems to come in stages. It will smell strong for awhile then it seems to go away. It reminds me of a bush my grandmother used to have that would put off a smell like bananas just a couple of times a day. Here are some new pics. Are there any particular precautions I should take as it adjusts to the flowering cycle?