Satan's Indoor Grow of 08'

[§à†áÑ]

Alright guys, this grow was started in late 07, but obviously wasnt finished in 07, so.. heres the first indoor grow of 08.
I bought a nice beefy order from doc chronic, and this time around i am doing Big Bud from Nirvana, and a freebe pack i recieved with my order of other goodies called "Troublemaker".
I planned to just do a seed grow of the Big Bud for reasons that cant be discussed on this board, and decided to just throw the Troublemaker in for fun.
I had %100 germ rate with the Big Bud (i lost 1 seed on the ground after getting them, so its 9/9 lol) As for the Troublemaker, only 6 decided to pop, so im left with 15 plants total.
They were germed (forget the exact date, they all popped 3 days after though and were planted) and then broke soil 11/21.
Lived for a month under a 4 foot 80 watt fluro (2 40 watt tubes)
As you can tell they got a tad stretched, i went away for a couple weeks for the holidays so i raised the light and left, oh well.
Time for pics!
Picture 1: Showing the goods.
Picture 2: %100 germ tate on the Big Bud, they should have been planted sooner but i was waiting for the troublemakers...
Picture 3: The troublemakers
Picture 4: How they were before they went under the 1kw MH, stretched as hell.

[§à†áÑ]

Alright, lets skip to today.
They are all under a 1kw MH bulb, in my own "custom" mixed soil, and fed with ..."top secret" nutes every other week lol.
They are in my "secret book-case" grow room that i will be makeing a thread on shortly so everyone can understand.
Enough chit chat, if anyone has any questions id be more then happy to answer them, heres the pics!
Oh, alittle p.s, its been REAL hot around here lately yesterday was 60, today was 72, so ive been dealing with some heat issues in the growroom which is why the leaves are a bit droopey, they werent at their best during picture takeing time, they didnt have enough time to put on their makeup, sorry guys.

Picture 1: Lets step inside...
Picture 2: Welcome to the jungle
Picture 3: This is a troublemaker, it looks beautiful, i love how its starying so short, definatly surpriseing me with this strain for a "freebe" pack.
Picture 4: I fim'd this plant, and other one as an exparament when they were just a week and a half old.. this is what im left with, im pleased.
Picture 5: Side shot of said plant to show alittle better.
Picture 6: Just a cool shot i thought, trying to get all 15 in the pic is a hard job.
Picture 7: FEMALE PREFLOWERS! Preflowers on a Big Bud, i actually have 3 plants that have showed sex so far, all big bud, and all females...
Picture 8: Different plant, same situation

All input is welcome, i love what i do and do what i love... Should be an interesting show this time around.

[joxter]

looks great. i have a couple questions, if you dont mind, whats the NPK rating on your nutes? and how can you be sure they are female? i see no female signs, like the pistils that show. or maybe its just late and i dont see them.

[tigss]

nice work keep it up man ur doing great!!! make sure u keep atleast 1 aside to be a mother rofl u have 15 there im sure u can keep one aside :P

[Konon]

nice shit bro

[demiurge714]

looks good man

[Dune Trader]

Originally Posted by §à†áÑ

As you can tell they got a tad stretched, i went away for a couple weeks for the holidays so i raised the light and left, oh well.

If you don't mind, what do you mean by "stretched?" Too much stem?

[§à†áÑ]

Originally Posted by joxter

looks great. i have a couple questions, if you dont mind, whats the NPK rating on your nutes? and how can you be sure they are female? i see no female signs, like the pistils that show. or maybe its just late and i dont see them.

Hey man!
Look in the last picture, look down towards the bottom at the node, see those two clear or white "hairs" called stigmas? Those are female preflowers. lol
I dont like to talk about npk or nute anything it causes to much b.s, its close to 20-25-30ish right now though.

Also to dune, when a plant is stretched its taller then it should usualy be becuase it had to "stretch" towards the light since it was to far away, so yes you have the right guess as to what stretched is. Not really "bad" per-say, just causes stress which lowers chances of females, and just looks ...bad.


Thanks for all the input and questions guys!

[Machine]

lookin good keep up the great work

[joxter]

Originally Posted by §à†áÑ

Hey man!
Look in the last picture, look down towards the bottom at the node, see those two clear or white "hairs" called stigmas? Those are female preflowers. lol
I dont like to talk about npk or nute anything it causes to much b.s, its close to 20-25-30ish right now though.

ah i do see them now, just to the right of the main stem, i must have missed them, it was late last night.

[§à†áÑ]

Originally Posted by joxter

ah i do see them now, just to the right of the main stem, i must have missed them, it was late last night.

Understandable, i tryed to get a nice picture, they are always pretty hard to see in pictures.
Nobody else has anything?

[§à†áÑ]

Time for some updates i suppose. Things are growing pretty fast, i was told the big bud is a really fast growing strain, im loveing how they are staying so short and the branches are getting nice and long already pretty much doubleing budsites, its definatly an interesting strain to watch.
Im also being quite surprised with the troublemaker, in general everything is going great, i also got a pack of Strawberry Cough from dutch passion when i ordered all this from the doc, im thinking about throwing some of them in, space is already getting to be an issue though ill think about it.
Heat issues are gone now that the weather is back to normal, everything else is fine like i already said, other then the room starting to stink a good bit already
I have this weird thing going on with one of my troublemakers, a finger is growing out of the middle where the stem connects to the leaf, ive seen actual small buds grow in this area before but never a finger of a fan leaf, maybe it will then develope into a bud at some point... check it out.

Picture 1: The finger i was talking about growing out of the middle of a fan leave, anyone ever seen anything like this?
Picture 2: Another shot.
Picture 3: Macro of said deformitey
Picture 4: My topped troublemaker
Picture 5: Trying to show the branch growth on a random big bud, its crazy how they are almost taller then the top of the plant. (talking about the plant thats closest to the front and to the left)
Sorry there arnt many interesting pictures, things are pretty boaring (for yous) just looking at pictures until things start budding, im trying to keep it interesting though
I thought for sure i got a good shot of the whole room, its hard to do with limited space (this is a stealth room hidden behind a bookshelf) with plants takeing up %90 of the room its hard to get good shots, ill try next time though.
Thanks for all the comments and questions so far guys.
Yous might notice the edges of some of the fingers on fan leaves turned up, its getting cold at night with the light off and its a normal reaction to that, i just got a new heater which im trying to figure out, technology is great let me tell you. lol

[blanchdave]

Nice looking plants.... Keep up the love !!!

[joxter]

lookin good

[ganjaganja]

plants are looking great! love the good work. Two questions. Every pic I see of your lovely ladies, they look way under-watered. I only say this because i can see the soil sucking inward (not touching the sides of your pots) im sure you know that this means they are under-watered. Also i see that your leaves are slightly curled upward in the last set of pics, this sometimes means its too hot or drastic temperature changes have occured. im sure u know all this looking at how good ur plants look, but just in case...