First time...

[BUDSLiNGER]

looking good hymee..I always seem to have one or two that show and finish a little slower.. Just one of those things I guess. how much water does your res hold?
Is your ph still swinging??
Keep an eye on you will notice that ph is linked to ppm. Watch what the ppm does when the ph adjusts, this tells you what the plants are consuming. I keep a calander next to the area and log it all, this is helpful late in flower when they decide to cut way back on thier nute consumption, cught me by suprise on my first grow and burnt my ladies..
they will talk to you if you listen.... If the ppm is going up and the ph is dropping they are drinking more water then nutes, back off on the nutes.
if the ppm starts going down and ph up, give em a little more nutes..
5.8 is optimal...

[hymee]

Originally Posted by BUDSLiNGER

looking good hymee..I always seem to have one or two that show and finish a little slower.. Just one of those things I guess. how much water does your res hold?
Is your ph still swinging??
Keep an eye on you will notice that ph is linked to ppm. Watch what the ppm does when the ph adjusts, this tells you what the plants are consuming. I keep a calander next to the area and log it all, this is helpful late in flower when they decide to cut way back on thier nute consumption, cught me by suprise on my first grow and burnt my ladies..
they will talk to you if you listen.... If the ppm is going up and the ph is dropping they are drinking more water then nutes, back off on the nutes.
if the ppm starts going down and ph up, give em a little more nutes..
5.8 is optimal...

I keep the PH at 5.6-5.8 constantly. I just had that one swing in the PH cause I was using a dropper tester. I got a hand held now.
The main reservoir holds 3 gallons on nute solution. I have a back up reservoir hanging on the back of my box that holds fresh water. There is a float in the main, when it lowers.. fresh water comes in from the back up. This keeps my nute solution constant. I don't have to worry about evaporation. I got a calender that hangs right next to my box. I write everything down from heigth, to amounts of PH up added, PPM levels, when the water was changed, light cycles, so on and so forth. I change my water completely on average once a week. I don't like using the same water and just adding PH up.
I'm more concerened with room for all my roots than anything else really....that and having more of my plants turn out to be male. I've ripped out two so far.
I think I'm putting too much thought into identifying though. I'm 12 days into flowering and I still don't know for sure what 3 or four of my plants are.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a look dude. Any advice or comments are welcome with open arms. I've grown alot of vegetables indoor with hydroponics, but they are shorter grow cycles and...of course...vegetables aren't cannabis.

[hymee]

Thought I may as well throw some pictures in here while I had the chance. Everyone loves pictures.....except the blind I suppose.

#1 first shot of tiny ball? growing out of node.
#2 better shot of tiny ball forming.
#3 top view of plant where ball is forming. (I'm not sure what to expect with this, any ideas anyone?)
#4 top view of same plant on different stem.
#5 over all.

They are around 19" tall today. PPM is around 1000 advanced nutrients grow, mirco, bloom. PH is at 5.7. RH fluctuates between 35% and 55%. Temps are around 85 at the tips, a lot cooler at the base of the plants though. I started having temp issues when I put in my HPS from metal halide so I ran ducting from a window a/c to an intake fan. A/C is set at 73 on the econ setting, so all the air coming into my box is from the a/c. It's set to a timer. On when the light is on and off at night.

The thing that drives me crazier than anything....my biggest, fullest, greenest plant that is bushier and looks healthier than any other plant in there( this plant sits directly next to the cold air intake and has cool air blown on it all day while the light is on) isn't showing any signs of anything. Nothing is forming in the nodes. The thing just keeps getting more and more bushy. If you look at the over all picture you see a really dark spot in the back on the left hand side. That's where it sits. It's a pain getting at it to inspect it without disturbing everything else around it.

[hymee]

Tryin not to end up with a sausage fest.
I checked the plants this morning. Then again a half hour ago and found this...

[doob3r]

sorry he cocked up on ya

[hymee]

Thanks dude. Still have 9 left. Keeping my hopes up.

[doob3r]

Originally Posted by hymee

Thanks dude. Still have 9 left. Keeping my hopes up.

right on im sure youll get plenty of girls out of 9.

[hymee]

Two weeks and one day of 12/12. I only have a couple plants left to show their true colors. They are getting so tall that I had to take my pullys off and ziptie my light to the top of my box. Hope I don't run out of room. They are 23" tall now. Anyone have any ideas on a yeild to expect?

[doob3r]

looking good man, yield will come down to alot of things, mainly how you cared for the plant, and lighting. Im sure you will have plenty of dank buds to smoke

[hymee]

Sounds good Doob3r. I don't plan on changing anything with em except the water.

Confirmed another female a couple hours ago when I changed the water and nutes too. And it's the greenest, bushiest plant I have in there. The stem in an inch thick on her. That's 6 girls so far. I hope the other 3 are chicks too so I don't go through hell taking them out. It's pretty crowded in there.

[hymee]

Well I cut one last plant down. Not sure of the sex. It was the runt of them all. The rest are all females. 8 out of 12. They are two feet tall now too. I gave them some bushmasters today. I'll changed the water in 2 days or so. Hopefully I wont get much more verticle growth now.

[hymee]

On day 17 of 12/12. About an inch of verticle grow again over night. I hope the bushmasters stuff works and stops that shit. They are 25-26" tall now. I had to bend 5 tops 90 degrees and tuck them under various wires and growth to keep them from the center of the light cover. The rest of the cover is ok, but the direct center is pretty hot. I put a couple fans in there too. The canopy is getting so tight that not much air was flowing up through there. Now I have two fans on either side. 2 on the back wall blowing in and 2 inside blowing up through the plants.
The 4th pic is of the grass that I got most of these seeds out of. It's been coming around here pretty frequently. This is the tenth time in 4 or 5 months I've come across it.
Enjoy the pictures!, sorry I took the rest off.

[hymee]

I cut another one down today. It was a female, but I was looking at it and saw a ball. And right next to the ball was another ball that was green and kind looked like it was
broke open.

So down it went. But, I was looking closer at the rest of the plants and saw a few more
balls just like the one I saw on the plant I cut down. They have little stems underneath them protruding from the nodes. Only these balls have white hairs coming out. So they look like pollen sacks but big thick white hairs are coming out.

I dunno what to think. I needed to make room for the plants anyway so if I cut down a perfectly fine female I wont get too upset. It just looks fishy to me.

I tried to take some good pics of the balls on the plant I cut down and the ones on the rest of the plants. The rest of the pictures are just bud shots. Please let me know if anyone has seen this before. Input would be great.

PS: HAPPY 420

[hymee]

Well the rest of the balls are still popping out thick white hairs. I swear these things look like pollen sacks though. They are balls with stems under them holding them out from the plant...but thick white hairs are coming out.

[hymee]

Pic update. Enjoy!