I know what you mean dude. How big's your scrog net gonna end up being and are you gonna finish them in the 1 gallon smart pots or transplant to a 3-5?
I'm planting in the 1gal for 3-4 weeks or until I can conclusively sex the plants. Then in the SCROG they go and the training commences. After sexing I'm transplanting the female plants (So far it seems like 3 are going female and 1 is growing like a male would; the last one I don't know) to an 18gal tote and training them on a single screen. The screen is probably going to be 4x3, so 12 square feet. It should be enough space, but I might be reducing my yield by crowding them. Training for 2 weeks then flowering until they're done. I probably have about 10 weeks until harvest. AZ
End of day 20: No news. Big plant is showing signs of K deficiency on bottom set of leaves. All the others are good, but they definitely have some peculiar genetics. 3rd week family photo is tomorrow. AZ
END OF THIRD WEEK (DAY 21): Wow! A lot of growth in seven days! The four younger plants have recovered beautifully from the hot MG start. Oldest plant has some K issues. I'm going to try to make a tea this weekend that will emend those issues, or I'll give in to the bottle and buy some nutes... There's so much good bat guano around and alpha alpha is cheap as hell, I really should go organic... We'll see. In any case, all new growth looks strong. Smallest to largest: 15 day old Runt. Beautiful fan leaves on top. Nice inter-nodal spacing. No serious issues with nutes at all. Really a solid plant. Really hope she goes fem... It's gonna be a bummer killing off some of these plants... 15 day old with original nute burn issues. Good recovery and color is uniformly green. Slight burn scars from nutes and lighting. Both issues are good now. Solid growth with nice branching and a beautiful top. She's a solid grower. 15 day old... good branching. little stretched. might be male... Just an ok plant. The Hog's Breath! Looks good!. And is starting to smell already... Really like the way this one grows. Looooong fan leaves and rapid top growth without much height gain. REALLY hope she's a girl. It'd be heart breaking to have to lose this one. The 22 day old. Good growth and branching. Issues with K deficiency on bottom growth, but new growth is perfect! Over 4" tall and splitting like crazy without any training. Really excited about the genetics of the unknown bag seed so far. Looks like they'll fit the SCROG technique perfectly and they're the same height as the Hog's Breath at the same age (the HB is definitely leafier though). First try in training: Topped the 22 day old: Before: After: A little messy but it'll work. I sterilized the scissors and scrubbed up before attempting. Humidity is also pretty low. I don't think I need to worry about infection, but does anyone know if I can sterilize the cut site with H2O2 or some other antiseptic? New growth looks strong so I'm expecting a quick recovery, even with the K issues. Smart pots were delayed and probably won't arrive for another 6 days... I'm buying exclusively from my Hydro shop from now on. Prices are usually better and it's way more convenient. Good week all-in-all! Lights off in about 2 hours. New post in the morning. Final note- Week three family photo: EDIT: Week 2, for comparison.
Nice update dude, im 90% sure the hogs will be a lady, hope im right, are you gonna scrog at week 4 and vege for another 2-3 weeks to fill it out a bit or just throw it to 12/12 straight up? Either way all the best dude.
I'm definitely going to veg on the screen. I want that thing fucking loaded, pardon my French. I'm realistically not going to harvest until mid to late January. I'm in for the long haul. It's my first grow, so I am really looking for the best experience possible. I think I'm on my way.
[quote name='"KangarooBunny"']Looking good still. What was the reason for the topping of just that one?[/quote] That plant is six days older and has more leaf sets. I'm using the older plant as an experimental plant. If it bounces back within the next few days, then I know I can successfully top the others when they hit the day 22 mark.
Hi Az. Lot of growth. Doing great. When I top I don't use tools and implements. I wouldn't think you should have any infection problems.
Day 24: Well, this is officially not at all an organic grow... My leaves were showing too much damage for me to wait and I gave in... Using Advanced Nutrients SensiGrow A+B. Fed last night at 1/4 strength and the HB has added at least a half inch. Cut the bottom leaves that were starting to crisp on the 24 day old. Top looks clean and good. I'll post pictures later. Good stuff for now. AZ
Day 23: Top on the oldest plant recovered well! Growth is good, color is good on new growth. Still recovering from nute deficiencies but looking good. Because this seemed to work so well, I've topped the remaining four. The HB Average grower Runt Nute burned baby- No photo, but it looks a lot like a plant with the top cut off... Watering with straight water tomorrow or the day following. Little bit of over feeding. I'll drop it to 1/6 strength next time. T5 is high enough that I was able to sneak a CFL between the plants. Going to get an actual bulb or two (45W+) in the next few days. Smart pots are in town and are going to be delivered tomorrow hopefully. Transplant in 2-3 days. Take it easy GC, AZ
the babies are looking good dude...Scrogging is the way to go. Subb'd and excited to see how they turn out.
Day 25: Transplanted last night into 1 gallon smart pots! Looking good, but slight wilting. I think its a watering issue. I'm going to water again tomorrow morning I believe. Pics tonight, I need to give the girls a chance to settle in before I start snapping photos of them. AZ
did you water when you transplanted? i do know that its normal for a plant to wilt slightly right after a transplant. it shocks them a little bit.
I wet the soil that I transplanted into, then about 12 hours later I watered fully. The wilting is subsiding a bit. Looking okay, just some nute issues still. AZ
Watering helped a lot! They're all standing strong. I'm going to trim them tomorrow; there are some dead leaves that need to be dealt with. AZ
Trees have been trimmed and I started pre-training. I figure I can't put them on the screen yet but I can at least do some lst while I wait. I'm using paperclips that I attach directly to the SmartPot. Lst looks good, but I still want to give my ladies time to grow into their new surroundings before posting new pics. They look small currently with the training and new pots... AZ