First Closet Grow W/ Pictures (Need help and input)

Tips appreciated. Compliments even more so

I watered them just before I read your replies, bad timing lol

But, I figure it's all good. I just gave them their first dose of Grow Big along with the all-round fertilizer. I'm gonna let the soil dry for quite a while before the next watering since I got the nutes in there.


I figure the pots are about 1/3 cubic foot from the amount of soil I used to fill them, around 12 inches in diameter. I water about 1/2 gallon to each pot each watering. Is that too much water?

On a different, strange, note...my lights have started to attract some mutantly huge mosquitoes or some shit. Need to invest in a flyswatter for those things they're scary.

 

I got the pots from a garden supply store, but I cheaped out on the saucers cuz I didnt have enough money. I'm using plates under the pots right now and for all I know could be plugging the drainage holes (there are 6 or 7 around the bottom of pot.) Like I said, for being 4 days since the last time I watered, just a few inches down was pretty wet.

 

Thanks man I think it's more the hours that I post at than anything. Your grow looks plenty nice I can't wait to see it play out.

 

I have looked and never really found an LST step-by-step pictorial. So, I'm going to create one inside my journal here and hopefully people can find it.

This is going to be the second time I LST this plant, and I am posting a picture of the stem after the 1st LST and before the 2nd (this one).

Picture 1: Overhead view of the plant before doing anything.



Picture 2: My stem as it currently is, before the 2nd LST.



Picture 3: Planning out where I am going to place the hook.



Picture 4: Overhead view after I place the 2nd LST hook into the soil.



Picture 5: Shows the angle I have set for the main stem to curve back towards the light. (This is a 90 degree angle and so far it is working fine, most people keep it at around a 45 degree angle.)




Picture 6: 72 Hours Later, 3 days.



Hopefully this will help someone trying to grasp LST for the first time as I wish I would have had something like this while I was researching.

 

Just wanted to throw a little but of an update out there. I'm down to 3 plants. Two have been growing very well and the third one has had a lot of stress in it's life, it's really little. I have been nuting the bigger two at 1/4 strength for 2 waterings and 1/2 strength today. So the next watering will be a flush. Also, I got some more wattage since my last post. Let me break down everything:

1. 2x32watt t8 48inch fluorescent tubes

One at 6500k, 2750 lumens
One at 3000k, 2950 lumens​

2. 6x27watt CFL at 5500k 1400 lumens/ea
3. 2x30watt CFL at 3500k 2000 lumens/ea
4. 1x63watt CFL at 2700k 3800 lumens/ea

Totals:
Watts: 349
Lumens: 21900

With only three plants that should be good until flowering I hope.

Pictures.
I'm doing a bit of an experiment here. On one of the plants I started clipping the older, bigger fan leaves in order to provide unobstructed light flow to the new LST growth. On the other one, I did not do that.
We'll see how that turns out in the next week.

Plant #1 (the one that I DID NOT cut fan leaves off of)




Plant #2 (the one that I DID cut leaves off of)




All the lights set up.....

 

Day 4 of Flowering

I haven't started looking for sex yet, I'll probably start paying attention after 10 days.

Plant #1





Plant #2





Plant #3

 

Thanks for your comments guys I appreciate it. I've been getting male vibes since I planted these things, but hopefully that won't be the case.

Plant #1 and #2 are the 2 most proficient growers of the 4 or 5 I planted.

Plant #3 (the littler one) was shocked from transplant more often than it was growing when it was a child, so it's lagging a little behind. That being said, I was really surprised when it went from 3-4 inches to about 12 in a really short period of time.

It's in one of those re-useable "green" grocery bags. I had to put that masking tape around the outside to give it a little bit more of a solid form though. I think it's working pretty well actually, much better than I expected. Also, it takes up much less room width-wise than the huge pots the other two plants are in.

I agree with you Jinnate about the hooks. They work fine but rarely stay planted in the soil exactly where you want them to be. I just don't have a power drill so I couldn't use the string method, next time I'm definately going that route.

I also agree about the fan leaves. It made it much much prettier to look at from cutting off the fan leaves, but I have braches coming off of the stem that stretched like 8 inches just to get themselves into the light and above the annoying fan leaves.

What most new growers don't know and I am only starting to realize is that nature is pretty powerful. If you just leave stuff alone and don't feel like you have to be changing something or modifying something, like the super stretched stem looking for the light, things seem to right themselves.

 

Thanks WWM, I appreciate it man. I am pretty sure I have 1 boy and 1 girl as of now. "Plant #3" hasn't shown me anything specific yet, but I am 90% positive about the other two. Pics tomorrow when the girl(s) wake up.

 

Unfortunately my camera just cant zoom in close enough and still be focused, so I can't post sex pics. I'm 100% positive on the two that have shown me enough, i'm just waiting on the short one. I am pretty sure I can see some balls sacks on that one as well.

I'm just happy I got a female at all. It might work out for the best with just one girl. That will be like 350 watts for one plant. She will be happy that's for sure.

Also, it just happened to turn out that the one female was the one I would have picked if I could have only picked one. She's a beautiful, lush little girl.

Watered with FF Tiger Bloom for the first time at full strength today.

About how long of a span of time is it from the time preflowers show to when the actual buds start growing?