New Clones, First Grow, Time To CFL

I'd just continue the LST as your doing fine with it ..good for us newbees to try ..

no need to top with the fine LST job..and topping will slow her down a week or so

pipe cleaners work real well to LST with..they bend easy..fully adjustable..have a nice soft cover to not damage your baby..twist 2 or 3 together to make longer lengths as she grows..

searching SCROG just brings up the same handfull of pages it seems so like you i'm still reading/thinking/planning..with my pendant hanging lamp setup i'm thinking V-Scrog or a round tower shape wire cage..off to lowes to look at wire ..

 

You'll also want to transplant eventually.. so just keep that in mind. I have heard both bad and good from people that have tried to LST in a circle. But I've really only heard good from people that get those rectangle pots, plant the plant at one end, then LST in a straight line up to the empty end of the rectangle pot. Looks like it wouldn't be hard to get your plant doing that since it's already got one long side. I'd probably look for the largest pot you can with not much more height than your current pot since you're going to be pretty limited on height.

The circle LST will work, it's just a bit harder to maintain a level canopy I think. You can keep it in this same pot for the whole life too, but increasing pot size will increase yield. Just some thoughts, and recommendations. I won't be offended at all if you want to stick to the original plan.

 

Yep it's looking better. Transplant times have to do with plant size. It's hard to know what is exactly right without fucking the plant up a little bit. It can be different from grow to grow depending on soil and nutes. But you can generalize a little bit. I always think of plants as having roughly the same size roots on the bottom as growth on top. If you cut your plant from the main stem and loosely threw it into a pot of the size you have (maybe a few more chops just to make it fit), it would probably almost fill the pot. To me, that means it's almost time. You can get away with less pot size if you feed more, or more pot size if the soil is good.

And in my opinion, it's important to get all the pot size issues handled before you're producing buds or you'll probably get dirt in the buds. I have a plant right now that is in too small of a pot, but it's deep into flowering, so I'm stuck with it. I have others that are good though.

 

Yea the soil should be fine, or as good as what you're growing the other one in. It's not even very old. Drying out a bit shouldn't matter much normally. Did you ever find out what kind of soil it is? Organic or not? Then I'd be able to tell you with more certainty.

 

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General rule of thumb for pot size, 1:1 ratio. So if you are going to be growing your plant for three months you should, ideally, have a 3 gallon pot. I was able to grow my pc plant out, completely, using only 1/2 gallon but it was majorly root bounded. So I would say a gallon is just fine. Remember, you don't have the space for anything much bigger. As far as transplanting, you only want to do this, ideally, once, it causes alot of stress and slows down growth by a week or so. You also only want to transplant into the same medium as its growing in, so if the soil from your other cutting is the same, use it, if not, stay away. Anything to not stress your plant out is ideal. It doesn't matter if your clone came from a female mother plant, if you stress it out enough, it's gonna grow balls.
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transplanting is always a good thing .. just be gentle about it ...even in flower the plant is still growing.. putting on mass..so i'd bet it's still trying to grow more roots..my new clones had root circled the 3 in pot in just 10 days..jumped them into 6 inchers 4 days ago..i'm planning a transplant every 10 to 14 days..between the FFOF soil and the rapid transplants this group of 4 is almost twice the size of the week older group that didn't get this close attention..run your own side by side testing..i've even finally got the wife to stop bitching to just stick them in the dirt with that..

 

Yep I agree with Brass. For transplanting, as long as you let the soil get dry to the point that it needs watered, the soil generally stays together in one clump without messing with the roots. I usually notice explosive growth just a day or two after transplanting. If everything stays together, and you don't mess with the roots, I've seen little to no stress. The only time I ever noticed stress from a transplant was when I transplanted just a day or two after watering. The soil was still wet, and some of the bottom broke away. The plant had a few leaves on the bottom that were kind of saggy and sad looking, but within 2 or 3 days it was back to normal.

Some people like to almost completely hose off the old roots and put them in a full pot of fresh soil. That's where it really stresses the plant and probably takes a week off. I think you're much better off keeping the old soil all clumped together and not moving the roots at all, unless the old soil is causing problems.

1 gallon per 1 month doesn't make a lot of sense because growth is exponential, not linear.

If going with that logic, a better equation than
(pot size in gallons) = (months of growth)
would be
(pot size in gallons) = (months of growth)^(e/2)

 

It's not necessarily a problem, but definitely on the high side.

edit: haha just got my sub's mixed up

 

That would probably help. Looks like the grow is fairly air sealed except for the intake and exhaust, which is good...

A mini oscillating fan is probably the best thing you can purchase. You probably just need more wind in there one way or another. If you think about the way that the air moves, it doesn't do much more than a straight line from you intake to your exhaust, so areas like the top front probably get extra heat buildup. If you make sure there is a little bit of turbulence everywhere, that's probably your best bet. Easiest way to do that is with a oscillating fan, although my box just has a bunch of PC fans.