12/12 From Seed Experiment - 21 Strains

[Hot Diggity Sog]

Day 29 Update - Day 4 Flower

Plants look much better after this mornings watering. I feel they really want to be watered daily now. Increased nutes from 20% strength to 25% strength on Week 1 Flower schedule.
Will continue watering daily with nutes. I'm over-watering to get a lot of run-off...they just seem to like that best in these small pots. Seems like I'm mini-flushing on each watering. Now I understand when others have said you really can't over-water coco...lol
Stretch continues but some of the shorter ones are finally stretching too. Maybe the 1st ones to stretch just entered the flowering stage earlier than others. Starting to get some actual hairs going. In the coming days I'll get close ups but it's nothing impressive yet.

 

[green217]

Day 29 Update - Day 4 Flower

Plants look much better after this mornings watering. I feel they really want to be watered daily now. Increased nutes from 20% strength to 25% strength on Week 1 Flower schedule.
Will continue watering daily with nutes. I'm over-watering to get a lot of run-off...they just seem to like that best in these small pots. Seems like I'm mini-flushing on each watering. Now I understand when others have said you really can't over-water coco...lol
Stretch continues but some of the shorter ones are finally stretching too. Maybe the 1st ones to stretch just entered the flowering stage earlier than others. Starting to get some actual hairs going. In the coming days I'll get close ups but it's nothing impressive yet.

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Looking good man. Trying to reveg my ladies now, then clone enough to fill my 5x6 (sog) under 1000watts of HPS. I got some lemony, diesel smelling OG cross that I ended up keeping. I have three of them I'm trying to reveg.

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

Looking good man. Trying to reveg my ladies now, then clone enough to fill my 5x6 (sog) under 1000watts of HPS. I got some lemony, diesel smelling OG cross that I ended up keeping. I have three of them I'm trying to reveg.

Sweet...good luck!

 

[DirtyNerd]

They are loving life mate your doing a great job all praying to the light god

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

They are loving life mate your doing a great job all praying to the light god

Thanks man! I'm just trying to do what the girls are asking for!

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

Looking good man. Trying to reveg my ladies now, then clone enough to fill my 5x6 (sog) under 1000watts of HPS. I got some lemony, diesel smelling OG cross that I ended up keeping. I have three of them I'm trying to reveg.

Are you going to start a journal?

 

[akhiymjames]

Day 29 Update - Day 4 Flower

Plants look much better after this mornings watering. I feel they really want to be watered daily now. Increased nutes from 20% strength to 25% strength on Week 1 Flower schedule.
Will continue watering daily with nutes. I'm over-watering to get a lot of run-off...they just seem to like that best in these small pots. Seems like I'm mini-flushing on each watering. Now I understand when others have said you really can't over-water coco...lol
Stretch continues but some of the shorter ones are finally stretching too. Maybe the 1st ones to stretch just entered the flowering stage earlier than others. Starting to get some actual hairs going. In the coming days I'll get close ups but it's nothing impressive yet.

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Yea they set will want water more as they have kicked into flowering so they will drink more. Just keep doing what your doing keep those girls green and you will be rewarded

 

[ASMALLVOICE]

Outstanding Grow M8.

Some Sweet Looking Ladies for Sure!!

Thanx for the update.

Peace and Great Grows

Asmallvoice

 

[green217]

Are you going to start a journal?

Yeah, not quite as detailed as yours though.

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

Day 30 Update - Day 5 Flower

This morning marked the 1st day of watering every day and they really liked it. Actually think the 3" pots are going to need 2 waterings a day soon. Upped the nutes to 30% strength with no problem. Pretty brief update today but I do have a few pictures that I would love feedback on regarding defoliating. The folks on the defoliation thread, although funny, were less than helpful.

Knowing that I am looking for a single cola with no side branches:

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

I spent all last night reading and thinking about defoliation and I've decided for this experiment I will not defoliate at all. I'll just continue to document the experiment and use this experience to guide me in the future.

 

[Fiveleafsleft]

This

I cant get my room humidity over 50% when lights are on its 30% and lights off its 50% very odd....

i want to bring it up a little in veg as the plants are meant to like it more... might need a humidifier

This is absolutely normal. It's called relative humidity (RH) because the amount of water the air can hold is relative to the temperature.. If temps drop RH will get higher.. If the difference in temp and RH is to big you're plants are seriously suspicious to mold. Adding a heater during the night can be as effective as running a dehumidifier.. Besides plants thrive with little to zero diff in temps..

 

[Fiveleafsleft]

Day 30 Update - Day 5 Flower

This morning marked the 1st day of watering every day and they really liked it. Actually think the 3" pots are going to need 2 waterings a day soon. Upped the nutes to 30% strength with no problem. Pretty brief update today but I do have a few pictures that I would love feedback on regarding defoliating. The folks on the defoliation thread, although funny, were less than helpful.

Knowing that I am looking for a single cola with no side branches:

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I wouldn't recommend defoliation even if it's possibly good in some cases.. Better to find strains that work well without all that extra work.. I would concider snipping off the lower branches if they start to take of.. If they stay short and don't start to compete with tops I'd leave them as they are. How far away is your light, and how big is the area you are covering? Giving your plants all the light they want is the best you can do to keep plants and lower growth from stretching.. It's very strain dependent though and any sativa genes will cause node distance in early flower.. Hopefully space that will be full with long runs of sticky buds!

 

[Fiveleafsleft]

If you have trouble with low RH during "ligh on", rather than high RH during lights of, I would recommend you to build a "swamp cooler". Google it. You could also connect fans in the swamp cooler to a hygrostat.. MJ plants can take a lot of abuse but when they are small they really don't grow that well if RH is to low...

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

I wouldn't recommend defoliation even if it's possibly good in some cases.. Better to find strains that work well without all that extra work.. I would concider snipping off the lower branches if they start to take of.. If they stay short and don't start to compete with tops I'd leave them as they are. How far away is your light, and how big is the area you are covering? Giving your plants all the light they want is the best you can do to keep plants and lower growth from stretching.. It's very strain dependent though and any sativa genes will cause node distance in early flower.. Hopefully space that will be full with long runs of sticky buds!

Some of them are branching but the branches are growing straight up and not out to the side. They are hugging the main stem very closely. I will take some detailed pics during my nightly update tonight. Total footprint for the plants is approx 32" x 16". Keeping the light between 10" and 15". I can get it closer but the intensity of the light is not as good on the outsides of the canopy.

 

[Fiveleafsleft]

Some of them are branching but the branches are growing straight up and not out to the side. They are hugging the main stem very closely. I will take some detailed pics during my nightly update tonight. Total footprint for the plants is approx 32" x 16". Keeping the light between 10" and 15". I can get it closer but the intensity of the light is not as good on the outsides of the canopy.

That's not so far away, if anything it's probably the lights that are in the edges that could use a bit more light.. I found the "adjust-a-wings" doing a very good job at spreading the light evenly over 100-110x120 cm. sorry for metric measure. To tired to re-calculate.. A bit expensive though...

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

That's not so far away, if anything it's probably the lights that are in the edges that could use a bit more light.. I found the "adjust-a-wings" doing a very good job at spreading the light evenly over 100-110x120 cm. sorry for metric measure. To tired to re-calculate.. A bit expensive though...

I'm running the Blockbuster which was supposed to optimize for a 4'x4' but that's doubtful. I'm probably overthinking this as I'm trying to pimp out basically a 2 1/2' x 1 1/2' area with a 600 which I probably am doing.

 

[DirtyNerd]

If your going to cut all lower leaves make some clones of the stronger plants if can you save time on the next grow all the best bro your doing a great job

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

If your going to cut all lower leaves make some clones of the stronger plants if can you save time on the next grow all the best bro your doing a great job

I'm just going to let them grow naturally and study them. I don't feel educated enough to predict how they are going to grow from here on out so I have no business trying something as drastic as defoliating until I know what to expect letting them go naturally.

 

[Hot Diggity Sog]

Day 31 Update - Day 6 Flower

Today I'm starting to see an explosion from the plants that had not yet started to stretch. I guess they were just a few days behind. Increased this morning's nutes to 35% with a full aggressive watering. They seem to be enjoying the daily watering although this morning they looked almost a little over-watered and did not perk up nice and tall until about 8 hours after I watered so I might try watering twice every 3 days or maybe alternate between heavy watering and light watering. On to the pics!