Hello friends,
Sorry for so many days going by with out any update. Not much has really happened except the plants are Veg'ing away...
The first pic is of the super-cropped plant. It is doing really well. I'm surprised at a few things. One; when I pinch and roll the stalks, i always get nervous that I'm going to break it in half. But man, Mary Jane is an extremely tough plant. After each pinching/rolling, the top will lilt over to the side, but in a couple of days they'll be standing straight up again. Two; the stalks are almost twice as thick now compared to other stalks of equal size and length. That's very cool, and I hope it transfers in to more bud-mass. And three; I'm having trouble getting all the main growing colas to be at the same heighth. I'm going to have to put a little more effort in to this aspect of the grow. I want them to be equal height, if possible.
The 2nd picture is the LST plant. It's hard to see in the picture, but all the main shoots are folded over at the moment to let some of the outside shoots catch up. I'm looking forward to a very nice, thick, even canopy on this one. The plant is already friggin huge! She needs to get in to the flower room ASAP. I'm thinking 10 days she goes in.
The third picture is of a smaller plant that I am just begining LST training on. It's coming along nicely. Just put her in here for fun.
As for the control plant, she's in the flower room now, and the lights are off so no picture today. She's big, beautiful, and healthy as can be.
The SOG or SCROG clones are not fairing so well. So far I've had 2 out of 6 that didn't root. This has never happened to me before. I'm using a new medium to root in (can't remember what it's called, it's some sort of soft brown shit, kind of like a sponge). I'm a little pissed about this because I need 5 plants for my planned SOG/SCROG experiment. I took another clone, and I hope she'll root quickly. It looks like I may only have 4 for the experiment though. Sorry, I didn't take any pics of the clones. I forgot.
The last picture is of my two new seedlings. I think that I reported that these are amsterdam flame. That's not correct. They are bag seed from some killer bud my brother had. Sorry for the confusion. It's going to be fun to grow. The bud was the rock hardest nugs I've ever touched.
AND NOW about the DISASTER.... So, i put a new clone in to one of my 5 gallon reservoirs. The lights were up high in the veg room, so I decided to place one of my 18 gallon totes upside down and put the 5 gallon res on top of it. BAD idea. The stupid stoner that I am, I didn't think about it possibly collapsing. Which it did. Completely full of 5 gallons of water!!! I don't know when it fell over, but I'm sure it was at least 12 hours later that I found it. Luckily for me, my grow room is built in an unfinished section of the house. It fell over right next to a wall (which is built on top of concrete), and the water drained right down the side of the concrete form, to the basement, which is dirt. That was lucky. The poor plant was laying all squished up and shit, and the roots were completely dry... I filled it back up with fresh nutes, put the plant back in to the reservoir, and crossed my fingers. Once again, Mary Jane proves what a hardy plant she is. She took right back off growing like nothing had ever happened.
There's an important point to mention here. If I had any of my cords, power strips, or ballasts on the ground, that could have created a bad situation, and who knows, maybe even an electrical fire while no one was home. I've seen grow room pics with ballasts on the floor, or other electrical devices. This accident was a good reminder: Keep ALL electrical devices/equipment off the floors if at all possible. It's just good practice and a smart thing to do.
Well, I'll catch you all later. I'm 10 days away from another harvest (just 1 plant). I plan on posting pics of her here though, just for the fun of it. She's got some very sweet colas on her. Can't wait to see what she yields.
-S
PS
Notice that the stems on my baby seedlings are a nice GREEN??? Now, have you ever noticed that most of the soil growers stems are usually RED when they are this young? I have. If you haven't already, start watching for this when ever you see new seedling pictures. It seems like 9 out of 10 times , RED stems. Red stem is not good. The plant is already showing that there is going to be a problem, and soon...
PPS
now watch my stems turn red on me.. hahahah.
It turned out ok, but man on man it could have been real bad....real bad...
