12 days of germinating and two survived

hotrodharley said:

Don't transplant. Do take a knife and force down to cut away any roots near the sides. Then use the knife to slice through the roots halfway between the sides of the pot and the main stem. 4 or 5 cuts a week in different places is fine. Severed root tips regenerate 2 to 4 new ends unlike the vegetation which only yields 2.

When I say slice through the roots I mean take a steak knife, point to the ground and push straight down through. Then withdraw. Do this in 5 or 6 places around the pot. Do not saw through or go nuts. This is basically the same principle that the fabric air bags work on - by amputating protruding root tips. I can hear the ignorant sucking air hard.

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sounds scary taking a knife to my little girl's roots....that's a radical step for a noob such as myself....many thanks for your feedback

sounds scary taking a knife to my little girl's roots....that's a radical step for a noob such as myself....

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Scary as that technique may sound, hotrodharley is correct.

hhel11 said:

Scary as that technique may sound, hotrodharley is correct.

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In all sincerity, I do not doubt hotrodharley, but he did say "I can hear the ignorant sucking air hard", giving me the distinct impression that this technique is not the main street approach.

From a noob perspective, this does sound very radical with rather catastrophic consequences if the surgical incisions are executed erroneously.

I have some uncertainties and hesitations as the short/fat gal is not centered properly in the pot, it’s rather lopsided in fact…do not ask how this happened, it’s a long unpleasant story.

The tall/skinny gal is just not that healthy and I just cannot pin it down what is wrong, so maybe being “cruel to be kind” would force her to “do or die”, but I have never been a lucky gambler.

I will give this some more consideration, but I would like to find a thread on this subject to get that warm fuzzy felling... Thanks hhel11 as it does give me more confidence having your confirmation of its validity.

My plants are about 50 days old now and I do not know when I should flip them to the flower stage....

Plants look good. Read a few journals and ask some other growers questions,
they will help and advise you on whatever you want to know.

I have flipped to 12/12....have changed out my bulbs to 8-2700K and 2-5000K and 2-6500K.....looking to add another dual socket and will add 2 more 5000k

I'm now using the General Hydroponics Maxi-bloom nutes.

Now I just gotta hope they are girls....will be totally choked if they are males.

extra lamp with 2 sockets, now using 8-2700k, 4-5000k, 2-6500k

I am not sure but I think they are both males....may be hard to see in the pic but both appear to be forming balls….not sure as I have never seen a male before.

I am SO fucking depressed...I will have to cheer myself up by killing them in some sadistically brutal fashion...I am truely evil

Both are males, pic’s of the bro's.

These are two very healthy plants as I have been treating them rather cruel to see how much abuse they can handle, so for they are doing quite well.

I am thinking of transplanting the tall one into a city owned community garden just to see if it could survive outside in the winter.

The short one shall be tortured, mostly because it is an ugly mutant that deserves no less than an excruciating painful death.

Anyhow, thanks to all those who responded to my thread.