1st "real" grow.. Advise from experienced ppl appreciated

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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This is my cotton candy from above.. This is the most affected of the 3 (leaf wise) still the tallest by far tho , although it is supposed to be , I think it's like 70% sativa, and btw does anybody know if this is different from the cotton candy kush or sweet tooth?? Sometimes when I google cotton candy I see these other names mentioned
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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Also, I kno I'm asking slot if questions at once... But once my brain starts wondering it gets crazy.. But anyway I'm thinking of going into bigger pots, how much would this increase yield?? If at all, they're currently in 1 gallon air pots.. But how much bigger would my plants get if I transplanted them to 3 gallons or maybe 5 gallons?? I kno I may be getting carried away
 

berkman858

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I will defer to the soil growers on pot sizes. I am a hydro man now, but I know you def want the proper size pot otherwise your plants will get root bound and that will severely decrease your yield. Now, I know you def don't want that.....

Soil Growers, help this guy out.
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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how many really depends on how you grow...I have probably 20 different plants of at least 5 different types...I get bored easy so...I like to try new things...but I have 2 tomato plants that if I took them out and straightened them out they would probably be 7 feet tall...around every pot there is a tomato branch...they grew much more than I thought they would...but in not too much longer now I will have my own tomatoes...and it doesn't seem to hurt anything...turns out MJ prefers to be ignored...my plants look better than ever because I now have too much to do to end up doing too much...I need to feed and water the catnip, or strawberries, or tomatoes...or whatever so the Mj just has to wait, and the plants freaking love it! THEY LOVE IT!!!so stick them in the back of the or whatever and annoy them and then get you some catnip and tomatoes and everything you hear on here and want to try...try it on those plants first...your MJ will thank you for those days spent dry, they will thank you for not fertilizing them everytime they get a spot, like us newer people tend to do...we love them to death...so get a shit load of veggies and such you want to try to grow and plant those as well...then spend more time on the other things...but the amount of plants in veg is limitless almost...way more than you would think...I stack small pots on top of bigger spots and all the plants have to grow around the jumble...but again...they dont' mind at all...anyway...in flower it is another story...I like a larger plant so I can only fit like 3 or 4 in the flower tent of the same size...so what I want to do is keep mother plants in the veg tent and take clones straight to flower after they are rooted...but right now my veg tent is so heinous I don't know what is in there...

Missnu.. Believe it or not I'm actually thinking if growing sine other plants .. I'm gonna start getting my yard ready soon.. Not sure as to what exactly it Is I wanna grow, but maybe some strawberries (my white widow plant I have now reminds me of a strawberry bush) can't get my mind off the weed lol.. Now if the strawberries could taste as good as they do and get ne high like the white widow or Any weed for that matter. Then we could talk!! Lol, but right now as it is, I have atleast another month before it's warm enough for me to start with the other veggies (strawberries, grapes , tomatoes etc) which would have to go outside!! Because I'm def not gonna use electricity on that, I do like other plants and will experiment, but def don't love em like my mj!! So I only will spend $ on my mj plants (really cuz I spend way too much buying it on the street & wanna stop that immediately! But other plants will be grown , just not indoors & I'm only gonna spend $50 tops on the other plants to get the garden ready but not nearly like I'm willing to invest in my mj, just hope my mj invests back in me.
 

berkman858

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Missnu.. Believe it or not I'm actually thinking if growing sine other plants .. I'm gonna start getting my yard ready soon.. Not sure as to what exactly it Is I wanna grow, but maybe some strawberries (my white widow plant I have now reminds me of a strawberry bush) can't get my mind off the weed lol.. Now if the strawberries could taste as good as they do and get ne high like the white widow or Any weed for that matter. Then we could talk!! Lol, but right now as it is, I have atleast another month before it's warm enough for me to start with the other veggies (strawberries, grapes , tomatoes etc) which would have to go outside!! Because I'm def not gonna use electricity on that, I do like other plants and will experiment, but def don't love em like my mj!! So I only will spend $ on my mj plants (really cuz I spend way too much buying it on the street & wanna stop that immediately! But other plants will be grown , just not indoors & I'm only gonna spend $50 tops on the other plants to get the garden ready but not nearly like I'm willing to invest in my mj, just hope my mj invests back in me.
I feel you bro, I ain't growing anything but MJ until I have a yard and I can do it for cheap. I can buy all that other shite much cheaper than growing my own, but not the sweet sweet MJ. One day I am gonna have a greenhouse and I am gonna grow all sorts of stuff.
 

montanachadly

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If your only looking for an ouce a plant those plants there will produce atleast an oz a piece of have had smaller plants than those go into flowering and i got a couple ozs off each so whenever your ready you can put those in to flower they will most likely atleast double in size i have had some plants triple in size
 

montanachadly

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also sims do you have a fan blowing over those plants by the looks of it the edges of the leaves curling up like that is a sign of heat stress and the plant is trying to dissapate moisture as fast as it can to cool the plant down raising your light a little bit or a fan blowing over the tops its not 100% crucial but it will make your plants happier
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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If your only looking for an ouce a plant those plants there will produce atleast an oz a piece of have had smaller plants than those go into flowering and i got a couple ozs off each so whenever your ready you can put those in to flower they will most likely atleast double in size i have had some plants triple in size
That's exactly what I wanted to hear Montana! But before I start going crazy, I must admit.. My pics do look alot bigger in the pictures, my white widow & green love potion are both around 4 inches... Now after saying that, do u still think it will stretch that much to give me an oz??? & it's nit that I don't believe u, u just want to make sure u understand the actual size of the plants.. Now the cotton candy on the other hand... She's a beast!!! (atleast to me lol) she's already 7-8 inches tall , & her undergrowth is probably taller than the other plants, I'd say the cotton candy has undergrowth that us already about 4 inches, so I could imagine I could pull an oz of her , but the other two I'm not sure of
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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Just tried my luck at cloning for the first time a few hours ago.

Took two cuttings from the green love potion(both really small tho about 3 inches) so we'll see..

Took 2 from the cotton candy too.. Thes were kinda big (atleast 4 inches) I might have left a little too much leaf on them, I see en fighting to hold themselves up straight. But what's done is done so I'll just leave em alone & hope for the best.

And last but definitely not least, I took 1 white widow cutting. This one was definitely the smallest (about 2inches maybe) but it was the easiest for me. Not that cloning is a hard process .. But I'm just naturally high & clumsy so simple tasks are usually difficult for me, & for some reason more complex things come easier to me, but that's another story... Anyway, for some reason .. I think the white widow will actually root (just a gut feeling)

I'm hoping for atleast 3 out of the 5 to root.. I would consider that fair , thus being my first time & all (just lost my cloning virginity lol) but honestly even if only 1 rooted.. I would take it in a sec.. I can live with live with being a failure, just nit being a complete failure lol.. God just let me get 1!! & yes I did just ask god for help with my mj crop, I hope that's not too immoral.. Let me stop rambling, this is what happens when I smoke.. & oh I used clone- ex btw & have clones in a humidity dome far out of the direct light of my metal halide, and will mist daily.. I kno the routine, I watch YouTube!! Lol
 

berkman858

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Just tried my luck at cloning for the first time a few hours ago.

Took two cuttings from the green love potion(both really small tho about 3 inches) so we'll see..

Took 2 from the cotton candy too.. Thes were kinda big (atleast 4 inches) I might have left a little too much leaf on them, I see en fighting to hold themselves up straight. But what's done is done so I'll just leave em alone & hope for the best.

And last but definitely not least, I took 1 white widow cutting. This one was definitely the smallest (about 2inches maybe) but it was the easiest for me. Not that cloning is a hard process .. But I'm just naturally high & clumsy so simple tasks are usually difficult for me, & for some reason more complex things come easier to me, but that's another story... Anyway, for some reason .. I think the white widow will actually root (just a gut feeling)

I'm hoping for atleast 3 out of the 5 to root.. I would consider that fair , thus being my first time & all (just lost my cloning virginity lol) but honestly even if only 1 rooted.. I would take it in a sec.. I can live with live with being a failure, just nit being a complete failure lol.. God just let me get 1!! & yes I did just ask god for help with my mj crop, I hope that's not too immoral.. Let me stop rambling, this is what happens when I smoke.. & oh I used clone- ex btw & have clones in a humidity dome far out of the direct light of my metal halide, and will mist daily.. I kno the routine, I watch YouTube!! Lol
Sounds good, good luck with the clones. Clone-Ex works wonders.
 

Sean Tom

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Oh & btw .. I do understand the whole concept of the mother /clones.. & I know I should keep the mother Alive to take cuttings but I just can't make up my mind right now, one day I wanna do the right thing and save the mothers and flower the clones .. But the next day I think that's gonna take to long and u wanna just flower all at once.. & another thing is , all I have besides my 400 watt is a 125 watt hydrofarm cfl grow light .. How many mothers if any could I keep alive under that .. & could possibly root clones under that too, and all I have is superthrive , can I substitute that for clone ex or no ?? & I figure if I do have clones (assuming I can clone successfully) I won't mind pulling a little less than an oz.. Not too much less tho, because of the fact I'll have more clones coming in to flower..& I just put my homeboy on to demonized seeds .. He an old school rasta type so he skeptical of all this , he still doesn't fully understand the concept if feminzed seeds and sencimillia bud.. He still sees it as "greens" & "high-grade" but he's learning , but anyway the point is I convinced him to order too so he has a bunch of beans coming in about a week and I'll be able to clone those as much as I want so getting more seeds or clones won't be a prob
you can always flower your ladies and just before starting their third week lollipop the girls. and when you lollipop use what you cut as clones instead of discarding them. they will root faster taken from flower but will also take longer to start branching but none the less you will have cloned each of your three ladies. I too am black and wanted the bombest tree that my white patnas were growing. My first grow went awesome. 5 zips on 2 plants and hash and butter
 

Sean Tom

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That's exactly what I wanted to hear Montana! But before I start going crazy, I must admit.. My pics do look alot bigger in the pictures, my white widow & green love potion are both around 4 inches... Now after saying that, do u still think it will stretch that much to give me an oz??? & it's nit that I don't believe u, u just want to make sure u understand the actual size of the plants.. Now the cotton candy on the other hand... She's a beast!!! (atleast to me lol) she's already 7-8 inches tall , & her undergrowth is probably taller than the other plants, I'd say the cotton candy has undergrowth that us already about 4 inches, so I could imagine I could pull an oz of her , but the other two I'm not sure of
atleast 3 gallon pots and do not flower untill atleast a foot tall . I flowered at a foot and a half the girls ended up 3 feet plus. and that was with constant tie downs
 

Sean Tom

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Just tried my luck at cloning for the first time a few hours ago.

Took two cuttings from the green love potion(both really small tho about 3 inches) so we'll see..

Took 2 from the cotton candy too.. Thes were kinda big (atleast 4 inches) I might have left a little too much leaf on them, I see en fighting to hold themselves up straight. But what's done is done so I'll just leave em alone & hope for the best.

And last but definitely not least, I took 1 white widow cutting. This one was definitely the smallest (about 2inches maybe) but it was the easiest for me. Not that cloning is a hard process .. But I'm just naturally high & clumsy so simple tasks are usually difficult for me, & for some reason more complex things come easier to me, but that's another story... Anyway, for some reason .. I think the white widow will actually root (just a gut feeling)

I'm hoping for atleast 3 out of the 5 to root.. I would consider that fair , thus being my first time & all (just lost my cloning virginity lol) but honestly even if only 1 rooted.. I would take it in a sec.. I can live with live with being a failure, just nit being a complete failure lol.. God just let me get 1!! & yes I did just ask god for help with my mj crop, I hope that's not too immoral.. Let me stop rambling, this is what happens when I smoke.. & oh I used clone- ex btw & have clones in a humidity dome far out of the direct light of my metal halide, and will mist daily.. I kno the routine, I watch YouTube!! Lol

I wish you the best of luck but in my opinion it is just too early to be cloned. The best mother plant is atleast 2 months old. You need time for hormone concentration
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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Thanks Sean Tom ... Thought I was the only black person on this site.. Not that I mind.. Shit, I'd chill with orange people if the could teach me how to grow some fire ass bud lol, but it is cool to see others.. But anyway thanks for the advise, I will def get some 3 gallon pots.. My cotton candy (sativa) is already 10-11 inches, so she prob needs a transplant.. But my two others ww & glp (which are indica dominant) are only about 5 inches.. Are they ready for bigger pots?? Or should I let em get bigger 1st, if they are 5 inches now , after the stretch in the start if flower I suspect they should b a foot.. Would that still b not large enough to expect an oz out of em??? & about the clone situation.. I wish I would have got that advice from u earlier, I prob would have waited. & about the taking cuttings off the mother when I lollipop.. I def will, anything I cut I will prob attempt to clone now.. Why waist it.. Thang again Sean
 

Sean Tom

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Thanks Sean Tom ... Thought I was the only black person on this site.. Not that I mind.. Shit, I'd chill with orange people if the could teach me how to grow some fire ass bud lol, but it is cool to see others.. But anyway thanks for the advise, I will def get some 3 gallon pots.. My cotton candy (sativa) is already 10-11 inches, so she prob needs a transplant.. But my two others ww & glp (which are indica dominant) are only about 5 inches.. Are they ready for bigger pots?? Or should I let em get bigger 1st, if they are 5 inches now , after the stretch in the start if flower I suspect they should b a foot.. Would that still b not large enough to expect an oz out of em??? & about the clone situation.. I wish I would have got that advice from u earlier, I prob would have waited. & about the taking cuttings off the mother when I lollipop.. I def will, anything I cut I will prob attempt to clone now.. Why waist it.. Thang again Sean
when i originally bought my first two clones from the club they were about four or five inches tall and I put them in three gallon pots as soon as I got home. some like to continuosly upgrade the pots as the plant grows. my theory is one initial transplant is a whole lot less stressful than continuous transplanting. If they are five inches at beginning of flower they will prob grow to about 1 foot to a foot and a half. depending on the lighting and genes of the plant you prob can get close to an oz. but prob less. prob more like a half oz. let the plant grow to a foot and a half then flower. and i also, after the stretch, tied down main tops so more light would reach in the canopy. with this process i pulled 79 grams from one plant. check out my first grow.
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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I jus topped my white widow. (maybe I fimmed it, idk) I ripped out the the new growth from the top of plant but I accidentally took out one of the fan leaves from the set that had just sprouted before, I can't explain why I did this because I know people usually top their bigger plants to keep them short & bushy (my cc prob shouldve got topped) but I think my subconscious reasoning behind this was that my ww was the shortest & I figure I couldn't get any more upset with it so , y not.. Let's see what happens
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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when i originally bought my first two clones from the club they were about four or five inches tall and I put them in three gallon pots as soon as I got home. some like to continuosly upgrade the pots as the plant grows. my theory is one initial transplant is a whole lot less stressful than continuous transplanting. If they are five inches at beginning of flower they will prob grow to about 1 foot to a foot and a half. depending on the lighting and genes of the plant you prob can get close to an oz. but prob less. prob more like a half oz. let the plant grow to a foot and a half then flower. and i also, after the stretch, tied down main tops so more light would reach in the canopy. with this process i pulled 79 grams from one plant. check out my first grow.
And I checked out it 1st grow.. Nice, those clines went crazy, did u top them .. That's what it looked like to me.. & damn I wish I lived in Cali .. The land if beaches , beautiful women and dispensaries.. Out where I live.. There are no dispensaries , so it's impossible to get clones unless u have friends that grow (which I do not) & for some descent smoke (which is pretty much anything without seeds to me) but we get mostly sour d & haze over here (mire sour now, haze in like 2003-2004) or atleast that's what they say it is.. But either way we pay like $20 for 0.8 grams $50 for 3.5.. Which isn't bad compared to some other places on the east coast that I've been to, but still too much for me.. Especially if it's not that cali quality!! Which I doubt I've ever had.. I've seen some if those "emerald triangle" documentaries on discovery channel, I would give anything to live over there!! Lol, I just love Cali! & I've never even been there lol.. One day
 

Sims da smoker (Qboro)

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& sorry for all the spelling errors throughout this thread.. But between my auto-spell & me being high all the time.. I make mistakes, but hopefully everyone understands me... Even with my horrible spelling
 

RawBudzski

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check on your girls daily if possible when in bloom, check them well & watch for nanners or signs of hermi.
 
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