another closet grow with hormones AK-48

Hey guys, I don't know if any of you guys remember me from like 6 months ago but I tried to do an indoor cfl grow with turned out horribly wrong. It hermied and I just didn't use a timer or anything cause I was cheap.

Now I'm back again with something newer and better. I've gotten a better setup now. Currently I'm getting some hormones such as brassinolide, benzylaminopurine, and I haven't used the anti GA hormone I have as well. I'm currently in week 6 of vegetation.

I have it under 4x 26watt 6700K, and 1x 26watt 2700K and LST'd. It's on its way to being a semi-circular plant. It has 8 colas as of now and less than halfway done. I'll most likely hit the rest of it with anti GA to get more colas. I'll also hormonally prune it with a solution of BAP (foliage feeding), and regularly feed it the brassinolide to promote stronger stems and such.

The strain is ak-48.

I will have pics within a couple days to show you guys the progress.

Sounds good! I'd probably try to add more light.

Those are pics of the LST up to week 6.

I've also switched my lighting to 6x 23w cfl's. For flowering I'll probably go with 6x 23w 2700K and 2x 23w 6700K

I've also noticed that the new growth is growing with dark brown spots on them... along with some leaves with a subtle shade of yellow.

It's now almost 10 weeks into vegetation. I'm going to give it one last spray of the brassinolide before I swap and add more lights and flower.

I'm thinking about picking up 4x 42w cfl's in addition to maybe another 6 or 8x 23w cfls. I'll have 4x 42w and 2x 23w on the top over the plant and 3 23watts on 2 sides of the plant for hopefully more coverage.

What do you guys think I should do and do you think this is enough for flowering? I also want to know that even with the LST, will the plant still grow 2-3 fold over the flowering? This is the first time I've tried to LST and was wondering so I could rebuild the light fixtures to accomodate.

I also have some molasses and MG BloomBooster again for flowering. I'll also do a foliar spray of 6-benzylaminopurine 3 weeks into flowering. Hopefully it'll finish in the 6 weeks time I read on the strain description from nirvana.

doctorchaos555 said:

What do you guys think I should do and do you think this is enough for flowering? I also want to know that even with the LST, will the plant still grow 2-3 fold over the flowering? This is the first time I've tried to LST and was wondering so I could rebuild the light fixtures to accomodate.

I also have some molasses and MG BloomBooster again for flowering. I'll also do a foliar spray of 6-benzylaminopurine 3 weeks into flowering. Hopefully it'll finish in the 6 weeks time I read on the strain description from nirvana.

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Dude lst doesnt slow growth at all it just makes it grow out instead of up...you still will get it doublin or triplin in size

So, anyways, I've been flowering for a week now, and little white swirly pistils are coming from the preflowers. Well, of course it'd be female, they're feminized seeds! Haha . Now, getting on, I've noticed that on parts of the plant, there have been extra brances and nodes coming out, which means the benzylaminopurine is working nicely to prune itself. I only wish I had used it from the start of the grow instead of just towards the end.

Also, in the last picture, there's like 6 colas that just won't grow up. They're all from the hormonal pruning I'm assuming because theres only 3 nodes there and they're coming from the same fan leaf. I just want them to grow upward instead of just sitting there. I let it try to grow for about 2 weeks and it just doesn't want to come up, but the top of the ORIGINAL cola is growing up quite fine, just not the ones before it.

Right now it's officially on 4x 42 watt 2700K bulbs and 2x 23 watt 6700K bulbs. If my math's right (I'm pretty high right now), then it should be 214watts total. I do have the option for another 2 bulbs, but it's not going over the plant, but over the plant and to the side because my lights are on a board over the plant. I also added in a piece of sheet metal to the left side of the closet to try to reflect light back instead of into the closet's abyss.

More pics will come when my effin BB uploads them lol, it's taking forever.

Woot, the updated pics are here. I finally figured out how to add them as attachments too

Nice looking plants, ill be checking in on this thread to see how its going GL.

Just wanted to toss out a quick update, it's past wee k 3 of flowering now and I am going to have to say that I am exceptionally impressed by how dense all the pistils look whilst growing out. Only a couple more weeks!!!

AK48 needs around 55 days to finish. Don't pull her too early...it's never worth it. But congrats on your girl! I have a ak48 in flower myself. (my 2nd ak48 grow) She is only 14 days into flower though.

your plant looks good. Nice and healthy.

dam i love that healthy green when i see it

Plants look good, congrates!Looking forward to more pics!

Anjinsan said:

AK48 needs around 55 days to finish. Don't pull her too early...it's never worth it. But congrats on your girl! I have a ak48 in flower myself. (my 2nd ak48 grow) She is only 14 days into flower though.

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I thought it was called ak-48 cause it finished in 48? What'd you notice about it when you hit the 55th day? Is there a huge diff? This is my first ak-48 grow btw. What should I look for to know when it's finished?

I'll post updated pics of it later, lots of white hairs everywhere now, all the colas have them.

P.S. I walked into my room today after class and my room reaks of a sweet odour, not sure if its my bong hits from last night or the bitch that's tied down in the closet.

Oh yeah, I also read something on these forums about a rodolization process for fem seeds, do you think I should leave like a single lower branch to stress for the pollen? Cause then I could cross it with another seed all together and get some fem seeds. Or should I just worry bout that some other time?

Awesome new pics. Taken a couple days ago.

These pics were taken just a couple days ago, but even now, just a couple days later, the colas are starting to pack with bud. I'm so freakin excited to see it grow grow growwwwww.

Does anyone know where to get like, cheap 250 watt cfl's with the overhead reflectors? I'm trying to get two of each spectrum for my next grow.

Here's another update:

The white hairs have turned to a slight orange brownish color. I forget the stages that the pistils change through, I think it's like, white to orange, red and brown when it's done? Can anyone let me know? I think 2 more weeks and this girl should be ready to cut up. I'm gunna try to get a higher resolution camera other than my BB to show you guys the crystals on the leaves and the color of the pistils and whatnot.

Oh, and my dumb ass forgot to water it last week and it got all wilted. But I watered it and she surprisingly bounced right back within like 20 minutes.

Thank you, come again.