are my plants ready for a 12/12 flowering??? beginner please any info is appreciated

ghb

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how you getting on mate? i'm imagining some big bushy ladies round about now!
 

jordan5star

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iv seen a big stretch in them all ghb

its getting to the point of branches poking me in my eyes when trying to feed lol !

I will slap some pics up later cus they are due a feed.... im just hoping they don't grow too tall due to that extra week or two vege :???:
 

ghb

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they will keep growing for a few more days yet (they are at 9-10 days right?), once the stretch slows down you will see where all the buds are going to be and you can tie them up to some bamboo canes.

throw some pics up if you get a chance.
 

jordan5star

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its my 8th day of 12/12 today so its the first week.

and i have just purchased some canes so glad they can come in handy now.

once iv done my days tasks il get some photos uploaded for you so you can see the progress :D:D:D
 
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first off, good job so far, the plants look great.

i grow the same strain,in the same size pots, in the same medium, under the same lights, using the same nutes and have been doing so for a while now. i feel i could teach you a few things that would ensure you have a successful first harvest and a head start in growing so to speak.

usually i would do 4 in 20l pots under each 600w light, cut the main top out and let them bush out. remove all side and lower branches to make the plant grow vertically as cheese will prefer to grow outwards like a christmas tree. if you are doing 5 the plant in the middle will grow into the others more and potentially steal their light, i'm not going to tell you to get rid of it as that would be foolish for a first grow, for now you want all you can get from these plants.

please watch this playlist of videos from my grow this summer, i show how i go about doing all the pruning to ensure that all the buds i harvest are of a similar size, shape and quality, if you do the same you are more or less guaranteed 20 oz per light DRY WEIGHT.


if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask, there is no reason why you shouldn't have a great grow even as your first time.
What a ledge! Kudos to u pal!
 
I am also growing uk cheese but they aint the best.

Had to pinch cuts from my pals bottoms that were 2 weeks into flower.

Started growing round leaves lol. Cuda plonked it in my mums front garden.

I thought this was over feed so heavily flushed.

Turns out quite normal for cuttings taken during flower.

Now theyre growing proper serated leaves again but have slight nitrogen def

Also had thrips which i had to resort to some ultimate bug killer as the gshops recommendation wasnt working.

Using 16l smart pots with plant magic old timer in coco. Just flipped tuesday.

Any of you guys ever tried this feed? Im a person that believes 1s as good as another...uptil now, in sure this stuff is sh*t lol!
 

jordan5star

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iv heard its not a bad feed but that's straight from the hydroponics store so they are going to say that to sell the product. im new to all this but iv always been around people using canna so its what I went for, iv also realised its how it works for you not other people.

and im know genius but iv never heard of people taking cuttings from plants in flower... how would you vege it?

are the thrips completely gone? have you got any pics?
 

ghb

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one thing i have to say about plants going in to flowering:

if they aren't 100% going in, they are only ever gonna get worse, not better. sometimes you just have to roll with the punches and accept the fact. get this one out the way, then ensure the next one goes better, it's all you can really do.

never used the plant magic feed for coco but the granules are great for when transplanting. and the hydro shops make big profits on them as they are one of the only nute lines made in the country.

good luck with thrips, the only way i could get rid of them was with plant vitality+ which is now banned. hopefully my garden stays bug free from now on lol
 

curious2garden

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But theres no damage to the plant what so ever and thrips look more of a wormy type where this looks more ant-ish and compared to a springtail there very similar..size,colour,body type
Thrips are more yellowish and longer...i really dont think ita those mate
LOL you are right. I'd still use Spinosad. Then again I prefer 'aseptic' substrate. Good luck on the grow. I'm interested to hear how you are doing in week four/five of flower.
 

jordan5star

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there beautiful at the minute but just keep watching this thread and there will be weekly uploads so you can see the progress

I am due to make a journal but I haven't got round to having the time to sit down and actually type it up lol!
 
image.jpg image.jpg I used provado ultimate bug killer which has definately worked. They are gone.

As far as im aware revegging cuttings from flower is known as monster cropping. And tbf, there are bloody bushy.

Atm jordan i am a bit embarrased to send them lol

But as you asked....


And ghb ur a boss! U have first hand experience with this feed? Its fuckin awful! I didnt wanna accept it because as i say to me a feeds a feed. If n is high itll do for veg and so on for flower.

However completed 1 run with this and the bud never dried, ever! :0

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jordan5star

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rule number 1

don't ever be embarrassed - to progress you must learn to fail! as arnie once said lol!

I cant really tell as im only a beginner but I can tell they where taken in flower but the best bet is if GHB can guide you in the right direction

all his advice has worked wonders for me
 

ghb

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i would have waited until all of the new growth was nice and healthy looking before i flowered them, recently tried monster cropping, never doing it again lol, all the buds grow too close together and it makes a right mess.

not tried plant magic nutes mate, you are partly right, most nutes are very similar, so long as they provide what the plants need thats all that matters. as for the weed not drying out it sounds highly unlikely that the feed would be responsible for that. where you drying in a controlled environment? sometimes weed seems dry but there is moisture trspped inside and when you bag it up the moisture comes back out and makes the weed go spongy, also if the weed is not fully ripe it can have this texture.
 

curious2garden

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Here's my sequence.

Aerocloner
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Roots
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Closeup of later flower clones (fourth week no they won't root yet it will take close to a month)
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After they root and are transplanted to pints they sit on top of the T5
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Once acclimated they go under the T5 to veg
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Then they go to the first flower tent where stretch occurs under a MH with veg food to reduce stretching. Somewhere in week 2 is when I prefer to trim everything under 18" and use those as clones.
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Main flower room where they will finish it's HPS but that's with a Method 7 filter so you could see without the HPS occlusion
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Mom's tent (plasma thanks CN)
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Anyway that's my flow :) when I clone. I use KLN in my Aerocloner and sometimes I merely put the extras in Solo cups and add them into the cloner if my cloner is full LOL. Good luck on your grow.

PS a full reveg for me takes a minimum of 6 weeks and more often closer to three months. I usually hit them hard with nitrogen when I see them beginning to unscrew themselves LOL. I use Dyna Gro Foliage Pro in veg.
 
Mine rooted in 2 weeks

Went into 1l pots

And then straight to the 16l

They have had 3 weeks in the 16l pots

Ive flipped now due to a holiday close to the end.
 

ghb

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at least the new growth is looking like traditional cannabis leaves lol.

like i said earlier i would have waited until the plants were in 100% good health before flowering, some of those plant will be lucky to give you an oz looking at how many nodes they have on them.

the last pic looks to be a mild deficiency, maybe you need to up the amount of the base nutes you are giving them, it could also be from over watering or possibly even from spilling a small amount of nutrient solution on the leaf when feeding. also if pos try and get a pic without the hps light on, they all look very yellow and could be needing a stronger feed or it could be the light making it look so.

are you running 1200w of hps lighting?
 
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