Figured I'd Start a Thread

[Beansly]

Thanks for the info man!
Greatly appreciated. When the lights go on tonight I will be sure to give them a good inspection for such organs.

On another note, I just purchased a brick of coco that I will be using to start some clones in. Now I KNOW that cloning during flowering is something people advise against, but mine just got thrown into 12/12 so as far as I'm concerned, it should be safe to snip a few clones off. Will get pictures when I get them set up, this way I can also tell the clones sex by determining the sex of their mother plant (obviously).

Never tried growing in coco but I have been reading into it for some time so I feel like i know somewhat what I am doing. I just hope my clones root well in the medium, I hear good and bad things about cloning with coco. We'll see how it goes.

Edit: Also, with this next grow I will be keeping a very detailed journal of each plant. I plan to compare and contrast nutrients. I have various nutes that I would like to see if they actually make a difference. For example, with the clones I will probably run half with LK (Liquid Karma) to support rooting, and the other half without it, to compare which roots/grows faster. Should be a very informative/learning experience for myself.

You know you have to soak coco before you use it to leech out excess potassium and salt right?

 

[georgeisabamf]

You know you have to soak coco before you use it to leech out excess potassium and salt right?

Well actually, you have to soak it yes. But most Coco doesn't need a "rinse" because usually they don't have excess salt and potassium (nowdays at least). I did soak it of course.

I already took the clones and put them in the coco, I have them sitting under one 23w CFL (2700k), and hope that they all pull through. Never made clones on my own so i'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Edit: Here's a little picture of these guys. Basically to clone them I just cut, put in water, recut again (always cutting at a 45 degree angle), trimmed the lower nodes off, dipped in powder, placed into coco. I also trimmed some of the larger fan leaves after this picture was taken.

So hopefully they will do well. A friend of mine usually uses the same method I tried but instead of coco he uses standard soil. Like I said, I have heard both good and bad about cloning in coco.

 

[georgeisabamf]

So after one night it seems one of the clones is already going pretty bad, the leaves are drooping majorly. Anyhow the other 2 are perking up and seem to be doing nicely but this single one isn't so great. If two out of three pull through I won't complain for my first time cloning honestly.

Anyhow my plants are still showing some signs of flowering. I see white hairs coming out of each top but they seem premature so I'm scared to judge sex just yet. I've been feeding the plants a lot less though since they have been in flower. Though with my next feed I am adding bonanicare pro bloom and humboldt honey to add some need nutes. Right now I am feeding with just water and some guano is mixed in slightly with the soil.

I'll get pictures when it is indefinitely in the flowering stage. I suck ass and set up my timer where the lights turn on at 3 in the morning, so I rarely take pictures it seems.

 

[HottFuzz]

why's everybody hatin on the cardboard box grows?


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[georgeisabamf]

why's everybody hatin on the cardboard box grows?


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Much love <3

 

[georgeisabamf]

Alright so here is an update for you guys and I need advice/help as quickly as possible if anyone can.

Today is the 10th day my plants have been under 12/12 lighting. I don't understand what's going on though because for some reason they don't seem to be flowering ( don't believe any sex organs have appeared) and also, some of the leaves don't look to well, but you will see in the below pictures what I mean:

Plant # 1 (the "taller" and more "lanky" of the two-

Plant # 2 (bushier)-

So as you can see, the plants don't see to be showing any sex organs, at least from what I can tell. But it's been 10 days, what's going on? Anyhow, I know I should wait out more, but do those tops look like they are even starting to flower? I'm not sure how this quite works here, a friend of mine said "white hairs will come out between each node and each top, and those will be the females." Though I do see very light growth in each top, I feel like they are just more leaves coming through but at a more light/yellow color. Any ideas?

Also, the leaves as I said before seem to be browning in certain spots. I'm not sure what is causing this or why. I have been feeding them lightly and have them in fox farm oceans forest soil, with seabird guano and water. However, beginning tomorrow I am using a new feed that is focused on less N and more PK. Maybe this will help the leaf problem? Anyone know what may be causing this? Is it nute burn?

So here's a few more questions.
-I know these guys are in flowering but do you think the pots they are in may cause them to become or be root bound? I feel their roots may be quite large and I wish I had them in a larger pot. I was contemplating getting bag pots from my local hydro store and giving them a whirl by transferring them into a perlite/coco blend. Good idea, or bad? I'd transplanted these bad boys more than once, I just don't know about doing it during flowering.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. I don't think light is getting into my box and ruining my cycles. My box is in a very dark closet and during night hours (for the plants) I have the door closed to keep no light from getting through. Thanks in advance everyone!

 

[caesar23]

Im pretty new at this myself but I know you aren't suppose to transplant during flowering. I just did it last friday one week into flowering for me and so far so good.I think it will set you back a couple days but let's see what the more experienced members here say.( I love this site, its members are awesome and taught me everything I know, granted im still on my first)

 

[georgeisabamf]

Eh I won't bother transplanting i suppose. Anyhow My clones seem alright probably not rooted at all yet of course but they seem healthy for the most part.

Not much else new haha

 

[georgeisabamf]

So I still see now signs of flowering =[
I even went in my box this morning with a magnifying glass to look closely for sex organs or some sort of pre-flowers or something. Came up empty handed again. However, with that being said, I just switched my lighting to 10/14 to give it even more darkness to hopefully boost flower. I don't know why it hasn't started doing it's thing yet.

Anyone have any ideas? Maybe it's normal that some strains/seeds bud later than others? Again this is my first indoor grow and there is a lot I don't know.

Also. I checked up on one of my clones yesterday and pulled it from the coco it was housed in. I was trying to see if any roots started forming, and sure enough there was none. So I'm not sure of their successes' either. I thought they'd be good for run #2. Now I'm contemplating just ordering seeds and going the more legit route.

Edit: Will also get some pictures in a bit. I think it may be worth my while to prune off some of the leaves on these badboys, they're filling in nicely but that's not even my objective at this point!

 

[caesar23]

I think it takes a week or two to develop.roots

 

[georgeisabamf]

So get this, out of my plants, only one remains. I woke up yesterday morning to a plant that was completely dead out of nowhere. I asked a friend and he said it looked like overwatering or something of that nature. But I don't recall feeding them any more than usual.

My last plant is starting to shrivel up as well. I'm scared to feed/kill it yet the leaves are drying up and i'm unsure of what to do.