First Grow - Tent - 400W - BPN - THC Bomb - Violator Kush - Advice Welcome

Almost 7 days of flowering now, not much stretch at all . Hopefully the next 7 days go as smoothly....
They all were trained before I put them back in the tent. Canopy looks good. Cannot wait to see some actual buds!

Few pics today after watering (not all of them are shown :/), luckily they're still removable from the tent too:



Ole bessie (the largest one)



Early bud:

The 2nd to last one looks perfect. Now is the primo time to take clones as soon as females reveal themselves. Take only minor branches which recieved almost no generous light. Great job all around. It makes me feel good to see happy girls.

No clones ... can't do anything with them right now .

In the future, I want a perpetual and will clone a ton lol.

Small update- in the pics you'll see the canopy got all uneven since the last update. Letting them grow however they want until I feed tomorrow, then I am going to re-train before I leave for the weekend. I'm having a non growing buddy tend to them for 5 days... really really nervous about that, but not really at the same time lol. I am leaving VERY detailed instruction as well as showed him what I was doing the last time I fed them.

9 days into flowering now, most stretching has occurred in the last 4 days, hope it doesn't go too much longer.
Sorry in advance (again) for the hps pics...
Two days ago:




Today:





Couldn't get my stupid phone to show all of the pistils

dam been away from forums for like 4 days and can see a huge difference, great work man keep it up!!!

They more those leaves are happy and 'praying' the more the Bud Gods will bless you.

Picture perfect grow so far. Keep up the great work..

I got home late monday night...
First thoughts when I opened the tent after my trip: damn- they stretched a shit load in the 5 days I was gone . On a good note, tons of bud sites- lots of pistils everywhere, they look great.


Today I finally got around to defoliating them, training them, and rotating them. Accidentally creased one of the main stems earlier during training. First time that's happened lol. So I taped some toothpicks around it.




All of these photos are of various stages of when I brought them out of the tent today, then the final one is how they sit now.











Back in the tent:






VK (frosty leaves already)

Lots of movement even in the last 24 hours. And they haven't been fully fed in a week and a half! Going to take care of that tomorrow, full dose of everything for the first time.

Here's some more pics, we couldn't figure out how to use a friends high tech camera..... so some corner pics here. Another plant started producing resin on its leaves overnight, will try to get better pics of the nicest buds.

Whores!

-Dude'r

Update- I let them go 4 days without any water last week. The time before that I gave a little extra water knowing I was about to do so. Just wanted to switch it up for once and let their leaves droop a smidge. Hopefully the ladies are good to go for the last 6-7 weeks.
Saturday I fed them fully, they loved that so far. Hopefully they stay happy with the 1300ppm. Overall, I was NOT expecting this much growth with a 400w hps. I guess I can say that I'm very happy with my nutrient choice .

These pics are all from today before and after I rotated them. After I took these I tucked some more leaves and will raise the light an inch or two later tonight.

Day 23 of flower:












Something I've never seen before (looks like a double bud site? idk)




VK - One of these has a ton of resin on the leaves already. Way more than the other plants.






THCb - this strain looks to favor one giant main cola, even after trying to spread the plant out.


in the center vvv

Looking awesome bro. It looked like the tips on the leaf petals were flaring up. Are you having heat issues? If so, they could cost you ounces of bud in a grow. It is the hardest enemy to conquer in my experience. Even with near a thousand into the ventilation and cooling of my room, I get higher and higher temps as the soil dries out.

-Dude

Which pic were you referring to? I didn't notice any signs of heat stress, just slight bleaching from the hotspot of the light. I haven't seen heat above 82, and that's only for an hour or so a day on the hottest days. I might turn the fan up to be safe as its only on setting 2 out of 3.... but more than likely its from something else if you are seeing any issues.

Perhaps it is just shadow games.

Idk... I definitely see what you mean now. Must be the light too close?

Sorry in advance about the light in the pics. I may remove them sunday to train... so I'll get some better pics outside the tent.




vk






thcb

Haha dude I use books to even my plants out too. College books...

Yeah lol. I have like 15 books total, and 10 of them are my old roommate's textbooks he stuck me with. So now they get used in my garden

DAY 29 of flower:

The ladies spent 2 hours out of the tent today. Have a trash bag full of leaves and stuff I trimmed. All lower junk is gone, and bunch of fan leaves that were in the way of nice bud sites. Noticed some rust on some of the larger fan leaves as well as some ends pointed straight down. But nothing extreme... Hope it goes away after I changed around the tent. Also braced a bunch of buds with various methods as you can see in the pics lol. Then finally rotated them, raised the light 3 inches (one had decent bleaching) and stuffed them back in the tent.

Here's a before and after pic on the blue dragon plant:











Various pics:





























Biggest producing plant so far (thc bomb)












Back in the tent:

Nice and cleaned up. Next grow, try to do exactly that, around day 7 of flower. I've noticed it will slow the stretch for the day and you're not stressing the plant in the middle of bud time. Nice use of the stake too. With a sturdy stake like that, you should only need one. Stake it in good and tie a string to it at the height of your canopy, then encircle the plant and pull it in just a tad and tie the other end to the stake again. That should work for those heavy buds.

Looking really pro now. The only thing is the pruning a bit late. You did more good than harm though, wise decision. Your thumb is getting greener.

-Dude

You think it'll stress them out a lot? I was hesitant to do it in general, but after taking a good look at them earlier, I decided light to more bud sites = more dry bud. and I still have ~4 weeks to go.