Noob First Closet Grow... Any suggestions?

aetneerg

aetneerg

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Thanks! We were examining it (the gimp lol) earlier and I'm pretty sure it will live, just be a week or so behind the other ones... hopefully. It's about half their size right now.
 
Drella

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yeah, your always gonna have an uneven canopy, my method us using topping, fimming, lst, to keep the canopy level. experimenting is fun! but theres also nothing wrong with putting things under you pots to level the canopy, if you don't want to "experiment" at least the first time around, hope this helps!
 
aetneerg

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thanks for the tip.... unfortunately it doesn't appear to have grown much in the last few days. Doesn't look dead either though, so we just put a ziplock over it to keep in the moisture and we're hoping it makes up it's mind lol. But I was reading on here and most people say its generally a bad idea to top autoflowers because they don't have enough time before flowering to recover, so you actually end up with less in the end than if you left them alone.... anyone know any different on that??
 
Drella

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aetneerg said:
thanks for the tip.... unfortunately it doesn't appear to have grown much in the last few days. Doesn't look dead either though, so we just put a ziplock over it to keep in the moisture and we're hoping it makes up it's mind lol. But I was reading on here and most people say its generally a bad idea to top autoflowers because they don't have enough time before flowering to recover, so you actually end up with less in the end than if you left them alone.... anyone know any different on that??
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you are right, sorry forgot you have auto's. i totally wouldn't top or fimm. just try to even the canopy, lift the pots to even it. moisture might help the gimp. weird because autos grow like crazy. maybe a nute problem, are you at full strength?
 
aetneerg

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No nutes, just Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil right now... the others are all doing great (as far a we can tell) so I think this one just hasn't recovered from it's seed case sticking problem. But it's odd because it hasn't died, just hasn't really grown either. The others are huge compared to it. On a side note the White Dwarfs look like they've put out some pistils now and are starting to stink...
 
Drella

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right on, just keep an eye on things. and the FFOF should have nutes in it for 2-3 weeks.
 
aetneerg

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Alright so the temp is still around 86, got up to 100 once when we forgot to open the window behind the cabinet... but I don't think it hurt them too bad. Considering selling our xtra bulbs and ordering a Ceramic Metal halide.

The one stunted plant died, so we're down to two AK47/LR2's.

Switched to the HPS a couple days ago when we spotted the pistils on the White Dwarfs, and we put the Lowryders in bags today because I got tired of those coir pots drying out so fast, ziplocks helped but only a little...

Good so far?
 

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Hey looking great! I have had stunted seeds die too, sucks when you paid for them though. But it happens.

As small as auto-flower plants get you could probably fill up that whole cabinet with plants by squeezing what 4-5 more in there :)

Thanks for sharing your progress! l8r
 
aetneerg

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So we've got a couple yellow spots on some of the White Dwarfs fan leaves... I'm thinking this is because the soil dried out a bit too much, and we spray the top of the soil/leaves every day (just distilled water right now) and the water magnified the light.. yatta yatta burned spots. But this is our first time at this sooo would like a second, third, fourth, ect opinion. :p

I've put up pics of the worst of the spots... kinda hard to see cause I'm having trouble figuring out how to adjust for the yellow of the hps...
 

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Yeah if its just those two leaves it probably is the result of a spillage ;) It doesn't really look like a uniform pattern or anything either so probably nothing to really worry about. Getting bushy huh!!? :) :)

I was looking at some new autoflowering beans today at attitude, 60 day Wonders. Sure sound interesting for outdoors..... :) But they sure are expenisive since you can't clone them.
 
aetneerg

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hey thanks! yah its just a couple leaves on each plant.. your right about the autoflowers being expensive. We're planning on breeding one if we can, maybe on the next grow. I want to try the SAGARMATHA SEEDS Smurfberry Automatic but its been out of stock since we ordered these seeds. The White dwarfs are supposed to be ready in 8 weeks, going by where they are at now (not even 4 weeks) I believe it. But yah, its amazing how fast they bulk out with the bushiness. :)
 
aetneerg

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So here's today pictures. It's funny cause I've been practicing photography on the plants, but really cant show the pics to anyone, for the obvious reasons...

This is the 4th week for the White Dwarfs, and the breeder's pack says they are ready in eight... so hopefully we're halfway there. :weed:

The Lowryders are only a week behind the others, so definitely going to take a few weeks longer all together than the others.
 

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Here is a white dwarf at 6 weeks old...She is now 8 weeks old, and will be flushed this week with molasses and put into 48 hrs dark cycle at end of this week. Also have a red dwarf which will get the same...
 

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MattyMatt they look good ;) !! I am ready to do some of these in the summer outside and see how big they can get. Can't wait to see what aetneerg's look like with that big ol' 400watt in that small box!
 
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it should be fine. as long as there is definite growth in the new leaves. Happy Growing! Comment on my grow journal if you don't mind!
 
aetneerg

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So didn't post pics last week due to the general holiday madness. Drove 10.5 hours x-mas eve to spend a few days in the hometown. Then drove 10.5 hours back. We were gone 4 days, watered the plants good before we left but they still dried out and burned a bit. Looking better now though. Started them on molasses a couple days ago, probably 2 or three tablespoons in 2.5 gallons. Will probably pick up some organic fertilizer tomorrow or so.

Looking pretty bushy so far! :weed:
 

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aetneerg

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So here we are at week 8. The White Dwarf breeders pack say 8 weeks from seed, but we are going to give them another week probably, as the crystals are still clear on them. Pretty impressed with these plants though, very fast.

I put the cereal box in there for a size reference in the first one.

Pics 2 and 3 are of the mutant AK47, 4 and 5 are of the other, non mutant one. Any ideas what might be wrong with it?

The rest are bud pics from the White Dwarfs. We think they probably need about another week....

You can see a pile of yellow leaves in the corner there. We just got some Happy Frog nutes for them but haven't fed yet. Just molasses, so maybe a phosphorus deficiency? or do the leaves usually die towards the end of flowering?

Thanks!
 

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MattyMatt

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Good looking. No worries, the plants leaves turn yellow and die off, altho it could be a lil nitrogen deficient by now as well. I let mine go for 9.5 weeks, with the last 2 days being a dark cycle. They hung to dry for 4 days, and then have been put into jars for 3 days now. And, let me tell you, it it berrylicious already. Blows everything away going around here, and I absolutely love it too!!! Your in for a great treat..ENJOY!! Happy Growing!
 
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