urbanP0ison
New Member
Hello everyone, and happy New Year!
This is my first post, and I'm about to share my first grow with you.
I have two Northern Lights feminized autoflowers from Nirvana (didn't autoflower, though) and feminized Hawaii Maui Wowie, also from Nirvana, in 2g pots with Roots Organics soil, under a 2x8 T5, staggered veg/flower bulbs, and three small CCFL in the back for supplemental heat and light under the canopy. I'll be upgrading to 600W HPS for the rest of the flowering cycle by the end of next week.
The plants are 34 (NLx2) and 31 (HMW) days old. They've been on 12/12 for about 10 days now.
As you will see in the pics, the NL girls are exceptionally robust. It's taken me a lot of LST work to keep them within the T5's tiny footprint.
The HMW has been slow to grow, and experienced much stress early on for reasons I couldn't understand. It's now turning out to be a bushy wide-leaved dwarf plant, uncharacteristic for its typical genetic makeup. The thing that concerns me more, though, is the fact that it's barely shown any sex yet, almost two weeks into flowering. I don't think I've seen any signs of female flowers at all so far. I woke up this morning, and discovered something at the tops, and I'm not sure if I'm looking at new leaf formation or early male flowers. I know it's impossible for feminized seeds to grow up male, but could I be looking at a herm? Is it possible or typical for a herm to develop male flowers predominantly or exclusively?
I also know that sativa-dominant strains can take a while to show sex, so maybe I'm being impatient and this growth is just new leaves. If this is the case, please let me know.
Experienced growers, please assess the situation and recommend a course of action. Thanks in advance!
Pics:
You can see a good example of the possible male flowers I described, towards the back on the right:
This one turned out blurry, sorry:
Here's an album with four more high-res pics of the HMW plant:
http://imgur.com/a/Pcnm2
Pics in this album are enormous, click on the gear icon at top right to view in full resolution.
This is the whole garden so far:
Another angle:
And the best NL cola so far:
Thanks again for your advice!
Edit: Mods, please move this to the newbie forum, if appropriate. I didn't realize it existed until after I posted this.
This is my first post, and I'm about to share my first grow with you.
I have two Northern Lights feminized autoflowers from Nirvana (didn't autoflower, though) and feminized Hawaii Maui Wowie, also from Nirvana, in 2g pots with Roots Organics soil, under a 2x8 T5, staggered veg/flower bulbs, and three small CCFL in the back for supplemental heat and light under the canopy. I'll be upgrading to 600W HPS for the rest of the flowering cycle by the end of next week.
The plants are 34 (NLx2) and 31 (HMW) days old. They've been on 12/12 for about 10 days now.
As you will see in the pics, the NL girls are exceptionally robust. It's taken me a lot of LST work to keep them within the T5's tiny footprint.
The HMW has been slow to grow, and experienced much stress early on for reasons I couldn't understand. It's now turning out to be a bushy wide-leaved dwarf plant, uncharacteristic for its typical genetic makeup. The thing that concerns me more, though, is the fact that it's barely shown any sex yet, almost two weeks into flowering. I don't think I've seen any signs of female flowers at all so far. I woke up this morning, and discovered something at the tops, and I'm not sure if I'm looking at new leaf formation or early male flowers. I know it's impossible for feminized seeds to grow up male, but could I be looking at a herm? Is it possible or typical for a herm to develop male flowers predominantly or exclusively?
I also know that sativa-dominant strains can take a while to show sex, so maybe I'm being impatient and this growth is just new leaves. If this is the case, please let me know.
Experienced growers, please assess the situation and recommend a course of action. Thanks in advance!
Pics:
You can see a good example of the possible male flowers I described, towards the back on the right:
This one turned out blurry, sorry:
Here's an album with four more high-res pics of the HMW plant:
http://imgur.com/a/Pcnm2
Pics in this album are enormous, click on the gear icon at top right to view in full resolution.
This is the whole garden so far:
Another angle:
And the best NL cola so far:
Thanks again for your advice!
Edit: Mods, please move this to the newbie forum, if appropriate. I didn't realize it existed until after I posted this.
Last edited: