Stealth Dresser Grow - 1st Grow Attempt

the plants will take off once the roots fill the cup, with or without nutes, just more with them. well odor is not a problem until you flower, so you have time. and odor is not as bad in cooler environments. so if you get your dresser cooled down it will help a little overall with the smell.

I'm hoping the new ventilation design will help this project.. There's got to be a stealth answer to the heat issues. Lol

And, I've got an Ona Block standing by just in case the smell decides to come before the solution. =P

there are. you will get it. just think of how to keep a constant stream/gust of air coming across the top of the plants between them and the lights.

The activity after 24 hours each day amazes me! Here's the first bloomer from yesterday's update to this morning:

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It really is fun to watch their progress. Its amazing how fast they develop.

See, after 24 hours.. I feel it's necessary to post updates again. The first bloomer has almost double the size of leaf sets since the last post just yesterday.

On a brighter note, it looks like the small plant is going to survive, I'm seeing new activity for the first time in a while..

Here's the pictures, in order 1st bloomer (Champ) - 2nd bloomer (Jane) - 3rd bloomer (Dudley)



Admittedly, I expected these plants to vertically grow out of the cups pretty quick. Now, I'm starting to get concerned that I should put them in bigger pots sooner because the leaves are drooping along the edges. :-\

Oh, and just for the record.. I don't think I've posted this yet, but here's a picture of what the bagseed I'm growing came from:



I have absolutely no idea what strain this is, or really much detail about it at all.
The only thing I do know is that this batch was turned hermie due to an unexpected move, and this is how I have seeds.

Okay, I went and purchased the (3) 3-gal smart pots, and more Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil to fill em up.

Anyone want to make any specific suggestions of what to/not to do during transplanting?

incade said:

Okay, I went and purchased the (3) 3-gal smart pots, and more Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil to fill em up.

Anyone want to make any specific suggestions of what to/not to do during transplanting?

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I always had problems. I finally followed danielsgb method. he waters the plant and lets them drip off all excess moisture, and when the plant is held together like a clump of dirt you should be able to squeeze the sides of the cup slightly and the tip it over and it should fall right out. when you fill your new pot with soil, I like to wet half the soil I plant to use and mix it up well. Then mix in the other half of the soil, still dried, with this wet soil. fill your 3 gallon pots and as you do take an empty party cup and place it inside the pot and fill around this cup. This will be where you will drop the rootball of the plants when you take them out of their party cups!! good luck

Well, they've been transplanted.. Hopefully they'll take to their new home. How long usually before I know?

Unfortunately, I could only fit (2) 3-gal pots in the dresser.. However, I really doubt that all three of these plants will be females. If they are, do you think it's safe to grow two in the same pot?

Will I be able to identify if one of the two in the same pot are male before it's too late to uproot it without killing the other?

I wouldn't grow two in a pot. Im a novice grower but that cant be good for the roots. It looks like you know someone who knows what they're doing. Try and get some clones maybe for guaranteed females (if everything goes right)

It'll most likely be too late to rip one out once you can determine sex. you'll probably pull out roots to the other plant, which will probably be male as well. trial and error. im in the beginning stages of it too, man. its fun though

good job. if you didnt kill 'em transplanting them, then they took unless there is something in the soil that will kill 'em. its ok to grow 2 in a pot, i mean look at nature, no pots there. the problem is you have to water them enough to keep them from fighting for life, that is when they will kill each other. if they have everything they need then they should be fine. they could all be girls too, but if one is a male just cut it off at the stem. probably a good thing you didnt go with the five gallons i think the 1 gallons would be perfect on your future grows, but they are reusable.

Well, it's been a few hours since transplanting and they don't look totally pissed:

They look fine. You wont notice any growth for about the next few days. This is because the roots will start seeking out the bottom, straight down. Once they hit the bottom they will start spreading out.

If you want to seperate the 2 in the same pot, you can take a piece of plastic about as wide as the pot is and press it into the soil directly in between the 2 plants. This should prevent any problems that may possibly occur. You shouldnt have to, but if it turns out they are both female, are you really gonna want to do anything to their situation? I wouldn't, I'd try and leave them to finish at that point.

It would definitely be most ideal to have two females.. If the biggest one that I planted separately is male, then I'll just have to take that loss.
Maybe I'll get super lucky and get 3 females!

It happened to me last year this time, plated 3 cause first one was a male. All 3 turned out female, very nice females, till I f'ed 2 of em up in flower its all good, its fun, just don't do it with bought seeds unless you got a lot of seeds, or cash

Well, the plants all seem to like their new home. I'm not seeing any negative signs, in fact, there's tons of new growth.

I'm just wondering though, are my plants not growing vertically that much because of the 24/0 light schedule? I mean, that would be ideal because I have limited vertical space, I'm just curious if that's why.

Oh, and by the way I have 12 seeds left.

They only look about 2 weeks old which would be part of the reason they are so short, and your lights are probably very close so they don't need to stretch towards the light, if you want them to get tall keep raising the lights a couple inches. and you're going to have some real problems having two in the same pot, i would take the smaller one out and transplant it into its own pot so you don't have to kill one later.

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They only look about 2 weeks old which would be part of the reason they are so short, and your lights are probably very close so they don't need to stretch towards the light, if you want them to get tall keep raising the lights a couple inches. and you're going to have some real problems having two in the same pot, i would take the smaller one out and transplant it into its own pot so you don't have to kill one later.

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They'll do fine 2 in one pot as long as he waters them enough. They don't have separate pots in the wild, and given adequate rain/water they will grow fine.

gumball said:

They don't have separate pots in the wild

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sure but in the wild plants are not refined to only 2.5 gallons of soil. which is enough for one plant to grow AT MOST 3-4 months (the rule of thumb is 1 gallon per month you will be growing). 2 plants in one pot give them about a gallon of soil for there roots to grow which wouldnt be enough for anything. but whats going to happen is the stronger one is just going to take over the smaller one and it stunt and eventually kill it..