Hey Uncle Ben....

I'm more of a lurker than I'd like to be here, mainly cause I don't have much to contribute and a lot to learn. But I need to say THANK YOU for this awesome thread you started.

I started my first grow attempt (4 plants) in mid April- 3 Northern Lights and one Mazar. I "uncle ben'd" the healthy NL and the Mazar, but one of my plants did not even sprout, and the other sprouted with a missing cotyledon. It took about 2 weeks to finally make any growth at all, and I had to plant another seed to make up for the one that did not sprout.

Long story short, I did not have space for the 4-cola'd Mazar, so I gave it to a friend. Now I have a 4-cola Northern Lights, and 2 regular un-topped unadulterated Northern Lights.

And man oh man, does the uncle ben'd plant look oustanding. Two top cola's are huge and glorious after only 4 weeks of flowering now, but oddly enough the other two are much shorter. This probably has to do with the fact that I'm using CFLs and the light doesn't distribute totally equally (a condition I'm working to fix). Either way, I can tell that she's the plant that's going to give me the heftiest yield out of all of them.

And I can already start to see my preferred style of growing develop. I don't want to be fucking with these things, I just want to let them grow. LSTing, Supercropping, SCROGging, it all seems like a lot of work for not a lot of benefit, when all you have to do is just one early topping to get 4 huge colas.


Anyways, just wanted to say thanks for helping out a noob succeed in this stuff. Really, I couldn't have done it without you and the rest of the guys on this site.