Just wanted to stop by and say the new stuff is looking nice. I like seeing your alternate methods of flowering/growing/cloning... makes me feel good that there is more than one way to do things and that any can work if done right.

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Hey, I've caught up on your journal, and thanks for all the info. You mentioned early on that you thought a plant was a mutant because it only had three blades on each leaf. Isn't it common for the first and second nodes to have 1 or 3 blades, and still be normal? Meaning that the following nodes will produce a more "normal" looking leaf? I ask because my first node has leaves with one blade, my second node, have leaves with three blades, and now that a third node is developing, the leaves appear to have more than 3 blades, although it is still too early to tell. I don't know what kind of seed this was, and the plant is only 2-3 weeks old and less than 4 inches. I'm not too concerned about a mutant... if it is female and produces buds I should be happy enough right? How did your mutant turn out? Wasn't able to follow the individual plants (well except for bhp, and thp, a.k.a. The Survivors!). Peace.

good questions.

Ur talking about this lady...



Turned into This:
BHP


and this



what Ive noticed about the pattern of the plants is

leaves normally grow -1 bladed first (cotyl's), then 3 blades on the first set of true leaves, then it starts growing 5, 7, and 9 blades if ur taken good care of it. the most ive seen is 13 blades on a single leaf of a plant grown outside. sometimes during veg ur plant will have a mutation and grow a leaf with 4, or sometimes 8 blades on a single leaf.

the 3 leaf pattern usually stop at the second, sometimes third node, after that the plant 'normally' starts growing 5 bladed leaves. anything that doesnt follow that growth pattern I consider abnormal. the next set of leaves were growing 4 bladed leaves(notice the yellow leaves on the bottom of THP^^), and after that they grew 5 bladed leaves, and then 7 blades (on BHP^^).

when the plant goes into flowering the bud leaves have 3 blades. and when U revert to re-vegging the plant it grows 3 bladed leaves for the first few nodes, then 4 blades, then eventually 5 bladed leaves and then it goes back to the normal growth pattern.

I try to pay extremely close attention to the details of how they grow so I can spot mutants and males as early as possible and either get rid of them, or separate em from the normal looking plants.

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GO CAVS!

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Seems like I've read somewhere to watch the 8th node on your plants during flower. Know anything about this?

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umm..I dunno bout that one. I only have one plant that has more than 6 nodes, and she seems to be doing fine. if u find out anything about that lemme know.

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What's up bro...think I got some bad news bout Plant 2. Check my journal when you get a chance...

From what I had been reading, you should start to see first signs of sex on the 7th or 8th nodes.

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Week 14, Day 4 - 12/12 from seed.

I ran into a slight problem with heat the past few days. It stunted the growth, but today they just started showing some new growth.

The bubblicious was giving me the most problems for some reason. shes very sensitive to changes in temps, and in watering schedules. Each week the big ones get a veg feeding, a bloom feeding, and a straight water feeding. Im still misting daily (water + a few drops of superthrive)...they seemed to like it.

then this past week my temps have been 100*F+ bcuz my ducting wasnt connected properly. so I fixed that + added a new heat shield and so far, today the temps were in the low 80's.

Bubblicious (10 weeks, 4 days old. & 5 weeks, 4 days flowering) practically halted her growth, turning all of her hairs brown, and dropping some of her leaves. Instead of feeding her more and more Ive just transplanted her into a fresh medium and gave her a nice through watering with superthrive, and a nice spray down. that was only last night, so I havent seen much change so far.

My Indica lady (11 weeks, 4 days old. 6 weeks, 4 days flowering) is just about finished ripening her [Indica X Bubblicious] seeds, so in a few days Ill go thru and pick them all off. I do that so the seeds wont over-ripen and fall off the plant. they get extremely hard to find when they fall off the plant..also by doing this the plant wont waste energy on the seeds and will focus on the buds. Shes been flowering for a while, but it looks like shes only about 3 or 4 weeks into flowering..I definitely have to watch the trichs on her.

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Yikes!!

How long did it stay at those temps? Can you tell that it stressed the plants any? I'm very interested in these temps that people always talk about. I mean, out in nature, specially around my area, it can get to be 95 + outside and plants still seem to grow pretty well.

I got spider mites on one of my plants so I put it outside to control the problem and keep it away from the rest of my plants. It gets pretty damn hot outside and I can tell the plant doesn't like the high heat, but it is still growing.

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you could get rid of dem mites easily by just soaping up a towel and gently rubbing the top and bottom of the leaves...they should be gone in a day or so,i had the same prob on my first grow....if you put em outside you'll get white flys

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