~!# Should I Flower? Larry, Moe and Curly #!~

Kludge · #1 06-22-2008, 05:41 PM

Should I start these into flowering? I started them all at the exact same time and the seeds for these were all from the same parent plant but they are all completely different! (see pictures below)

Curly is twice as big as Moe and Moe is twice as big as Larry. I'm just wondering if I should go ahead and start flowering them all together since they all started at the same time or if I should wait to flower Moe and Larry until they are as big as Curly.

Started: 01 Jun 08 (21 days old as of this post)
Medium: Miracle Grow (I know, I know)
Light: 24/0 - CFL's about 2 26 watters each, some have 3 like Curly, all plants have at least one light within 1 inch. Total of 12 @ 21,000 Lumens. Switching to 12/12 using 400W HPS when flowering.
Nodes:
Curly 13 - Some are double nodes, two sets of branches coming out of the same spot.
Moe 9 - Most are double nodes.
Larry 7 - Two of the lower nodes only have half leaves or less due to sever heat damage so it's really more like 5 nodes. Should I just clip those damaged nodes off since they can't be getting too much light anyway?

- Edit : More info -

Temps: Hi 84, Low 80
Humidity: 50% - I JUST got a humidifier so before that it was about 40%.
Fan: Strong fan on at all times on low blowing through closet, covering all plants and lights. It's a big fan.
Nutes: Nothing until last watering, 19 days into veg, because of the MG soil. I used Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow 3-1.5-4 at 1 tbsp (15mL) per gallon (3.7L) feeding each plant just under half a gallon (1.8L) per feeding. I give it 1/4 gallon (.9L) wait a few minutes then give it the remaining half. I water from the edge of the pot inwards trying to put the least amount of water at the base of the plant so the roots will be forced to grow outward to find water.
Feeding: I've been using the stick-your-finger-in-the-dirt-down-to-the-second-nuckle-and-if-it's-dry-water-it method. Which comes out to 3 days every time.
pH: Just started testing pH. Water in with nutes was around pH 6.5 going in and coming out it was around pH 5.8.
PPM: No idea.
Water: Tap water left to offgas chlorine for at least 3 days (5 gallon jugs).

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IGTHY · #2 06-22-2008, 05:42 PM

They look nice.Flower them. KEEP SMOKE ALIVE!!

Dr High · #3 06-22-2008, 06:17 PM

id flower them in a week or so maybe even wait longer but its your choice, less veg less bud. Peace

Kludge · #4 06-23-2008, 06:56 AM

Thanks guys. I ended up pruning the half-dead leaves off the one plant and that made a WORLD of difference just overnight. The smaller leaves that were just kinda sitting there got a little bigger and the plant itself looks healthier.

What I did was take my fingernail and gently severed the stem of the damaged leaves where they join the stalk of the parent plant, I was able to basically just pull them off gently.

darksys · #5 06-23-2008, 07:08 AM

wait until you get more nodes nodes = buds

mr west · #6 06-23-2008, 07:16 AM

id wait till they bout a foot tall personaly

Kludge · #7 06-24-2008, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr west

id wait till they bout a foot tall personaly

The problem is they are really dense. I've kept the CFL's within an inch of them at all times. Where most people have an inch between branch pairs I have at most 1/4 inch.

Also being a newbie I'm sure I screwed up when I said the number of nodes. I was calling a branch on the left and a branch on the right a "node" when I think should have been saying each branch was a node... I think. Just replace the word node with branches and double the number.

Anyway, I got my HPS light so I'm going to go ahead and start flowering. I'm also going to add two germed seedlings on a 12/12 just to see how they go.

I'm doing a closet grow but I'm realizing I have the whole room so I might as well just move them out of there and into the main part of the room, I'll just need to light seal the door a little better. It is PITCH dark in there with the lights off but there is a tiny bit of light leak from under the door that can't be seen from the closet.

Kludge · #8 06-24-2008, 02:32 PM

Here's what the two that I'm starting to flower look like now (23 days of veg).

Curly is on the left and is the second photo. Moe is on the right and is the third photo. I wish I had started Larry flowering too because I almost killed him last night moving him into a new veg room I set up without making sure it didn't get too hot over night. It did.