Bagseed closet Stealth grow

Here's what I'd do:

Wait until the medium is very dry, to the point where it's almost, but not quite, starting to droop from needing water. Then, starting about a finger's width above soil level, start working the stem where you can get your fingers in by giving it a pinch. First one side, then bring your fingers around 90 degrees and pinch again all the way up to just below your top two or three nodes. Pinch just hard enough to kinda crush the stem, but take care you don't twist or cut it with a nail and break any of it off. Now that your plant is nice and floppy, tie it down LST style. Now, give it a good, full watering....I mean like take it into another container big enough to hold the entire pot and fill with water until the root/dirt mass is completely submerged. Wait till all bubbles stop rising to the surface. Remove and let drain thouroughly. Put it back under your lights and watch it explode with fresh growth after a couple of days.

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yeah that sounds like a good idea, get any unneccesary or harmful out of the soil. I'll do this next time i have to water. and yeah i might lst it but im just gonna see how the fim takes, i see 2 small sprouts where i cut so far, it might be 2 or it might be 2 groups of 2, so if it turns out the be 4 tops that might be good enough for me and not bother doing lst, other then tieing down secondary growths to get them out a bit to receive light. because my space allows me to go up to like 5 feet or so but its not very wide
 
Absolutely, but the supercropping (stem crushing) is useful regaurdless of training method. It strengthens the stem so it can hold heavier buds and the internal structure opens up so the stem can carry more water and stuff up and down the stem.

Oh, and the watering method isn't a flush. It serves a couple purposes. One, it gets water to every corner of the medium evenly, and two, it's pulling oxygen down into the medium when you pull it up to drain. After watering like this do NOT water again until it's almost drooping again from needing water (will likely be just under to just over a week...like 5-9 days). This forces the roots to seek out every drop of moisture it can. Bigger roots = healthier plant.
 
So this is day 25, Since i fim'd, all the secondary growths exploded. the most visible tops on in it, are from the 2nd to the top node. they are passing the fim tops. at some point when all the tops r longer i'll start tying them to let others below them get light, since the nodes are so close together its pretty packed in there. at some point should i remove some fan leaves so some lower new growths can get light better?

i dont know how well you'll be able to see this but in the last pic, the blue is the 2nd to top node growth, yellow is top node growth, and the red is the fim'd tops
 

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So its day 27. since fim'ing its turned into a bush. camera is dead at the moment so no pics until tommorow. its pretty tightly packed. anyone know if it would hurt to take off the top 2-3 sets of fan leaves? a lot of the lower new growths are getting big but blocked by the fan leaves.
 
If you can, tuck the leaves back rather than cutting them off...but if there's no other way, clip them. Your plant will be fine as long as you don't remove too much at once.
 
so this is 4 weeks old in 15 minutes. the tops are starting to take off, the 2nd to top node ones are biggest and i've had to tuck its leaves under the fan leaves so they dont dominate the light supply from the smaller 4, if i do this right it should have 6 tops, the fim turned into 2 tops, plus the 4 tops from the top 2 sets. i added another light today to give it some side lighting, and i'll rotate it once and awhile so all sides will get some light. any advice is appreciated
 

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Day 29. it's starting to take off. Maybe i should have posted this in Grow journal forum, is there any way i can have it in there as well?
 

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Straight up. Thats a bushy plant man. Tops coming out of everywhere.


haha thanks, there should be 6 tops if it works out right, theres 4 from the top 2 sets. and 2 tops where i did the fim cut, the fim tops are pretty small so i've been spreading out the tops once a day so they get some light
 
See what you can do to open that plant up a little bit and let some light into the middle of that bush. Looks great bro.
 
that plant has so much rich greanery keep it under these conditions mayb try get sum light in the middlr

safe =)
 
Day 33 I'm thinkin i'll go to 6 weeks then toss into 12/12. although its still pretty short atm. but they start to stretch a lot once they get darkness right?
 

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Day 36 of veg. I did some selective pruning a few days ago, and tied down a few growths to open it up a bit more. I'm goin to switch lighting froom 24/7 to 24/0 to promote a bit of stretching gradually by 1 hour a night. i started this last night. so tonight it will get 2 hours or darkness.

These aren't the best pictures and they don't really do it justice. Its healthier then these pictures suggest
 

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Looking great man. They should double to triple in height during flower...those first three to four weeks are really dramatic. Have you considered cutting a clone or two to keep in veg? Keep up the good work!

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Looking great man. They should double to triple in height during flower...those first three to four weeks are really dramatic. Have you considered cutting a clone or two to keep in veg? Keep up the good work!

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thanks for following my topic. Yeah I'm hoping to get it to at least 1-1/2 feet tall before i toss it into flower. I have considered cuttin a clone or two but I haven't really decided yet.
 
are you still just using the two CFLS? or di you get more. im starting a grow now. i got 2 26 watt cfls 6500 k
 
are you still just using the two CFLS? or di you get more. im starting a grow now. i got 2 26 watt cfls 6500 k

I'm using 3 26 w 6500k cfl's now. 2 in a y splitter, and one for side lighting. When its bigger i'm going to add one more side light
 
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