First Ever Grow -Organic CA Organic-

This is my first time growing and I need a bit of advice on the progress of my ladies. I started with three very healthy White Rhino clones from my local caregiver, planting a bit late in the season around June 24tish. Being new to growing I decided to go all organic and use the beautiful soil provided in my already existing organic garden. Initially I planted the clones in a temporary planter just to root the plants and get them used to the hot California summer. After a week I had to go out of town so I decided to go ahead and plant them in the ground. Not intended as a serious grow I wanted this to be an experiment as to how these ladies will do with minimal attention. Coming home I discovered one of the clones did not make it but the other two were doing alright one being around 3ft high and the other about half that. I am wondering what to do next as I would ideally like to transplant them into 3 gallon pots and get some nice foxfarm soil to get them booming but don’t know if this is possible or a good idea with the root system being this far along. Also due to the rapid growth in I need to do something about controlling the plants height and would appreciate any advice. Check out the pics "especially the smaller plant" and let me know if you have any advice for this novice grower such as if topping or transplanting would be a good idea.

Theyre beauties

You could top em or just tie em down,I wouldnt try to transplant em just let em do there thing

I wouldn't move them from the ground into pots. If anything, I'd move the smaller one a couple feet over, but leave it in the ground.

If you're a med patient why do you need to control the height?

I am a 215 patient so i am not concerned about the legality of it but was hoping to keep it from exceeding the fence due to my distrust in my next door neighbors

I have the same problem...either tie it down or buy some baboo sheets from HomeDepot, Lowes etc to extend the height of your fence. Or you could let them know that when harvest time comes he has a phat cola coming!

looks good ... you can tir them down for a quick and simple solution for height

Those are going over that fence real quick!

they'll still go over if u top em. tying em is ur best bet. i wouldn't tell the neighbors, they might jack ur harvest.

Thanks for the positive input so far everyone. I might wait it out a few weeks longer before I tie these bitches down, see how tall they will get. As far as topping them I have viewed tons of info on doing this but at this point am skeptical and don't really know if its worth me fucking them up...anyways any more ideas are welcome and I appreciate any input... here are some more pics I took today of the ladies soaking up some warm Cali sunlight.

I would start tying them now if you are going to do it those girls look like they could go well beyond your fence! Its going to get harder to tie them the thicker that main stem gets so start early. Topping might be a good idea too if you do it right you should be able to make them bushier.

I decided to not top them or tie them for now and let them do their thing all natural. Hope i get a somewhat decent yield and that they flower before rain hits in November here in CA.

thewhiteoctave01 said:

I decided to not top them or tie them for now and let them do their thing all natural. Hope i get a somewhat decent yield and that they flower before rain hits in November here in CA.

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Yeah if the continue to grow like that you will get an awesome yield. My aunt grew a plant in he back yard in San Fran. She just threw a seed in the ground. It became a 7 foot monster and she got almost a pound of that one plant. Luckily she lives in San Fran and all her neighbors were cool.

So I spent the past few days observing growth and at about 2-3 inches a day so i decided i better start changing the growth direction or think about tying them down. I decided to just prepare their stems and lightly would pull back and forth on the main stems eventually shifting the direction almost as If conditioning the plants. Eventually they seem as though they are leaning in the direction I shift them. Im not sure if this is what I should do but they seem to respond well to that with continued vigorous growth. Im still new to this and being out of town from them the past month so I’ve been wanting to baby them for the next month and try to get as much veg growth without any nutes. The compost from last year in the garden seems to be feeding them all they need. Anyone have any suggestions on how they are looking and any idea of approximate time until flowering will begin (pure sativa genetics). . Any help is always appreciated.

Don't be afraid to really tie them down and bend those stems hard. It is a really adaptive plant and will respond well to aggressive training. Compost is great huh! You can also make some compost tea and add some fish emulsion for a nice boost during veg. A little bit of wood ash seems to do wonders during flower too. I also like to top-dress with some fresh compost from my nature mill NatureMill: Automatic Indoor Composter this thing rocks! They look great bro I love organic grows, keep us updated!

Over the past week I have noticed lots of new growth in the ladies and was wondering if the hairs that appear to be forming are in fact pre flowers. I took a few photos to display the new growth as well as to get everyones opinion on how they are coming along. If these are just showing signs of sex( witch I am almost sure they are) how far along till they begin to flower. I am debating using bloom nutes due to sticking to my desire to execute an all organic grow, so I picked up some organic molasses. I have been looking into alternatives to advanced nutes and bloom boosters to fuel these girls through flowering.Thanks and all suggestions are appriciated .

anyone a little help?

Those are not "preflowers", but in fact flowers if you ask me.

so this is not my girls showing sex but in fact they are beginning to flower? Is it time to countdown the two months until harvest?

thewhiteoctave01 said:

anyone a little help?

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Does look like its starting to flower, good luck.