Ready For The Boom:)

Changed the light cycle, feelin' pretty good.

How many weeks did u veg?

It's been a rocky start, early nutrient issues, lots of lst, lots of nodes on compact plants, 6-7 weeks.

Twist ties work great for lst on these pots.

Lookin good, woulda done a few things differantly but they look healthy an should do well. Whats your light?

You got a veg area also?

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Lookin good, woulda done a few things differantly but they look healthy an should do well. Whats your light?

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Oh yeah man, this is teaching me for sure. Fucked up topping bottom right skunkberry. Trimmed bottom 2 nodes, 10 nodes right there.

600 watt HPS, moves 6 inches on a mover.

Underground Scientist said:

600 watt HPS, moves 6 inches on a mover.

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Thats really cool actually.

You at all interested in scrog? Would add a few weeks to your veg time but is generally the highest yield way to go. Can make grids for all of them for only a few bucks total if your interested in details lemme know.

growingforfun said:

Thats really cool actually.

You at all interested in scrog? Would add a few weeks to your veg time but is generally the highest yield way to go. Can make grids for all of them for only a few bucks total if your interested in details lemme know.

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I have 2" x 3" garden fence mounted on a pvc frame, 2 separate frames actually, and drain pans for any flushing or runoff. Just not sure I want to work around a screen on this first run.

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You got a veg area also?

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Yeah, I think I have my cal mag figured out, little too light in first week or two of my next two seedlings. Almost 3 weeks here.

Underground Scientist said:

I have 2" x 3" garden fence mounted on a pvc frame, 2 separate frames actually, and drain pans for any flushing or runoff. Just not sure I want to work around a screen on this first run.

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Oh ya, def not this time its too late. In a later run tho maybe?
I think 4 inch squares are best for me, so ive always had to use tight string or bamboo poles to make the grid. A 1x1ft grid wont hinder you any, and should really help

Dammit...Only 1 female out of 4. Terrible luck.

One time i planted 20 reg seeds(2x 10 packs), cost 95 a pack plus shipping, got 18 males. Still wont plant a fem seed tho. Tuff break bro but its the game we play.

growingforfun said:

One time i planted 20 reg seeds(2x 10 packs), cost 95 a pack plus shipping, got 18 males. Still wont plant a fem seed tho. Tuff break bro but its the game we play.

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Yup, tough to put in all that effort and have 1. I did successfully root a clone of the female. I also have 3 more nice young ones vegging. 2 seedlings I started directly in Coco did not like emerging in Coco at all.

Im trying ~50|50~ coir perlite an it needs calmag. Plants grew fast at first but not happily like i see with soil out the bag so i dunno. Goodluck ! That one may still do as good as if you had more, an you got a good light setup

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Im trying ~50|50~ coir perlite an it needs calmag. Plants grew fast at first but not happily like i see with soil out the bag so i dunno. Goodluck ! That one may still do as good as if you had more, an you got a good light setup

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The ones on the left were started in Light Warrior, and transplanted into Advanced Sunshine #4 with 10% clay pebbles and pebble drainage layer. I've started using 4 ml per gal Botanicare Calmag, and 4 ml per gal of Advanced Nutrients B52 when watering and General Hydroponics Nutes when feeding. Plants seem to like it. I've got a little cloning bubble bucket. I run that cal Mag \ b52 mix and they loved it. Roots exploded. Those two little ones in coco, one of em grew deformed. I didn't hit it with the full watering mix but I shouldve. And the seeds had serious trouble breaking the surface of the coco.

growingforfun said:

Im trying ~50|50~ coir perlite an it needs calmag. Plants grew fast at first but not happily like i see with soil out the bag so i dunno. Goodluck ! That one may still do as good as if you had more, an you got a good light setup

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I do have a question for you. You can see, I start an in a solo. They get to 5 nodes when I top em in about 3 weeks. Then I give em another week, then transplant. By this time, the branching is just starting. Wondering if I'm leaving them too long in the solo. And the internodes are real tight. I wonder if I would make faster progress of I eased up on the light or I transplanted sooner, or started them in the bigger container from the getgo.

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I do have a question for you. You can see, I start an in a solo. They get to 5 nodes when I top em in about 3 weeks. Then I give em another week, then transplant. By this time, the branching is just starting. Wondering if I'm leaving them too long in the solo. And the internodes are real tight. I wonder if I would make faster progress of I eased up on the light or I transplanted sooner, or started them in the bigger container from the getgo.

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The general answer to all that is yea your right, transplant sooner.

Im still not sold on this coco as the main media, i think its stunting my plants vs tge bagged soil. Think its clearly stunting the growth, but the rooted exploded, so i may be able to wrangle control, but still not the best growth.

Generally its best to transplant almost as soon as the roots hold the dirt together if your going for the biggest bushest plant the fastest, and delaying transplant can stunt lateral growth while it inches upwards. I left some plants in solo cups for about 2 months (nowhere to put them else!) Then recently put them in 2 qt. Still too small for em but sometimes ya just gotta slow em down. They tend to explode when finally getting up-potted, so just learn what happens then yse it to your advantage.

One of my best indoor plants ever was straight into a ~25gal~ from seed. Growth is always going its fastest but you gotta be careful not to overwater it an choke out the roots when doing it like that.

Just like outside, ive seen people start several month early looking for a head start and they transplant to a 5 or however many gallon pot before getting outside in may, with a big ol bushy 4 ft plant, they dig a hole an put it in. Other people may get a cubic yard of dirt, dump it all in one big pile and put a seed on top, in june, and somehow that seed planted in june is bigger then all the work and time put into the other plant.