sup guys I've got kind of a big update but no pictures because my camera went on vacation for a while.
First of all I was finding the buds on Lady 3 to be very tiny. I noticed that the grow bag it was in (2gal) was really only about halfway full, meaning it was only in 1 gallon of soil! So at 4.5 weeks flower I decided to transplant, and now she is in a 3 gallon root pouch that is full to the brim. It's been a few days since the transplant and I haven't noticed much of anything, not a boom in growth or a droopy plant from shock. I then decided to do the same thing with Plant 1, the other 100% female plant. She too seems to have handled the transplant fine. The bags make it easy because I was able to just cut them out of the bag and set the root ball in it's new home, zero shock!
Plant 2 has been a known hermie, and now Plant 4 which I thought was male has female flowers forming all over the top nodes. I have decided I will try to watch the plants closely and pull the naners as they form. If at any point I feel I can't keep up, or it just becomes too much of a pain in the ass, I'll just toss the plants, but for now I am going to try to yeild what I can. It seems some branches are all male, and others are all female. If this is the case then I can probably just prune the male branches and make it much easier. These plants are staying in their 2 gallon grow bags, which are much more full than Lady 3's bag was.
I've also got the house to myself for a week as the rest of the family has gone out of town. I'm trying to use this time to myself to get the closet looking more like a legitimate grow area, so that if I ever get busted at least it will look like I knew what I was doing haha. The problem is my schedule and my plant's schedule don't fit very well, and these bitches aren't very flexible when it comes to timing! My solution - I gave them my bedroom. That's right, I finally get that $1500 queen mattress to myself, without having to worry about being interrupted in the middle of the night to change a diaper, or to stop hogging the good pillow, and I can't even sleep in my own room because i've got some plants in there. It was the only room in the house though that I could easily hang up my lights and get a fan on them and guarantee zero light leaks.(which means no going in my room from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m.) So they're hanging out in my room and I'm sleeping on the couch. The top half of the closet is now painted black, the floor is covered in heavy duty plastic, the lower half of all the walls are lined with mylar that is clean and even! I'm just trying to get a hold of a 6" hole saw bit now so I can add in my exhaust fan and seal up the closet with a sheet of mylar and stick my tarp zipper in the middle. I also installed a board on the wall that the ballast can mount to, and that a power strip can mount to so all electricity is off the floor as well.
