Sharing some new Baby Girls, and have a few questions

Merry Christmas ALL !!!!



Mom is the left. The four in soil are the cuttings I took from her a few weeks (3-3 1/2?) ago. I got them into soil last week, they rooted incredibly fast and are growing very quickly. These four are in my cardboard wardrobe box with a 65w/3900 CFL. I really dig these lights, they sell for like 15 bux and one in a box this size keeps the temp near perfect. I think there is plenty of light, as the plants grow real well and seem to like it. Momma is now about a week and a half into bloom and has started to flower. There is about 800W of fixtures in there with 4 plants this time.. I have logged a bit into an ongoing journal that has more details. I am always taking input good or bad. Ive only been doing this for a year so be gentle on the jeers.

Anyway I still have a long way to go before I can put them in the bloom room, I am debating letting them root and veg until the first week of Feb when the bloom room finishes..OR just building another room for my veg room and trying my hand at a scrog. . Future dreams.

I need advice so Here is/are my questions. If I want to start grooming and training these 4 starts, considering the potential looking at the mother plant. My goal is a nice level canopy @ 3 ft out of the pot. I guess it would be a scrog type grow? Where and when should I start pruning. Among a few resources I have Cerventes book, which is a wealth of knowledge. I guess before I go FIMing around and whacking my plants I wanted to hear from someone with a bit of experience. I tried it on a few sights in by current bloom and all I got were screwed up tops. I think I may have not cut off enough.

I was considereing to top them in about another week and use those for starts, them going from there. Or should I grow them up and take the bottoms? I want to have even height/sights on a little bit shorter plant, I don't mind if it takes a few months to get there. Also, If I do take the long route, what size pot should I use? I currently use 3 gallon in the next stage, which carries them thru bloom. Should I use larger pots?

The soil is Happy Frog straight out of the bag, I quit buying expensive nutrients so I have been using MIracle grow in low doses, with some success. I had added some enzymes to the soil mix some time ago so I think there is a healthy population of microbes, I may start feeding a little molasses to strengthen them up. The babies look a lot healthier in person. I may have burned them a little with an early feeding. about 1/4 strength..then the light slipped and burned a little early on also.. Other than that just straight forward grow in soil.

For the scrog I though about making a bamboo grid out of the smallest diameter I can get, about 3/16-1/4. I can adlust the height on the corners, and just tie a nice grid together. Thanks Ahead of time, and Merry Christmas to All !!

halibut fishing line works great for scrog line.

Man I wish I had some fresh halibut.

My freezer is stockpiled full of fish. Salmon, Hali, etc. But yeah, anyway back to your thing, I simply use 1x1, nails, and halibut line. measure out my spacing, pound nails in, string it together the way you want it. Pretty easy. Works a bit better than the net. Ol' trick I actually learned on RIU as a matter of fact

Makes sense, sounds pretty simple and I am all for that. I am sort of inland does Cabelas have said line?

I probably have a while before I start cutting/topping and training? Depending how fast they go I was thinking probably around 2 more weeks I would start. I do plan on potting them up in a week or so. I rounded up four, three gallon pots this morning so that is what they are going to get. My box fits four nicely so I think they will be happy in there for the next few weeks. I will add another light to the box. The two on the right are the bottom cuttings and the right were the level above. They were the very bottom ones.

Yeah cabelas should have it.

I will post a few pictures when the plants get a little closer. Not much else to do until they get a few weeks older. These are growing a lot faster than any of the last grows I've had, I figure around a foot or so before considering topping them. I have a few revegges going in the bloom room too and they seem to be happier than any of my past grows. by about 200 percent, greener, fuller, healthier.. I was screwing up quite a bit. I think my biggest mistake was turning them to bloom to quickly. I pulled my root balls up after my last harvest and had almost no roots..Still got a decent harvest but something was definately wrong. and it wasn't near twhat it could have been. I let the current plants veg a bit longer and have been watering/feeding way less. They are much happier. I will continue this thru the scrog grow. After reading and poking around I think this is the way to go. Gives me a reason to add on to my grow area.