First Closet Grow!

[hightimes4evr]

OK. This is what happend when I was working on the leafs.

The hole fuc*ing top vent off! WTF!!

WTF (v2)!!!

So this is how she looked after the accident yesterday, poor thing.

And this pic is from today:

She will overcome this! I think the loop around the stem was a little to tight, so that lesson is learned

I'm so angry! GRRRRRRRRR!!

Im going to top her tomorrow... I think...

 

[Grand Daddy Purp]

I think you will be okay. It happens.

 

[GreeenFingers]

OK. This is what happend when I was working on the leafs.

She will overcome this! I think the loop around the stem was a little to tight, so that lesson is learned

I'm so angry! GRRRRRRRRR!!

Im going to top her tomorrow... I think...

I'm really sorry to see the damage to the poor plant, it does look like the loop cut off the circulation to the branch.

Ideally you would not actually wrap or tie anything around the branch as it will eventually get tighter and have no room to grow, the best way is to just loop the string around the branch leaving one side exposed, the best description that I can think of is kind of like a Horse Shoe or a 'U' pulling the branch to one side. If this does not make sense I'll try to give a better description ha ha

Your plants are looking really good by the way, and at least with that top being decapitated it should create extra branching for you

Keep up the good work

 

[Green Knight]

Shit, bad luck mate. Try not too worry about it too much - you're still in veg so she has plenty of time to recover and it won't set her back too much in the long term

 

[hightimes4evr]

Hi Greenfingers!
Yeah, I bought some letterclips and have now changed all the knots to "horse shoes" Lesson is learned hahaha!

The girl are looking healthy, and i topped her again yesterday. Im thinking about maybe get her to flowering asap.. Im getting low on medicine What do you think?

 

[Green Knight]

She looks good mate. Regarding flowering, I think this is best determined by the space you've got. You could give her a few days to get over the topping and then switch, and I think the general rule is the plants will double in size (width and height) with the stretch (though this does vary with strain) so it's a balance between vegging long enough that you fill your grow space in flower, but not so long that you're suddenly fighting space and height issues. I've seen quite a few grows on here where the veg was too long, and I've been there myself when I did a grow years ago, and it's a massive ball ache when you suddenly realise you don't have enough space and the plants are touching your lights.

 

[Grand Daddy Purp]

She looks good mate. Regarding flowering, I think this is best determined by the space you've got. You could give her a few days to get over the topping and then switch, and I think the general rule is the plants will double in size (width and height) with the stretch (though this does vary with strain) so it's a balance between vegging long enough that you fill your grow space in flower, but not so long that you're suddenly fighting space and height issues. I've seen quite a few grows on here where the veg was too long, and I've been there myself when I did a grow years ago, and it's a massive ball ache when you suddenly realise you don't have enough space and the plants are touching your lights.

Ditto

 

[hightimes4evr]

She looks good mate. Regarding flowering, I think this is best determined by the space you've got. You could give her a few days to get over the topping and then switch, and I think the general rule is the plants will double in size (width and height) with the stretch (though this does vary with strain) so it's a balance between vegging long enough that you fill your grow space in flower, but not so long that you're suddenly fighting space and height issues. I've seen quite a few grows on here where the veg was too long, and I've been there myself when I did a grow years ago, and it's a massive ball ache when you suddenly realise you don't have enough space and the plants are touching your lights.

Thanx man
I have a little more space left, specially in the hight. So i think I will wait till the new shoots arrive before I switch over to flowering. Hopefully on sunday

 

[big budda]

Sweet lookin plant man nice and healthy despite the accident,looks like she will be a descent yeilder.

 

[hightimes4evr]

Update week five!

Five weeks have gone.. so I cant wait anymore..

Its FLOWERING time!

So, today i switched the lights to 12/12 and replaced the CFL with a 150 Watt HPS. I also gave 30 ml/10 Litre Flora Hydro Grow and 10ml/10 Litre of Flora Hydro Bloom

The first thing Im really worried about is the heat. Im constantly monitoring every hour and checking it out. I have a cool tube laying around, but hopefully I wont need it. I have heard that the cool tube takes a lot of the "light strength", but you can have it closer to the plant. I dont know if thats true?

Hopefully the plants wont stretch to much like it started to do with Greenfingers grow. Then I will think about putting the 250W CFL (6400N) bulb back in for some a few weeks till they are finished with the stretching, instead of buying a MH bulb. Or what do you guys think?

Sorry bad pics. The HPS f*king it up.

I've taken some leafs today for the stem to get light

So far I have kept my girl real low.

I will also thank everyone who are helping my through this grow so far This is the best hobby ever

Any suggestions and comments are welcome!

and

 

[big budda]

Hey HT

If heat is to much then go with the cool tube.The cool tube dont effect the light output as it is clear glass.Some people are skeptical but unless its frosted glass or something like that then the light output wont be effected.I myself prefer using a cool tube when using hps.Its a lot safer in my opinion because if a water droplet or anything lands on the hps while its on,well lets just say( KABOOM.)And you could end up running to the doc like this little guyto get glass out of your face.
And you will end up having to replace the bulb of course.
Your plants are lookin sweet so far man,i hope you get a descent harvest.

 

[hightimes4evr]

Hey HT

If heat is to much then go with the cool tube.The cool tube dont effect the light output as it is clear glass.Some people are skeptical but unless its frosted glass or something like that then the light output wont be effected.I myself prefer using a cool tube when using hps.Its a lot safer in my opinion because if a water droplet or anything lands on the hps while its on,well lets just say( KABOOM.)And you could end up running to the doc like this little guyto get glass out of your face.
And you will end up having to replace the bulb of course.
Your plants are lookin sweet so far man,i hope you get a descent harvest.

Hi Big Budda!
Hahaha! With my luck I better get the Cool Tube installed right away

Thanx for your advice man, I appreciate it

and

 

[big budda]

Hahaha! With my luck I better get the Cool Tube installed right away

With that said, you better get.lol

 

[Green Knight]

Looking good mate; she's quite low height wise- I can't see how much room you've got to move the light up but you could be ok (work on the plant doubling in height)

 

[Grand Daddy Purp]

Looks good! And I agree with the cool tube....

 

[GreeenFingers]

Hey HT

If heat is to much then go with the cool tube.The cool tube dont effect the light output as it is clear glass.Some people are skeptical but unless its frosted glass or something like that then the light output wont be effected.I myself prefer using a cool tube when using hps.Its a lot safer in my opinion because if a water droplet or anything lands on the hps while its on,well lets just say( KABOOM.)And you could end up running to the doc like this little guyto get glass out of your face.
And you will end up having to replace the bulb of course.
Your plants are lookin sweet so far man,i hope you get a descent harvest.

It is usually about a 5% decrease in lumen output from a cooltube but the dramatic cooling makes that 5% loss worth it

 

[p man]

hey mr .green fingers can I need to ask you a couple questions about your pictures /harvest time but I can't send you a email because I don't have 50 postd yet ...can you contact me on this forum?

 

[GreeenFingers]

hey mr .green fingers can I need to ask you a couple questions about your pictures /harvest time but I can't send you a email because I don't have 50 postd yet ...can you contact me on this forum?

Hey p man

Yeah you can ask me whatever you want here if Hightimes4evr doesn't mind or you could just go to my journal in my signature and ask me there

 

[hightimes4evr]

Hi guys!

No problem, just ask away!

 

[p man]

just wondering as this is my first grow and am curious on the havest as to what the plant will look like ...I see your leaves are all brown and spotted and the buds look kinda dry ..my buds are looking dry like yours I know about the amber trichs but are the plants supposed to look like that?... I've see pics where all the leafs were yellow and dying off ....should I wait a little longer and watch some more tv untill the little leafs turn brown...what can brown do for you!