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day 64, first full day of flowering complete. and watered with regular water today,
foliar feeding tommorow.
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so out of curiosity about how long before i start noticing my plant start to flower? i know it varies from the plant you grow to how you grow it but, just a ball park figure.
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loving this new grow tent. it is much better than the grow ace grow tent. it just looks a feels like its made better. and it has velcro or cinch strings every where there is an opening. there is even velcro on the flaps that go over the zippers to keep everything neat looking when it's closed up. it even comes with a travel bag, which is nice cause i needed somewhere to put my other tent.
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ok so i was looking for videos of soil scratching on you tube and i didn't find any. also a google search turned up nothing. how far down into the dirt should i be sticking the fork when i do this? also how close to the stem of the plant should i be when i do this, so i don't start tearing up roots?
About 10-14 days for pistils. You'll need a 3.8 cu ft bale of Pro mix "hp" or "bx" but if you get the bx you'll also need a bag of perlite enough to cut the soil by about 20%, a total of 30lbs of ewc, two 30 gallon totes or a 55 gal trash can (new and clean) with tops 4-5 gallons of clean water, distilled, RO (Reverse osmosis) or spring water, don't use city tap water because it has chlorine and chlorimides that is bad for the microbes in our soil.
You can mix right in the totes or on a clean tarp.
Why not buy it now or soon? A good average fliwering time is 10 weeks or 70 days.
You'll figure out acratch8ng the stuff in 1st time, easy peasy. Spread it out and work it 8nto the soil. You can even do it by hand. Can of corn!
You can mix right in the totes or on a clean tarp.
Why not buy it now or soon? A good average fliwering time is 10 weeks or 70 days.
You'll figure out acratch8ng the stuff in 1st time, easy peasy. Spread it out and work it 8nto the soil. You can even do it by hand. Can of corn!
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so the 3.8 cu ft bale of pro mix hp wont need any perlite? i think i'll go with that then.About 10-14 days for pistils. You'll need a 3.8 cu ft bale of Pro mix "hp" or "bx" but if you get the bx you'll also need a bag of perlite enough to cut the soil by about 20%, a total of 30lbs of ewc, two 30 gallon totes or a 55 gal trash can (new and clean) with tops 4-5 gallons of clean water, distilled, RO (Reverse osmosis) or spring water, don't use city tap water because it has chlorine and chlorimides that is bad for the microbes in our soil.
You can mix right in the totes or on a clean tarp.
Why not buy it now or soon? A good average fliwering time is 10 weeks or 70 days.
You'll figure out acratch8ng the stuff in 1st time, easy peasy. Spread it out and work it 8nto the soil. You can even do it by hand. Can of corn!
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so about 130 bucks for everything i need, thats not to bad.
Correct! Definately get the hp if available. My nursery only has bx. You also need the amendment that came with the kit.
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what amendment is that? is it one that came with the kit i bought with all the fertilizers, or with the pro mix?
Came in the kit. You should have 1 bag of amendment and 1 bag of recharge, Oh and roots powder.
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day 65, i just got done with the foliar feeding and went to take a pic of the plants. but my camera was upstairs. so i ran up and got it, adjusted the settings on it and went to take a pic. and as i pressed the button the lights went out. so i used the flash.
Lookin good man, Try not to flash the girls after they got to sleep, once in a while is prolly no big deal, but repeatedly doing it could cause hermies. I've seen pistils in as few as 6-8 days, I think it has to do with strain and maybe some maturity of the plant as well.
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yeah last night was the first time i did it. and the top of the plants still had a tiny bit of light on them from the h.p.s. still shutting down. i did it litterally 2 seconds after the lights turned off. but even if they do herm out on me i wont have to buy seeds again for a good while.
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day 66 the tallest top of the critical mass has grown enough that i was able to get it under the trellis netting without breaking or harming it!
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man these things have really put the leaves back on since i have defoliated them. i wasn't expecting so much to regrow so quickly. is trimming the leaves off something i should be doing through out the flowering process or just the one time?
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I wait until after the stretch and then do one last big trim on the bottom third. Then I just keep it bare and remove the one or two here and there that I develop a personal grudge with. It’s fine so long as you don’t go crazy.
Lookin good Fuzzy!
Lookin good Fuzzy!
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hey thanks ! how will i know when it's done stretching?
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When you stop going, “oh god, these things are growing right into my light!” The stretch lasts the first few weeks. They grow vertical and then it just kind of stops, and the bud sites begin to swell and produce resin.
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im kind of suprised, i thought that the growth was going to last almost to the end. the plants i harvested on my first grow 15 years ago were about this size when i harvested them, due to it being late fall. so i don't have much for a comparison to tell when the stretch would stop with normal size plants. heh i did a piss poor job on those plants. but hey at least the little i did get tasted great and was pretty strong. i wish i knew what type it was it tasted just like you were smoking a strawberry.
I've never heard of the stretch lasting more than 3 weeks, sure a couple days here or there but the majority of growth you'll see after stretch is gonna be bud development. All that energy is going from making the plant taller to making flowers/ fruit/ colas.
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