smacksjack
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HEY EVERYONE!!! HERE's THE BACKGROUND!
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Plants - Dairy Queen (Hybrid - Sativa Dominant 60/40) and 3rd Dimension (Hybrid - Sativa Dominant 70/30) - Both TGA Subcool Clones.
Media - Soil, organic - Manna Mix, FFOF, Sunshine #4 with Fox Farms Lightwarrior and Perlite as a base - using 5gal air-pruning grow bags.
Nutes - General Organics GO box - utilizing their feeding schedule with very little variation (i.e. watching the plant's response and adjusting as needed)
Lights - A 4-bulb T5HO and two side CFL's...both are in 2,700 K right now - plus ONE side 5,000K bulb to keep stretch down.
Indoor/Outdoor? - Indoor
Pests? - A slight Spider Mite issue - slaughtered the lot of them with Mighty Bomb & will continue to spray until final flush. I've scoped ONE live one in the last week. Which rocks. I would suggest Mighty Bomb to anyone that has a mite problem. Scorched Earth Styleeee .
Water - PH balanced drinking water from the store - not tap water
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Hello RIU-ers,
So this is my first grow and I definitely have had my fare share of troubles. A bit of history, since I havn't posted in a while. The Dairy Queen spent 9-10 weeks in veg because my first 3rd Dimension got all sorts of f@cked - total newbie mistakes. Overcaring, overwatering, overnuteing, transplant shock, the works. So I killed that plant and bought another 3rd Dimension clone that was a bit further along during week 3 of the Dairy Queen's Veg.
I then vegged both the remaining time - ~6 weeks - and then threw them into 12/12 at the same time.
So far, I JUST ended week 4 of 12/12 - which means its more like week 2-3 of flowering (since I am using CFL/T5HO, they take a bit longer to mature...I've heard you add two weeks on your grow)
How do you think they look???? Healthy Buds???? Like I said...this is my first grow - I've done my damn homework on this, but now I just don't know what they should look like at this stage. I know they bulk up A LOT in the last two weeks of grow.
Every picture on the internet I compare to for a "3 week flowering" on google images looks like buds on steroids....so I am a bit nervous they are a little underdeveloped. Also, the 3rd Dimension (on the right of the group shot) stretched A LOT in the first few days or so of 12/12, so I put them back on an LST regiment, added that wide mesh screen for them to grab on to...and now the 3rd Dimension has big ass colas that are kind of more like this //// than this |||||. No worries though - just matured a bit funkier as I had less time to train it. I just don't have the space for a sativa to just take the eff over - so I've had to really focus on keeping them short. Might be a lower yield, but I'll dial the LST in on my next grow - get it to JUST fill the space. Right now I still have about a 1.5 feet left of grow space....so I could've let them stretch more.
Thoughts? Suggestions on how to bulk 'em up? Any and all words appreciated. Except asshole comments. Don't do that. I'm a newb with sensitive feelings haha j/k.
Thanks,
Smacks.
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Plants - Dairy Queen (Hybrid - Sativa Dominant 60/40) and 3rd Dimension (Hybrid - Sativa Dominant 70/30) - Both TGA Subcool Clones.
Media - Soil, organic - Manna Mix, FFOF, Sunshine #4 with Fox Farms Lightwarrior and Perlite as a base - using 5gal air-pruning grow bags.
Nutes - General Organics GO box - utilizing their feeding schedule with very little variation (i.e. watching the plant's response and adjusting as needed)
Lights - A 4-bulb T5HO and two side CFL's...both are in 2,700 K right now - plus ONE side 5,000K bulb to keep stretch down.
Indoor/Outdoor? - Indoor
Pests? - A slight Spider Mite issue - slaughtered the lot of them with Mighty Bomb & will continue to spray until final flush. I've scoped ONE live one in the last week. Which rocks. I would suggest Mighty Bomb to anyone that has a mite problem. Scorched Earth Styleeee .
Water - PH balanced drinking water from the store - not tap water
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Hello RIU-ers,
So this is my first grow and I definitely have had my fare share of troubles. A bit of history, since I havn't posted in a while. The Dairy Queen spent 9-10 weeks in veg because my first 3rd Dimension got all sorts of f@cked - total newbie mistakes. Overcaring, overwatering, overnuteing, transplant shock, the works. So I killed that plant and bought another 3rd Dimension clone that was a bit further along during week 3 of the Dairy Queen's Veg.
I then vegged both the remaining time - ~6 weeks - and then threw them into 12/12 at the same time.
So far, I JUST ended week 4 of 12/12 - which means its more like week 2-3 of flowering (since I am using CFL/T5HO, they take a bit longer to mature...I've heard you add two weeks on your grow)
How do you think they look???? Healthy Buds???? Like I said...this is my first grow - I've done my damn homework on this, but now I just don't know what they should look like at this stage. I know they bulk up A LOT in the last two weeks of grow.
Every picture on the internet I compare to for a "3 week flowering" on google images looks like buds on steroids....so I am a bit nervous they are a little underdeveloped. Also, the 3rd Dimension (on the right of the group shot) stretched A LOT in the first few days or so of 12/12, so I put them back on an LST regiment, added that wide mesh screen for them to grab on to...and now the 3rd Dimension has big ass colas that are kind of more like this //// than this |||||. No worries though - just matured a bit funkier as I had less time to train it. I just don't have the space for a sativa to just take the eff over - so I've had to really focus on keeping them short. Might be a lower yield, but I'll dial the LST in on my next grow - get it to JUST fill the space. Right now I still have about a 1.5 feet left of grow space....so I could've let them stretch more.
Thoughts? Suggestions on how to bulk 'em up? Any and all words appreciated. Except asshole comments. Don't do that. I'm a newb with sensitive feelings haha j/k.
Thanks,
Smacks.