The Great Outdoors Grow of 2OO8 - Gilfman's First Time

How well do you think Gilfman's grow season will turn out?

  • Awesome! BIG yields with grade-A buds!

    Votes: 42 16.0%
  • Good season .. Great for a begginner

    Votes: 102 38.9%
  • Ehh.. Average

    Votes: 54 20.6%
  • YIELDS?! WHAT'S THAT?! HAHAHA!!

    Votes: 21 8.0%
  • Gets busted and has no harvest time to enjoy.. Poor Gilfman... :(

    Votes: 43 16.4%

  • Total voters
    262

Skitzotic

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When you transplant, Bury the plant all the way up to the first leaves. This will keep heogth down. What i did is i only filled the pot 3/4 of the way and buried to the first leaves, And as the stock kept growing i kept adding more soil around it. It is full now. Also i might reccomend buying a bag of 100% perlite. Make it 30% of your soil mix.
 

Skitzotic

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Always good to have lots of help and opinions. But Ultimatley, you should'nt listen to any of us. Take what we say and do your own research. Find what methods work for you.
 

Gilfman

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Always good to have lots of help and opinions. But Ultimatley, you should'nt listen to any of us. Take what we say and do your own research. Find what methods work for you.
i do that somewhat .. i already buried one plant "#9" up a little because of stretching
 

Gilfman

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ok so i went up to my plot tonight and good thing i brought my milk jug with water cause they needed it! .. soil dried out pretty quick in this sun! it wasn't quite as humid today so i think that's why soil dried to quick ... a couple ants crawling on my cage and one around a cup .. i killed the one on the cup just in case .. then sprayed the bottom of cage and more around all of the plants .. hopefully this water will make a big difference tomorrow
 

Gilfman

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oh yeah .. i ordered some FF soil trio .. but i think ill have to buy another quart of big bloom cause i have 11 plants now .. plants 8 died *RIP* (i knew it was going to it fell out of whole container taking it up there) ... but yeah im gonna feed like 2 gallons or more (3 max) of that stuff each week and im going by the chart .. a lot of tablespoons required with that stuff .. but i should be fine with the grow big and tiger bloom
 

Orange Shovel CAGrower

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one of my plants is dying because i put too much chicken shit in its soil. theres nothing i can do, but watch it slowly die...sooo painful.

anyways, 8 plants died? what? how?
 

Gilfman

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one of my plants is dying because i put too much chicken shit in its soil. theres nothing i can do, but watch it slowly die...sooo painful.

anyways, 8 plants died? what? how?
No i just had one die (plant #8 my bad) in the woods so far .. makes 2 total (both crappy seedlings) .. well when i was taking it up there the cup fell over and the entire plant (roots and all) fell out and was bouncing around .. so i think that's what did it . it only grew to 1cm in like 4 days since sprouting.. but other than that rest are doing ok ..
 

Orange Shovel CAGrower

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No i just had one die (plant #8 my bad) in the woods so far .. makes 2 total (both crappy seedlings) .. well when i was taking it up there the cup fell over and the entire plant (roots and all) fell out and was bouncing around .. so i think that's what did it . it only grew to 1cm in like 4 days since sprouting.. but other than that rest are doing ok ..
ohh ok thats good. did you try to repot the one that fell? ive been able to revive a plant that had its roots completely ripped off because i tried transplanting too early. i just stuck it back in the soil and its root structure rebuilt. ill attach a pic of it now

so how do u want help with LST? have you checked out any info on it?
if not here is the info (i didnt write it) plus a picture to show it:


#1: Grow your plant from Seed or Clone to 3 or 4 leaf sets, some use 5 but i always use 3 because after 3rd leaf set the main stem starts to harden and it will be harder to bend over your plant properly without breaking the main stem.

#2: Using a metal hook (i cut small sections of cloths hanger and bend a U shape at the end as a hook) bend over your plant with metal hook at the last internode (space between the last set of fanleafs and the next to last) and stick the metal hook into your dirt to hold down the stem.

#3: This is really not a step, just waiting time... the top of the plant that was bent down will bend back upwards towards the light, this could take anywhere from 3 hours to 1 day.

#4: Veg and dont tie down until you have a new leaf set.

#5: Depending on your starting pot size you may have to transplant. If you started out with a large pot, repeat step 2 over and over again holding the main stem down with hooks until you reach the end of the pot.

#6: Now that your new leaf set has formed you have enough length in growth since the first bend(s) to allow you to start bending the stem horizontally around the inside edge of the pot. Use metal hooks again to keep this bend in place. Side branches should be coming along very nicely.

#7: Continue repeating steps 4 and 6, allowing the plant to grow and then keep tieing it down along the inside edge of pot using metal hooks (or whatever your using) Side branches should be forming and growing up towards the light.

#8: Continue to repeat step 7 until you are all the way around the pot... when you reach the point where your plant first met the edge of the plant Top the plant (cut off the very top of the plant ) and hold it down horizontally with a metal hook.... During all this time of repeating step 7 you should also be tieing down horizontally the new branches that have formed from the main stem as much as possible until you use up as much space as possible inside the pot as well , the outter branches growing over the outside edge of the pot you can hold down as well with string to keep those tops even with the inner branches.

#9: After you have used up all possible space inside the pot it's time to just let it flower.

During flowering (and even sometimes a few days before) the lower sets of leaves will begin to turn yellow-brown and die off. Many people cut these off the main stem so that the plant doesn't waste energy on a useless, dying leaf set. Change your regular vegging light cycle (24/0 or 18/6 or something similar) to 12/12 (or whatever light/dark cycle you use for flowering but 12/12 is the most common) watch it show it's sex and begin to flower!

#10. HARVEST!!!
 

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Gilfman

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ok im not quoting cause its so long but thanks .. you think i could do it when it's in the ground?
 
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