ValiD
Active Member
Hello everybody,
First of all, thanks for dropping by. I'm currently growing 3 plants: 2 Nirvana Bubblelicious and 1 (supposedly) White Widow. All of them are 3 weeks into vegging (now beginning of 4th), applied Uncle Ben's 4 tops technique about a week ago. All the plants were 6-7 nodes big when they were topped.
I noticed some interesting facts, especially about the growth pattern of the Bubblelicious. It seems that for this species, the 4 top technique redistributed the growth hormones to mostly the last 2 nodes, and the first 2 remained kind of undeveloped and small. However, from the second set of what should have been the 2 main colas, small shoots started to emerge. This is totally odd behavior, at least that's how it looks for me. I made the mistake of topping at transplant time, and that might have fucked up their cycle a bit, but I'm not very sure of it, as the previous Bubblelicious I had also was very bushy with no technique applied at all.
The white widow however responded normally (it was not transplanted yet, just started in a slightly bigger container). It has a yellow stain on one leaf, but it's only isolated to that leaf...
The 2 bb's are in 11 L pots, in BioBizz All-Mix with added perlite for better drainage. The WW is currently in a lower quality soil, but will be moved into a soil with more perlite added. This soil is slightly acidic (ph 5-5.5) and seems to perform better than BioBizz...? I'm using General Hydroponics Flora Nova Grow + Bloom + Ripen. Currently just grow, of course. I only used about 2/3 of the recommended dose, so I don't think a nutrient lockup is the cause of the strange growth. The plants were all started on 5 20W CFLs for the first 3 weeks of their lifes, moved under a 250W HPS light on 18/6 cycle the other day. Same cycle was used with the CFLs, as well. Attached pics below.
BB #1:![IMG-20110816-00185.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231129-f7724598157a30185e017428dda20c90.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00186.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231130-c8a340e0d697f2d810a090d6dee25800.jpg)
BB #2:![IMG-20110816-00194.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231126-dc51a23a657272f9131d3931ee3098d9.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00193.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231127-2ce36a6685964c5bc5baa8a33abc05d7.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00192.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231128-865c544f75064e32709450990edc4ca5.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00197.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231133-bc0b49873041194d74cde37ba69e42d5.jpg)
WW:![IMG-20110816-00190.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231125-471137cb2c5b95ca7b89635744c5a85f.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00191.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231131-5131540bc572e68397b329f069bd17bd.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00188.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231132-533469f8ed46cbc1eaa02abb4530345a.jpg)
Let me know what you think (sorry about the pictures quality, gotta get a new camera one of these days). Cheers!
First of all, thanks for dropping by. I'm currently growing 3 plants: 2 Nirvana Bubblelicious and 1 (supposedly) White Widow. All of them are 3 weeks into vegging (now beginning of 4th), applied Uncle Ben's 4 tops technique about a week ago. All the plants were 6-7 nodes big when they were topped.
I noticed some interesting facts, especially about the growth pattern of the Bubblelicious. It seems that for this species, the 4 top technique redistributed the growth hormones to mostly the last 2 nodes, and the first 2 remained kind of undeveloped and small. However, from the second set of what should have been the 2 main colas, small shoots started to emerge. This is totally odd behavior, at least that's how it looks for me. I made the mistake of topping at transplant time, and that might have fucked up their cycle a bit, but I'm not very sure of it, as the previous Bubblelicious I had also was very bushy with no technique applied at all.
The white widow however responded normally (it was not transplanted yet, just started in a slightly bigger container). It has a yellow stain on one leaf, but it's only isolated to that leaf...
The 2 bb's are in 11 L pots, in BioBizz All-Mix with added perlite for better drainage. The WW is currently in a lower quality soil, but will be moved into a soil with more perlite added. This soil is slightly acidic (ph 5-5.5) and seems to perform better than BioBizz...? I'm using General Hydroponics Flora Nova Grow + Bloom + Ripen. Currently just grow, of course. I only used about 2/3 of the recommended dose, so I don't think a nutrient lockup is the cause of the strange growth. The plants were all started on 5 20W CFLs for the first 3 weeks of their lifes, moved under a 250W HPS light on 18/6 cycle the other day. Same cycle was used with the CFLs, as well. Attached pics below.
BB #1:
![IMG-20110816-00185.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231129-f7724598157a30185e017428dda20c90.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00186.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231130-c8a340e0d697f2d810a090d6dee25800.jpg)
BB #2:
![IMG-20110816-00194.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231126-dc51a23a657272f9131d3931ee3098d9.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00193.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231127-2ce36a6685964c5bc5baa8a33abc05d7.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00192.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231128-865c544f75064e32709450990edc4ca5.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00197.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231133-bc0b49873041194d74cde37ba69e42d5.jpg)
WW:
![IMG-20110816-00190.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231125-471137cb2c5b95ca7b89635744c5a85f.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00191.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231131-5131540bc572e68397b329f069bd17bd.jpg)
![IMG-20110816-00188.jpg](/data/attachments/1231/1231132-533469f8ed46cbc1eaa02abb4530345a.jpg)
Let me know what you think (sorry about the pictures quality, gotta get a new camera one of these days). Cheers!