How do they look?

Hey guys just wondering what people think of my babies, they have been in flower for a week and a half and just showed sex in the last two days. I had wilting issues but I just water a little every day and it prevents it so now they look a lot better.

thos are some nice looking plants, how many are there??

northerntights said:

Hey guys just wondering what people think of my babies, they have been in flower for a week and a half and just showed sex in the last two days. I had wilting issues but I just water a little every day and it prevents it so now they look a lot better.

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They're packed in too tight. Air circulation around the plants is going to be poor, encouraging powdery mildew.

Prune them back so air can freely circulate around them. Lower branches won't produce very good quality buds due to shading, so don't feel too bad about snipping off everything on the lower 1/3 of the plant.

very very very nice pics northen,

i wish to have to plants as good as that sum day.. keep it up )

i agree, nice looking, but too close to produce good results. i'm with the don't prune too much people, but it looks like you have some space to play with so i would try slight bending to get some more room in between.

shunkan said:

i agree, nice looking, but too close to produce good results. i'm with the don't prune too much people, but it looks like you have some space to play with so i would try slight bending to get some more room in between.

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Yep, agreed, to an extent.

As long as EVERY leaf in the grow is made to flutter with each pass of the oscillating the circ fan/s, bending stuff creatively could help create better airflow.

However, the lower branches are still going to produce smaller, wispier buds than those connected a bit further up the plant. I cope by not growing that part of the plant.

Pruning a plant won't in any way slow down the material you leave on the plant- if anything, it'll grow better as the roots are not having to supply as much vegetable mass but are already developed enough to do so. Pruning can get pretty extreme- and cannabis plants love it.

Here's a seriously extreme example of pruning in my mums:


mothers just after a pass of cuttings...


...and then just 2 weeks later.

I saw someone elsewhere on some other unnamed cannabis growing forum saying that pruning back more than 50% of growth would SURELY kill the plant... and just laughed.

You certainly do need to keep some leaves on the plant, but just one set of leaves per branch left on the plant is enough for it to recover nicely.

yea that's a nice room and nice plants you got there!

As of right now your plants look very healthy! Congrats. As for me, I am not big on pruning. Almost every part of the plant absorbs light energy and uses it for its own energy. I just use a lot of side lighting and so forth, but only pull off yellow leaves on the bottom sometimes. Anyway, good luck with the finishing product!

Very nice for such a small space, what strain are they?

Just plain old northern lights, got feminized seeds so I have all females. I did trim off all the lower branches to allow air flow but really I'm going for single colas, SOG method. Next grow I'm going to grow fewer plants in the same space, get some side buds going and let them breathe. Thanks guys nice to know I'm doing ok, I'm really not going for quantity but just trying to get the best plant identified and use clones from them to grow the best I can. If I can get a harvest every few months and have enough to keep me high, I'm happy!

What are the dimensions of that grow cab? You did a nice job there.

My setup is almost exactly the same as yours. I had problems with to many plants to, the second time round and im growing half as many and the lower bud sites seems to be developing almost as fast and big as the top ones. Peace man, happy growing.

My cab is an Ikea cabinet 3' x 21" x 5'... I wouldn't recommend the ikea cabinet, what I pain in the ass to lightproof that piece of shit lol! You should be able to see I had to do carpentry to create an internal frame around the doors and it's still not quite right (light leak on the bottom). I did use a Darkroom Louver for ventilation, they are about $25 each but WOW, simple to install and no light issues. They even have one with a built in fan that can be hooked to 6" ducting, I wish I had the forethought to have gotten that but it is a bit pricey. Now if I can just get cloning down I will be all set!

Oh and Astrofoil rocks, after 5 changes of mylar I got sick of it, this stuff just wipes clean and takes a beating... also a gallaxy digital ballast was the BEST investment of all!

I dont think that its too tight for space, thats just more sea of green, with the plants being that close together its going to force them to compete for the light, so they will grow quite tall, it doesnt really matter how many plants you have in that space you should end up with near enough the same amount of bud.

If you keep them together like they are now, I would seriuosly recommend trimming the lower branches, as they way you are growing at the moment only the main colas are going to get the light so you want as much of the plants energy going into those colas. Trimming off the lower branches puts that energy up into the cola. That way you can push the yield up towards the maximum by having bigger buds in that space.

Actually I did that, well almost, there are a few small side branches coming off the main stem but I'm just keeping them for now just in case I have to make yet ANOTHER set of cuttings, but fuck it, if those don't root I give up and I'm going back to seeds. But yeh, it's a single cola grow, def SOG but I am going to go with fewer plants next time, or invest in Bushmaster to stop the stretching... anyone used that? From the description it sound like if you are off on the dosing you could really do damage...

oh oh oh! I just found some old incadecent work lights, should I just buy a warm cfl or two and place them in the lower branches and take there reflectors off? Would that stop the stretching?

Incandescents wouldnt help much at all, they are not meant for growing. They dont put out enough light in the right spectrum to be worthwhile, you can go for some sidelighting if you want, some 2700k warm cfls would do the job, get some decent wattage ones for sidelighting if you want to. But next time i would consider topping so that you get more tops for the space and then you'll have a blanket of bud.

sorry I didn't explain well, I was going to use cfl's, two small 13w ones. But thanks.

I've got some 13w cfl's on all sides of my growing space, my plants are only 3 weeks old and the lights really help but I'm not sure how good they'd be in another month.