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First time grow - seeds from stash of dank weed seeds UPDATE 9/02 -- RIP
    #242467 - 06/24/09 07:21 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

*This thread was originally opened for a question, but since the thread already had all of my progress so far, im converting the thread to a grow log*.


Hey guys.  so i have a cup i planted 4 seeds in... to be honest i didnt think all 4 of them would germinate, but they did.  so now i have 4 seedlings in one 16 or 24oz styrofoam cup.

First question.. How would i go about separating all 4 of them into their own pots without harming them or the root system?

Second question.  Ive noticed my 2 taller seedlings have 4 leaves, 2 normal 2 searated.  my 2 smaller seedlings have only 2 leaves, no searated leaves. The taller ones had 4 leaves upon uncurling from the soil break i believe and grew like that.  the 2 smaller seedlings have stayed the way they are since soil break.  Is this normal, or am i doing something wrong?


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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: SpaceMonkey]
    #242606 - 06/24/09 05:14 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Yah, i had talked to a friend that used to grow and he had some spare soil he used to use that he had custom mixed. By the time im a little farther into the vegetative state i should have quite the collection of nutes to use with it.  Tomorrow i get paid and im getting a good CFL light to hang over them from a chain on the celing so lighting wont be an issue for too much longer.  Thank all of you for your advice :smile:  I do realize that from my posts it seems like im trying to rush into things, and at first i was but i slowed down a little untill i had all of the supplies i needed.

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: 81renaissance]
    #242707 - 06/24/09 09:53 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

well, the fixture holds 2 cfl tubes. each light would be 100w output, the lights i was going to get were marked "GROW LIGHT" and were 42 " long.  Since they were marked as grow lights, im assuming they have the proper color spectrum and output to support a plant. I'll go up to the store again in a bit and get the full specs on it to let you guys know.

81: yes, i read the information you linked me to.  Your effort did not go to waste. thanks a lot :smile:

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #243622 - 06/27/09 10:18 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

UPDATE: landlords hit me with 3 water bills i hadnt paid, light money had to go to that. what i have done for now is i have transplanted all 5 of them (another one sprung up since the last pic) into their own containers. I actually managed to do it without shocking them. they are in namely huge cans of government issued food. they each hold about a gallon so i should be good for a while i believe. I have five 75w incandescents aimed right at them about 2 inches or so above the plants and during the daytime i let them soak up some sunlight in the bedroom for 7 hours or so.  soon i will have my lights.  This is not even a week after they popped out of the soil.



There they all are in where they started.  They look a little stretched i know.



There is a group shot of all 5 of them :smile:



Closeup of one of the 2 biggest ones



Closeup of the other of the 2 biggest ones.

For as shotty of a start as they have had, i dont think they look too bad for their age and care.

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #243640 - 06/27/09 11:52 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Cant move them outside. I live in an apartment and the instant i take it out the door someone would notice and call the police right away.  But, i dont have a problem with sitting them on the floor by the window and letting them soak in some sun.  my windows are positioned where nobody could really look inside and see whats going on.

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #243642 - 06/27/09 11:56 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Heh. i will be getting a better light in about 4 days.  The reason i absolutely cant take them outside, is there is an ex federal investigator (DEA i believe. ive seen his license) living right across the door from me.  Good thing is hes old, and getting sort of senile. Bad thing is, hes always walking around the doors picking up trash, tending to his plants, and doing random things on my patio.  It would be discovered, no doubt. as dismal as everything may sound, i assure you and myself that i am safe indoors :smile:

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #243648 - 06/28/09 12:23 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

yah his sense of smell must be way off. the lady right next door to him (sharing his walls) was running a meth lab for around 6 months and he didnt smell a thing.  and thats a lot more pungent than a few plants.  Never suspected anything of me during my 7 months of shroom growing either. So i think i should be okay :smile:

But anyway, I will be making a grow log which i will post in here in a bit once i get it created in the appropriate subcategory, which will show my current macguyvered light setup and then my new setup plus where theyre actually going to be grown once i move them in there.

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #243660 - 06/28/09 01:17 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

triptonic said:
ha ha you live in a shady part of town dont you?




Actually i live in a pretty decent part of town. thats what puzzles me.  :shrug:

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Dr. Siekadellyk]
    #244818 - 06/30/09 11:39 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

alright time for an update as 2 days is a lot of time for a growing seedling.

Here is a pic of my 3 best seedlings soakin up some sun :smile:


close up :smile:


Now for an artistic flare - B&W closeup with infared filter

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: AmsuJackal]
    #248345 - 07/11/09 06:55 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

progress update: 7-11-09

So far so good. still have a fruit fly problem but i have found ways to overcome the problems.  The plants are doing very good. the 2 in the back are getting HUGE. Each leaf alone is the size of my hand.  Here are some pics :smile:  mind you, they used to look a lot fuller.  i topped the 3 larger ones yesterday taking probably half an inch of stem and 2 or 3 leaves with it.









Also, the room is starting to smell really really dank :smile:

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #248443 - 07/11/09 09:02 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

triptonic said:
looking good man:thumbup:




Thanks man :smile:  that means a lot to me coming from you.

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #248452 - 07/11/09 09:21 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

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triptonic said:
Did you get that new light dude? +5 for keeping up with the journal:thumbup:




I wasnt able to get the big light like i wanted with the 2 fluro tubes and the ballast yet, but what i do have in the mean time is two 1500 lumen grow lights (also fluro) and i have three 75w 830lumen incandescent reveal bulbs going on them. they seem to be doing great at the moment so im not gonna worry too much.  im thinking i'll bring out the big guns when i switch my girls (please cannabis god let them all be girls) to flowering in a week or 2.  I think rather than the light i was looking at, i'll get a 250w HPS setup goin. i have 10 feet of headspace to work with so the heat shouldnt be a problem

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: Triptonic]
    #248462 - 07/11/09 09:37 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Ive already topped them, gonna let em grow for a few weeks while LST'ing them.  I might also throw in a SCroG setup. I read somewhere that scrog works well with LST but i dunno. My ultimate goal is to harvest enough to keep me going until i can crop out again with some clones i'll take from my best female.  Im going to start LST once they start growing good again after recovering from topping.

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: AmsuJackal]
    #248481 - 07/11/09 10:39 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Well, the group shots, the small plant in the bottom left in the front has been topped, and is now developing their first node leaves on the new shoots. enlarge and take a look :smile:

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: AmsuJackal]
    #248922 - 07/13/09 12:59 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

UPDATE: 7/13



I dont know if this is normal, but on one of the plants i topped, every node seems to be growing an alternate shoot and some of the shoots have already produced another node and are working on another.  High res closeup attatched.  I might add, that these were seeds from a stash of a bunch of different good strains. i really wish i knew which strain they were. lol.

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: geokills]
    #249165 - 07/13/09 06:57 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

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geokills said:
That's normal.  The point of topping a plant is to cut it below the top node so that the lower nodes develop into branches.

It's tricky to see from your picture, but it looks like you may have cut above instead of below the top node of your plant.  If you don't see a new set (at least 2 main branches) coming out above the top two leaves on your plant, you should probably remove that entire top node (cut just below those two leaves) so that you assure the proper distribution of hormones to the lower nodes in order to allow them to branch most efficiently.





Thank you for that.  I was under the impression that topping only made new shoots for the uppermost node that you cut.  Thats pretty cool.  And yah, ive noticed new shoots forming on the node i cut above so i think we're all good.  How long should i wait before tying them down for LST after topping?

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Re: Questions on my seedlings *pic* [Re: AmsuJackal]
    #250396 - 07/16/09 11:57 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Alright, time for an update. they have seemed to have recovered from the topping a few days ago. the new shoots are now 2 nodes long, 3 in some cases <3  anyway, theyre getting pretty big and smelly now :smile:

The bigger 3 plants *back, far left, far right* vary from 1.5 feet to 2 feet tall already o_o;;  from the looks of it, the bushy one in the far back is a sativa, the 2 other big ones on the sides are indicas.  They have not shown gender yet, but i hope theyre all girls. c'mon send good vibes and maybe lady cannabis will bestow the garden of weeden with pistils!




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LST or SCROG? [Re: AmsuJackal]
    #251000 - 07/18/09 04:53 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Alright so now im at a point where i want to start a decent training method other than the topping.  I am trying to decide between LST and SCroG, or both.

1. LST - I would love to lst.  the stems on my bigger plants have thickened considerably and are pretty strong. will tying them down snap the stems? or will i just have to do it in increments until i can get it all the way down to 90-100 degrees without hurting the plants?  i dont want to stress them into males or herms.

2. SCroG - very interested in scrog. i understand how it works, but have a few questions on setting it up.  do i just suspend chickenwire over the plants and just let it grow and find ways to poke through it?  i know if the tip of the main stem pokes through i should tuck it under the screen so it cant grow upwards but is that pretty much it?

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Re: LST or SCROG? [Re: AmsuJackal]
    #251544 - 07/19/09 08:17 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Alright change of plans.  apparently since i have a florescent light and 3 bulbs spread around the plants within their growing space (mostly not above them)  i seem to have achieved what i was looking for with LST.  Im just going to top every secondary shoot ive seen to make more shoots then flower them.  on one of my plants i have noticed the node patterns arent 100% symmetrical anymore, one branch will develop a little higher up than the branch on the other side of the stem on the same node, so i think its about to start showing sex.  i think im just going to flower them like this, and save scrog and LST for my next grow when i have experienced the flowering stage once and know what to expect.

MY QUESTION:  if i top them when theyre about to show sex and go into flower, will they be easily stressed into male or herm?

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Re: LST or SCROG? [Re: Triptonic]
    #251547 - 07/19/09 08:31 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

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triptonic said:
Nah man I dont think they would get that stressed out.




Oh man thanks for the quick reply. I was really stressing trying to figure out what to do. thanks for that.  Also i realized in my post i said i have 3 bulbs. i have 4  830lumen bulbs (cfl now) and a 1093 lumen fluro on em totalling 4413 lumens on 3 plants and 3 young plants in a 3'x3' space, lined with foil to reflect more light. think i need to beef up the light when i flower?

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