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Aw man, as much as I hate to see you keep trimming buds off of that plant before they're actually ripe, I'm thrilled by your enthusiasm. It sounds like you're having a great time enjoying the closet farm!
The plant looks nice; maybe just a bit thirsty.
It's funny that you posted a picture of that lighting setup of mine because I tore it all out last night. I gutted everything. As soon as I send this post I'm gonna get started building the new cabinet/closet. It's gonna be 3.5'L x 3'W x 7.5'H. It's shaping up to be one hell of an accident.
I've been using the zip ties to train my plants as well. I tie a bread tie around the stem and then attach that to the plastic zip tie (so that the rigid plastic zip tie doesn't damage them.) I then adjust every few days or as needed.
You want to flush with three (3) times the volume of the container. So, if you're using a 1 gallon container you will flush with 3 gallons of water or thereabouts. This is done over the course of a day; it's pretty much an all day job for me, getting 3 gallons through my plants.
If you just give them a little here and a little there, that's not flushing. That's merely watering. The point of flushing is to wash metabolic wastes, salts, and other impurities from the soil. You want to run lots of water through the growing medium so that it takes all the plant's wastes with it. In nature, this happens when it rains. Get it?
As for nutrients, I've seen it recommended that the first two-thirds of your flush (the first 2 gallons in the example above) should be with pH adjusted water only and the last third of the flush (1 gal. in the above example) should contain a mild dose of nutrients.
As for your root rot concerns: you've got it all backwards the way you're thinking about this... "NEVER WATER YOUR PLANTS EVERY DAY!" Recite that. That phrase is your friend. It means, don't keep your roots wet. You WANT your roots to dry out from time to time. If they don't have time to dry out over the course of days or weeks, thats when you'll get the rot.
You can NOT over water a marijuana plant in just one day. You can flush it with 100 times the volume of your container in pH balanced water and all you'll have done is washed away any wastes and/or nutrients from your growing medium, altogether giving yourself a "clean slate" to start from which, by the way, is often beneficial for solving some hard to diagnose problems. So don't be afraid to give those roots a good bath.
Do NOT keep them constantly wet by watering them day and night however. Imagine what would happen to your feet if they were constantly submerged in moist soil. They'd wrinkle the fuck up and rot off! But you can submerge them in a bathtub without harm when they need the wastes washed off of them. It's a loose analogy but, I think you get my point.
This looks much better than my one tradition-style growing attempt with CFL's. WOW, it's really starting to fill out for you now. Great job.
In comparison, your buds look positively packed with pistils! I'm a noob here but logic suggests that where there's a pistil (or two ), there's a calyx... man, I can't wait till those things start to swell up for ya!
Trichomes, the resin glands that form on the surface of the plant, tend to form mostly on the calyx's from what I've read. I hope they get nice and sparkly for you.
This is the guy you need to get in touch with first. He is THE marijuana lawyer in Oregon.
John C. Lucy IV Phone: 503-227-6000 Fax: 503-227-4702 Other Phone: 919-720-2513 john@law420.com 2121 SW Broadway Suite 130 Portland, 97201 www.law420.com
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), there's a calyx... man, I can't wait till those things start to swell up for ya!
