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Hi!
Plants looks healthy in those pics so I'm betting that it's just the intensity of your led light. Strong leds turn stems purple but it's nothing to worry about, just look at my diaries and see the color of stems to compare, or any other led diary actually.
So keep going and be carefull not to stress those girls, they are very fragile in this point
I dont understand why one of the three is not growing so well. All are getting the same light, nutrients, etc? Overall happy though as they seem to be growing quite fast. Watering every other day with BioGrow and BioRoot for another week or two.
Any ideas why one of the three isn't growing as well? Seems to be 50% smaller than the others. Might I have damaged its roots when transferring from smaller pot? I have given it more BioRoot as a result.
Hi man very surprised nobody answered this yet. It could be down to a huge amount of things. I gather she's doing okay now ? for future reference it can be many things like I said. Ph imbalances can slow her down, overwatering can slow her down, change in temps can slow her down the list goes on and on. Sometimes its nothing to do with anything you have done sometimes its just the pheno growing slower. I have experienced this. This backs up the theory that all phenos are different regardless of breed. If you plant two seeds of the same strain from the same mother they will still be two completely different plants. though they will be similar they will have different characteristics and will grow with different traits. Slow growth can be one of these traits though breeders do their best to breed this out of the pheno. Either way shes healthy and patience is the name of this game. Unless you are perpetual grower im not seeing how it would be a problem for you :) Happy growing 👊
Hi. Can you help, should I switch them now to Flowering (12/12?).
They are only 35cm tall but I did successfully Top them last week.
Should I wait another two weeks or veg to get a bit taller or would I get enough if I switched to Flowering now??? Thanks for your help.
As long as you have the space keep vegging and topping as many times as you can and let them get as big as possible, but remeber they will get about 2x as tall in flowering, so you wanna do some lst to keep em low so the branches go sort of ddiagonally tending more to a horizontal position and not vertical, this will allow for more vertical toom but then you must consider the side space, if your plants can all fit, and if they by the end of veg, then in flower you shouldnt have any issues as then you let them grow vertically and they have plenty of room cause you trained to take up more horizontal space and during this period she got bigger, stronger and more established.
Good luck and stay lit growmie, veg for as long as you can allow it to, keep in your mind that every week they veg its an extra bag of weed.
https://youtu.be/jK8fAUlqbow?t=38
It really depends how much "enough" is.
Long story short; if you can wait then do as you will get more bud.
However if you can't wait then these guys will be fine to flower
Last week of Vegetation. Just waiting on some different Bio feed for Flowering phase.
Put up supporting netting and sticks in the pots and moved radiator away plus turned down heat a little.
They look well and healthy and have been drinking approx 0.5l/day each.
Will switch to Flowering as soon as possible, down to 12/12.
I would be asking why you want to remove the leaves?
Each healthy green leaf is photosynthesising and making the energy for your plant to grow. Reducing the amount of healthy green leaves reduces your plants capacity in producing energy which in turn reduces your plants ability to grow. "Bud sites" rely on the fan leaves to make the energy that they need to grow their biggest and best flowers. I would recommend to leave all healthy green leaves on your plant and suggest you only remove any yellow leaves. The older fan leaves also act as "storage" sites for vital growth elements such as amino acids, carbs, sugars etc that your plant will draw upon during flowering and this is why fan leaves generally go yellow during the flowering cycle. It is more efficient for the plant to "recycle" the "stored" elements rather than growing flowers and making growth elements from new, at the same time. If there are no fan leaves full of stored vital elements, your plants will have to manufacture these vital elements at the same time it is trying to grow the flowers, meaning there is less energy for flower growth due to having to use extra energy to re-manufacture the carbs, amino acids, sugars etc that the plant has lost due to the leaf removal. Your plant will grow her biggest and best flowers with all leaves left in place to produce maximum energy for maximum growth. This is basic plant biology that the defoliation brigade fail to understand. Removing large amounts of leaves will actually cause a major upset to the plants metabolism, with the plant potentially suffering shock and with a risk of slowing growth for up to 2 weeks while the plant re-grows more leaves to boost her energy production levels back up to the same level as before the leaves were removed, rather than using the that time to grow flowers. Hope this helps,.... Organoman.
All good, I hope they are making the switch to Flowering.
They are on 12/12 with the nutrient mix as above.
They have grown 5-10cm in a week!
I also took out a good number of large fan leaves as it was too bushy in there.
They also seem to be drinking more as soil was drier than recently.
Its very cold at the moment but I'm not adjusting the radiator.
Happy so far. Plants growing well, they have made the switch to flowering as all are showing the first pistils.
Up'ed the Bio-Bloom and Top-Max as recommended.
All good.
Hi. Now plants are in Flowering phase, I am wondering whether I should strip off some of the small growth occurring on the lowest arms (see red rings on photo), and therefore try to concentrate the growth/energy in the upper branches and therefore the potentially bigger buds?
I agree with harbinger. You’ve got a real stretchy sativa here and she’s lanky and airy. Trimming lower bud sites at this juncture won’t do a whole lot given that you’re through most of transition at this point. You still can without detrimental effect absolutely, but it’s really not going to make much of a difference on the scales. If it were me, I probably wouldn’t bother. I’m greedy as fuck when it comes to my yields and there’s more than enough light penetration in the canopy to turn that little budlet into a decent nug. Best of luck with it!
Planning to defoliate a bit during the week, only small buds and biggest fan leaves. Pleased with progress, estimate five weeks left according to feed chart im using.
I'm not sure if I have too many small buds and should keep only main bigger ones???
The buds are really taking off, four to five weeks to go and they are developing really well. There seem to be many buds as-well and would hope they'll just get bigger and fatter. I am concerned though that the main bud on one is only 10cm from the light and I cant raise the light. I am thinking about chopping the main bud off, but will ask a Q underneath.
Nutrients seem to be doing their job, I defoliated during the week and will try not to do again.
thanks to advice, I tried LST by bending over the top bud which has worked a treat. the bud has now curled towards the lamp above - amazing. I also added a second light during the week which evens the light out. very happy so far, am slightly concerned about the smell. no defoliation (wont do any more now).
Some pistles have started turning Brown now - How brown should I let them get??
I am expecting this week, then next week as final nutirent week. Following that one week of Flushing. So two and a half weeks to go (unless I bring it forward a week with the pistles turning).
I defoliated the largest leaves again during the week as it was again too bushy and was reducing air flow. Also, I had to fold over the largest stem from one plant into LST mode as it was just too big and near the light.
The trichomes are all clear and have a mushroom dome shape.
Overall, very happy with this first grow. Just need to harvest at the right time so will keep in mind that they need a weeks' flushing. Any advice welcome on when to harvest.
Quite a mix of brown and white hairs going on. One plant looks over 80% brown, one is 50/50 and one is about 30/70 white hairs. Dillema! According to my nutrient charts, next week is supposed to be the flush week but I may do one more week of nutrients then the flush.
Amazing quality buds, great trichomes with big domes on.
I found that the plants were maturing at different times. I harvested though when I saw that the trichome heads were bending over from the THC content. Possibly I could have waited an extra week or few more days in the flush, but I didn't want to start loosing THC strength.
Dried in three days on a drying tent rack, with fan and at 20C.
The only change throughout the whole thing next time is to have an extractor fan with a carbon filter, the current setup was far too smelly and caused several issues.
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