omg a first grow of the dreaded marihuana plant

[Aerohead]

Those are some nice little bushes, good job keeping them compact, they look great..

I have kind of a silly question: How do you remember your login name? LOL, I mean if you tried to log in from a computer that didn't fill in the box for you, could you remember it?

 

[CannabisSativa]

First of all, nice bushes! Looks like you are doing a great job so far. Second, yea its time to transplant. Give the plant about 4 - 7 days for it to show improvement. If for some reason you see it getting worse, then flush out your plant completely by using about 1 gallon or so of water. Also remember this: If your leaves are damaged/burned, they will stay like that even if you fix the deficiency.

So yea, re pot, flush if you start seeing more problems. Other than that keep on doing what you are doing.

 

[#1cheesebuds]

hey nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn they look great. lets hope they r all female.

 

[nnnnghhhhgnnngh]

Well, ended up taking no pictures because rootballs needed both hands to operate. But all four transplanted yesterday and all four seem to be doing all right in their new pots. Crowded because I planned on three plants in cabinet. Instead of second batch planting every seedling survived just to thwart my planning

#1cheesebuds - actually would much prefer three girls and one male, and a ton of seeds.

Aerohead - good question! Number of other letters separated by the Gs is 4-4-3 and that is mnemonic device to let me key name in correctly. Well 4-4-3-1 I guess exactly.

CannabisSativa - gotcha. Those leaves do look too damaged to recover so when plant recovers from replanting I will just trim them off.

 

[nnnnghhhhgnnngh]

1 week into flowering, this is fun as hell. I like the smell of these plants, handling them, watering them, and it annoys me that they are in overall poor conditions. Need more light for instance.

Since they are under CFLs I am trying to keep light close. So No.4 plant has grown into bulbs for three days running now!


This weekend finally I am getting HPS though and relegating CFLs to supplementary lighting from angled sides. Anyway, same plant, full view.



And three others.


That tallest plant is of different pheno I believe. More tendency to grow taller, leaves are more narrow and pointed, smell is different, sensitivity to nutrients greater.

Overfertilization was a problem (1/3rd strength Tiger Bloom is too much) and mold at one point where summer humidity went above 65%. Overall however things are all right. Except that cabinet was designed for 3 1-gal flower pots and contains 4 plants.

 

[Sleepy]

they look good from over here!!

i don't care for pulp, either...

hehehe

 

[Aerohead]

Good to see an update on this, looks good.. Props for sticking with it.

 

[#1cheesebuds]

wow they look great to me.

 

[CannabisSativa]

Keep it up looks great.

 

[nnnnghhhhgnnngh]

Living in groundlevel apartment gets me probably insufficient daylight for other houseplants and this is a pity. Camouflage is one reason as presence of legal plants would excuse purchasing of soil and other materiel. More importantly however I am surprised at level of satisfaction derived from tending to four little plants.

Thanks all for your comments and advice on this grow; now I have new hobby.

 

[BorkBorkBork]

It's fun, ain't it?

 

[nnnnghhhhgnnngh]

Absolutely.

Looks like all four of my plants are female. Because I had hoped to produce seeds I considered isolating one in another cabinet and through use of randomized light schedule causing her to turn hermaphrodite. However I have three seeds remaining yet from original packet so I believe I will leave seed production for another run of this strain several months down the road.

These are Speed Queen, pure indica. Next Satori will be grown, indica/sativa blend from same breeder.

 

[CannabisSativa]

Any pics of your ladies?

 

[nnnnghhhhgnnngh]

Sure!
No.4 turned out to be male.
Shortly after, 5 sprouted male bits also and so 4 was killed since I only need one of those. 4 was showing more sativaish characteristics and I am not particularly interested.

Pity though. 4 was the hardy survivor of the first batch and some problems. Good strong plant! Tall and big! Maybe he will make okay cannabutter.

Plants 6 and 7:


Not shown: 5 which is almost six inches taller and dropping pollen like crazy. Wonder if these girls are growing seeds already? I will keep the male there for a little while longer I think. While watering/feeding, immediately after taking pictures, I bumped the stem on No.5 and that was enough to send powder sprinkling over the leaves.

Actually I think I will collect some before chopping down this plant, for later, just in case.

 

[Sleepy]

hehehe

hehehe

It's fun, ain't it?

it sounds like you are enjoying yourself, nnnnghhhhgnnngh!!


keep up the good work, and stay safe!

 

[pthway4]

Hey sleepy are you married? The thread title sounds like my wife!!!!LOL

 

[Melkor420]

Those ladies sure are looking nice, way to go!

 

[CannabisSativa]

Sure!

Now those are some healthy looking ladies! Also, males tend to stretch much more than females, so that can also be a good indicator to start looking closely for balls.

 

[r13f]

good luck on the rest of the adventure

 

[nnnnghhhhgnnngh]

Thanks all for comments. This is fun, watching them grow and develop, learning how to trim and how they react to different light. Except sudden death.




First two are females. Third is male. All were fine when checking this morning.
Watering every other day with either Grow Big or Tiger Bloom from the Fox Farms' three-pack at half strength. Stronger gave slight case of discoloration so I backed off a little. Greater size of the male means more water was given.

Suddenly he wilted past nine hours. What could have caused this?