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Penguin's Micro Grow III- White Rhino

Penguin59

Member
Well folks, the Penguin is back at it again with some more Nirvana gear!

Have two White Rhino girls below in their 5th week of veg from seed. I plan to flip them to 12/12 on New Year's Eve to kick off the new year with a bang. Woop woop! They will probably flower for about 8-9 weeks. Because of my space restrictions I have made a big effort to start LSTing them down early. You will see more in the pics below.

I was debating letting each girl veg until their pots are covered in foliage and then maybe FIM the growing tips? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I will update the thread once a week from now on.


Two very indica dominant phenos. Very little variation between the two so far. Leaf shape is about the only difference
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White Rhino 1, I will call her "Honey"
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White Rhino 2, I will call her "Vesper"
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Honey's stem bent over and tied down to the left
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Vesper's stem bent over and tied down to the right
Both these girls were planted to one side of their pots so that the main stem could grow over to the other side

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b00m

~No Guts~ ~No Glory~
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:woohoo: Alright brother penguin great to see you up and at them again :good:
All tagged up for the show bruz with a front row seat :lurk:
:smoke out:
 

wildgrow

, The Ghost of
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Oh man - those are veggin out real nice.

Alright, on with the show.

Good luck my fine feathered friend.
 

Penguin59

Member
Sir b00m, always welcome my friend. The la-z-boy is all set up in the front row for you mate :gday:

Wildgrow, thanks for coming along for another ride buddy. Hope you like the show!

5th, welcome aboard mate, glad you're liking the look of these sexy girls. :yay:


Couple of questions for you fellas if you don't mind:

Do you think I should be topping any growing tips at this stage or just letting them grow out naturally?

Also, is another 1.5 weeks enough time to veg? I only have 80cm vertical height and I just don't want them to go too crazy when I flip to 12/12 and they start to stretch.
 

NE_GROWER_978

Senior Member
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looking good in here pen59. White Widow has always been one of my faves. Your little ones are nice and healthy and are gonna put on a show during flower. Cant wait to see how these treat you Pen your gonna love em! SUBBED!

-NE_G978-
 

5th

Active member
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Re: Questions

1) No need to top if your gonna keep up on your LST.

2) Another week n' a half should be perfect. (See answer for number 1)

Just my thoughts on that m8. :tiphat:
 

wildgrow

, The Ghost of
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I say top the primary and use the 1 1/2 weeks to get the 2 resulting tops away from each other. This will boost the growth on the branches.

You dont have to worry about the 2 new tops being behind, I find they catch up and surpass the branches anyway.

Lets see those girls bust the walls outta that cab.
 

Penguin59

Member
Hey there NE_Grower. Glad to have you here on the thread mate. Have been lurking on your threads for a while so will be great to pick your brain about how to treat these girls along the way! White Widow has been one of my all time faves too.

Cheers for the great tips 5th and WG. I'm pretty confident too that flipping on New Year's Eve will be the perfect time :woohoo:
 

NE_GROWER_978

Senior Member
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@ Penguin59: Thanks man and pick away!!!! Id recommend FIM (Fuck I Missed) with LSTing. I have seen it help with internodal growth grow lateral with less stress then topping and still will provide you with mulit tops along with the side growth becoming equal size to the top growth. IMHO i believe this works hand in hand compared to topping and LST. Either way your ladies are looking good and cat wait to see em in flower. :tiphat:

If you want a diagram of the difference between FIM and Topping lmk and ill put it up.

-NE_G978-
 

OZZ_

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Right on penguin! Look forward to seeing the rhino working it. I got an email saying you replied to my thread ...and here on ic it has you listed as the last poster ...but your post isn't showing for some reason. Didn't want ya thinking I was ignoring ya lol.

Anyway the ladies are looking great!
 

chubbynugs

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Cant wait to see how they turn out man. They are looking great right now. Taggin along for the show.
 

Bueno Time

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If you want to top or FIM I would do it ASAP (if you didnt already) or else just keep LSTing if you want to flip for the new year.

Good luck this round Ill be watching from time to time. :tiphat:
 

Penguin59

Member
Hey Ozz thanks for taking a look at the new run mate. It wouldn't worry me if you didn't write back to me in your thread, I know you've got your hands full with all that fresh, wonderful, organic bud you just harvested! :canabis:

chubbynugs, glad you're here buddy. I'm very happy to have a greenhouse grower tagged on my humble micro thread. Things sure are progressing quickly, I'm a bit anxious to see how the stretch goes. I don't have much room to play with if the girls get too unruly!!!

@ NE Grower and Bueno Time, today I ended up FIMing the main growing stem only on both girls. With only a week remaining before the flip, I didn't want to stress the girls out too much by topping everything. I guess we'll see very shortly how the primary shoots respond. Thanks for the advice :good:


Thought I would add a couple more shots before christmas hits!


Things coming along nicely
The girls' main growing stems have almost reached the other side of their pots now!
Think I will take some pipe cleaners to these girls today and tie down some of the lateral branches that are growing taller than the rest

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Vesper bushing out more and more
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Happy holidays everyone!
 
Those look awesome Penguin! I think I'm going to borrow your soil recipe for an auto I have going that's not doing too good in hydro right now, I want to see what excuse shes going to have after eating feces!
 

Penguin59

Member
Thanks Krazy! If you have the time to spend on putting together a soil mix, I would highly recommend it over a hydro setup. You might not get the gargantuan, fat heads that you might see in a magazine from organics but, for me, it's thoroughly more rewarding that way.


Cheers Bueno! It sure has been fun trying out this new LST technique to get a real bush going. Can't wait to flip to 12/12 in two days!!!!
 

Penguin59

Member
Hey guys,

Just letting you all know that I flipped on New Year's Eve as planned. The countdown is now on!

I will upload a picture update on Friday to give you guys an idea of how things are going. Hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday :)
 

5th

Active member
Veteran
Good to hear your on track m8.

All the best in filling out those buds, and the new year. :tiphat:
 

Sativa Dragon

Active member
Veteran
Hey Ozz thanks for taking a look at the new run mate. It wouldn't worry me if you didn't write back to me in your thread, I know you've got your hands full with all that fresh, wonderful, organic bud you just harvested! :canabis:

chubbynugs, glad you're here buddy. I'm very happy to have a greenhouse grower tagged on my humble micro thread. Things sure are progressing quickly, I'm a bit anxious to see how the stretch goes. I don't have much room to play with if the girls get too unruly!!!

@ NE Grower and Bueno Time, today I ended up FIMing the main growing stem only on both girls. With only a week remaining before the flip, I didn't want to stress the girls out too much by topping everything. I guess we'll see very shortly how the primary shoots respond. Thanks for the advice :good:


Thought I would add a couple more shots before christmas hits!


Things coming along nicely
The girls' main growing stems have almost reached the other side of their pots now!
Think I will take some pipe cleaners to these girls today and tie down some of the lateral branches that are growing taller than the rest
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Vesper bushing out more and more
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Happy holidays everyone!

Hey there very healthy looking girls, just a quick note, In your beautiful pictures of your oh so sexy girls. Scribble out the Barcode on the buckets cheers

peace
 
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