My First Time Growing

Good Sunday Morning Smokey and the Mrs. :)

I hope you have a great day and don't work too hard. Sounds like you will be pretty busy getting that tent and such set up when your Son has time to help you. Cook him up something special for the help!

I have my work cut out for me today as well, will be moving lots of lighting around to get some girls to flower in a warmer area than the basement. The heater I was using down there took a dive and I can't fix it. Winter is still rearing it's cold winds and snow around here. How is it there?

Luv-n-Hugs

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Cannafan said:
Good Sunday Morning Smokey and the Mrs. :)

I hope you have a great day and don't work too hard. Sounds like you will be pretty busy getting that tent and such set up when your Son has time to help you. Cook him up something special for the help!

I have my work cut out for me today as well, will be moving lots of lighting around to get some girls to flower in a warmer area than the basement. The heater I was using down there took a dive and I can't fix it. Winter is still rearing it's cold winds and snow around here. How is it there?

Luv-n-Hugs

:circle-of-love:
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Actually, Today is going to be an easy day. The new light isn't supposed to get here until Tuesday and we can't put up the tent until the light is here, so it will still be a few days before the tent is up and running. Sorry to hear about your heater crapping out on you, It's still cold here too, but not as bad as it could get.
If I understand you right, your going to have to move all your girls in flower mode because they are in a cold place? Well, I read on an older thread from 2014 (was when I was constantly worrying about my trich's and searching for threads on how to get them going) that exposing them to a little cold while in flower mode will cause the creation of extra trichs for protection, so if that's true, maybe you'll get a few more trichs on yours before you get them heated up and have a better quality of harvest.
Take care Sis, I hope moving your girls around goes good for you!
 
Smokeater said:
Actually, Today is going to be an easy day. The new light isn't supposed to get here until Tuesday and we can't put up the tent until the light is here, so it will still be a few days before the tent is up and running. Sorry to hear about your heater crapping out on you, It's still cold here too, but not as bad as it could get.
If I understand you right, your going to have to move all your girls in flower mode because they are in a cold place? Well, I read on an older thread from 2014 (was when I was constantly worrying about my trich's and searching for threads on how to get them going) that exposing them to a little cold while in flower mode will cause the creation of extra trichs for protection, so if that's true, maybe you'll get a few more trichs on yours before you get them heated up and have a better quality of harvest.
Take care Sis, I hope moving your girls around goes good for you!
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Hey Smokey,

I am not moving them from flower, they are going from Veg to flower lighting. I still have plants to veg out, so I need to keep that space for that.
The problem with the cold temps is that it slows down the flowering stage, causing leaves and buds to turn pinkish purples....pretty, but the slow down is a problem. I've also found that slowing down the flowering time can cause the plant to start producing nanners in an effort to self pollinate. I've had this happen on several occasions. So, going on my own experience there.

I don't know on producing more trichomes, I'd have to look into that one. But, I just plain don't want to slow them down at all.

I think I have it all worked out, I have the grafted plants experiment going into a shower stall in a spare bathroom that has the Autos that are flowering. Then I can use the spare bedroom for flower.
I'm getting real tired of moving lights from upstairs to downstairs and back again. LOL

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Cannafan said:
Hey Smokey,

I am not moving them from flower, they are going from Veg to flower lighting. I still have plants to veg out, so I need to keep that space for that.
The problem with the cold temps is that it slows down the flowering stage, causing leaves and buds to turn pinkish purples....pretty, but the slow down is a problem. I've also found that slowing down the flowering time can cause the plant to start producing nanners in an effort to self pollinate. I've had this happen on several occasions. So, going on my own experience there.

I don't know on producing more trichomes, I'd have to look into that one. But, I just plain don't want to slow them down at all.

I think I have it all worked out, I have the grafted plants experiment going into a shower stall in a spare bathroom that has the Autos that are flowering. Then I can use the spare bedroom for flower.
I'm getting real tired of moving lights from upstairs to downstairs and back again. LOL

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Now I understand, Sorry for the misunderstanding. All I was saying about the trichs was that maybe the cool possibly caused more trichs before you moved them just because I read a dusty old thread. No big deal, just trying to put a positive spin on what I thought was your girls in flower already being a little cool (I would also take your experience VS a dusty old thread about thrichome production too), but I had it completely wrong if you are moving some girls from veg to flower and trying to keep your girls in the basement in a warmer area. I was skeptical too when I read that about the cold producing more trichs considering these plants grow best in warm climates, just trying to make you feel better about your heater crapping out until you have them warm again.
I've heard of Nanners, but don't know what they are unless they are just some male bulbs on your females producing pollen (That's just what I'm picturing in my head, but probably have that wrong). Anyways, I'm just glad you got your girls into warm areas.
 
Hey Smokey, no worries! LOL

On "nanners". This is our shortened word for Banana's that form on the plant to produce pollen. The following is an extreme example, but the yellow banana shapes are Nanners: (you will also see seeds forming on that one)

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When a plant is a born male, it will form the balls that have the nanners inside of them. They grow out and downward mostly, then open up, and as the nanners dry up and open up they release the pollen.

If a female plant decides to self pollinate, it will also form nanners, but a little differently. They are often pointed upward and there are usually fewer of them, so less pollen than a real male plant. It's a self survival tactic for the female if she goes too long without being pollinated.

Way back we showed you pictures of male pollen sacs on a male plant.

Hope that helps.
 
BTW, the example pic is a plant that started out female. I tried to turn it male using colloidal silver, It didn't want to do it...so I sent her to flower. Then she started getting the nanners, so the experiment worked in the end. LOL The pistils on her collected the pollen and she gave me lots of seeds.

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Cannafan said:
Hey Smokey, no worries! LOL

On "nanners". This is our shortened word for Banana's that form on the plant to produce pollen. The following is an extreme example, but the yellow banana shapes are Nanners: (you will also see seeds forming on that one)



When a plant is a born male, it will form the balls that have the nanners inside of them. They grow out and downward mostly, then open up, and as the nanners dry up and open up they release the pollen.

If a female plant decides to self pollinate, it will also form nanners, but a little differently. They are often pointed upward and there are usually fewer of them, so less pollen than a real male plant. It's a self survival tactic for the female if she goes too long without being pollinated.

Way back we showed you pictures of male pollen sacs on a male plant.

Hope that helps.
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I get it now, Females trying to reproduce form their own way of producing pollen thru "nanners".
 
I've found cold produces more trich coverage and purple colors but it does stress them out and slow growth rapidly and is a hermie risk.. high wind (outdoor) makes them really frosty but with lower yeilds. going 48hrs dark right before harvest produce more frost and is safe from what I've seen, only done it once before myself. I've gone cold for purple coloring before and most of it goes away during the cure, the chlorophyll evens out through out the buds and its barely noticeable after.. but did frost them up a bit more.
lol got a little off track..
Nice nanners Canna! always nice when they're intentional! that photo makes the lion kings "circle of life" play my head..
 
I could swear I posted a pic of how the clone is doing now. but after reading back a few days, I can't find it so here she is, Looks like she needs to be transplanted into the next size pot.

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I'll be doing more cloning once I have the big tent up and have more room for flowering and for vegging (Gonna separate the 2 sides with my little tent in the middle and black plastic up high to separate the light cycles. I will leave the doors open on the old tent and use that part for vegging too)
 
Smokeater said:
I could swear I posted a pic of how the clone is doing now. but after reading back a few days, I can't find it so here she is, Looks like she needs to be transplanted into the next size pot.

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I'll be doing more cloning once I have the big tent up and have more room for flowering and for vegging (Gonna separate the 2 sides with my little tent in the middle and black plastic up high to separate the light cycles. I will leave the doors open on the old tent and use that part for vegging too)
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She looks great! :goodjob: I don't remember if you mentioned this - did you put her straight into your soil mix after she rooted?

Looking forward to seeing that tent up and running! :thumb::high-five:
 
Looking good smokey, just now getting caught up on your thread. Been a super long week @ work, plus winter decided to kick back in this past week down this way. Has been in the 20°'s here when its usually hitting 70° plus this time a year. Sadly i lost 3 clones outdoors, 2 tomato plants, 3 of my ghost pepper plants and the catnip i had put out hoping to get an early start this year. But mother nature had other plans, so im gonna have to take more clones this week darn it and start my outdoor grow over. What a pain it will be. Hope all is well your way, so do you think you will like growing from clones, rather than fooling with slow tinder seedlings? Your little girl should take off a rocket here soon. I love it, mine always grow twice as fast than seedlings ive grew. :thumb:
 
Jonwayne said:
Looking good smokey, just now getting caught up on your thread. Been a super long week @ work, plus winter decided to kick back in this past week down this way. Has been in the 20°'s here when its usually hitting 70° plus this time a year. Sadly i lost 3 clones outdoors, 2 tomato plants, 3 of my ghost pepper plants and the catnip i had put out hoping to get an early start this year. But mother nature had other plans, so im gonna have to take more clones this week darn it and start my outdoor grow over. What a pain it will be. Hope all is well your way, so do you think you will like growing from clones, rather than fooling with slow tinder seedlings? Your little girl should take off a rocket here soon. I love it, mine always grow twice as fast than seedlings ive grew. :thumb:
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Sorry for your outdoor plant loss. We aren't even close to leaving plants out in Massachussetts, tulips haven't opened.

Surprisingly to me, my catnip roots survived the winter outdoors and are green Radogast's Non-420 Garden Creation thread - Page 42
 
Its hit or miss down south, ive put plants out as early as late February and they survived. But the norm is usually april, and i like to get a jump on it also. This year we had record breaking warm temps earlier this year, and record breaking low temps just this last week. Thats ok though, long growing season ill have plenty of time to get a few more back in there place. And oh yea, that part of the country only has 2 seasons ayy, fall and winter? Haha ive done alot of out a town work in our northern states, and it is a different type of cold in a few states. Brrrrrrr... getting cold just thinking about it. We all need a place in Jamaica mon, grow weeds outside year around:ganjamon:
 
Jonwayne said:
Its hit or miss down south, ive put plants out as early as late February and they survived. But the norm is usually april, and i like to get a jump on it also. This year we had record breaking warm temps earlier this year, and record breaking low temps just this last week. Thats ok though, long growing season ill have plenty of time to get a few more back in there place. And oh yea, that part of the country only has 2 seasons ayy, fall and winter? Haha ive done alot of out a town work in our northern states, and it is a different type of cold in a few states. Brrrrrrr... getting cold just thinking about it. We all need a place in Jamaica mon, grow weeds outside year around:ganjamon:
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Now THAT is a dream worth dreaming! I'm in the northern states of which you speak. Brrrrr......
 
Cannafan said:
Now THAT is a dream worth dreaming! I'm in the northern states of which you speak. Brrrrr......
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So true... Me too and the cold has kicked my backs butt the last couple days, I can't wait until it's warm again for a while. Probably noticed I haven't been on that much. sorry, Just feeling the cold in my back. Turned out also, my son is working 12 hour days, so the tent is going to have to wait until he has time (The lights here, but need his help). Looking forward to getting back to normal.
 
My wife's old cat loves the stuff haha the kitten we have wont have anything to do with it though. I have to keep a little plant of catnip in with my flowering plants on count of huzzy coming into the room and pulling my fan leaves off! The old cat is named "huzzy" just a little of the ole ladies twisted humor lol. Does anyone elses felines snatch trim or leaves when harvest is goin on, or just off the plants in general? I dunno what it is, but the catnip does distract it 90% of the time. They curl up in the pot on the nip under the lights everytime i leave the door open. Hopefully the cold will move out soon smoke, ours is supposed to be over with after last night. So we shall see, i know im waiting another full week before putting out any more small plants. How far away are you from harvest smokeater? You have one around around the corner dont ya.
 
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