One of the reasons that we keep plants seperate from each other is what if one plant is male and one is female? If you have one of each, what will you do now? Remove the male and leave its roots with the female plant? Try to seperate the roots? Should have used a divider. If it happens and you do have one of each sex, remove the top half of the tap root only because you don't want to mess with the roots during flower.
Everything else looks great but the plants look a lil over watered and under nourished with nutes. The light green color of your plants show the lack of nutes and the way your leaves tend to drip downward at the end show overwatering. Just trying to help and definately not trying to offend.
No offense taken. I appreciate the conversation. Some very good questions and suggestions there. Anyway, I figure I have a 75% chance of getting at least 1 female. I was thinking that if 1 is a male, I would cut the plant off at the base. Should I go lower and remove a portion of the root tip? I didn't think I'd have to go that deep.
Also, these plants are drooping because I took these pictures about 2 min after I misted the plants. I have been trying keep the humidity between 25 - 40% for the past couple days because I suspected a mite problem. Within 2 hours of misting, the leaves are all up on both plants. The drip irrigation system provides 300 cc's of water daily (about 10 ounces). This is probably a bit on the high side for a 12" pot, but I do lose alot of water to evaporation from the soil. The surface of the soil generally feels damp and crumbles easily. It doesn't feel soggy or compressed. Next time I do a grow, I will use foxfarm and perlite. I may also consider a small clay pellet based hydroponics setup. Unfortunately there is not much room for getting stuff in and out of the phototron. The opening is only 10" wide on the sides with the largest panels. One thing that sucks about these phototrons is that you can't get things in and out of them easily and there is no option to completely disassemble it. To get that pot out, I have to crush the sides in about 2 inches to pull it through the side panel. For this grow, I figured I'd stick with dirt since it's a little more stable easier to stabilize than a hydro solution. I just need to do a soil pH one in a while, not check pH daily and make ocnstant adjustments.
BTW, those plants are not that light in color even though they may apear so in the photos. The reason being that before I post them, I process them in photoshop where I adjust the levels, rotate, and resize them before upload. The levels adjustment is required because the grow lights really overpower the camera. It's makes the pictures nice and bright, but it does add a little extra white balance in reducing contrast. It makes them look a little pale.
At this point I'm avoiding giving them fertilizer since I just transplanted them from two solo cups to about 10 times the volume of MG potting soil. While a good portion of the nutes in the soil from the solo cups is likely depleted, the new soil added to the pot should be pretty hot. I did give a 2-4-2 root stimulator when I did the transplant and they have had one application of 1/4th dilution 10-10-10 general purpose fertilizer in the past week.
Anyway, I'm off to to europe tonight. If I get bored during the week I may shoot over to Amsterdam for a couple days. =) I'll have updates when I get back in about 11 days. Wish me luck! I'm hoping these plants don't turn to the darkside while I'm gone. =)
BTW, I tossed a Northern Lights and a NL x Big Bud seed in there about 2mm under the soil in the front and on the right. They will be about 2/3 weeks behind the other plants, but I'd like to see if the changes I've made to the environment are conducive to starting seeds. I figured since I'm gone for the next 11 days, it means I don't have to sit around staring at them impatiently. So, maybe we'll see 4 when I get back.
2 weeks from now.. theres going to be a pretty big difference :smokin3:
