Hello 420 peeps! Things got a little busy but I'm here now to catch up.
Heya Korloin, these many marvellous training techniques intrigue me, yet scare the be-jesus outta me at the same time. I knew I wouldn't be doing any major surgery on my very first virgin grow, the mild LST'ing I did is about as far as I will go I think this time, but very interested to start looking into these more for the next times round. If it is going to increase my yield, I'll do what I can! So yea, letting 'em go "au natural" is partly down to my fear and nerves of high stress training and also because I am curious to see what they are capable of without me interfering too much, ya know? I am glad your experimentation paid off. *smiles* As for me being well prepared, I wouldn't go that far, it's like being thown in at the deep end. Bang, you're in, go for it! LMAO... I did do alot of research though as did not wanna go in as blind as a bat.
Speaking of bats... I have bat guano, would this benefit my ladies right now??
And as TG stated earlier, the folks on this board are some of the most helpful, insightful and knowledgable you will find. Just all around damn good people who want to see you succeed and master your skills.
Yes, you've all been wonderful and I can't thank the community enough. I have a friend nearby who I can call on, but he gets most of his info off another friend...blah blah so it's great to come here and seek your opinions and have you all let me know how my plants are doing because I'm such a noob it's unbelievable.
Your girls look amazing! You're doing an awesome job so far!
When people keep saying this it makes me wanna do a happy dance. Big sigh of relief. Ha ha ha!!! Thankyou.
(hopefully everything is progressing positively in the next few pages I'm about to read, otherwise I'll feel like a complete schmuck)
Hi Canman - Not too badly, I deprived my babies of nutes until they were about 4 weeks old because they looked so good without them, but I'm paying for it slightly now, so just getting those nutes into them now as directed on my little chart that someone here kindly linked to. Not going into panic mode and going overkill to "compensate" just nice and slow, as directed.
The yellowing leaves I photographed yesterday are almost 100% yellow and dryer now. It's on low old fan leaves. Not spreading yet (Please God no!) so I am just keeping a close eye on them. Fed them plain water tonight. Their last water had nutes and that was on Friday. I'll hit them up again with nutes on Tuesday now.
So... it's been a little while, here's some more pics so we are up to date again. First pics showing those yellow leaves. (Sorry girls)
...and some pics of the rest of them without focus on the negative stuff :
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What's this, pistils or start of flower? (They have been in 12/12 for exactly one week now)
They stand at roughly 2 ft tall now.
So what do you think folks, this yellowing, do you think I have nailed it now and that it will not spread? The leaves that are already yellow look like they can never recover though. One is so dry it tore as I knocked it on the string.
as always.
). Scared the crap out of myself once with a broken stem, but she recovered easily with a lil' runtlet sized duct tape splint. Took 2 days and I was able to remove the tape. I did lose 1 top though, essentially.....um, topping that shoot. 
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