Twnewell's First Grow

[Emilya Green]

Should I be trimming the leaves of the bottom 1/3 of that plants now? Or should I wait until after my last feeding?

Now is probably the time, and when I usually grab my clones for the next run... and that gives a little recovery time before flipping too.

 

[twnewell]

Excellent. I’ll do that tomorrow.

 

[twnewell]

Ok. So pruning is done.

They wanted water today and I decided to start my bloom nutrients along with the cal/mag. I have changed the light to my hps as well as changed the cycle to 12/12. We’ll see what happens now in the next week or so. I’ll keep you posted.

 

[Emilya Green]

lookin' clean and ready! Here we go!

 

[Aero808]

Looking good!

 

[twnewell]

My security camera doesn't show the yellow of the light but the camera on my phone does. Strange

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[twnewell]

Little update. Promix is dry-ish and will need a watering in the morning. They are absolutely going crazy in hight but more in filling out. Can’t believe these girls are doing so well. Will continue to feed with bloom nutrients at the same level as last watering. If they keep growing at this rate they will be the full of my room an a couple of weeks.

 

[twnewell]

@Emilya do you have a tutorial on drying/curing? I looked in you links and never saw anything.

Also. I flipped to 12/12 couple of days ago. Do you recommend giving 24/48 hour of dark to kick start the flowering?

 

[twnewell]

Couple picks from today/yesterday.

 

[Emilya Green]

@Emilya do you have a tutorial on drying/curing? I looked in you links and never saw anything.

Also. I flipped to 12/12 couple of days ago. Do you recommend giving 24/48 hour of dark to kick start the flowering?

Nope, never did one on curing because I never have felt that I had it down, and have always been looking for a better way. I am going to try the low and slow method on at least half of my crop this time... we will see.
I have tried the 36 hour darkness before starting flower many times and it seemed to shave a day or so off of the conversion.. but now with LED I am not quite so sure of the results. I think more experimentation needs to be done.

 

[twnewell]

Watered today to runoff with cal/mag, bloom nutes at medium strength, then ph to 5.8. Looks like i let them dry out a bit too much, very droopy. I'm going to guess that they will be fine just will take time to absorb the water and bounce back.

 

[SabbyDoo]

I wouldn’t worry about it you know they will just perk back up when they take in all that water. Lol

 

[twnewell]

Just goes to show how fast these plants bounce back. This is a great example of how dry you can let your medium get and still not harm your plants. Overwatering should never be a problem. I understand new growers (myself included) making this mistake, but now I realize too dry is better than always wet. These plants are strong and resilient.

 

[twnewell]

Couple random picks from today. All looks well and moving my light up has become a every other day routine. Pistols are starting to pack more and more in areas.

Looks good to this untrained eye.
Any options?

 

[SabbyDoo]

Just goes to show how fast these plants bounce back. This is a great example of how dry you can let your medium get and still not harm your plants. Overwatering should never be a problem. I understand new growers (myself included) making this mistake, but now I realize too dry is better than always wet. These plants are strong and resilient.

Shannon said plants look deadly ! Good job he said lol

 

[twnewell]

Watered to runoff today. Moved light up again. Same cal/mag, medium nutrients, ph to 5.8. All is looking good.

 

[twnewell]

Couple picks from today. Growing great. White hairs as far as the eye can see.

 

[snowbound]

They are looking healthy for sure. How far into flowering are you now?

 

[twnewell]

They are looking healthy for sure. How far into flowering are you now?

7 Days give or take a day.

 

[snowbound]

You figure about 8 weeks?