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 RasJephs First (serious) Grow! Guilt Update with new pics (jewelers loupe) 
#367390 - 02/18/10 03:07 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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So, I'm assuming a bunch of you know my story from the other threads you've been helping me in, but heres whats up for those of you who missed those 
Due to recent changes in my life, I have a newfound "fuck it" outlook. I used to have a handful of responsibilities and things I cared about too much to grow. Now its all gone, and I'm willing to risk going to prison (not that I want to, but now I'm the only person I'm responsible for, so I'm ready to go!)
Anyways. I plan on starting only a few seeds at a time - my lighting and space are limited for the time being (future grows might get my whole closet, but I wanna get some experience before I go nuts).
I've got some seeds coming in the mail from a generous donation  
I have purchased a bag of Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil, as well as the liquid Fox Farm soil nutrients trio. I'm also waiting on them to arrive.
I plan on vegging under CFL's until the plants are the size I like them, and then switching to my 150w HPS for flowering (prolly with a few CFLs on the sides.)
I'm going to start the seeds off in your common 16 oz party cup, and then move them to a slightly bigger container after two weeks, when I will be introducing them to the FF Ocean Forest soil. I'm not sure what I'll start them in...coir is all I have on hand, so if thats not a no-no, I'll do that.
Things I need to pickup (mostly a reminder for me)
1. Wall timer
2. Bigger pots
3. One more power strip
4. Perilite to mix with the soil
5. PH test strips
Anyway, I started my log today, because I began the first stages of getting it ready. I painted my cabinet (which I have been using for my cacti for the past few months).
I've gotta say - WOW! The white paint REALLY, REALLY made a difference! I can already tell its like 10x brighter in there!
BTW, in the middle, I have an option to have a shelf in there. I think I'll go with that until the plants are too tall :] Less light lost in a big area. Strangely enough, the middle section that you see (the bar that goes across) was already painted white...makes me wonder what grandpa used to use this for before he gave it to me  We'll never know.
Edit: Sorry for the cellphone quality...I'm charging my camera now. I always forget 
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 Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#367421 - 02/18/10 03:42 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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looks like a good spot. if you can try and suspend the lights instead of moving the plants up or down, I found it much easier and you can always have the lights right in the sweet spot.
that shelf though could end up being replaced with a screen for a scrog grow if you want to play with that. I would definitely recommend using LST in an area like that your yields will be better and you have lots of control on how tall you let em get. plus it's lots of fun to play with your hobby instead of just watching.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#367437 - 02/18/10 04:05 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Looks like a killer spot for a scrog! Let us know.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: jwes420]
#367445 - 02/18/10 04:24 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm not really ready for trying scrog. I have a friend who has a few grows under his belt...and hes real good with stuff like that. Hes away at school until the summer time, but I'm sure when he comes home he'd be willing to help me with that! So, next time
Also - I have power strips, which I plug my CFLs into directly. I have nails every 4-5 inches up both sides and the back to mount the power strips on. I can adjust them as I need to
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#367448 - 02/18/10 04:29 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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perfect. dont be intimidated by the scrog it's really easy to install (assuming your proficient with tools) and from what i hear even easier to use.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#367738 - 02/18/10 09:10 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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YOu can also try try a more simple LST.
Just pull it over from the bottom side, instead of a screen pushing it from the top.
This on was split at a few veg weeks, and I pulled this split-horn look at flower wk-1.
These Bk's are gonna bud nice!
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#367764 - 02/18/10 09:18 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Good luck man!!
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This on was split at a few veg weeks, and I pulled this split-horn look at flower wk-1.
These Bk's are gonna bud nice!
Nice lst!!! i like it.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#367819 - 02/18/10 09:40 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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FurrowedBrow said:
Good luck man!!
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This on was split at a few veg weeks, and I pulled this split-horn look at flower wk-1.
These Bk's are gonna bud nice!
Nice lst!!! i like it.
Nice plant period. I did my LST a lot closer to the ground just cause I had no clue on how high it would want to get. But letting it get taller seems to have allowed you much easier clean up and training
These are two different plants but you can get the idea RasJeph.
 
training like this distributes the growth hormones so each side branch starts to go up instead and becomes a cola of it's own. today the small one has 3 spikes shooting up and many more on their way.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#368022 - 02/19/10 04:54 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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So...I just bend it over, and tie it down?
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#368052 - 02/19/10 10:04 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah thats the basics heh, not rocket science but the results sure seem like it.
what your goal is is to get all the side branches growing up instead of the main tip. once that happens you give it one two more adjustments to get all the tips at an equal height (or use a Scrog) which makes the best use of your lighting.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#368115 - 02/19/10 12:21 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Woop! Got my soil in the mail today...mom gave me a "you growing fucking chronic?" question as soon as she saw it...said yeah...she said "Haha, I hated that damn skunk smell before. Let me know when you start to get some buds, so I know to buy some damn air fresheners".
I was gonna tell her, but she figured it out on her own and doesn't care. Sweet!
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#368125 - 02/19/10 01:08 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
RasJeph said:
Woop! Got my soil in the mail today...mom gave me a "you growing fucking chronic?" question as soon as she saw it...said yeah...she said "Haha, I hated that damn skunk smell before. Let me know when you start to get some buds, so I know to buy some damn air fresheners".
I was gonna tell her, but she figured it out on her own and doesn't care. Sweet!
Consider yourself lucky. I went home for christmas and I sat down in my moms car after getting there (and showering and changing) and she says to me, "ARE YOU SMOKING POT AGAIN!!!?!?!" in the most hateful tone you can imagine. she says she could smell it. I should have just went off on her hypocritical ass. but w/e. she's my ma. She'll never know about my pot involvement as far as im concerned. there's no turning her mind to be open. so i dont bother. and she wonders why i live a thousand miles away.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#368162 - 02/19/10 02:07 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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FurrowedBrow said:Consider yourself lucky.
She used to be nuts about it, but I'm almost 20 years old and I believe I have proven myself responsible enough with it.
She knows its not when I'm smoking she comes home and finds all the doors and walls broken from a rampage lmfao. She used to ask me to drink instead, but I have alcoholics in my immediate family, and she sees its much better for me to toke, so yeah, I'm pretty lucky
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#368171 - 02/19/10 02:30 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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RasJeph said:
Woop! Got my soil in the mail today...mom gave me a "you growing fucking chronic?" question as soon as she saw it...said yeah...she said "Haha, I hated that damn skunk smell before. Let me know when you start to get some buds, so I know to buy some damn air fresheners".
I was gonna tell her, but she figured it out on her own and doesn't care. Sweet!
Consider yourself lucky. I went home for christmas and I sat down in my moms car after getting there (and showering and changing) and she says to me, "ARE YOU SMOKING POT AGAIN!!!?!?!" in the most hateful tone you can imagine. she says she could smell it. I should have just went off on her hypocritical ass. but w/e. she's my ma. She'll never know about my pot involvement as far as im concerned. there's no turning her mind to be open. so i dont bother. and she wonders why i live a thousand miles away.
My Dad and I were the same. One two subjects we Never talked about.
RasJeph looks like your getting it together.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: KaptKid]
#368473 - 02/20/10 08:38 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well grats on the OK from mommy dearest. I just told my parents last year the extent of what I have done and they did not trip but they were disappointed. my dad and I can talk about MJ reform and such now though without it being weird. they like your mom furrowed will never be for our cause. it is a moot point since they are hardcore mormon.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#368499 - 02/20/10 09:52 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Its all here. Germing 5 seeds right now...hoping for 3. If I get all 5...I guess I could figure out something to do with them...I can't just off them
A few more changes to my cabinet today, and as soon as these seeds pop, its right into some coir!
Update when the seeds get outta the dirt :]
Edit: Pokemon curtains, penguin sheets...ugh. My girlfriend may have moved out, but her attempts to cute-sify my room didn't. 
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Edited by RasJeph (02/20/10 09:53 AM)
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#368611 - 02/20/10 12:07 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Right on I got my happy frog today and mixed up a batch to repot the clones I will be flowering next, now I just need pots! Should be updating my log later tonight with pics and all
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#368728 - 02/20/10 02:36 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I got a burst of inspiration today, and converted my fucking closet lmfao.
My homie helped me make it...the bottom is my beer pong table, sawed off a little lol.
The bottles in the back are the quarts of FF nutes, for an idea of the size.
I started germing a few more seeds...since I expanded my space
I'll have to get some more lighting...but now I can cut some clones and have a mother too. I won't utilize this whole space at all...for now
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#369072 - 02/20/10 10:25 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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What size space is that?
Looks good.
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#371447 - 02/23/10 01:07 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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3 of 5 AK x Diesel seeds popped! 
Waiting on the troublemaker x widow.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#372061 - 02/23/10 10:47 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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groovey well this is my last stop before i pack my bedtime bowl and hit the lights so i will puff some good vibes your way.
i didn't, or rather am not going to look but are those feminized seeds? if not i'll cross my fingers and we'll see in a month aye?
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#372234 - 02/24/10 06:33 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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pha3r0 said:i didn't, or rather am not going to look but are those feminized seeds? if not i'll cross my fingers and we'll see in a month aye?
Yep! Cross your fingers for me haha.
I left them on top of my warm PC, and I'll be damned...they popped over night. The heat really REALLY helped.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#372239 - 02/24/10 07:01 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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temperature is everything when it comes to poppin seeds or rooting clones. something about that 80deg mark that's just magical. now go put those fuckers in some dirt!
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#372290 - 02/24/10 08:16 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I also germ'd some Troublemaker x White Widow for a mother plant...more popped than I expected. I have 4 of those now. That makes 7 plants total...I'm going to leave them in the coir for two weeks...and, after two weeks...I'll thin the herd and hope the ones I thinned were males...
I really only wanted 4 plants total (3 to grow and bud, one mother) but it looks like I got 7.
Betsy, Jenny, Ivory (ak x diesel) and Robin, Willow, Bambi and Melody (TM x WW).
Go girls, go!
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#372295 - 02/24/10 08:21 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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haha great. i got my first seeds from donated bagseed since i never keep any. i got seeds in every kind of germinating method you can think of. someone even gave me a vial full of some sort of fertilizer with a dozen seeds soaking in it. i just shook my head and said thanks but i don't think these will take, they didn't. but me i do the wash cloth to jiffy pellet method with most all kinds of seeds and the only ones that don't pop i figure were not viable to start with.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#372303 - 02/24/10 08:41 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Although I've never really done any serious growing, I've always germ'd my seeds (then fucked up, forgot about them, etc.) but I have always, always, always used the paper towel method.
I dunno. It just works, every time for me
An older friend of mine grows like 50 plants outdoors every year...he told me he gets straws and staples them to a board, and labels the board with whatever bag he had, and drops the seeds in until the straw is full. Sounds good to me.
I'm gonna go melt a bunch of snow and save it up in gallon jugs to water my plants with. I heard they love it...and theres a ton of it out there. And, I have a bunch of gallon jugs. Woo! How long will water last for, if its sealed in a jug?
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#372315 - 02/24/10 09:21 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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uhhhhh how long it lasts will depend on temperature and light exposure. I am assuming the only thing that will 'ruin' it though is algae and other shit that will be in it trying to grow. but if you seal em up and put em in a cold dark spot i would think very little would grow. you could also do a drop of bleach or hydrogen peroxide to sanitize it a bit.
bleach might stick around but if i am thinking right hydrogen peroxide breaks down in light quickly. anyone know for sure?
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#373960 - 02/26/10 07:16 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Turns out 5 gallons of snow melts down to only two gallons Ah well...theres plenty of it out there...
Anyway. Most of my girls have broken the soil now. It looks like Betsy is in the lead, but Ivory is a close second (shes just as tall, but hasn't opened her leaves). The others are just breaking out now. They go to sleep at 2, and its 9 now.
I counted my ladybugs. I have 5 :3
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#373962 - 02/26/10 07:18 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I tried melting snow one day when I ran out of fresh water. Fuck that shit! Never again.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: DrGreenThumb]
#373997 - 02/26/10 09:14 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I tried melting snow one day when I ran out of fresh water. Fuck that shit! Never again.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#374006 - 02/26/10 09:59 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's time consuming. When I did it I set my camp stove up with a giant pot we use for canning and boiling peanuts. then I just started shoveling snow in. did my buddies whole driveway and the sidewalk around his house and got a whopping 4 gallons. Moral of that story is distilled water costs .63 a gallon, propane is what 14 bucks a fill now? Save your back and your quarters and just buy it. Then you know its pure you know its right at 7 PH and you have lots of new pots haha. Actually knowing it's 7PH has been a godsend for me since I don't have a water tester yet. That means I can add the same amount of vinegar each time to adjust the PH. I don't know what I make it but I know it slightly lowers the soil PH each time and I know it doesn't kill or burn my plants so that's good enough.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: pha3r0]
#377196 - 03/02/10 05:33 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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My babies are a week old today. Some are seriously slacking...I might thin the herd soon and pray I only killed males...
Question. The auto-flowers seem to be doing fine...however, the other strain (troublemaker x ww) are stretching real bad and flopping over. I buried the stems and moved the lights closer (3 inches CFL's) and hoping that helps them out.
I'm thinking of maybe doing 24 hour lighting for the next few days, so I can get them off to a nice start.
Also - I fed them 1/4 strength Grow Big today. Maybe that will help too.
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RasJeph
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#386537 - 03/19/10 07:40 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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OK! Sorry for the lack of updates...
Today I have one confirmed female (but damn its small ) and its Betsy, my best looking plant! Woot!
Jenny is a fucking mutant for some reason. I looked up reasons for plant mutations...maybe I fed her too early I'm still not sure of her sex. Hopefully female as well.
Ivory is way behind. I also have a WWxTM that is about on par with Ivory, and a straight TM that just cracked the dirt.
I'm running the lights 24/7 now, with a few hour long bursts of the HPS (simply because I'm working on controlling the temperature with all the lights on at once).
As soon as Jenny shows her sex, I'll post pictures.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#386799 - 03/19/10 12:16 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sounds like you got hooked up by a friendly friend as well. I'll be checking in on this periodically, as we are both growing the same strain!
Sounds like you are going to have a good time doing this as well, good luck :]
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: hopanshrubman]
#393098 - 03/31/10 07:07 AM (14 years, 21 days ago) |
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Well, just checking back in. I'm sorry for the lack of photos - its all due to my camera being dead and losing the charger, as well as my paranoia 
However, tomorrow will be the 1 month birthday of my most successful plant...I'll post a picture of her tomorrow. At this point in time, I've moved her and my unknown sex WW x TM into the closet under the HPS. Still 24 hour light.
Still really hoping the WW x TM is a female...I'd really, really like her to be a mother plant. I can't even believe how fast its grown. Shes only about 2 weeks old, and is already a big bush
I have 2 other stragglers I started late, since I lost a bunch of my seedlings from too much light :P I guess I'll post their pictures too, but they aren't anything special. YET.
Anyway - pictures tomorrow! Promise :]
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#393643 - 04/01/10 07:29 AM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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An update, as promised. Again, sorry they were so slow. Also, important questions at the end!
First we have my favorite lady - Betsy. Shes one month old today, and one of the AK x D autoflowers. Shes getting pretty smelly, and still has a lot of time left 
Next up is Ivory, my second female AK x D. She showed her sex today, so I can guesstimate that she is about 16 days old (thats how old Betsy was when she first showed sex). Transplanted her this morning into a bigger pot.
Next up is Sandy, who is only 2 weeks old. She is a Troublemaker. Doing nicely...the last plant I didn't have in a bigger pot, so I moved her over this morning as well. Hoping shes a female so I can use her for clones.
Finally we have Robin...Robin is ONLY TWO WEEKS OLD (no shit!). She keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger I can't have her much bigger than this, so I decided to change her time to 12/12 now. I cut some clones that I'm hoping will work out, so when I find out if shes a female, I'll have some leftover to make a mother out of.
As you can see, Robin is a bit sick. I'm not too sure what this is, but I'm sure one of you guys will know what it is, and what to do. Thanks for any help you can offer.
One final question, perhaps the most important. I planted Robin in some very, very, very cheap soil. I "didn't want to waste" my FoxFarm...now I'm realizing that was fucking stupid, and I should just go for it and use it up - thats why I bought it.
Trouble is, shes in the biggest pot I have for her. I'm not sure exactly where her roots end...I can't just drop her into a bigger pot with FF in it...so, how do I get her out of this shitty soil, dump it, refill with FF and put her back without hurting her? She hasn't been in this new soil for more than like 4 days, thank god.
Is it possible?
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! [Re: RasJeph]
#394475 - 04/02/10 08:55 AM (14 years, 19 days ago) |
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If you don't have a lot of the good FF soil, cut it a little with the cheap stuff to stretch it out.
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Re: RasJephs First (serious) Grow! Guilt Update with new pics (jewelers loupe) [Re: RasJeph]
#407998 - 04/28/10 07:27 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well, I feel really bad...because the donator of these seeds simply asked for a grow-log in return...which I have been neglecting 
I feel really bad...its just...ya know...
So, heres some zoomed in pics from my loupe. Apparently, the camera sees it differently than the eye...because I see it a lot more zoomed in
Ah well. They still came out badass. These are from Ivory, who is 2 weeks behind Betsy...but she looks like she ended up aging faster.
So, from what you see there...would you call the trichs milky, or clear? I can see them closer, but I can't really tell. I assume I'll be able to tell milky from amber, which is what my main concern is anyway.
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