4 weeks flowering, dried out spotty blotchy brittle leaves, hmmm? - january 31 2010

not sure if i should be concerned or not

this isn't just happening on fan leaves, it's happening on some of the smaller leaves jutting out from the flowers, any ideas?

not my cut - impressive panama-sedena red

this isn't mine

it's so red!

they are calling it panama-sedena red

it is supposed to be a hybrid which is 1/2 panama red

bud closeups - january 29 2010

trying to get some good closeups here, in order of appearance, hindu skunk, xj13, 2 trainwreck pics

closeup of the crystally runt trainwreck - january 25 2010

here's a closeup!

pics right after the lights go out - january 25 2010

a few shots a minute or 2 after it was lights out time for them, shhh ZZZzzz...

hindu skunk, tasty!!


one of the xj13 colas tied down, touching the wall a tad


the xj13 bent and tied down, hope they bend back up quickly and don't stress!


the most crystally bud so far, it's on the smallest plant, a trainwreck, can't wait to taste this one


group shot, you can see a lot more clearly that the top of the xj13 has a few more inches of clearance from the light =)

tie that girl down! january 25 2010

so the xj13 was getting out of control

it's a beautiful plant, but so bloody tall!

i still remember a few weeks back, about 1 week into flowering, woke up at 7am when the lights go on and watered, all was well, got back from work with just 15 minutes to spare till it was lights out time for the girls, i opened the door and took a look....HOLY FRICKIN' CRAP! the xj13 had put on like 3 inches on 3 of the shoots, so i then had 3 main colas that i knew would cause me issues

on the advice of mi madre and a couple kind folks on the riu forums, i had decided to tie the girl down and attempt to train it in mid flower

i was worried because i do not want to stress these girls out, i have never gotten a grow anywhere near as close as these girls are right now, so i'm walking on eggshells with them

anyways, i tied her down, gained a few more inches of clearance between the tops and the light, i will be adjusting and re tying down on a daily basis, as needed. if the bends end up having too much weight on them, then i can makeshift a support tied onto the gardening stakes i suppose

without further ado, here we can see i have much more ceiling clearance!

must rig up lamp to be higher and some flowering pics with orginal gameboy for scale - january 24, 2010

as you can see below, i have an issue with the lamp being raised up all the way, and one of the plants getting dangerously close

one idea is to drill into the ceiling panel, use some loop bolts, hang the light off of those, that would give me 1 1/2 - 2 more inches, hoping that will be enough

if it isn't enough, then i might be forced to bend the tallest plant, it's the xj13 by the way, i really don't want to attempt any bending/training while they are in flowering, lest they get stressed and ruin all the hard work thus far


here is a grouping of pictures showing each plant from a top view, with an original gameboy in the midst for scale, this is an original gameboy, the biggest sized one, don't get confused because it's yellow and not gray, this is NOT a gameboy pocket or gameboy color, without further ado

hindu skunk plants



xj13


trainwreck plants

growing growing growing - january 19 2010

some better pics of the flowering, i've deduced that i have to take the plant out from under the grow lamp in order to get a half way decent pic with our cam

hindu skunk


xj13


trainwreck - i have 2 of these, this one, which is the scrawnier one, has much denser buds than the other, more trichomes too, this is going to be one frosty little girl! makes me wish i was able to let them veg longer and get a bit larger ;)

truckin' right along - january 18 2010

sloooowly budding =)

xj13


hindu skunk


the girls


nice buds forming, thank the good lord for beautiful plants =)


that's it for now, happy farming!

flowers slowly gettin' bigger, a couple trained trainwreck shots - january 12 2010

things are slowly moving right along, flowers are growing a bit more each day, these girls seem to be wanting more water as well =) all signs of great health

here is a shot of the whole grow, i moved the light up a tad more right after i took this, don't want anything touching the light with sudden growth spurts



okay, here are a couple pics of the flowers growing




here are the same flowers as above, with flash turned on



lastly, here are a few shots of the trainwreck plants, you can see the bends from the training, i'll probably have to stake these guys up when the flowers get bigger and heavier

it's amazing how much they can bend

stretching seems to be done - january 10 2010

small update, the stretch appears to have stopped at this point

the xj13 plant that had stretched a lot and was beginning to bend over it's 3 top colas, has now straightened upright reaching for the lamp, had me a little worried at first but now it is all good =)

flowers in effect - january 8 2010

massive stretching today! i checked this morning, and when i got back from work there has been several inches of growth!

on top of that, the flowers are beginning to flower! hooray!

this is the xj13, it looks like my training worked and i got 3 main colas now instead of just the 1 main cola =) the little bit of extra weight has then tipping a tiny bit, may need to get some support sticks this weekend!



here's a couple random pics, you can see some small flowers showing up!