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[Pothead420]

off to a good start

 

[thedonofchronic]

Here they are at one week

 

[MeNtAlPaTiEnT]

Some nice happy babies you got there :ccc:

 

[lordhighlama]

looks like the pinching has helped already,, they have noticeable growth since yesterday. There bound to start taking off soon now.
well until next time... :48:

 

[swiftgt]

yea pinching seems to sort any streching probs your having,
i like to pinch the side branchs aswell,it makes cutting root faster and lowers internodel spacing,
it also makes the stem much bigger and wider which from what i have seen deff makes the buds on those branchs bigger,
just make sure not to pinch too hard! you can snap the stems in half by over doing it! if you do dont panic,
get a little bit of sticky tape wrap it around the split, just remember to remove it in a week or so,
so it doesnt become a stem restriction!
i have nothing but good results from pinching!

 

[swiftgt]

oh yea and i dont tend to pinch the growning tip as much as the stem
because it seems to cause damage to the leaves when there tiny that looks like insect attack when they get bigger! but it isnt! took me a week to figure that out!

 

[thedonofchronic]

yeah i agree pinching has given me great
results too every time ive done it. great
knowing that i can do it on seedlings now thanks
swift it works great. i want to keep these as short and
bushy as i can and make moms out of the fems. Then
work on my cloning skills. im building a bubble cloner but
im just missing those perfect foam pieces that have a slit in
them that you can slide the cutting into, im sure a hardware store
would have what i need for it im not sure. plus since i have a bunch
of jiffy pellets ill probably end up trying a few cuttings in there too.

 

[swiftgt]

im glad it works for you too man!
yea im keeping mine nice and short and cloning off them!
i had the same problem when i was building my bubbler, i couldnt find those neoprene bungs anywhere, so i used a rubber car mat,
cut it down to size and cut x's to match the holes in the bubbler,
works fine, and is easy to get the clones out with out root damage,

 

[thedonofchronic]

i could see a difference today when i check on them
the stems are sturdier now and theres new growth.
ill probably put them into bigger pots in a few days..

 

[lordhighlama]

i could see a difference today when i check on them
the stems are sturdier now and theres new growth.
ill probably put them into bigger pots in a few days..

Yep you can definitely see some new growth today. What size are you going to transplant into?

 

[thedonofchronic]

Yep you can definitely see some new growth today. What size are you going to transplant into?

thanks lama. im not sure exactly what the pot size is. ive got tons
of 16oz cups, five 4gal pots, and five of the size in between. So im thinking on friday theyll be ready to transplant.
Theyre drinking water like crazy unless its the light drying out the soil.
And i put up a wall that can easily be taken taken out of the grow room, the walls made from a sheet of thin wood and has mylar on it. It gave them a boost of lumens, from taking some of the light i was wasting and throwing it right where it should be :hubba:

 

[swiftgt]

go with the bigest size pots you have!
good work getting the mylar in there, thats bound to help,
yep you can deff see how much stronger your plants are,
it looks like they've been working out!

 

[lordhighlama]

yep what swift said, the bigger the pot the happier the plant!

 

[thedonofchronic]

Heres the pics from today, nothing noticably new.
Leaves curled up a little so i raised my light back up a touch. :ciao:

 

[lordhighlama]

ooohhh starting to take shape I see, are they digging the mylar addition?

 

[thedonofchronic]

thanks homie, ive always had mylar up, but ive been losing
light because of the way my room is setup. ive had to do different
things to make it work the way i want it to. So i built a wall with mylar on it
so the space is much smaller and my 400 is in the size space it should be.
Ive been thinking about getting another 400 hps to add right beside my
other one. Which would give me more heat to deal with but ALOT more lumens... id be pushing like 8k per foot or something im not sure.
So they look like theyre takin shape you think? do you think theyre well proportioned or what? i dont really want to pinch them anymore for a while, i want the energy focused on everything else. but i just dont want tall skinny lanky plants

 

[swiftgt]

there looking good today don!
nice work!

 

[swiftgt]

yea more light is always a good thing!
go for it man,
what size is your grow room don?
do you have an extractor fan and carbon filter?
they look good don, i would pinch them now and then, just to keep the height down,oh and dont forget to pinch the side branches that you want to clone, about 2/3 days before you want to cut them,

 

[lordhighlama]

thanks homie, ive always had mylar up, but ive been losing
light because of the way my room is setup. ive had to do different
things to make it work the way i want it to. So i built a wall with mylar on it
so the space is much smaller and my 400 is in the size space it should be.
Ive been thinking about getting another 400 hps to add right beside my
other one. Which would give me more heat to deal with but ALOT more lumens... id be pushing like 8k per foot or something im not sure.
So they look like theyre takin shape you think? do you think theyre well proportioned or what? i dont really want to pinch them anymore for a while, i want the energy focused on everything else. but i just dont want tall skinny lanky plants

Maybe when you transplant this weekend just bury the stem up to your first set of leaves, it will take care of the little stretch you have and help support them at the same time.

 

[thedonofchronic]

heres the flicks
new growth since yesterday