K2 Started on 12/31

[laylow6988]

Wow, they are really doing good. I was trying really hard not to flower mine yet. But you are making it sooooo hard on me!

 

[moneyme]

I might not have enough room as it is. I had no choice. And they're still gonna grow probably 10-20 more inches!! Do you have a grow journal for yours?

 

[moneyme]

Did you ever talk to a girl everyday for like a month and got real close to her and then out of nowhere she tells you she's a man! That's pretty much how this is. lol

Looked in there last night and it confirmed my suspicion, the one was a male all along. So I snipped him out very carefully and brought him in the kitchen for one last photosession, then I snipped him up and attempted to make hash from him. Not enough chromies though.

Then today I woke up and completely redid the whole growspace for one plant. I made it smaller, installed the fan hanging to the left where it moves much more air than it did before. Hid my do it yourself co2 bottles out of the way and cleaned up a few wires. I'll update at 2 am when the lights come back on.

 

[moneyme]

What the hell, here's a few more pics. 1st one shows the new and improved growspace. I got a little LST goin on in the 2nd pic. It might be kinda hard to see, but I'm using metal coat hangers that I clipped down to size. I have the two tops bent so the others can catch up.

 

[newgreenthumb]

Did you ever talk to a girl everyday for like a month and got real close to her and then out of nowhere she tells you she's a man! That's pretty much how this is. lol

Looked in there last night and it confirmed my suspicion, the one was a male all along.

Sorry to hear about you dilema. I have one of my three that I know for sure is a girl but the other two are in flower now and I hope they are ladies too. Any "hermies or transvestite" aka "Rosie O' Donnell" plants will be dealt with severely. They will be sentenced to the guillotine, murder dem suckas!

 

[moneyme]

You know what sucks too, now that the male is gone it doesn't hardly stink anymore. That f***er was the one stinking so bad.

 

[newgreenthumb]

Hey have you tried using living teas yet? If you are interested than check "Elephant Man's" grow journal. That guy kicks *** when it comes to organics. To my understanding organics have less of a chance to burn the plants from overnuting. Its sort of like feeding the soil and not the plant, the soil life will do that for you. :farm:

 

[moneyme]

I haven't tried any teas, but there's like 30% worm castings in my medium. It's the only nutes in there, no potting soil, well except for the one time so far I gave it Tiger Bloom. I've always had bad luck using potting soil with bugs and too many nutes in it for smaller plants and what not. I was thinking about making a tea for foliar feeding but don't really know how yet. I still got some worm castings left or should I use something else?

 

[moneyme]

Just checking in to say my only plant has just been verified as a female. It's got like 6-8 hairs so far and it's starting to stink real good.

 

[moneyme]

She's looking real healthy and strong. The fan hasn't turned off in over a month now so the stems are getting nice and thick. She's been doing some stretching the past few days and I'm out of room heightwise. My only alternative is to rig the light to the shelf in the closet to gain another 6-10 inches. I only did the LST for like one day and now I have four tops. Here's a few pics from last night.

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

She's looking real healthy and strong. The fan hasn't turned off in over a month now so the stems are getting nice and thick. She's been doing some stretching the past few days and I'm out of room heightwise. My only alternative is to rig the light to the shelf in the closet to gain another 6-10 inches. I only did the LST for like one day and now I have four tops. Here's a few pics from last night.

Whats going on moneyme. Your lady friend is looking real nice. If you are running out of room you can always tie her down and i'm sure she won't mind.

 

[newgreenthumb]

Just checking on ya grow and its still doing good mang!

 

[moneyme]

Whats going on moneyme. Your lady friend is looking real nice. If you are running out of room you can always tie her down and i'm sure she won't mind.

Hmm, I'm not really familliar with that. Any advice?

 

[moneyme]

I just raised the light 8-9 inches which is the absolute max I can do. She can grow about another 4 inches without the heat affecting her. She just got measured at 24.5" high and fed with Tiger Bloom for the soil and a weak solution for foliar feeding.

 

[moneyme]

When is she gonna stop growing?!? 5 days ago I reported she was 24 inches, now she's 35 inches!!! She grew 11 inches in 5 days!!! It might have something to do with the Tiger Bloom I've been giving it. I was very busy this past weekend and when I finally could check on her last night she was all the way up touching the glass under my light. I just installed brackets to the shelf in the closet to raise the light another 7-8 inches but how long will that give me, another 3 days before it's too tall again? I thought a strain that's indica dominant doesn't grow much after flowering begins? Here's a link to the info on K2 : http://www.nirvana-shop.com/k2-p-48.html .

As far as health wise, aside from some slight curling of the top leaves due to heat she's doing absolutely great! There's buds all over the place and looks as though they will be some tight buds when it's all done.

 

[StonedCold]

I realize I'm still pretty knew at this, but if you are beginning to run out of room with approximately 1/4 of your flowering time done... I suggest getting some cheap lamp wirings. You can pop some CFL's into them and dangle the chord from the ceiling. I am suggesting this because you can get the light even closer to the plant than the HPS you appear to be using, and it won't burn the plant. The closeness of the CFL's should help keep your K2 even more compact also avoiding future problems. In addition, if your plant did continue to grow rapidly, into the CFL's, it wouldn't be a problem cause they do not get substantially hot enough to damage your crop and you get extra lumens....

From what I've read though, the first 2/3 weeks into flowering produce the greatest vertical changes so you are almost done with excessive growth, and the last 1/2 weeks, the greatest weight changes (buudddddd).

Just a thought from a beginner trying to learn the ropes.

 

[moneyme]

I hope I'm not jumping the gun but I may have just made it past the growing spurt. She was 35 inches yesterday when I wrote here and she's still 35.5 inches so I may be in luck. The top of the plant is about 11 inches from the bottom of the bulb and it seems to be safe. One thing I noticed is there's one bud about half way down that has orange hairs already. I can't figure out why that would happen. But overall this looks like very fast flowering strain. The last few strains I grew took like a month of flowering to get where this one's at now after only 2 weeks. By the way, can the leaves that curled from the heat uncurl?

 

[StonedCold]

Unlikely but possible. At this point, the plant is focusing on bud production, not leaf regeneration and appearance. If they are burned bad, no chance. Curling but green, once again, unlikely...

 

[moneyme]

Well she's definitely done growing taller. The buds are getting nice and dense, but I'm sure she's got a lot left in her. These are some pics from yesterday. Oh yeah, StonedCold you were right, them leaves don't seem to be uncurling. I'll give you some rep points for that one.:headbang:

 

[newgreenthumb]

They seems to be pretty sativa dominant. Looking mighty good I must say! :farm: