Indoor 400w MI5 grow/seed run + photo OG Kush lst

[Afrikaaner]

well it's been a while, and there are some new (sad) developments. First, after a bunch of days of waiting for my OG Kush to pop it's shell off, I felt it necessary to attempt surgery. I was able to cut the husk off with relative ease, but inside it was black and dead looking. I left it to see what would happen, but nothing did, so I declared it dead. Then 3 of my Mi5's dried out while I was at work and died (gonna chalk this one up to my first time with an HID light). However the rest were able to survive and look very healthy right now. I also got my noise issue under control with some heavily insulated ducts, so now all i have to deal with is a gentle whisper which my computer fans drown out.

So without further delays, it's PICTURE TIME!

This is them on the 8th:


These are the survivors taken just moments ago:




this guy seems to be pushing the side growth rather heavily. I like this. if this trend continues, i will probably use this to make seeds


and just for comparison to the picture above, this is the plant with the next largest side growth:


This guy has some strange burn/decay/something on it, and it started as the leaf was growing in. hopefully it's nothing, i'm not too worried:




also, the plants seem to be outgrowing their containers way too fast! as you can see, the roots are starting to grow into the soil below, but when i move them to water them, whatever small roots that started growing get broken off. i didn't think this would hurt too much, but wasn't sure if i should consider putting the cups on plastic trays instead of more soil to prevent the roots from trying to grow down into the next pot.

 

[Afrikaaner]

So with my OG Kush passed on, I remembered I had some free seeds. I have 2 feminized ones from Samsara Seed company: Holy Grail 69 and Thunder Bloody Mary Automatic (TBMA). I put the Holy Grail 69 in a solo cup and watered thoroughly. I didn't feel like doing the wet towel thing, and figured I'd try the old natural way for a change :ama: . I figure I'll start the TBMA when the MI5 are getting ready to come down, then let that grow with the Holy Grail in veg (with hopefully some more MI5 from seeds!). Or something. We'll see what happens.

OH! and I keep forgetting to post this pathetic thing... this is my ENTIRE summer's outdoor harvest :cry: The hurricanes/insects destroyed everything except this one wee bit of Burmese Kush:

 

[JM]

OH! and I keep forgetting to post this pathetic thing... this is my ENTIRE summer's outdoor harvest :cry: The hurricanes/insects destroyed everything except this one wee bit of Burmese Kush:

oh i know the feeling bro... had quite a few plants put this year... lot 75% of yields to bur rot and early harvest as a result... sorry to hear mate! hopefully next year.... thnks be to the canna gods for what we DID get... :smokebuds:

 

[Afrikaaner]

Mmm just decided to bury my nose in my plants and they have a bit of a smell to them. right now i'd describe it as sharp funk. and it's stuck on my nose haha. every room in my place smells like sharp funk!

anyway, i fed them the other day, they seemed to like it. i have 2 "runts" right now, but i have faith they'll turn out fine.

My big question of the day however is do you think it's worth removing the "suckers" lower on the main stem if they are smaller than the "suckers" further up the stem? I have 1 or 2 plants where the new growing tips from the second node are looking healthier and more developed than the growing tips from node 1. Would this allow the already larger/better growing tips to do better since there is less competition for resources?

 

[Afrikaaner]

well 5 of my plants showed sex today! 4 female one male

the one male is the most vigorous plant i have thus far, so i'm glad to have a very solid looking father. i "transplanted" the sexed females (cut the bottom of the cup off and buried a little in 2 gallon pots) and i'm considering how best to isolate the male plant before he blows his load all over the ladies. i'll probably set up the plate tomorrow and just keep him under a cfl for a few more days. the only thing i'm curious about is that i thought MI5 took about 4 weeks to show sex, not 2 and a half? anything worth pondering?

also, one of the original seedlings i thought i killed pulled through and is now pushing new growth! he's a pathetic little guy, but i couldn't kill him until he was dead. and since this guy is so delayed in growth, it might shed some light on how these autoflower plants are triggered (is it related to the number of nodes? age? swamp gas?).

anyway, here's what you came for, pictures of plants. hopefully in the coming weeks i'll have some bud porn! cheers!


one of the female's naughty bits:

the poor bastard who's pulling through!

hairy plant balls

and the one that seems larger than the rest, that's the male (front row, second from the right)

oh yeah, and on the last picture, the reason i didn't have 4 females buried was because i took this picture before i spotted the 4th female hehe. just so no one calls me a liar!

 

[Afrikaaner]

Samsara Holy Grail popped her head out this morning.

 

[Griever]

looking ok bro i say goodluck mate

 

[alton956]

@Afrikaaner are you getting any sort of smell from the plants? is it a heavy or barely noticeable one? im just wondering if odor control is something i should think about if getting the mi5s

 

[Afrikaaner]

alton, i don't get much smell yet, but they JUST started flowering. if i brush them, i can smell them, but it's nothing crazy, just that kind of sharp funk smell i was trying to describe earlier. i wouldn't be surprised if later on they started to stink up a bit. i think i may have read that they do smell a bit later on, but nothing too strong. ask me again in 4 weeks, and we'll see how it's doing...

 

[Afrikaaner]

also alton, check out this thread. i don't know if he mentions the smell, but you can always ask him:

http://www.autoflower.org/f5/mi5-led-t5-grow-1970.html