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

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a little over 3 hours, and there is a huge noticeable difference on a few plants! i love watching ferts/watering work their magic :wiz:
 
figured out how to take proper pictures. check out some prettiness! (imgur for easy full resolution images. totally worth it imo)

http://imgur.com/a/8pdFM

ok imgur used to be "click the image and see full res" and now it doesnt seem to be. you can still dl the full res image, but bleh...i'll find some new place then later. gotta go get goodies!
 
well nothing exciting to report. i am so impatient and it's driving me mad. day 36 for those who are keeping score (5 weeks otherwise). time keeps on ticking ticking ticking, into the future. no trichs yet, maybe in a week or 2, who knows? i watered/fed today again, i had VERY acidic water/ferts today, i'm not sure why. i had to add in 100+ drops of pH up. naturally i was suspicious, but my plants don't look upset. i will give them clean water next time for sure.

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it looks like they might be pushing some new growth, i don't really know though. seems like a boring week in their life cycle, nothing exciting has happened. 2 are still getting mildly taller, 4 are about the same height with different branching structures, 1 is really squat and there is nothing i can do about it, another is more of a regular dwarf autoflower kind of structure right now. the tallest (in the family photo, bottom left corner) one looks like a more sativa pheno based on the spaced out nodes and random little patches of bud which i'm hoping stretch into nice chunks of nuggetry. there are some leaves that look kind of black in the hps light, but not really in flash or other light. maybe i'm just seeing things... random thought/question has anyone ever noticed a correlation between their preflower sizes and calyx sizes? because some of the preflowers are just comically huge. :peace:
 
what started off as me taking out one plant to get a closer look at some leaf damage turned into a field trip for the family, and i took pictures of them all, just to show the different growth patterns. here they are in order from the top left of a family photo (the super short one) going clockwise with what i figured would be the most easily recognized tool for reference (everyone seems to have these clippers!)

this girl is super short, but has some REALLY chunky nuggets forming from what i can tell. i can't wait!
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this was my original favorite, but right now i have no favorites, because they all look awesome! the main cola does look extremely promising
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the top right plant in the usual family photo
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this one was growing towards the light as just a single cola, so i moved it maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago so it was growing away from the light hoping the side shoots would get some light. maybe it worked, maybe i made things worse, but it's a funny looking plant now :D
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this looks like your generic autoflower. it was one of the ones i thought looked "hardier" than the others and was growing slowly. it's still the second shortest, but it quickly outpaced the smallest one i have, though the buds on the super short one look so much more awesome.
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this one i would describe as my most sativa one. it's my tallest and has longer internodes with little clusters of nuggetry.
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just interesting to note how our autoflower strains, while relatively consistent in some aspects, can really be quite a non-homogenized group. i know plenty of photoperiod strains suffer the same issues (especially some of the more potentially incredible strains), but at least with those, you can get a mother and have EXACTLY the same plant. I think as autoflower pioneers, we should focus our energy towards creating very homogeneous strains so that we can know almost exactly how each plant is going to behave since we lack the ability to have mother plants. just my 2 cents. whatever your opinion, :peace:
 
(I wanna flyyyy like an eagle!) Lol sorry just read your post with the steve miller band quote. Girls are looking great man! Is the MI5 the bigger plant? Im about to start one, and im considering LST of the MI5 but then again I never see anyone do it, I guess its just a main cola plant?
 
(I wanna flyyyy like an eagle!) Lol sorry just read your post with the steve miller band quote. Girls are looking great man! Is the MI5 the bigger plant? Im about to start one, and im considering LST of the MI5 but then again I never see anyone do it, I guess its just a main cola plant?

hehe thanks man! these are all MI5 actually. my OG Kush seed turned to mush and died, so i started a free seed Holy Grail 69, but i'm not documenting that one here really. i'm just messing around with her. but i do want to get some good photos to play with and lst the hell out of :D
 
so here we are on exactly the 42 day mark (exactly 6 weeks). i didn't take a lot of pictures because...uhh, well i guess i don't really know why, but they're starting to get a little frosty here and there on some leaves (started maybe about 5 days ago). i'm gonna go smoke and see if i either fall asleep or go take more pictures.

Also, I want to play a game. based on the pictures above of the individual plants and my family shots, (remember, the individual pics above go in order clockwise from the top left plant in the usual family shots i take) i want you to guess very prematurely as to which plant will yield the most. everyone who get's it right gets +rep!

the family pic!
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oh yeah and i fed today about 3/4 strength or so. threw some big bloom in for kicks and giggles.
 
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sorry about the hiatus, i've been a bit busy travelling the atlantic northeast the past couple weeks, and right now i'm still recovering from my stupendous three days of thanksgiving feasts hehe and finally had the chance this morning to snap some pics and upload them (including a few from last week). but the whole being busy thing was great for distracting me from the seemingly interminable flowering period :D

i have been feeding the past 2 weeks i think nearly full strength, they were suffering from that calcium deficiency which i think i finally took care of (haven't seen any more damage forming) with 1 soil feeding and 1 foliar feeding (several days after the soil feeding after more damage was forming) of Cal Mag.
I think i caused more damage giving the soil feeding of cal mag because i foolishly mixed it with regular flowering nutes (at a slightly lower strength), but i think i read somewhere that mixing cal-mag with regular nutes might cause precipitates to form which are of no use to the plant. so who knows, but like i said i think i've got that sorted out. anyway, with about 2.5 weeks left, I started giving them just water yesterday, and i'm thinking of blowing cool air from the outside into my closet to try and purple these ladies up, but we'll have to see how much i can handle as well, seeing as i sleep in the same room hehe.

they are still pushing some new growth, almost exclusively at the very tips of the flowers, but some other random places too. i kinda hope i get some foxtailing, but it doesn't look like i will.

anyway, here's what i assume you all came for...
these are from the 21th (the last day of week 6, day 42)
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and from today (day 54, end of week 7)
FAMILY PHOTO!!!
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this is that super short chunky MI5 (number 1, or the top left in the family photo):
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i lol'd at the inefficiency of the way this leaf grew:
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this is the one i thought looked more sativa like (number 6 or the bottom left of the family photo):
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this is some of the "popcorn bud" on the lower branches :D
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this is number 2. whole plant looks like one big cola:
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:peace:
 
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hey Afrikaaner just dropping by to look at your awesome ladies! they seem to be coming along just fine. ikd if you remembered a few weeks back i had asked if there was any smell in you grow room yet and you said it was faint but to ask when flowering was happening..well are they some stinky bitches now?!? lol
 
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