New Grower First Grow - White Dwarf Autofem - Indoors

[FooManBlue]

Day 25 update

All three plants continue to flourish. The two tallest are still long and leggy, but doing well. The smallest of the three is also doing very well, but is quite different from the other two, even though they are all of the same strain (White Dwarf from Buddha Seeds). The runt is only 9" tall (the other two are 163/4" and 14" tall), and is much bushier than the two taller plants. As noted in an earlier post, it also showed alternating nodes early on. For example, one of the leaves from the 2nd set of true leaves has only one finger (the other from that set has 3 fingers) and is very oddly shaped, and appears to branch off from the main stem where the first set of true leaves branch off. In the 3rd set of true leaves, she has a 4-fingered leaf opposite a 5-fingered leaf. The 4th set of true leaves are comprised of two 5-fingered leaves, but both the 5th and 6th sets of true leaves are comprised of a 5-fingered leaf opposite a 7-fingered leaf. Additionally, after the 3rd set of true leaves, the nodes no longer alternate. Has anyone ever seen that before? Mutant plant?

 

[FooManBlue]

Lol. Just found the thread linked below. Read my post above, about my mutant plant, before checking out this thread. Just had to laugh. :thumbs:


https://www.autoflower.org/f10/white-dwarf-mutant-1266.html

 

[bgrt]

hopefully it spits out as many buds anyway

 

[FooManBlue]

hopefully it spits out as many buds anyway

Was thinking the same. That grow turned out well, didn't it(?) Just peeked in on them, as "lights out" just started, and the runt plant is doing very well. With the two taller, leggy plants i'll no doubt apply some LST to those.

 

[FooManBlue]

Day 28 Update

These pictures were actually taken yesterday, but had some major tent/equipment changes to make right after I took them, so couldn't get them posted here until now.

All three ladies continue to do very well, with over an inch of vertical growth each day during the past week. The tallest plant is now 24 inches tall. Appears to be entering the early stages of preflowering, but still only feeding them vegetative nutes.

 

[FooManBlue]

Tent Changes

Still a day behind in posting pics, as I took these yesterday (day 29). At least one of the pics shows the equipment changes I made Saturday night. Swapped out the Xtrasun reflector I had been using for the first 4 weeks for a Blockbuster 6". The Blockbuster is actually recommend for 4' x 4' grow areas, and my tent is a 3' x 3' DR90 II, so was a little concerned when I first placed it into my tent (before I started hooking up the exhaust). There is only 3-4" space between the edges of the square base of the reflector and the inside edges of my tent. Lol. After I got everything hooked up and bumped my ballast up to 400w, from the 250w I had been running for the first 4 weeks, I was extremely happy with my choice. Every inch of the tent below the reflector is covered in light. The plants are absolutely drenched in light. Also gives me more area to work with to spread plants out and apply LST to the ladies.

All three plants continue to do very well. The mutant "runt" is now over 16" tall. Other than the bleaching I witnessed a couple of weeks back (lights too close?), i've only seen some isolated spotting on two of the plants. The spotting, which first appeared a few days ago, only affects two leaves (one leaf on each of two seperate nodes) on each of two plants. The pics show the fours affected leaves. Any ideas what may have caused these?

 

[FooManBlue]

Day 31 Update

All three ladies continue to do well. Still in pre-flowering stage. Vertical growth seems to have slowed, but not stopped. The 2nd tallest plant (back row, left side in group pic, below) measured 21" tall this morning, and the runt (back, right) stood 17" tall. The tallest plant measured 24" tall three days ago, so I took advantage of the increased light coverage in the tent after the equipment changes by applying some LST to her. New bud sites are appearing every day. I counted at least 13 legit bud sites on each plant right before posting this - 39 bud sites over three plants so far.

Anyone have an idea of what may caused the spotting displayed in the previous set of pics I posted? Thanks in advance for any input.

 

[FooManBlue]

Day 35 Update

After five weeks of growth, plants still doing well. At least 20 bud sites on each of the three ladies. More light yellow spots have appeared on a few of the bigger fan leaves on two of the plants - still haven't figured out what caused these (bugs?). Over the last four days, vertical growth has slowed to 1/4" to 1/2" per day (from the 1" to 2" per day over the two weeks before that). Fed them just ph'd bubble water a couple of days ago, and plan on giving them their first (light) dose of flowering nutes in two or three days (about week 51/2). Will switch to HPS (400w) from MH (400w) tonight during the four-hour "lights out" period.

 

[FooManBlue]

Day 42 Update

Six weeks of growth completed as of today. All three plants are doing very well, despite the soil PH issues. The LST'd plant reached 24" tall two weeks ago (when I first applied LST to her), the 2nd tallest plant is now 25" tall, and the runt/mutant is now 24" tall. Vertical growth has nearly stopped all together. I'm guessing I have about 41/2 to 5 weeks to go on the LST'd plant and the 2nd tallest plant, and 51/2 to 6 weeks to go on the runt (back row, on the right side in the group pic below). Sorry for not posting natural light pics, but I would rather not disturb (untie and then re-tie) the LST'd plant at the front of the tent. Though the crappy pics don't show it very well, the bud sites on all three plants are getting very frosty.

 

[FooManBlue]

Soil PH finally coming around

Just fed the three ladies and generated runoff that measured 5.45, 6.03, and 6.23. Water going in was 6.70. Well, two out of three isn't bad. Huge improvement over last measuring, first time any of them measured above 5.85 during the last three weeks . All three plants are developing very well, despite the low soil ph issue. They having about 5 to 6 weeks to go. Now all of them are frosty, at least at the top, while the LST'd plant (the one with the lowest soil ph) appears coated with sugar pretty much from top to bottom.