Thought I'd start a diary type thread and keep all my random newbie mumblings in one place

My unknown plants appear to be recovering from their surgery.. In my newbie ignorance, I didn't know about topping or cropping, LST'ing or 12/12 flowering and before I knew it I had 2x 5' monsters on my hands in a 5' greenhouse that weren't yet in flower... So I did something to them.. I'm not sure if you guys call it croping topping or whatever, maybe you call it newbie stupidity.. Anyways they got bent over and tied down.. both stems snapped badly but something is getting through as the new growth is pointing skywards and nothing has died yet.. Started covering the greenhouse with an old gazebo cover a couple of weeks ago but didn't think it was working so bought myself new greenhouse big enough to cover the plants only.. Been doing that for 3 nights now.. I Think I have flower.. noticed today at the top of one of the stems.. looks different to new leaf growth and has lots of hairy bits Will take a macro shot of it tomorrow in daylight..

Recieved my 3x fem LRs yesterday so popped them iin wet tissue in the airing cupboard and this morning I have 3 little tadpoles I have popped them into some soil and put back in the airing cupboard today, will bring them out into the light tomorrow and hopefully I will see them pop up quite soon.. The reason for me growing the LRs ..? I was losing faith in my monsters after snapping the stems.. too late to start anything else I thought and curious to see the midget variety grow

Sooo thats how it stands today.. Will leave with a couple of photos..

Final picture is toadie who has taken up residence in the greenhouse Sometimes when I go inside, he hops underneath and sits outside as pictured, other times he stays to watch me.

Best of luck to you all Nat x

Anddddddddddd newbie stupidity strikes again.. I think this might have to be moved to grow diaries?? So sorry admin.. Can it be moved? Please?
Nat x

Toady is so cute.

Except I now think Toadie is actually Froggy.. He was back there this morning, I found a few worms and he chomped them up pretty quick Nat x

Rightttt.. Few pics to add First up is Toadie/Froggy, he was paying me another visit so I got a nice shot of him ! Also my baby auto's 3 days after sprouting..

Next up is my unknown strain in flower yippieeeeeeee, well at least I THINK its in flower.. please could anyone in the know take a guess at how far in,, I think just a week, 2 at most? I don't know what they are therefore have no idea what to expect from them.. Also sorry for the picture quality, I will try to get some in outdoor sunlight in the next few days.. Had to hide them in the bedroom today as had family visiting who I knew would want to snoop in the greenhouse

Last 2 pictures.. These 'hair bits' are appearing mostly at the tips of stems but starting to appear all over the plant now and getting hairier by the day

Lookin good bro.

I am happy to confirm that the pictures you have provided illustrate a female plant flowering "like fuck".






Rainman.

Woohooooooooooooooooooooo My first ever grow so just to have kept them alive was a miracle, but now I've made em flower Ok, so now to KEEP them alive for the next however many weeks.. Already broken one stem!! Do you guys have any idea when I can stop the 12/12 without them reverting back to veg now? Its pretty awkward covering them up because their outside so I'd love to be able to stop that as soon as I can...
Thanks guys and best of luck with your own, Me x

The purpose of 12/12 is to influence the plant into producing flowers, the part you want to dry and smoke; so if that is your intention you will need to be covering them till our daylight hours drop to 12 at around the end of sept for england. The work is worth it don't lose faith
TBS
edit as half asleep and gave wrong asnwer

Looks like you doing a good job there Nat

Good luck

SL

Thank you Am just a begginner, if I can just get a bit of smokeable bud I shall be happy this year. Next year I will learn from all my mistakes and hopefully do a far better job. x

Hello
Just a small piccy update, not much to report. Big plants appear to be flowering without any problems so far. The auto's are shooting up, I repotted them today so I buried most of the stems. I think toadie might have left home, Not seen him for several days now

Last 2 pics, I need to practise with macro more

Indoor growers set their timers to 12/12 as a conventional convenience, and it does indeed induce flowering.

However, outdoor plants will flower when they detect that days are getting shorter. I find this occurs end of July/start of August.
12/12 has no meaning outdoors, in fact the girls will be well on the way to harvest by the time the equinox occurs on September 21/22 - and it is that date everywhere in the world, not just England.

Hi,
Sooooooo, do I not need to be covering them now? I have been covering them up for 12 hours each night, so I'm not sure if I stop covering them they will recieve more than 12 hours light they would revert? Its a royal pain in the arse remembering though and I'm scared of damaging the plants now they are so big. Also I find the inside of the cover is damp in the mornings so won't help my condensation issues... Thanks, Nat

Toadie is back, oh yeahhhhh Couple of shots of the handsome chap, yes he IS sitting in a certain pot containing a certain plant, he has good taste and also another of my flowering beauty

Just a piccy update of these in flower

Think 1 of my plants has hermie'd Can somebody confirm this?

Good plant first.. and a random pic of my *highly successful* (snigger) auto's

Now its the dodgy hermie plant.. I can't see any balls as such.. the whole plant has changed though.. it was a fully flowering female and has changed to this, it looked identical to my other.. they are both identical clones.. Notice the lack of trichs now and the single leaves?!

Hi, just found your diary for the first time! Plants and toadie are looking great and the force flowering is working a treat I'm no great expert as I've never had a hermie but I can't see any male flowers on that plant either, I wouldn't be worried that it looks a little different from the other at the moment.

Edited to add: Have you checked all over the plant for balls?

I dont believe its a hermy i think its trying to re veg they somtimes do this if the light cycle changes.

hey nat...One way to tell is to open a piece of the bud to check if there our any seeds.if u find little green under developed seeds somethings definatly hermied...goodluck!!