First Time Grower - I really needed a hobby!

[PhantomSulker]

Yeah, i got them from a friend named bill and at the time he did not know what he was growing till the plants matured, they were some seed he had from a grow in AZ and did not know they were Mandarin Cookies till they matured.

[LurkingInTheGrass]

duh - I just noticed the tags on your Killer Bills (vol 1, vol 5) - too funny

[PhantomSulker]

My biggest plant is sure having some issues, I am sure it has to do with roots and likely forgot to PH water but the other one is not having the same issues, when I get off work today I will be giving them both a really good flush, I have some floral kleen that I was give with the rest of the stuff I was given and am thinking of adding that for this flush. I also will get the microscope on the tri comes today. Everthing other than the dying leaves on one plant looked good this AM.

As for the two Mandarin Cookie Clones they are spread out almost all over the 5 gal pots. I removed all the wires last night and repositioned / deflowered them. I can't believe how much they have filled out. Now just need to get some good shoots going up I am sure I will need to remove a lot. Not sure how this will grow when it starts it's stretch,

[PhantomSulker]

Well I spent several hours with the girls last night. Each of the Mandarin Cookie Clones took a while to spread open. There are so many growth sites, I am afraid these might grow to monsters. I am not sure I will have enough space when all these flower and I have another Jack Herer Auto sprouting. Guess it will be a good problem to have. I am going to have to learn to spread grows out and keep some of these vegging for a while or just turn this room to flower and have both spaces flowering? Not sure. I do have plans to build a 10 x 10 room off the veg room but don't really have the funds right now.

Question to anyone that might want to comment, the two Mandarin Cookie clones are almost a wide as the pot, should I maybe plan to transplant these again to bigger than an 5 gal pot? When I transplanted them from the 1gal to 5 gal the roots were growing out of the fabric. I know my 1st grow in 3gal pots were not large enough and having root issues I think in late flower see yesterday post.

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Leaf coloring is starting to concern me a bit, these are in week 9 of flowering, I know some of it is light burn, but the edges are getting worse. Should I be concerned? I just got a USB microscope and will take a look closer but everything is still clear or milky and all the buds are still growing. These are in soil and will be just giving them some water today. I will make sure to PH it to 6.2 today.

[PhantomSulker]

Checked in on the girls this AM before work, glad I have easily adjusted to DST, the girls in the flower tent are just moving along slowly at that. The last few days the buds are finally getting bigger. lots of new growth still happening on plant on right, she seems to be a bit behind the plant on right, they are in week 9 since the flip.

The two Mandarin Cookie Clones are growing like crazy now, I need to spend some more training time with them today at lunch / get home.

[PhantomSulker]

The two Mandarin Cookies clones are looking great, I transplanted them into 5 gallon Coco pots yesterday. transplant went perfect, and then I secured down many branches and trimed up a bit. These plants are just going crazy. I cleaned up the veg room as well. I looked in on them today in the AM and all is looking good.

[PhantomSulker]

Gave the girls in the flower room a good bath yesterday and got to look at the shiny glistening tricomes all over the place! Sure wish these would finish up.

[LurkingInTheGrass]

such a lovely veg patch

[PhantomSulker]

Checked on the girls in the flower room this AM while having a nice hit off the bong. They just are getting more frosty and growing. Nothing new going on in there, today they are going to get a bath this afternoon. I am going to give them some plain PH 6.0 water till runoff, then check runoff PH and determine where to set the PH in the sink water I filled last night. Since I know they are surely root bound this should help them along the last few weeks. This will be the 4th or 5th time I have done this with the plants. Last time was the first time I really realized how important PH was to the plants, but seems like 90% of questions posted end up being PH related.

The Mandarin Cookies Clones are growing like crazy. I have a camera on a Jack Herer Auto that I am time-lapsing it's entire grow and have them in the background and can view 12hr of playback and it is amazing how much they grow, especially at night. I did put the two little clones I took into my clone dip and then into root riots. So hopefully I will have 2 more of those going now. Took some pictures of the clones this AM. I am going to try to transplant the 2 clones to their 5 gal fabric pots tomorrow. I don't think the roots have filled the 1Gal pots they are in now, but the top growth and LST training I am doing with these I just need more real-estate to work with.

[PhantomSulker]

Today got some pictures of the flowering tent. I need to get a electric microscope, but my S8 takes pretty good photos. I tried to get some close ups, looks like everything is mostly clear maybe some milky? I am sure they still have a while to go. The lower leaves are getting a bit yellow and I took one off that had some spots on it. I took a photo, I looked up that it is normal for the lower leaves to start turning yellow near the end as the buds suck up the nitrogen as much as they can? I think I have that right. I did turn them and tied back the highest/biggest cola and took the light down a bit and have the light now about 20" from the main canopy.

I looked in on the 2 Mandarin Cookies Clones in the Veg room the growth on these is just crazy. I am def going to try to transplant to 5 gal this weekend.

Anyone want to weigh in how much longer these have.

[PhantomSulker]

The two clones in the flower tent still grow weird growth, but has some bud on them so whatever they end up doing that is fine. Now on the other hand the two clones that started growing have gone crazy. I almost don't know what to do with them but I do it is just really fun right now to have something to play with. I am going to continue to work them real good I massaged all the branches at lunch and secured down a whole bunch. You can see them in the pictures, will do the other plant again tonight. Not sure I have the picture but on the one really bushy one I split the main stem which has a total of 3 full growth spots coming off it. I instantly propped it back up and sealed, I tried to figure out how to wrap it in tape but hoping just closing up the wound for a day or so will let it grow back together. I will work on the other end tonight. I think this weekend i need to put them in their 5 gal buckets so I have some room to spread these plants out. The guy that gave them to me figured out what these are. They are Mandarin Cookies, he is sure of it now that he got a few small early buds and smoked it.

I also found some seeds in some of the bud I got from a buddy that is Mandarin Animal Cookies. Not ready to crack any more seeds, but I am excited to now have 2 of these seeds, the first one I found was immature and small and white, but the one I found today was a full size and normal color seed.

Anyway BEST HOBBY IN THE Fricken world!!!!!! Thanks again for all the input so far and to come. I appreciate any and all help in learning to grow. I was reading through the early pages of this and I can't believe all I have learned from this site and others, but by far overall this is the most collective grouping of information I have found anywhere.

[PhantomSulker]

Well they were almost bone dry again today, I mixed up 2 Gal of PH 5.8 water, added 1 tsp of KoolBloom, 1.5 tsp of MaxiBloom, 1.5 tsp cal mag, and 2 tbsp of Molasses. Gave them each half of it with a little to the clones, just a bit of run off, but they soaked up everything. Also noticing some yellowing on lower leaves and veins in middle of just a very few lower leaves. I was reading and it looks like the buds are sucking up all the nitrogen out of the plant to make buds in the end. So I am not worrying anything other than please finish soon middle of week 8 since 12/12 flip. But it's ok I don't have anything that will be ready to move in from the veg room for a few more weeks. The Jack Herer if needed would have enough room with the other plants if I need to move it. See my other journal for info on that grow.

[PhantomSulker]

So, in addition to all I am growing my daughter brought me a poinsettia plant that her boyfriend gave her for Christmas, it has been sitting in a window for months and they asked me to revive it. I looked up how to do it online and seemed that they like about the same light schedule and water, not sure about nutes, but I stuck it back in the corner in a 3 gal bucket and had a lot of dirt left since I am now growing in Coco did not have much use for the soil so that was a bonus. It was good practice for trimming a root ball and transplanting.

[PhantomSulker]

The 2 unknown strains in the flower tent continue to get bigger and bigger buds. They are going through 2 gallons of water every other day. Yesterday just gave them plain PH 6.0 water for a drink. The two clones are growing, not sure what they will end up doing with the shock and stress I put on them. But the two of them in the veg room are growing now like crazy. The two big plants are in week 8 of flowering, but I am fairly sure I don't count the first 2 or 3 weeks they were in flower tent doing the stretch. Just a hurry up and wait game on the 2.