My First Ever Grow
Hi everyone, this is my first post and my first ever grow! I'm growing in coco with Nutrifield nutrients, 600w Vipar Spectra LEDs, 2 x 5 tent and my strain of choice is blueberry (fem) from I Love Growing Marijuana by Robert Bergman. I chose blueberry because they seem to be a good strain for beginners and I like the sound of the smoking and medical effects, plus I like the fact it's an old school strain from the 70s. 
Anyway, I germinated the seeds 6 weeks ago and just as they sprouted we got hit by a massive heat wave (high 40c) and I lost 2 out of 5 seedlings, but 3 of them survived. For the first a couple of weeks they were inside with air con, but then I put them in my grow tent located in the garage without any air con and the only cooling they had was fans and exhaust fan/filter. At the moment, I can't afford to be running an air con for them, so I'm prepared not to suffer the consequences. I'm very surprised they made it through the extremely high temps, especially when the max temp in the grow temp was 45c!!
Even though they look pretty healthy to me they seem so stumpy and short, plus they're so bushy underneath, which is good for me because I want short plants due to space restrictions. The plants I've seen in all the videos I've watched (and I've watched a hell of a lot!) only have a few nodes in earlier veg stage, but my girls are sprouting so many nodes underneath they might need a bikini wax soon. Anyway, I would like to get some advice on what to do next with my three green little Tyrion Lannister's:
Is this normal growth for the blueberry strain or is their dwarfism and under bush the result of heat stress in their early lives? It says on ILGM.com that blueberry marijuana seeds grow into dense and stout plants with red, purple and later blue teints, but then I've read they grow tall on other sites. I'm a bit confused how they should actually look at this stage of veg.
A couple of days ago I raised my lights higher to try to get them to stretch a little, but they don't seem to want to grow up to the light at all. Should I start to lollipop them so the under bush isn't taking away nutrients from the top vegetation and flip them into flower knowing I won't get much yield this grow, which is fine because I didn't expect much for my first grow? Or should I give them a couple more weeks of veg to see if they grow any more?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Anyway, I germinated the seeds 6 weeks ago and just as they sprouted we got hit by a massive heat wave (high 40c) and I lost 2 out of 5 seedlings, but 3 of them survived. For the first a couple of weeks they were inside with air con, but then I put them in my grow tent located in the garage without any air con and the only cooling they had was fans and exhaust fan/filter. At the moment, I can't afford to be running an air con for them, so I'm prepared not to suffer the consequences. I'm very surprised they made it through the extremely high temps, especially when the max temp in the grow temp was 45c!!
Even though they look pretty healthy to me they seem so stumpy and short, plus they're so bushy underneath, which is good for me because I want short plants due to space restrictions. The plants I've seen in all the videos I've watched (and I've watched a hell of a lot!) only have a few nodes in earlier veg stage, but my girls are sprouting so many nodes underneath they might need a bikini wax soon. Anyway, I would like to get some advice on what to do next with my three green little Tyrion Lannister's:
Is this normal growth for the blueberry strain or is their dwarfism and under bush the result of heat stress in their early lives? It says on ILGM.com that blueberry marijuana seeds grow into dense and stout plants with red, purple and later blue teints, but then I've read they grow tall on other sites. I'm a bit confused how they should actually look at this stage of veg.
A couple of days ago I raised my lights higher to try to get them to stretch a little, but they don't seem to want to grow up to the light at all. Should I start to lollipop them so the under bush isn't taking away nutrients from the top vegetation and flip them into flower knowing I won't get much yield this grow, which is fine because I didn't expect much for my first grow? Or should I give them a couple more weeks of veg to see if they grow any more?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'll keep posting updates as my girls mature, so watch this space!
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