Hey all, how do you know if what you've grown is Hemp or actually cannabis? might well have an issue here, with shit seeds.........6 foot tall now and still no signs of flowering. female preflowers a while ago. or is to just UK summer is off the scale and i need to wait for darker nights...
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Hemp or Cannabis??
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GreenhouseEffect
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Ya man, 6' foot is small compared to how big some plants can actually get!!
Once your day's start getting down bellow 14 hours, they should start flowering. My guess is at least mid August till they start flowering in the UK, I think I am on a similar parallel, with where I'm at in Colorado USA.
Once your day's start getting down bellow 14 hours, they should start flowering. My guess is at least mid August till they start flowering in the UK, I think I am on a similar parallel, with where I'm at in Colorado USA.
GreenhouseEffect
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Google " Jorge Cervantes/ land of giants" some time. amazing what these plants can do with the right environment and long enough growing season.
Yeh she's 6 foot now. bit droopy as i have had to move it out of the greenhouse as it was getting too big for the greenhouse. that fruit cage behind is 7 foot tall! i was told it was white widow seeds, but feel thats a load of crap! just hope that all the labor put into this plant turns out well. look at my reovirus posts and you'll see the preflowers from a month ago. guessing too that when it gets shorter night hours it may flower. fingers crossed indeed. also once my tomatoes have gone then she will be able to move back into the greenhouse for flowering. she's coping we'll outside and lat night had her first shower of light rain. i have had to tie her up as she cant stand very well on her own with the breeze around. reckon i re-pot to bigger?
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GreenhouseEffect
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I'd re-pot her, but I grow in soil and tend to give my plants a pretty big root space if possible. I know some folks pull off pretty big plants for the pot size, but they are constantly feeding and watering, since the plant will go through nutes and water real fast in a small pot.
Also, I would open her up once she gets back to the greenhouse, before she starts to flower. That way all the bud sites get plenty of light and air flow, which will help with flower production, and decrease your chances of mold. If I were doing it, I would probably get some long plant stakes like you got, and once she is in final home, stake those branches out sort of a 45 degree angle, away from the plant. That will make her take up lots of space, but also be able to grow more bud!!
White Widow strains tend to not get as big as your plant, depending on how those " Feminized" seeds happened, the mother could have been pollinated by another plant that went "Hermaphrodite" , that is, a female that got stressed, and so started making some pollen sacks. Could be some type of cross.
No way to really tell for sure if it is actually hemp, or just a cross of a couple variety's of Marijuana, until harvest, but my guess is on just some type white widow crossed with a big strain.
If it were me, I would just keep growing her out, once she is in the flowering window, harvest some and smoke it! If it don't get ya high, well, at least ya got practice growing, if it does, you will have one nice big crop of bud!!
Also, I would open her up once she gets back to the greenhouse, before she starts to flower. That way all the bud sites get plenty of light and air flow, which will help with flower production, and decrease your chances of mold. If I were doing it, I would probably get some long plant stakes like you got, and once she is in final home, stake those branches out sort of a 45 degree angle, away from the plant. That will make her take up lots of space, but also be able to grow more bud!!
White Widow strains tend to not get as big as your plant, depending on how those " Feminized" seeds happened, the mother could have been pollinated by another plant that went "Hermaphrodite" , that is, a female that got stressed, and so started making some pollen sacks. Could be some type of cross.
No way to really tell for sure if it is actually hemp, or just a cross of a couple variety's of Marijuana, until harvest, but my guess is on just some type white widow crossed with a big strain.
If it were me, I would just keep growing her out, once she is in the flowering window, harvest some and smoke it! If it don't get ya high, well, at least ya got practice growing, if it does, you will have one nice big crop of bud!!
GreenhouseEffect
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Also, look into some plant training techniques, especially Super Cropping. Nebula has some great Tutorials on this stuff, as well as most everything you want to know, to help you get a good harvest. Feel free to check out my grow journal " Sitting on some Organic Fertilizer, or my Plants Have my Back" I grow in a greenhouse as well, and have a girl over 5' right now, which I am Super Cropping and trying to make fit into my space till October! Don't have Super crop pics up yet, hopefully do that today.
Cheers! Have fun with that big Beautiful plant, and hope she gives you some good smoke!
Cheers! Have fun with that big Beautiful plant, and hope she gives you some good smoke!
GreenhouseEffect
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Oh, the other thing you could do, is clone her, then flower that plant, and you would know what your getting, before the big plant flowers naturally. Tutorials are available on both cloning, and flowering a plant.
mate, great advice and good idea on the training, steaks for support and also love the clone idea. i think thats the first job. re-potting i can do easily with the aid of my greenfingered wife. very true on what strain its is, but fingers crossed. not to worry though as i have two AK's that are producing a great yield too. super cropping video is this mornings viewing!
thanks so much for you advice
thanks so much for you advice
GreenhouseEffect
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That Ak is a great strain, gives such a nice calming buzz, and a big producer. I have seen growers of BIG AK greenhouse plants have some bud rot problems though, so make sure you get some good air circulation on all of them during flower, and be careful not to let the Colas get up against your plastic( helped a grower one time, throw out a bunch that I was supposed to help him trim, because it got wet and moldy). Just open em up good, and keep some oscillating fans on them, and do your best to keep the humidity under control, so that can't happen to you!
One thing I saw on Jorge's channel , with the big outdoor plants in California, was growers would clean out all the stuff in the middle of the plants, that way that section of stagnant air and breeding ground for mold and pests, would be empty. They would get all there bud growth on the outside of the plants, where the buds could get plenty of breeze, and sun to fatten them up.
Thinkin that Super Cropping will help with this, just get lots of bud sites all on the outside of the plant, kinda what I am trying to do with this grow, anyway!
One thing I saw on Jorge's channel , with the big outdoor plants in California, was growers would clean out all the stuff in the middle of the plants, that way that section of stagnant air and breeding ground for mold and pests, would be empty. They would get all there bud growth on the outside of the plants, where the buds could get plenty of breeze, and sun to fatten them up.
Thinkin that Super Cropping will help with this, just get lots of bud sites all on the outside of the plant, kinda what I am trying to do with this grow, anyway!
GreenhouseEffect
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What's your weather typically like in the late summer/fall? It is possible to manipulate when your plants go into flowering, that way you can have them producing buds during the most ideal conditions.
Redwasp
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Yes I am having serious issues keeping mine up and seperated. The buds started to seriously fatten up. I have so many stakes ties, yoyos and time in this one plant now. On my one left i have 9 fans in the tent. A 8 inch vent fan and a dehumidifier going 24 hours a day. If I can finish her she will be my best producer yet. She is nowhere near done and now im starting to worry. Just way to many huge colas to keep up.