First grow!! White Cookies LST

[SirPaxalot]

Hey y'all , this is my first grow, which just got flipped to flowering, and I've adapting throughout the grow and feel pretty good so deciding to post and document my progress through flower.
I started with 5 seeds from crop King and used a single 125w CFL. I ended up getting down to 4 in my single 20 gal tote box. When the plants outgrew their solo cups I assembled my second box which I have inverted on top on the other one. I was then only able to keep two plants and I put them in 2 gal pots. I used fox farms happy frog for the solo cups and transplanted them into ocean forest. I'm also using some FF nutrients.
My box is made up of two 20 gal rubber maid totes. I'm using two 3 way light fixtures with 6 23 watt lights. I have a passive intake with a computer fan pulling the heat out from the top. I have found this super simple box settup to be extremely efficient so far!

 

[SirPaxalot]

I topped these plants while in solo cups at the fourth node, and started to pull down the tops as soon as they grew. I used a couple things at first but ended up on using clothes hangers to LST them. I started with just LST'ing my larger plant while letting the smaller one just do its thing. The smaller one actually caught up and past the larger one so i just pulled it down yesterday with some more hangers. I started to get a tiny bit of tip burn with the FF grow big nutrients, so ive been giving them just water the past couple waterings. I planted these on June 14th and just switched to 12/12 on July 28th. Im using 4 lights at 2700k and two at 5000k to have a little bit of a mixed spectrum. i have the plants really close to the cfls as they dont produce much heat and these plants have gotten really thick and bushy!!

 

[SirPaxalot]

lets see if this is striahgt

 

[ReikoX]

Welcome to the micro section on ICMAG! It looks like you're off to a great start. What FF nutrients and adatives are you using?

 

[Goats]

i grew this strain my last run. resilient as hell and very compact under led.

 

[MicroRoy]

Looks like you are off to a good start.

 

[Goats]

here's my white cookies about a month into flower.

had to harvest a bit early due to time constraints at around 60 days. should have given them another 7-10 days. maybe run it again sometime, but wasn't really impressed with one of the phenos i had.

hmm, couldn't post the image.

https://imgur.com/a/EsCYB#MlLGwWR

 

[Sativan]

You're going to do L.S.T. with your first grow? That's very ambitious but it might be easier to figure out what's happening with your plant(s) by learning how to grow traditionally at first.

I hope you have great success but don't complicate your first grow too much.

Good luck!

 

[HuffnPufferfish]

go hard or go home

 

[SirPaxalot]

Hello, so I ran into some ph problems a couple weeks into flower and didn't feel up to posting pictures. I kept the two plants in the 2 gallon pots for the rest of their lives and didn't do much maintenance besides low stress training the 4 main branches. I ended up getting around 35 grams and around 15 grams of popcorn and trim I'm using for bubble hash. I have my second grow that I just posted a new thread for and I'm really digging the results. I also had some trouble drying the buds and used my exhaust fan to circulate air throughout the box but it ended up drying them out too fast. I'm slowly getting smell back in jars with a long cure.