Lowryder 2's and some unknowns in North of Scotland

**sulisker** · 11-07-10, 05:28 PM

Well we are nearly through the 11th and I've had to have a serious think about how tall the unknowns might get. They haven't shown any sex yet but I've decided to start LST on all of them. The main stems are still very supple. Not too much in the way of lignification yet. All the plants get a fairly good shake rattle and roll on the greenhouse shelves as the windy days constantly shake the pots. I used some thin garden wire looped over the stems and and either slipped into a cut in the pot lip or onto a cane I slotted through the pot of unknown 2. I've tied back two or three of the lower petioles as well. I'm a little confused as to how much too tie back but I figure if I can gradually keep tying as much foliage as possible down it will encourage a proportion of branching upwards. It's all a fascinating experiment just now for me. I've left the Lowryders alone as I guess they won't become too much in the way of towering monsters. I gave them all a first feed today. Our local garden centre doesn't stock anything very exotic and I'm not going to bother buying expensive specialised nutrients. I have some Westland Nutri fruit and vegetable feed which is a 5-2.5-7.5 and gave everything a very light feed. The pots are holding moisture really well and as the plants are not that thirsty just now they only had less than a litre of water each at this watering. I'll maybe feed the unknowns every second watering and the lowryders every third watering. I don't want to risk nutrient overload on them and I'll be happy with a modest yield from any of the plants. Here's the latest photos. Unknowns 1 to 3 first and then the lowryders.

Counted the nodes wrong on this one last time, its just 5 full nodes and starting it's sixth.

More progress to follow in a few more days.

**sulisker** · 12-07-10, 08:03 PM

Today I applied some more tension down on the apical tips of the three unknowns. The tips had swung right back up after a day. I got these down again and I managed to get the main stems over a fair bit more as well. I got a little carried away with one of them and creased the main stem but some additional wire braces have stabilised this point. I'll keep working the top apical meristem of two of the unknowns and train them in one direction following the circumference of the pot. The one unknown that was topped a few days ago I'll just leave the two new growing shoots a good while now to grow back upwards.

**sulisker** · 17-07-10, 12:21 AM

16th July. The Lowryder 2's are starting to fill out and more pistils developing at the nodes and on some of the side branches.

The trained unknowns are filling out nicely as well but think it could be some time yet before I see any signs of sex on them.

Quang · 17-07-10, 01:15 AM

Looking lush in you'r house it's a lovely shade of green .
Them lowrider are small but a pleasure to grow . that runt is it in a small pot ..
Best of throught the grow bro . they'll not show sex till next month ish and should finish october november strain depending .
Are you training to reduce height ? look's like you have load's of room / headheight . As a sativa will go two and aa half times it's veg height in flower , you'r unknown look like an sativa indica mix / lookin at the leaf shape , fat leaf on indica skinny on sat . indi short and stout , sat tall and lanky .
Nice to see you'r grow keep up the good work

**sulisker** · 25-07-10, 09:34 AM

24th July. Thanks Quang. The wee runt is in a slightly larger pot and buds are forming well at most of the nodes. The buds are also forming well on the lowryder 2's and the unknowns are also coming along nicely. There's eight apical stems rising well from the topped plant and the two other trained unknowns have 10 and twelve developing apical stems now. One of the unknowns has just stated to show sex at one of the nodes but they are far and away too small just now to see if they are male or female. I should know about that one in the next few days. My suspicion is that its a male as the tiny preflowers that are stating to form do look a little round to be female.

**sulisker** · 04-08-10, 12:00 AM

2 August. The lowryder 2's buds are developing well. Trichomes are starting to become more abundant now and some of the smaller leaves around the upper buds started to frost up a few days ago.

I ditched one of the unknowns as the preflowers were indeed male. The other two have not shown any sex yet. Fingers crossed they are females.

**sweetstickicky** · 04-08-10, 01:06 AM

hi there could you be able to tell me how tall your lowryders no.2 are getting cheers , was thinking about these for next grow , just finnished a grow with lowryder no.1 , they got to about 14-16inches and took around 8-9weeks from seed to harvest .

**thedroog** · 04-08-10, 05:52 PM

You must have purchased them from seedsman. I also got 5 lowryder2's and got 5 unknown seeds in there. The way they are going they are not auto's. Mine are 4ft high and have to be topped every couple of weeks otherwise they get too damn high. Ahhhh too damn high..........

**thedroog** · 04-08-10, 05:52 PM

I did email them to ask what the fek they are but got no reply. Mine all look fems tho

**sulisker** · 05-08-10, 12:37 AM

Hello sweets....
I just measured the LR2's tonight for you. Two of them are 35 inches the third is 30 inches. Quite a bit taller than they say they will reach. They do seem to love the sunshine in the wee greenhouse. I guess they will probably not stretch up quite that high under artificial light. There's plenty of bud sites forming so I'm quite intrigued as to what these three will yield. I'm on day 64 now and the buds still have a bit to go yet. I guess maybe two more weeks max. Depends on how much sunshine we get here in the coming days. It's gonna be past the ten weeks anyway.