trainwreck

tokinGLX · 05-22-2007, 12:54 AM

these were some clones i had taken back in feb from a plant that was a few weeks into flower, so it took them awhile to fully revert back into veg. the small one is my mother, the large is about 10 days flowering.

taken on may16

taken today(the other plant, by the way)

**Cerebro** · 05-22-2007, 07:06 AM

Great strain, looking nice, it's a good time to watch

She looks quite spread out, has she been trained?

Flamingnun · 05-22-2007, 07:21 AM

She's a looker

05-22-2007, 10:46 AM

I just picked up some TW F2's. I really can't wait. It'll be fun to compare mine with yours, even if yours are from clone.

~LegalizeIt~ · 05-22-2007, 01:14 PM

Wow they look really healthy. Cant wait to see the finished product.

tokinGLX · 05-22-2007, 02:30 PM

yeah, i train the everloving shit out of all of my plants. never top, just bend.

here are some nugshot pics from the lady i took them from. due to issues with being inexperienced with growing in rockwool cubes(along with a tad of misinformative advice) the roots outgrew their cubes and started rotting on me so i had to chop her at about 6 weeks. she still produced buds that were commendable. one person even said they didnt like it because it was almost too strong(was a medical patient). the leaves are crystally as hell, and the nugs are rock friggin hard.

mr.nobody · 05-22-2007, 02:45 PM

almost lost a load lookin at this beautiful specimen. You think you can give a few pointers on trainin those wily bitches? I wanted to do some on my currnet grow but never got around to it. Now they are to big. Very very nice toke on for me

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mr.nobody · 05-22-2007, 02:47 PM

Says your in Denver wtf? How'd you get your hands on clones like that?!? thats what I want to grow but sadly stuck growin this schwagg.....im a jealous bastard...

tokinGLX · 05-22-2007, 05:44 PM

well, ken gorman did not directly make me a caregiver, but a couple years back he met a patient, and that patient went on to become a fellow advocate who i met through a meeting regarding medical marijuana. we got to know each other and he introduced me to a patient who needed a caregiver. ((thanks gov!!))

the medical community round these parts has a lot of reeeeal nice genetics, and we try to help each other out in passing them on.

training is easy. super easy. all it involves is pulling a branch and securing it to the side. there are a couple ways of going about it that will yeild you vastly different results with how the plant looks. what i did with the trainwreck was take the plant, pulled it so the meristem was parallel to the soil, and hooked a plastic coated wire around it with the other end hooked to the pot. heres a pic posted in the cx1 thread of an clone of mine i did this to.

when you do it to a plant at a young age they really take off. if youre starting from a seedling, i like to train them a little differently. i made a little writeup of this method while back, so if any information is redundant, i apologise, im just copy and pasting. *ahem

the use of lst(low stress training) is a wonderful thing to implement if you are trying to keep the height of the plant to a minimum. it promotes the growth of new nodes on the sidebranches, giving you a large output per small space with a small number of plants. it also helps in producing a symmetrical looking plant, very nice when in its last few weeks of budding.

essentially, lst is manually bending and securing the plant so that light gets to the parts of the plant that usually do not see much light, thus vastly increasing its sidegrowth and giving it more of a bushy appearance. there are various ways of going about it, this is how i work with my seedlings.

i use a method where as soon as the seedlings get some good sidegrowth happening(after about 3-4 nodes have appeared) ill bend the plant over so the main stem is at a 90º angle, tieing it to the side of the pot. i do that in the morning, let it go all day like that, then about an hour before the lights go out for the day ill let it up, usually have to pull it and tie it so it can stay straight up after being bent all day.
the next day, i give the plant a turn, roughly a quarter to a third spin, and repeat. this lets the sidegrowth come in very thick and bushlike.
due to bending the plant every day, the main stem tends to get really thick, and the constant turning makes the branches always turn towards the light, making those really thick as well.

no writeup like this would be complete withouth pics, of course, so here they are. this is a grapefruit.
21jan

25jan

31jan(2 shots)

feb12

bending em around like that really thickens up and strengthens the stem.

tokinGLX · 05-26-2007, 11:25 AM

more complimentary 2 week in budshots

05-26-2007, 11:34 AM

frosty

tokinGLX · 05-29-2007, 01:31 AM

**Cerebro** · 05-29-2007, 08:31 AM

how are your lights setup?

tokinGLX · 05-29-2007, 12:30 PM

rockin a 1000w super metal halide, its sittin roughly 20 inches above the 4 plants

SanDiegoKush · 05-30-2007, 01:55 AM

lookin nice.
gotta love the wreck, always a super frosty bitch... starts packing on the trichs even in early flower.... ANd she has that beautiful and easily recognizable TW smell as soon as your start flowering.

Awesome job with the LST'ing... Got a beutiful bushy bitch goin

tokinGLX · 06-01-2007, 12:08 AM

shes been flowering for exactly three weeks/
wide/tall

the field o buds

a blurry sideshot of a cola

the money

Rubix · 06-01-2007, 01:54 AM

thats pretty nifty tha way you got your bitches trained like that

Rinner · 06-05-2007, 09:24 PM

Wow that thing looks like its been dipped in sugar

Very nice indeed!

tokinGLX · 06-08-2007, 01:08 AM

week 4. some of the hairs were slightly affected from a pyrethrum bomb that i had to throw down there. of the 4 plants in the room, the trainwreck handled the bombing the best.

koshiva · 06-08-2007, 10:22 AM

Frosty

The metal halides seem to make them trichome up a bit more. Nice going...those crystaline forrests can be mesmerising can't they...esp when you get the little magnifier out. I'd love to get some shots through the lens of a microscope.

If you are fussed at all about your pics....useing a tripod esp with macro will ensure nice steady well focused shot. Adjusting shutter speed/apature etc from there can enhance lighting and other effects. A good simple way for primo shots is to set the camera on a table or tripod or books etc...then actuate the camera's timer when you have the shot composed...that way no camea shake when you hit the shutter button. Cause you know how it is...when you hit the shutter button normally...a faint shake or wobble will distort image. The halides are perfect lighting for the pics too....

You wonder if the pistil ratio is a bit low on those specimens? I wonder if that would relate to fertility?

05-22-2007, 12:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	trainwreck these were some clones i had taken back in feb from a plant that was a few weeks into flower, so it took them awhile to fully revert back into veg. the small one is my mother, the large is about 10 days flowering. taken on may16 taken today(the other plant, by the way) __________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

05-22-2007, 07:21 AM	#3 (permalink)
Flamingnun SPEC - V Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: roflmao Posts: 16,940 Thanks: 42 Thanked 264 Times in 144 Posts	She's a looker __________________

05-22-2007, 02:30 PM	#6 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	yeah, i train the everloving shit out of all of my plants. never top, just bend. here are some nugshot pics from the lady i took them from. due to issues with being inexperienced with growing in rockwool cubes(along with a tad of misinformative advice) the roots outgrew their cubes and started rotting on me so i had to chop her at about 6 weeks. she still produced buds that were commendable. one person even said they didnt like it because it was almost too strong(was a medical patient). the leaves are crystally as hell, and the nugs are rock friggin hard. __________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

05-22-2007, 05:44 PM	#9 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	well, ken gorman did not directly make me a caregiver, but a couple years back he met a patient, and that patient went on to become a fellow advocate who i met through a meeting regarding medical marijuana. we got to know each other and he introduced me to a patient who needed a caregiver. ((thanks gov!!)) the medical community round these parts has a lot of reeeeal nice genetics, and we try to help each other out in passing them on. training is easy. super easy. all it involves is pulling a branch and securing it to the side. there are a couple ways of going about it that will yeild you vastly different results with how the plant looks. what i did with the trainwreck was take the plant, pulled it so the meristem was parallel to the soil, and hooked a plastic coated wire around it with the other end hooked to the pot. heres a pic posted in the cx1 thread of an clone of mine i did this to. when you do it to a plant at a young age they really take off. if youre starting from a seedling, i like to train them a little differently. i made a little writeup of this method while back, so if any information is redundant, i apologise, im just copy and pasting. *ahem the use of lst(low stress training) is a wonderful thing to implement if you are trying to keep the height of the plant to a minimum. it promotes the growth of new nodes on the sidebranches, giving you a large output per small space with a small number of plants. it also helps in producing a symmetrical looking plant, very nice when in its last few weeks of budding. essentially, lst is manually bending and securing the plant so that light gets to the parts of the plant that usually do not see much light, thus vastly increasing its sidegrowth and giving it more of a bushy appearance. there are various ways of going about it, this is how i work with my seedlings. i use a method where as soon as the seedlings get some good sidegrowth happening(after about 3-4 nodes have appeared) ill bend the plant over so the main stem is at a 90º angle, tieing it to the side of the pot. i do that in the morning, let it go all day like that, then about an hour before the lights go out for the day ill let it up, usually have to pull it and tie it so it can stay straight up after being bent all day. the next day, i give the plant a turn, roughly a quarter to a third spin, and repeat. this lets the sidegrowth come in very thick and bushlike. due to bending the plant every day, the main stem tends to get really thick, and the constant turning makes the branches always turn towards the light, making those really thick as well. no writeup like this would be complete withouth pics, of course, so here they are. this is a grapefruit. 21jan 25jan 31jan(2 shots) feb12 bending em around like that really thickens up and strengthens the stem. __________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

05-26-2007, 11:25 AM	#10 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	more complimentary 2 week in budshots __________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

05-22-2007, 10:46 AM	#4 (permalink)
Michigan_Militia Guest Posts: n/a	I just picked up some TW F2's. I really can't wait. It'll be fun to compare mine with yours, even if yours are from clone.

05-22-2007, 01:14 PM	#5 (permalink)
~LegalizeIt~ Tasting Fractals Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ, USA Posts: 924 Thanks: 13 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Wow they look really healthy. Cant wait to see the finished product.

05-26-2007, 11:34 AM	#11 (permalink)
Michigan_Militia Guest Posts: n/a	frosty

05-29-2007, 01:31 AM	#12 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	__________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

05-29-2007, 12:30 PM	#14 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	rockin a 1000w super metal halide, its sittin roughly 20 inches above the 4 plants __________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

05-30-2007, 01:55 AM	#15 (permalink)
SanDiegoKush Dr. Kush Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 1904 Posts: 234 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	lookin nice. gotta love the wreck, always a super frosty bitch... starts packing on the trichs even in early flower.... ANd she has that beautiful and easily recognizable TW smell as soon as your start flowering. Awesome job with the LST'ing... Got a beutiful bushy bitch goin

06-01-2007, 12:08 AM	#16 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	shes been flowering for exactly three weeks/ wide/tall the field o buds a blurry sideshot of a cola the money __________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

06-01-2007, 01:54 AM	#17 (permalink)
Rubix Stoner Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Midwest Posts: 3,260 Thanks: 82 Thanked 65 Times in 52 Posts	thats pretty nifty tha way you got your bitches trained like that __________________ would you like a cone with that?

06-05-2007, 09:24 PM	#18 (permalink)
Rinner YaHookan Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 35 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Wow that thing looks like its been dipped in sugar Very nice indeed!

06-08-2007, 01:08 AM	#19 (permalink)
tokinGLX the duke of herb Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: denver Posts: 640 Thanks: 4 Thanked 33 Times in 21 Posts	week 4. some of the hairs were slightly affected from a pyrethrum bomb that i had to throw down there. of the 4 plants in the room, the trainwreck handled the bombing the best. __________________ -united we toke, divided we choke- /bored¿¿ check out my videos, on various sites- cannabisTV.com (nothing but pot videos/pictures, all of my new vids get put up here) or on vimeo(high quality, dont get around to uploading here often tho) or youtube(lesser quality, feel free to leave comments/subscribe) (':

06-08-2007, 10:22 AM	#20 (permalink)
koshiva . Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 6,907 Thanks: 3 Thanked 72 Times in 58 Posts	Frosty The metal halides seem to make them trichome up a bit more. Nice going...those crystaline forrests can be mesmerising can't they...esp when you get the little magnifier out. I'd love to get some shots through the lens of a microscope. If you are fussed at all about your pics....useing a tripod esp with macro will ensure nice steady well focused shot. Adjusting shutter speed/apature etc from there can enhance lighting and other effects. A good simple way for primo shots is to set the camera on a table or tripod or books etc...then actuate the camera's timer when you have the shot composed...that way no camea shake when you hit the shutter button. Cause you know how it is...when you hit the shutter button normally...a faint shake or wobble will distort image. The halides are perfect lighting for the pics too.... You wonder if the pistil ratio is a bit low on those specimens? I wonder if that would relate to fertility? __________________ RIP GOV