4TH YEAR GROW atu

[alltatup]

s62 Forget it he's a phony: he saw somebody else's house.

PaganRich Here's the situation at my house: I have a sick cat who poops inside (mostly on the pads I put down) 3 or 4 times a day, and always misses the pad when she pees; I haven't mopped in a long time (but I always wipe down the pee spots on the floor), the floors are dirty, there are lots of dust bunnies hiding (hidden dust doesn't bother me). I did sweep up all the dead roaches lying around the other day, and I spot clean--but only one spot at a time.
It does smell like patchouli and cinnamon, orange peel and peppermint, ylang ylang, etc., because I spray after the cat shits.

The walls are not pastel--just an off-white blue. There's a Peruvian rug on one wall, and a 1939 long scroll from Bali depicting the war among gods, demons and humans; I have some old hippie painting I did here and there, Indian tiles, and you are correct that the sofa is comfy. There's no wine rack and no wine. But that's the only thing you're correct about.


(That's not my cat, but I love the pic.)

And my toilet paper is single-ply--has been for decades.

[alltatup]

PaganRich Don't tell us you're a one-ply man...

[RagWeedDWC]

How in the fug did I miss this thread!!!!!

[Sonnyhad]

I don't know what the heck you are talking about , but it's an interesting way to catch up! Starting to read from the middle! A d this is the first comment I read.

[SoOrbudgal]

LOL TP " bummer "of a topic

[s62]

Hahaha

[alltatup]

Day 19 of 12/12: I've been removing leaves daily. They're still stretching. You can see some uneven stretching, but at least everyone's in the light.



Day

[oldjarhead100]

they look amazing as usual,I'm going to tell you this since your probably the only one who will think its funny , buddy is looking for a mate she keeps rubbing her head into my arm and when I dont respond she climbs up and pulls one of my eyelashes,this irritates me to no end lol then while shes on my shoulder hootie chases her off so they do laps around my head ,everything a person want to wake up to in the morning lol, we started to keep them in travel cages they seem to ride better, not so much visual input

[SoOrbudgal]

I think these are looking better to me than the last ones at this stage?? Dang those are some healthy stalks ATU fantastic growth.

[RagWeedDWC]

Looking awesome!

[oldjarhead100]

ATU I just did something I never do I dropped your name .Qurtywill is looking for someone to test cannabis Machines .I thought of you and gave him your handle to contact you I hope You dont mind and I wont do it again without your knowledge it just seemed the perfect fit

[alltatup]

oldjarhead100 No problem, you can always drop my name.

Your poor parrot!!! She just wants fertilized eggs!!!

[alltatup]

Mid-week 5 flower:





The other box isn't going to produce much. I seriously thought about pulling the two plants out of it and just starting over. It's a couple of weeks behind this one; I'm still kinda tempted to do it. I don't think I'll get 3 oz. out of it:

[RagWeedDWC]

Wow, they all look awesome

[s62]

Beautiful! I love seeing happy plants!

[oldjarhead100]

thay(my Boston accent ) are looking great ATU

[MeestaFeesha]

Ladies looking Lovely, ATU! 🤘😎

[homegrown]

Wow alltatup i love those grow boxes! And by the looks of things your plants love them too. They look Amazing!

[oldjarhead100]

she does research stuff really well if ATU says its good its good lol

[alltatup]

Farmall Hey, thanks for reminding me!!! Where's my oz!!!!!?????

oldjarhead100 I don't believe that!!!! I'm wrong sometimes, I'm only human...

[Sonnyhad]

Farmall,, ATU turned me onto "The Plenty" vape a couple years ago and she was right! I also got the mighty, vape. If you ever get a chance, check them out!

[Doubledealing72]

You're plants are looking great ATU! And I know what you mean by having an open room. I'm always cramped for space in my tent lol

[alltatup]

Around day 40 in this box. See the tall colas in the back? That's Oct 4 above, and Oct 11, today, below. Buds be fattenin...

[alltatup]

SoOrbudgal They do make me happy... I hope I make them happy...

[Canuck147]

Looks awesome!! Love the trunk system in the before pic - solid.

[PaganRich]

Lovely lasses you`ve got there Atu

[Farmall]

Hey Senorita.... these look outstanding....would you say that you’ve done something definitely different? Really good looking

[alltatup]

Farmall, I'd say it's the LEDs in the new box, the Future Harvest Nutes, my 3 years of practicing and a little accumulated knowledge. I really like the LEDs sooooo much better than the HIDs, and FH sooooooo much better than Advanced Nutes.

[oldjarhead100]

ATU your grows seem to go so quickly one day your planting and the next there in bloom ,I still have a few more days to go but they are so close I cant stand it lol

[alltatup]

It may seem that way to you, OJH, but believe me, it's been 10 weeks for me!!!!!

[alltatup]

@Farmall et al, A TECHNIQUE I'VE EMBRACED: CONTINUOUS DEFOLIATION THROUGHOUT FLOWERING

I forgot to mention this in my response to you above about what I am doing differently on the last few grows.

I just emerged from the grow room, spent around 2 hours changing reservoir (30 min) and defoliating (1.5 hr). The girls are rounding out week 6 of 12/12, and I've been slowly and steadily defoliating throughout flower. Today I did a slightly more rigorous defoliation, as I see the stigma beginning to turn color and I see vigorous bud growth.

These are my rules:

1. Anything with a petiole is fair game;
2. Very short petioles stay on for a max of 2 weeks, then I cut em;
3. Any leaf blocking bud sites goes;
4. I go slower with defoliation weeks 4-6 and I'm more thorough from wk 6.5 forward.

This saves me a tremendous amount of trimming when I cut the girls down.

My experiences: After week 3 defoliation, some petioles grow out fast and others grow out slowly, over the following 3 or so weeks. I cut them as they grow out. Also, if you look closely at almost all of the pics all over the GWE site of colas in the final weeks of growing, you'll notice that most of them have been pretty stripped of leaves. I'm just tryna do what the master growers do.

Thus, for me it is true that defoliation continues throughout flower. A defoliator's work is never done. Which is not the same as, There's no rest for the wicked. Unless we're talking about PaganRich But not in my case.

[PaganRich]

oldjarhead100 As they say mate, behind every angry woman is a bloke who has absolutely no idea what he`s done wrong...mind you, asking a woman when she`s due is always a receipe for getting some agro-totally agree with you there mate-verbal castration at the very least. Perhaps we should set up a GWE Male Support Group-perhaps not,

[duckman]

PaganRich
#27.15
PaganRich, I thought we already covered Male Support in some of our earlier posts...

[PaganRich]

duckman You can never get enough support in that department mate

[homegrown]

hey alltatup, so you topped the girls mid august, and LST'd through your grow...Did you do any other plant training to them? The base of the plant in the front is amazing! And may i ask..how tall are they now? i should take pics and hang them up in my tent so my plants know what their suppose to look like...... hg

[alltatup]

homegrown I actually did most of the cola training after the flower stretch was over: that's when I can get them all into their own spaces. I don't like to do a lot of tying down during vegetation because my plants end up too short--OR I need to veg longer, OR I need to grow just one strain in a box. But I just can't get myself NOT to grow different strains together.

I top at the fifth node and allow the 8 branches below to grow up. When I switch to flower, a bunch of other stems emerge and I keep the ones that make it to the top. However, those colas don't produce very much and are mostly bare stalk.

The tallest colas are around 21".

I'm thinking that on my next grow, I'd like to try topping at the 6th node, removing the first node and letting 2-5 grow into 8 colas.

[alltatup]

Last week of nutes for this box; stigmas turning brown, the flowers smell divine. Not quite as frosty as the last grow; most colas shorter than last grow. I flipped to 12/12 a little too soon... Damn!!!



Old box is a week or so behind:

[SoOrbudgal]

Morning ATU happy Saturday. I'd be super pleased if mine had the structure your do. Really beautiful colas I think. Sorry you feel like you flowered to early but we all think your da bong diggity of hydro.

[MeestaFeesha]

Flipping early or not, those are some wonderfully full flippin' ladies! Bah! I'm getting jealous over here, they're gorgeous.

[alltatup]

Canuck147 SoOrbudgal MeestaFeesha Thanks all. I appreciate that. I wrote in my grow journal, I'm so friggin stupid. I flipped too fast. Again.

And you can't see as clearly in the picture, but some of the colas are much shorter and will hardly benefit from the scant light they receive. Those are just the facts of the grow. Some of it will be good, though.

Live, learn and lean on your friends!!!

[SoOrbudgal]

Well I've cursed a few words since beginning the indoor grow. My 4 photos are doing fine except I believe I topped and tyed to soon while they are too short and stocky. I've broken some side branches cause I can't get in close enough to pin them down without mushing a branch. So I just said forget it damn be more patient their 6wks from seed duhhh but there speading out well just not gaining much height. I took them off their risers for now i'll see in a wk if it helps. So i'm going to sit on my hands for a bit.< that little face LOL

[alltatup]

This is one thing I've been realizing on the last few grows: training really can make them too short, so I have to figure out how to train and then let them get tall enough to grow into the sweet spot light. It's a real balancing act, and I guess I'm going to have to add a week or 2 to vegging...