How I average a pound per plant

[Daskahn]

Nice work have you tried the quad lining method? And if so have you see a significant difference?

[BU2B]

Just finished watering the girls - week 5 day 2 of flowering:

[BU2B]

NOT a problem. Always good to see what you have going. For those who don’t know oldjarhead100 keep an eye 👁 on his posts. This man has been growing for awhile, is a great guy and he grows a sh!tload of excellent smoke!

[oldjarhead100]

sorry this was supposed to go in show your grow lol

[oldjarhead100]

end of week 5 they are starting to fill out ,I didn't have to raise lights so maybe the stretch is over

[BU2B]

Thanks. Excellent choices.

[MeEasy]

There's a second page to add to that one, and one I think is just as helpful I found on GWE

[BU2B]

Thanks. It is absolutely my pleasure. Happy Pharming

[ChadWestport]

I won't touch them, systemic ingredients that don't take combustion well. Cyco Nutrients is a common line that has PGRs but you wouldn't really get that from reading the label. I was just curious if you used them, your production looks great, trying to get a complete picture here. Oddly it wasn't until state wide testing in a legal market that we began to know about them in cannabis.

[BU2B]

Tip: Know your nutes:
Attached is A page from Jorge Cervantes Marijuana Growers Bible and in my opinion it should be an essential part of your growers arsenal-

[BU2B]

NO - and no I have no intention to start doing so. For those who don't know what PGRs are it stands for Plant Growth Regulators and they have been in use by the farming community for some time. Some of the most common active ingredients of modern Plant Growth Regulator or Plant Growth Retardants are: ancymidol, chlormequat chloride, daminozide, ethephon, flurprimidol, paclobutrazol and uniconazole. Keep an eye on your labels. There are concerns which simply have not been answered yet and until they are I would not recommend their use. To quote High Times "Despite healthier growth and increased resistance to fungus, pot grown using PGR’s often has an inferior flavor and visual appearance, and the harshest critics point out that exposure to these compounds put consumers at risk of liver damage, cancer and infertility. These damning claims warrant further investigation of the safety of these chemicals on cannabis."

[ChadWestport]

Do you use synthetic PGRs?

[RagWeedDWC]

Very nice, my grow start this year was a little fumbled and no or little training has been done. As soon as the current grow has finished will use this guideline. Thanks for putting it together.

[BU2B]

A note about chemical bud enhancers:
I have found that with chemical bud enhancers (and in deference to the organic pharmers out there - It's all I have used since growing indoors) - it is NOT uncommon to have some nutrient burn on your leaves. While this is far from ideal, it is also not that unusual. If you can work it so that you have no nutrient burn - that's the best of all possible outcomes. But don't be surprised or alarmed if you see leaf tips turning dark on the tips or edges, just keep an eye on it, don't let it get out of control and keep in mind your growing strong flowers not pretty leaves. Yet on the other hand; you need enough healthy leaves to to fuel your buds growth - Use your judgement, if you kill off the leaves or have enough unhealthy ones so that photosynthesis cannot occur properly your harvest will suffer.

[BU2B]

Thanks to everyone for hanging in there - Hopefully I'm back on track.

A special hello to my nephew who has been lurking out there somewhere and who has decided to give 'Uncle's" method a try. Hey Bud!

When I left off we had gotten your plant up to 6 weeks of age and had already completed the majority of your plants training.

In weeks six and seven of your plants life you are going to have some major choices to make.

First is going to be - "Should I super-crop?" IF you do decide to super-crop your plants, it's perfectly fine and will work great with this method; NOW is the time. DO NOT wait until your plant has begun flowering to start super-cropping! Why? I find that by the time a plant has entered flowering and any stretch at all has occurred many, many strains will have developed hollow branches and super-cropping at this stage could be VERY problematic for your grow.

I don't always super-crop my plants, in fact if I were to total super-crops to number of grows I would say its pretty darn close to 50/50. My reason for super-cropping or not can be variable - Is the strain known to have 'larfy' buds? Are leaf nodes close or far apart, - I find super-cropping more effective on plants whose nodes are a bit more spaced out. If leaf nodes are close you have a much higher chance of your buds becoming a substantial bud packet all on their own without super-cropping. If you've never super-cropped your plants before, please look up here on GWE how to super-crop properly, but I will tell you, the first time I super-cropped a plant it was the scariest thing I've ever done. Don't have a heart attack, if done properly you're really not killing your plant, though when you see all those branches laying over your first reaction is likely to be "OMG! What have I done!"

The next VERY important choices your going to have to make is which branches to leave, and which ones to remove. As oldjarhead100 questioned "Is their a point when more top bud sites decreases the size of the buds themselves,"? And the answer to that question is a resounding YES. As was shown before, as long as your plant is in veg mode, it is creating more flowering branches. You are going to have to choose which of your growing flowing tips are doing the best and have the best chance of growing to the top of the canopy. If there's no chance or less chance than another go ahead and remove the growing tip/branch. In the long run all crowded or covered growths will do nothing but pull the juice away from your flowers.

If you let your plants go until the end of week 8 without culling any branches your plant would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 growth tips. The problem with this is, there is NO WAY you can effectively spread your plant out or remove enough leaves (without damaging your harvest) to fully utilize these growths unless you are planning on doing a SCROG grow, which honestly, you should have been planning long before this point. I find that between 40-50 flowering branches is the maximum amount of 'flowering tips' that will give you the largest harvest with the least amount of work and will produce 11-22 ounces per plant.

A post I made some time ago pretty much sums up my growing philosophy:
"I truly believe there is not a photo strain out there that couldn't benefit from a good manifold (but that's just me.) I have found that growing 'technique' is on equal PAR with lighting (pun intended) ANY usable product from a grow is a victory and one that should be celebrated with a good dream cloud, but, we are ALL here because we want to do better and want others to do better too."

Happy Pharming!

and remember -

"... don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate,
It may have a new perspective
On a different day-
And if you don't give up, and don't give in,
You may just be okay!'
(Thanks to Mike and the Mechanics)

Questions? Comments?