Small Tent, Perpetual Monthly Harvest, Auto-Flower Grow Journal (canna, coco, LED)

[DingusKhan]

Dood, no way! I went to Brentwood Elementary in the '70s. We lived in Santa Monica until we moved to Koreatown and then Lincoln Heights until I joined the army in 1989.

[Beach_Town_Brit]

Thanks Rockman, yeah live and learn

Thanks so much for the pic of your "staples," very helpful greatly appreciated. I'll try again with some different wire and your suggested V shape.
I must say the stem seemed to snap really easily. I've done some pretty tough training of photos before but never autos, or quite this early on. This is also the first time I've veg'd under LED.

[Tika]

What rockman said so well

[bobsakamoto]

he just did it himself. and naturally he did it in the 30 sec it took me to walk from the table to the sink to get some H2O. the funny thing is he didn't EAT them (again, naturally, bc the ultimate goal is destruction for destruction's sake). he helpfully deposited them in and around the pot. so i picked 'em up, stuck em in rooting powder, put em in some shot glasses with H2O and shavings of jiffy pellet and am hoping HOPING hoping for clones/roots.... he has since been banished from all things grow. in all seriousness i don't think one is gonna make it cuz that one he removed the cotyledons AND the two bottom leaflets. little fucker.

[rockman]

BTB, sorry to hear of your disappointing experience with training. Hopefully your girl will overcome this and later give you some joy. Yes, I rely heavily on my glasses to do the fine tuning of my autos. Fortunately my cats don't have access and can't be trained LOL! Just remember all the valuable lessons about plants and yourself that you are learning with your grows! 🌻
On a different note...I saw a question you had about the tie downs for training and how they popped up. I wanted to show you a pic of the bent wires that I use (pen included for scale). The angle, when pushed into the medium, prevents them from pulling back up, and they can always be pushed further deeper as the training continues. These have worked super for my last 2 grows and I wanted to suggest as an alternative to the softer rapidclip wires.
Best wishes for future progress! 🌿

[Beach_Town_Brit]

Yeah the opticians is on the list.

I love the idea of training a cat do do all one's plant training, but how do you train a cat?

[bobsakamoto]

i SO SO second this. i am in the process of getting glasses for the first time ever (oh, hi old age, nice to meet ya) and between my eyes and my own stupid thumbs...well, 2 out of 4 seedlings are the worse for it. the other 2 my cat helpfully topped, fim'd, lst'd, etc.----like he read every tutorial and tried 'em all simultaneously. in happier news my glasses came in yesterday

[Beach_Town_Brit]

In some slightly better news Mystic #2 finally broke the surface last night. I thought I'd lost her after she seemed to pop in her pre-soak but then didn't surface for days. Finally after 6 days she surfaced last night and I saw her when I poked my head in before work this morning.

Patience and self-forgiveness are the lessons (again...)

[Beach_Town_Brit]

I'd like to self-nominate for Fail-O-the-Week.

I'll do a proper update tomorrow unless the self-hatred wholly consumes me.

While Green and Rockman make it look easy, I can at least provide a cautionary counterpoint -- if you have stupid thumbs or bad eyes, plant training can be seriously detrimental to the health of your plants

[rockman]

Indeed! I've also learned so much about my patience level when growing our favorite weed and other special plants! Really pointed out misguided desire to speed up a naturally occurring process! 🌿 🌼

[Vapo69]

"Patience is a virtue".....only after starting to grow weed do I understand this fully lol🌱🌿🌲🌳😂😂

[Beach_Town_Brit]

Thanks Bob, 18" sound perfect to me I'll bring them down slowly over the first few weeks of the new seedling (assuming it pops)

[Beach_Town_Brit]

Thanks, I'm enjoying the speed these autos take off at but I know there'll be a need for patience soon.

[Beach_Town_Brit]

I'm a bit stingy with nutes but I do certainly use cannazym at every feed

[Vapo69]

Those girls look great.........Journal is lookin great...........year of the rooster is fully backin you up dude.......keep up the good work....can't wait to see more of them as they grow🌱🌿🌲🌳😂😂