Yer Blues

[dirtymike]

They're very symmetric and low. 5 gallon pots will give those alot of room. That's 30 days of growth correct?? Thats fast

[Gingerbeard]

28 days. Wednesdays are my post days.

[Gingerbeard]

Cinco weekos. These plants are so far much wider than tall and seem to be growing a fair level canopy. Had to do some wiring of back left to bring things in. Probably doing the same to back right.
The second picture is pretty daggum close to the real colors in the tent.
Here's some things about those light green taco tips. They are only on the two healthiest plants, only at the top, have been there since they started flowering, and are only on the plants with those weird fanleaf-on-fanleaf fanleaves.
pH meter was at least a half percent off, probably close to one percent which means I was giving them juice in the 5.0% range. Other than those taco tips and that bit of purpling, the plants took it well.
Going2fast imagine if I didn't defoliate last week.

[dirtymike]

One weeks growth, that's amazing to me. You Defoled at the right time. 35 days since pop, good growth!

[Going2fast]

They look beautiful. Not saying don't defoil I'm saying do it slowly. I'm happy to see that BR is vigorus enough to handle it and that is exactly the feedback I need. I just believe that they expend too much time trying to regrow those leaves and they haven't started stretch yet. Im a fan of sir tuckalot.

[Gingerbeard]

Tucking only goes so far. After a while I get masses of tucked fanleaves and tent huggers. After a different while, what does not stay massed migrates back to original position in search for light and because my fans keep my plants pretty well shaking.
You mentioned recovery after defoliation. I was creasing stems to keep stems tucked but started figuring the energy it took to heal a creased stem vs. healing from a removed stem.
I have done all your plants the same way. At the same time and all that. You have seen them max my space. You have potent, powerful seed with interesting mutations, mein Freund. Don't take that the wrong way.

[Going2fast]

Mein what? I've never been mein in my life.... Well that one time in middle school to the exchange student.......... Why did you have to bring that up? This is bullshit....I'm innocent I tell ya.

[Gingerbeard]

Foreign exchange student or foreign prisoner swap? I know where you live. I know of the waters you travel and see your trafficking corridors. I did a quick search for missing foreign exchange students in your area and came up with interesting results. Very interesting!

[Gingerbeard]

Ain't my regular Wednesday post. Thought I would post a few defoliation shots.

[apacin0]

That's because it's Saturday man! Lookin' nice. I like the little birdhouse on the floor. Curious.

[Gingerbeard]

Yeah. Figured I would show when I did any work.
The birdhouse reminds me of my mom. Someone stuck it in one of my outside plants and I brought it in because people were stealing my outside plants. It's my good luck charm, I guess.

[dirtymike]

coming along nicely Gingerbeard Are you going to light defol again. Back right corner is reaching. Nice work.

[Gingerbeard]

Future defoliations will be more along the lines of the odd plucking if tucking doesn't work, dirtymike. The plants are open. Light and air are touching coco. Any fan that gets in the way will get tucked or plucked as necessary.

[dirtymike]

That's about all I do with Going2fast autos, one defol, lightly then tuck and pull the yellow bottom fans that touch the coco. You leaned these over also?? You have a nice garden.

[Gingerbeard]

I laid front right down a while back because it was stretching. Turns out, that is my shortest and least developed plant, even after unpinning.

[Going2fast]

Muy robusto tento....bro.

[Gingerbeard]

El Six-o.
Front left is the one I laid down at the beginning of the grow but released after about a week. Got to noticing roots growing from where she was originally touching coco. Collared the trunk.
Defoliation from here on will be only for light and overlapping considerations. Giving an extra 1/8-1/4 strength flowering nutrients. Purposely fluctuating pH between 5.3-6.0.
On a hot summer's night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

[dirtymike]

Murciélago fuera del infierno

[dirtymike]

Depends on what he offered in exchange??

[Going2fast]

Wait what? 5.3 -6? Now I don't know coco but anything under 6 freaks my ladies out in soil. 🤔 Very interesting. Love the experiment.

[Gingerbeard]

Back some time ago I read somewhere on GWE about fluctuating pH because plants absorbe different minerals at different pH's. I waited until a bit into flowering to make sure they were healthy enough for possible abuse.
So far, all is well.

[Ckbrew]

Yup, 5.8 is what I target

[Gingerbeard]

So, I'm what, 3... 4 weeks to harvest? Woke up this morning to weed stank. Seems early. It is the colloquial marijuana smell that all weed has at its base. No fruit, flowers, or feet. Just weed.

[dirtymike]

Product of PH fluctuation test, early smell??

[Gingerbeard]

I won't say no.

[Gingerbeard]

Must be Winn's day.
Got in to remove as many big fans as I could and had to pull up some of the lower branches because they were crammed in there pretty good. Still are and there are still fans to be removed. This is all I'm doing, today.
The weed smell has gone. My analogy at this point is breathing through a roll of Lifesavers. I am unnervous about someone walking by and smelling other than sickly sweet flowers. Not dope.
Lower left is the fluffy girl. Compared to the others, LL is a bit sparse and fluffy in the nug.
That's enough out of me. Close the door. Turn down the lights. Put on your Barry Manilow. Here comes the porn. Closeups and group action porn. Got yer bondage porn. Big bud porn. Little bud porn. Top shot porn. Up-skirt porn. Federally illegal porn. Even through in a couple rare open side tent porns.
Here comes the porn.

[OldManGrower]

B U T Full

[dirtymike]

Nice grow, what's the smell like?

[Gingerbeard]

"The weed smell has gone. My analogy at this point is breathing through a roll of Lifesavers. I am unnervous about someone walking by and smelling other than sickly sweet flowers. Not dope."