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4TH YEAR GROW atu
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SoOrbudgal
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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
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Flipping early or not, those are some wonderfully full flippin' ladies! Bah! I'm getting jealous over here, they're gorgeous.
alltatup
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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!!!
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
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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.:noooo:< that little face LOL
Obi-Wan
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I can’t even tell you how great I think this grow is!!! I know this grow is coming to an end shortly but I’m subscribed from here on out. I just love so many of your comments and I can only like the posts you make. I really wish we could like comments on this forum!!!!
# 24- absolutely beautiful work, the 7 day growth spurt is phenomenal!!
# 27-I agree 1000% defoliation at specific intervals is great but if you’re not strategically pulling and tucking along the way you’re missing out!!!
28.1-I couldn’t agree with you more, the colas need to be trained in flower otherwise they grow wherever they want.
# 24- absolutely beautiful work, the 7 day growth spurt is phenomenal!!
# 27-I agree 1000% defoliation at specific intervals is great but if you’re not strategically pulling and tucking along the way you’re missing out!!!
28.1-I couldn’t agree with you more, the colas need to be trained in flower otherwise they grow wherever they want.
Farmall
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There is a fine line between early or late training. Some strains develop hard woody stems early and by bending...they snap easily. Have done it more than a few times but I try to use the tape to patch it back together but... it seems to really stunt the height growth when it happens on the main split node
oldjarhead100
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training kolas first time I heard that ,
alltatup
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Obi-Wan you are too kind.
oldjarhead100 Yeah, I move the colas around quite a bit during flower, actually. I'll see something shading something else, so I look for where I can make an adjustment to get rid of the shade. I pretty much fiddle with them from week 4 till the end.
oldjarhead100 Yeah, I move the colas around quite a bit during flower, actually. I'll see something shading something else, so I look for where I can make an adjustment to get rid of the shade. I pretty much fiddle with them from week 4 till the end.
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alltatup
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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...
SoOrbudgal
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Yes this has happened to me twice on my current tent grow...i'm sitting on my hands for at least a week for 2 to recover...
alltatup
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Day 53 in this box, and they have around a week or so to go. All three are having a last spurt of growth, I can still see lots of clear trichomes. I'm flushing them this weekend, and I'll have to decide whether to flush them until harvest or feed a little bit more and then flush again.
This is the the first time I feel 100% confident about judging the ripeness of the buds: After around 10 grows and all that practicing, I know what I'm seeing through the loupe, and I can look at the whole cola and see what state the stigmas are in. I see the difference between just a darkened stigma and a shriveled one. I will have to do some harvesting in stages because there are too many colas to allow the light to get all the way down.
However in general, I'm feeling better about this grow except that I flipped the lighting too soon--AGAIN!!! I keep doing that. Why are the Cookies Kush buds in the right rear the phattest? They got into the light sweet spot. Damn!
I have rigged up a new drying system, and I can't wait to try it out. It's a bamboo ladder.
This is the the first time I feel 100% confident about judging the ripeness of the buds: After around 10 grows and all that practicing, I know what I'm seeing through the loupe, and I can look at the whole cola and see what state the stigmas are in. I see the difference between just a darkened stigma and a shriveled one. I will have to do some harvesting in stages because there are too many colas to allow the light to get all the way down.
However in general, I'm feeling better about this grow except that I flipped the lighting too soon--AGAIN!!! I keep doing that. Why are the Cookies Kush buds in the right rear the phattest? They got into the light sweet spot. Damn!
I have rigged up a new drying system, and I can't wait to try it out. It's a bamboo ladder.
Farmall
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In looking at the colas on these plants it seems as though your defoliation did wonders...when compared to a plant grown inside without the training efforts you have applied here...the yield is no where near this amount. I’d be surprised in finding out that that techniques produce any different bud growth or leaf development. I actually read somewhere in Nebula’s posts on instantgram that the plant will create its own volume when untrained versus trained by developing growth elsewhere. Training however changes it physiology.
ive read that a log rotting away in a forrest for many years gives off the same amount of BTu’s of heat as if it was burned in a fireplace in 45 minutes. I’m guessing there is some “natures’ formula for each living organism on earth.
you may be bringing out the best by diligent cultivation procedures but having left it to its own devices< each might weigh the same on demise? golly, I hope I’m not rambling again
F$@# it.... nice nice job !!!
ive read that a log rotting away in a forrest for many years gives off the same amount of BTu’s of heat as if it was burned in a fireplace in 45 minutes. I’m guessing there is some “natures’ formula for each living organism on earth.
you may be bringing out the best by diligent cultivation procedures but having left it to its own devices< each might weigh the same on demise? golly, I hope I’m not rambling again
F$@# it.... nice nice job !!!
oldjarhead100
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Hey guys when I have a woody stem that I want to move, hang a 1 to 16 ounce fishing sinker to it and let gravity bend her .slower but works
alltatup
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HARVEST DAYS 65-70 FLOWER
Here was the little phatties right before harvest, heavy with child...
I harvested from the 1st to the 5th, this morning.
I left the dancing, witchy root on the bottom harvest of C99. Every day I watch my beautiful phat buds shrink... Why can't they stay phat like dat...
Here was the little phatties right before harvest, heavy with child...
I harvested from the 1st to the 5th, this morning.
I left the dancing, witchy root on the bottom harvest of C99. Every day I watch my beautiful phat buds shrink... Why can't they stay phat like dat...
RagWeedDWC
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Wow, you have this down! Results like this have me picking your brain, more than I already do. Awesome grow!
alltatup
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RagWeedDWC Your comment is very kind, but I don't have it down yet. My plants were too short for my set-up because I can't lower my lights, and I allowed for too many colas which were smaller and created more shade than if I had limited the number of colas and given each one its own space. Had the plants been taller with fewer colas, I'm sure the buds would have been larger; as it is, I have quite a bit of larfy bud. And I will probably end up with around 11 ounces: I should be harvesting twice that much. I'll try to do better next time.
You and I both know that master growers produce big fat buds that weigh a lot. That's what I'm shooting for. I'm doing fine for a little over 3 years of growing, but I'm still quite green. I'm not trying to be falsely modest--no way. But I know my buds could have been so much bigger. It's just the truth.
You and I both know that master growers produce big fat buds that weigh a lot. That's what I'm shooting for. I'm doing fine for a little over 3 years of growing, but I'm still quite green. I'm not trying to be falsely modest--no way. But I know my buds could have been so much bigger. It's just the truth.