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SinsemillaScientist

SinsemillaScientist

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I wanted to get people talking amongst one another because everyone has a separate growing style! I want to hear what you do in your growing process, something you consider unique to your own grow. For example, I grow my girls in several ways. But the one I think is more if myself is when I top at the third node like I'm about to begin manifolding. I let the growth tips grow out after removing all others below (I leave all fan leaves). After the two new main Vilas are growing voraciously I remove all lower fan leave and tie down at a 45° angle. I then let them grow another 6-12inches and flip to flower. I like breaking the apical dominance for better branching and larger yields but don't like the extensive Topping needed for a full manifold. I hope to hear from everyone!!:) I feel knowledge is power and power becomes a movement!

P.s. it's a beautiful day for a strong sativa where I live!!!!
 
I would say my style is very similar to others except I talk out loud and communicate with my girls by telling them how pretty they are and they really seem to like that ,but most ladies do.
 
I started finding myself in my 3rd grow it just clicked and I new what i did and didn't like but just like my username says I like to experiment as always. I always LST, usually defoliate (plant depending because I have a huge light). I like topping, FIMming has always been a headache for me sometimes it works sometimes not, so I take the guaranteed route. Happy growing Jeg always enjoy your input!
 
I've heard this before! My aunt (god bless her ) suffered dementia at an early age but she grew amazing plants and told me her secret was talking to them!! This of course happened before her dementia set in.
 
Yeah I have!:) Excellent work in my opinion I always have several projects going at once and one I have been watching closely is growth rates vs. Age of topping. Your mainline looks text book!
 
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Only thing I can really think of that I do that I don't see many others do is that as part of defoliation and clearing bud sites I will trim off part of the leaf instead of weaving them out of the way or completely removing the leaf. Kind of like some do for clones.

I don't think it improves much on anything, it's just easier for me to trim a part of the leaf to open space then try and get my old fat hands in there and start basket weaving, lol. God bless Fiskars and other micro-pruning shears.
 
I AM NOT ALONE!! :)

Yea, esp. during flower. I don't have any evidence but in theory it should help with low nitrogen as flowering progresses. But I really do it just because it's easier for me. Have you noticed anything "special" about this?
 
I have noticed that it works almost as well as defoliation when it come to light penetration. I also pick leaf petals to put spacing in between the fan leaves so light penetration is more up to participate if you will. Still technically defoliation, I just feel it doesn't stress the plant nearly as much as removing 10+ large fan leaves. So so overall it keeps growth rates more consistent, it allows you to leave foliage, and also adds your own personal touch to your style if you ask me!:)
 
From my study, I understand that glass blocks about 10% of your bulbs output. Also with a MH bulb it blocks the UV.
I use 600W MH/HPS. Light is my biggest expense, so therefor my most important commodity to use efficiently. I grow in 1/m2 out of a 8x8 room. The larger space helps me with temperature and I also use a light mover to move the hot spot on the canopy. I put 6 inch ducting booster fans (one on each side) on my hood to pull air up into the hood and out both ends I run 3 other fans in the room with outside exhaust fan running on low.
I live at 42 N so my spring grow starts out in cold weather and I use 24 hour T-5 light for veg, just to keep it warm. Then the 600w for final veg and flower and the cool temps allows me to discard the glass.
Does it really help? I really don't know, but it is the best information I have found. I just finished a strain that advertises 400-500 g m/2 and I got 407 with 600w. I don't think I would have gotten more with the glass, but I can't say I would have gotten less either.
 
I don't use a glass either but that's because I use a winged hood for my grows right now. A lot of people say they create hot spots easier than a cool tube or hood w/glass. I think the right amount of air circulation disrupts this though. And it sounds like you've covered all your bases!! Thank you for sharing I love seeing what others do!!:)
 
🌱 I feel like the Sea of Green style is under utilized. People love manifolding and intensive training, which is great if you have plant limits for example some medical marijuana patients, but if you can grow as many plants as you want I feel SoG might be better when it comes to yields for the time and electricity. The idea is to grow a bunch of untrained plants, that each get just 2-3 main colas each, instead of growing just one or two big plants that are trained to be spread out with many colas per plant.

The reason is it cuts down on the vegetative stage (it's faster for 8 plants to fill a grow space than 1 plant, especially without any training besides maybe a quick topping in the beginning) so you can completely fill a 4'x4' tent in just a month or so, and then start flowering immediately. I haven't tried it with photoperiod plants, but I tried it with auto-flowering plants earlier this year and it worked really well. I ended up getting over 2 oz/plant with 8 plants under a 600W light, so over a pound at harvest! The only training I did was snip the tip of the 5th node off around week 2 or 3, and then when they started flowering I removed the big fan leaves, and removed all the big fan leaves again at about week 6. Other than that I left them alone.

Before that, I've typically grown just two plants at a time, and manifolded them. Although the yields ended up being about the same in the end, I feel like I need to take an extra month in the vegetative stage to get the plants big enough, so that ends up being a month's worth of time and electricity wasted compared to a SoG grow!🌱
 
I agree with you on that Berrypilot , that's the way I mostly did it outdoors, top em a time or two or three and mostly leave em alone ,I was trying to get weight , not paint a Mona Lisa. Dylan said these times they are a changin. Not that there's anything wrong with painting a Mona Lisa
 
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I like the SOG method as well and think it's unerrated, I just think that letting the plant go untrained is a waste of yieldings, but you cut that out of the equation with topping(which I do as well). I always enjoy your input Berry you have a knack for putting things into words and being exemplary with your writing! Thank you I appreciate your post!!:)
 
I use a 3.5x3.5" trellis net supported horizontally about 2-3" above my DWC. I supercrop when she is just above the net (usually 3-5 nodes) then when the heads from the lower branches and the supercropped top are tall enough I tuck them back under the net. I use House and Garden flakes + the supplements. First 2weeks I use a MH and give about 20k lux 24h a day then 55k lux on 20/4 for a week then switch to HPS at 50-60k lux on 18/6 for a week then switch to 12/12 with as close to 75k lux as I can based on the cooling (light is A/C cooled). I defoliate as needed and to promote "repair" instincts.
 
I prefer the SOG but I have a paranoid wife that is a wreck anytime I have over 4plants (like now 😎)
 
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