Barney's Farm Dos Si Dos 33 grow journal by zunneyboii

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MalumProhibitumcommentedweek 1312 days ago

I think flushing is a nice way of putting a soft end-date to a grow. As the plant is running out of nutrients it will develop in a different and more visually spectacular way, over a plant you just keep feeding your regular nutrients to harvest. I tend to get this feeling when running full nutrients --maybe another week; yeah.. one more week, just 2 more weeks.. until I have a monster that risk catching mould. Whereas on the flushed plant I might think --one more week and after 2 weeks it's so obviously ready I might even reconsider mid-week and do a chop because it looks ready! 😁👌. I run my plants 100% closed-cycle, runnoff collected and re-used by the soil zero drain to waste, so no "flush". But I only feed water at the end of the grow to get said "soft-end-date" that will eventually determine when I get this urge to harvest. If I was growing to feed my 100 kids, then I'd go with the no-flush approach to maximize harvest-weight. But.. I'm not, I'm looking at my plant's as instagram models that needs to look good too, not just produce a large harvest! 😋.

MalumProhibitumcommentedweek 10a month ago

I tried for 16+ weeks to herm my previous Dos Si Dos x33 w/o success. I wonder what triggered her this early into the grow.. 🤔. Unless you are selling the weed, or have numerous other strains in there I'd just keep growing them to harvest, ignore/collect the nanners, but make sure the fans isn't stirring up the air too much to prevent pollen from being distributed all over the place & compensate the lower airflow with a bit lower relative humidity to prevent mold. Also.. they look a bit thin for week 5 flower, they should be fattening up by now. Maybe it's nutrient related or some enviromental factor and this particular batch has different needs than what you normally would expect 😩.

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MalumProhibitumcommented12 days ago

@zunneyboii, I'm glad you decided to keep it growing, and not chopping early due to a nanner as it would severly impact your final yield. A nanner lets say 1 month pre harvest won't do more harm than maybe give you 1-2 seeds in the imediate area close to the nanner, rubbing off some pollen. Unless you disturb the grow by shaking the plant vigorously and apply fans to disperse the pollen it's a non-issue I think people are worrying too much about.

MalumProhibitumcommented12 days ago

@zunneyboii, If I have a plant I feel has performed remarkably well -a G.O.A.T I have a special harvest procedure. In those rare cases I just don't chop, dry, cure and move on. Instead I keep the lowest 1-2 of the bud-bearing-branches, close to the soil and do the chop above those branches. Then I either: #1 - Move the plant to the nursery run@18/6light and re-veg, then either put it through the 12/12 process again or just keep it in VEG and take clones. Or... another option: #2 - I save the lower portion of the plant, put it aside and keep letting it run 12/12 passive light (just enough light for it to survive), until it eventually turn hermafrodite. Then I collect it's nanners containing pollen, store the nanners and use it in future breeding-projects. As I recycle the same soil over and over I want to avoid using any product containing silver etc, to prevent the soil from becomming contaminated for future grows (same soil re-used since 2016). Hence the force plants to go hermaphrodites by time, rather than using silver! 😁👌. Pollen harvest and breeding projects of your own is also a nice way of countering corporate-monopoly-models, autoseed -one plant/seed nonsense. I can turn 1 FastBuds freebie into an army of plants; this is the way! 😈.

zunneyboiicommented13 days ago

@MalumProhibitum, why would you want your plants to herm out in the first place? with me, maybe it was a combination of subpar temps (it was unusually hot), a persistent thrips infestation and the neem oil that i used to try to get rid of the pest, try that lol I havent found any more sacks and only 1 nanner since i found the last one plus most of the plants have swollen up really nice by now and feel super dense so im a tiny bit optimistic again that harvest wont be a complete disaster =)

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