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Veg Days 36-42
Has been a good grow. Learnt a lot and pushed my plants to the max during their veg with a new technique. As if you look at my colas. There is hardly any nodes that grow more than a few cm away from the node. I had to remove the lowest fan leafs early to achieve these. And constantly try and control the way your nodes grow. As once I seen enough energy was taken in my the fan leaf below it and turned into a shoot that could hold her own. It was removed. I done my last defoliation this week. At the top leaving 2-4 main fan leafs that should be enough. I'll let her finish eating her grow for the next few days. I'll just be giving her water, "this will continue into next week. She got her last grow feed yday. As she'll be needing grow for at least until she flips. Which hopefully will be quick. I'll be using IR 730nm to put her to sleep. I've had great results with this helping flipping fems at least 50% faster. Making the nodes stay close to the stem. "This is the idea.. and if I've done it right. I should have colas. And not buds". But, that'll all depend on how well I can keep the temperature. I have lights off during the day now for these. She is been flipped now D43 as I said. This girl was constantly pruned to get the desired results.
She's been really good to veg. Bounced back really well. And got some pretty even nodes. Have kept the ppm low, never hitting over 660 - 110 tap so 550ppm. She's 41cm at her last day of vegging.
Been moved under my SP 3000 and will get daily doses of IR/UV45 from Mars Hydro to keep her vegging at 13.5hrs. This is changing the photochrome. Giving you a longer lighting of your fems increasing your DLI and also helping the flip process that can take up to 1-2wks depending where she's at when flipping. Speeding it up by at least 50%
I've just added the UR45 to my current setup , looking forward to seeing what benefits it will produceπ what's your thoughts π looking good π Happy Growing
@gottagrowsometime, glad too hear π thanks for the info my friend π I had to do some research on the bar it's self , as Mars is some what vague π but have a good idea on what too do and definitely looking forward to see the benefits of using it π.... Happy Growing my friend π
@Tropicannibis_Todd, it speeds up the time it takes for a fem to flip by at least 50%. This fem took 5-6 days to show pre flower signs with 13.30hr flowering window and 10.20hr off with 5-10m with lights on.. you can change that to 14hrs for fattening. And push it back to 12hrs for ripening or 11 whichever you prefer. But, still using the IR to put to sleep quicker.
If you're using with lights on. Just be careful with it in pre flower. As the stretch will be unreal. It can be used to cause upwards stretch during growth also. But, is can get away from you on pre flower, "well it did for me"..
The UV-A part is great. I've noticed a significant increase in resin. Just be mindful of its strenght. 1hr sessions is enuf, once or twice a day. Still lots and lots to read up on.
Here's a link on it and how it can increase your flowering window. On here they say a 13-11 but you can push it to 13.5 for PF & 14 for fattening::https://www.growlightsource.com/flower-initiator-far-red-phyto-dep-faster-flowers/
@Flyalivebeats, she's doing well my friend. Just uppoted her this week. And will be applying this to get huge colas https://www.growweedeasy.com/nebulas-flowering-stage-defoliation-tutorial
@Aldo90, don't knock it man. Every plant needs a walk in shower lol. Its my dry room. Not used. Found yellow mushrooms growing from an old pot with soil I had sitting there. I've the window blocked off. Was sitting on the crapper. And was like wtf is that growing in the corner. 3 big ass mushies