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I would like to get some defoliation tips if possible.
just before blooming,
option-1: should I leave only the top, and crop all the lower bud sites?
option-2: do not crop the lower bud sites, just try to make them get light till end of bloom?
and why? many thanks.
You seem to be confusing two things. Defoliating is to remove leaves to, supposedly, improving yield. The technique have its adepts and detractors. What you are talking about is lollipoping, where you remove the lower bud sites, so the plant can focus on the top buds. What you need to keep in mind is that yield is dependent on the amount of light, if you remove the lower bud sites, you will have less, but bigger buds, but roughly the same yield of a plant that did not get the same treatment, but instead has a multitude of smaller buds. Personally I prefer to remove those lower buds, it makes harvesting and manicuring a lot faster and easier.
-Logs of Week2-
04.04.2020 "CO2 bag added / spray with water for humidity / led down and vol-up" (day14)
05.04.2020 "responded very well to light & CO2 / spray with water for humidity"
06.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
07.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
08.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
09.04.2020 third node is forming
10.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
**Logs of Week3*
11.04.2020 "spray with water for humidity (day21)
12.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
13.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
14.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
15.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
16.04.2020 spray with water for humidity
17.04.2020 "6th node is forming / Transplanted into 8L pot for Veg / Feeded / spray with water for humidity / Led goes heigher"
humidity on average ~45-50
temp on average ~22C
JH's main stem is thicker compared to DP. DP is coming behind. All over both are healthy and grow pace I think is okey. 💪
JH Update:
Looks great and healthy.
Root check during transplant and they are healthy and white.
DP Update:
Looks kind a floppy. Due to over watering.
Root check during transplant and they are healthy and white as well.
Is there an affordable way to test your plants for THC, CBD where people dont have access to testing labs?
Since its available; is it possible to send samplings overseas like USA / Canada? Would they accept samplings?
many thanks.
Would talk to the labs doing the testing. Most likely you will get a "no" as it's illegal to ship internationally. But you never know some might be willing to do the testing if your willing to risk shipping it too them.. Keep in mind if you get caught you can get in all sort of trouble. International Drug Trafficking is how some jurisdictions would classify it and you can find yourself in a world of legal trouble even for small tiny test amounts. Not really worth the test results for a legal battle. If you live close enough to an area to does any grow festivals or cups they will often provide basic testing services here. That's about it... Start petitioning your local government to legalize Cannabis lol.
Its time to top each lady, we will see where they will go from here :))
Topped each lady below 4th node, above 3rd node :)))
22.04 - Day32 - defoliated and feeded. applied LST to toppest branches so the lower ones can catch them up in time which will help me to keep the canopy even.
-Logs of Week4-
18.04.2020 "spray with water for humidity (day28)
19.04.2020 spray water for humidity
20.04.2020 "topped / spray water for humidity"
21.04.2020 spray water for humidity
22.04.2020 "defoliation / spray water for humidity / feeded / LST" (day32)
23.04.2020 "spray water for humidity / LST"
24.04.2020 "spray water for humidity / LST"
I will clone one feminized seed.
After cloning phase ends I will start spraying with colloidal silver water and at the same time I ll put it under 12/12 right away. (no vegging)
I m thinking to do this in a solo cup.
my goal is to produce seeds?
Would it work? many thanks.
Yes it will work and you will have some S1 seeds aka self polinised seeds.
The cloidalle silver can fail sometimes that's why I am using a STS aka Silver Thiosulfate solution to do that kind of sex reversion
The recipe is available on google but here is a direct link
https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/complete-guide-to-using-sts-to-create-feminized-seeds.469940/
Begining of Week5.
sativa sister club is doing great so far...
after topping last week they responded very well... currently applying some LST to keep the canopy even.
I m planning to top again when all main branches reach their 6th node.
DP Logs
25.04.2020 "spray water for humidity / canopy looks even, light LST"
26.04.2020 "spray water for humidity / canopy looks even, light LST, minor defo"
27.04.2020 "canopy looks even / spray water for humidity / Feeded - 1lt"
28.04.2020 spray water for humidity
29.04.2020 spray water for humidity
30.04.2020 "topped from 3rd node :) yaaay! spray water for humidity Feeded - 1,5lt"
01.05.2020 na
JH Logs
25.04.2020 "spray water for humidity / removed the lowest budside from upper branches so they can focus on top to keep the canopy even / LST on lower main branches"
26.04.2020 LST on lower branches, minor defo
27.04.2020 "LST on upper branches / spray water for humidity / Feeded - 1lt"
28.04.2020 spray water for humidity
29.04.2020 "spray water for humidity / LST on upper branches"
30.04.2020 "LST on upper branches / Pruned the 2nd node of lower branches / spray water for humidity / Feeded - 1,5lt"
01.05.2020 na
Does it make sense to purchase Mammoth-P while I own products from AN-(vodoo, piranha, tarantula)?
Would it be extra benefical for me to use MammothP along with AN-(vodoo, piranha, tarantula)?
or would be waste of money? thank you
Hi!
I think it is not useful to buy Mammoth P as extra 'cos it basically has the same bacteria than those 3 bottles. There might be some differencies but still I wouldn't add anymore. I use great white btw. Cheap and good!
Begining of Week-6
Now Its time for them to grow until flipping time knocks the door.
Story of 16 colas of 2 sativa ladies will form right at this moment :P
DP Logs Week6
42 02.05.2020 na
43 03.05.2020 na
44 04.05.2020 "feeded / defoliated, tied down each cola"
45 05.05.2020 na
46 06.05.2020 na
47 07.05.2020 further defo
48 08.05.2020 feeded
JH Logs Week6
42 02.05.2020 na
43 03.05.2020 na
44 04.05.2020 "feeded / waiting for upper branches to mature"
45 05.05.2020 na
46 06.05.2020 na
47 07.05.2020 defo and hopefully last binding session
48 08.05.2020 feeded
begining of week7
they are doing great so far...
*training them was straight-forward,
*they responded very well to both training and feeding program.
Now I will let them mature for another 2 weeks (until branches form their 6th node or so) before flipping them to 12/12.
During this time I will prune lower bud-sides (leaving the fan leaves as possible until flowering) to let them focus on top and grow.
11.05 - Update
*Both JH & DP are taking their time to grow&mature before blooming.
*Applying some minor LST (massaging and twisting branches till top)
14.05 - Update
*Both JH & DP are taking their time to grow&mature before blooming.
*They are getting a lot bigger then I anticipated, we will see how It will go 😊
* I cut the plastic sticks from half so the tops have their own grow space from this point.💪
DP & JH Logs of Week7
49 09.05.2020 spray water for humidity
50 10.05.2020 spray water for humidity
51 11.05.2020 "feeded defoliation"
52 12.05.2020 spray water for humidity
53 13.05.2020 spray water for humidity
54 14.05.2020 "feeded defoliation"
55 15.05.2020 spray water for humidity
begining of week8
Not much to say... still growing healthy and with an even canopy...
Guess I ve another week or so, we will see :)
21.05 - Update
They are both healthy and I think ready to flip but still I ve another week to empty my flowering tent.
they will veg for another week
During last week of veg;
* I will defoliate to prepare for blooming.
* Top three nodes will be left.
* I will FIM the lowest bud-side
* After I m done with pruning I will add BudIgnator to my feeding shcedule (for 2 weeks)
* Transplant to 5 gallons pot.
* Flip 12/12 :))
last week of veg / begining of week9
twisting branches seems to be worked out as a training *added some photos from JH result of the training can be seen. 😈
they look very healthy and growing very well.
I wlll fim loverbud sides and remove fan-leaves and transplant to 5 gallons pot just before 12/12
26.05 - Update
both have been defoliated and transplanted to their new 5 gallons smart-pots. moved them to their flowering tent as well under sf-2000.
I will do another tie-down session just prior on flipping to 12/12
I got them tied down.
flipped to 12/12 - first day and week of flowering :))
both are ready to flower. both, I will defoliate once again in a couple of days.
2nd week of flowering - 10th day of flowering
both ladies are doing great.
JH is streching more then DP but they are both in streching phase and healthy and happy plants :))
I will apply an extreme defoliation on their 21st day of flowering.
begining of week-3 of flowering
both ladies are doing great. streching is still on-going on both.
probably they are done with streching in a couple of days.
I will do another defoliation session just before streching is done.
hopefully ride them till the end :))
16.06 - Update (20th day of flowering)
I have defoliated both ladies. tried to open up all the bud sides so they can get direct light.
lets see how it will go from here :))
both ladies are on kind a autopilot :))
both are doing good, looking like they promise a lot at the end :))
increased their feed just a bit, I still have some room to increase we ll see how they respond first :))
everything is on track. 🙏
both ladies are doing incredibly nice and getting dense each day. 💪
as for my feeding schedule I will stick to this for another week or two. 👌
Soon I will start a follow-up on trichomes as well... 😎
both ladies are getting there day by day :))
DP
I had a couple of yellow dotted leaves due to lack of air circulation.
I got rid of the leaves and added an additional fan to keep the air circulation
JH
She is healthy:) proud of her :))
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