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Now I know that I should have planted these in the pot from the start to reduce strain as this is auto flowing.
She is growing really tall and stretching..
Repotted and put outside today. Looks like we have a spell of cold weather coming, might not be best idea. Hopefully it is strong enough.
This girls is doing really well, she grew quite tall and the top is so heavy that she was falling over.
I've put a stick in and tied her to it so that she can stand straight, weird that the stem if thin for such a tall plant
Just discovered this is not an autoflower and I should have topped, stress trained or tried some techniques to reduce height and increase yield. Is it too late now? Should I at least defoliate? Would you recommend I replant in a bigger pot? (dont want it to grow anymore)
Hi Man, check my diaries and the way I fight against my stretching plants. TM is not late to train or bend her, it's safe till the last stages of flowering when stems turn to be harder. No need to defoliate IMO. Change your pot, plants will benefit from this and LTS allow you to control her height.
Had a spell of good weather. She is growing really well, going to be a monster :D
I gave the cutling that I took to a friend and he is training her properly, I'll post a pic of that one at some point.
There were 2 many leaves, so thought I'd remove some of them, removed more thani had planned but she has another 5 weeks at least so she will recover. Defoliated and opened her up more to get more sun penetrating
Took well to defoliation
Weather is so bad, she is not getting any sun. Looks like it'll be like this for the foreseeable future :(
The top was getting too bushy so I did some lst and opened her up to take up max sun on the odd day that it shines
She took to the LST really well, I forgot to mention that the top branches were just much slower than bottom branches in flowering. The bottom half is already looking like proper buds while the top is still forming buds. One theory is that the top half was more exposed to the kitchen lights from the window, so I moved her last week to not be in front of a window (where lights get switched on and maybe confuse those branches?)
I sprayed her again with neem oil this morning.
A couple of nights ago it forecast to go down to 5c so I put her inside for the night (goes in ~1am, out 8am) and it didn't smell much in the morning, doing it again today as another cold night is expected. Hopefully no one decides to get a glass of water and turns on the lights at full power :S All this moving in and out is scaring me, so worried I am going to break a branch in the process. She is so big!
It is getting really cold outside and from what I can tell this girl needs at least another 4 weeks. Is there anything I can do to speed up flowering at this point? Any tips for increasing chances of survival?
yes you can. but it involves work on your part. you could either pick it up and put it some where dark and only give it outside light of 8 hrs each day. she will get ripe faster
with the longer dark cycle. the spot she needs to be completely dark for the whole dark cycle, no light leeks ect.
yes this can be done, if the plants is too big to move you will have to create some thing around her that will enclose her in a dark cycle, a big empty refrigerator box perhaps covered with a blanket,
what ever it is you just got to be responsible to get her in to the dark. hope this helps
Top canopy was uneven so supercropped a couple of branches.
Top branches are flowering ok but I'm not sure she'll make it too the end, bottom branches looking great.
I asked how I can speed up flowering, and I need too cover her for 16 hours a day, can't cover with boxes as rain will destroy the cartoon, don't have a cloth big enough. I'm just gonna wing it, adding some leaves to protect soil from frost, bringing her in when it is forecast to below 6. She'll be flowering until Christmas at this rate :D keeping an eye for hermie
First sign of mold formed. I cut the branch, remove moldy bit and drying it.
I needed to get her inside as soon as possible, so this made me harvest the Peach Puree CBD faster as she was using the lights, I brought the church in and put her next the peach for her final night, you can see her in the 3rd picture. I needed to do some super cropping to get a more even canopy so that the light gets as many buds as possible. Was still not happy with how the lower branches are getting barely any lights so I did some foliation and tied the lower branches so they are higher (you can see some side ways branches in the video, that is because I pulled them in).
Had to some reflective material lying around, so I wrapped that around her and she is looking very comfortable in her new home now.
I've put some hay which I had laying around on the soil with some leaves I cut to act as some mulch which could be why she is drinking very little water, haven't had to water her since I brought her in 3 days ago (mind you she was under a lot of rain before that).
How does the 1g/w ratio work in this case? Plant grew outdoor until this week. She is huge but only under 100W leds now. so am I gonna yield max 100g? find that hard to compute considering how much flower there is :)
1g/w isn't a guarantee. type of light you use will be a big part of that. even an inefficient light can reach 1g/watt.
what happened in vege doesn't impact anything now except for the plant mass grown.. obvioulsy, if it helped you grow the plant larger, it should also increase your yield indoors with a larger plant -- this requires 'enough' light and coverage to realize.
if you have too much plant mass for your light, you'll end up with very week buds or maybe a few good colas where light is strong and very weak, airy colas all other places.
Depending on the LED quality, you'll want anywhere from 30w/sq ft to 50w a sq ft. If it isn't samsung lm301 diodes, lean twoard 50w a sq. ft. plant looks much larger than 2sq ft. so, i don'tknow if i'd recommend a large pruning as that will likely shock the plant at absolutely the worst time to do so. Keep light ever tallest colas, maybe tie a few in close proximity under that stronger coverage from the light. 4-6" x 4-6" per colas. Probably get your best quality on those under the more intense light.
She is liking her new spot, buds are doing quite well all over the tree.
The bottom branch that was ahead of the rest of the tree had all smokey white trichomes so I've harvested her. Gave 35g wet from that wet branch, I'll be adding this to the sum when I finish harvesting.
Why did I harvest you ask? Because I really liked the effect of the buds I chopped off the moldy branch last week, and they were mostly clear trichomes and some white heads. Got me very high and paranoid :) since the peach puree CBD turned out really mild I need something strong so I decided not to wait on this branch :) Looking at the branch after trimming a bit, it was probably too early :D but it'll do. I'll probably be harvesting this girl over a few weeks and not in 1 go. Nothing to harvest for at least 4 weeks now... waiting, patiently (or acrtually not)
When she was outside I put some leaves on the soil to cover it and protect from cold. Those leaves became a nice mulch layer so I've thrown some alfalfa and a couple worms in there, maybe I'll re-use this same pot as living soil. We'll see what comes of it...
Smoked those buds I chopped off last week, lovely high, long lasting. Really strong diesel smell.
The bottom half of the try is drying up, a couple of branches were completely dry, others had a bit of dry buds. I've removed those dry branches and will be adding a question to try to understand what is going on with those branches. I had the same thing on the Peach Puree CBD and was told it was because of wrong watering, some roots drying up but I doubt this is the case here, she was watered well and not drying up, she also has some mulch on top and can't see that the pot is drying up she is also drinking very little water. Another theory could be because the light isn't reaching those lower branches, so they are giving up.
Did some defoliation on the top part too, buds are growing well, can't wait for her to finish already.
2nd plant I have those drying branches on, what am I doing worng? Last plant I was told it is due to dry roots and wrong watering. But watering this one well and keeping her damp all time. Leaves start drying and dryness spreads. Could it be due to light not reaching bottom?
Wow, that branch is completely necrotic.
Things that *could case a branch to tamp off like that.
*Damage
*Infection
*Fungus
I really can't see more, but only a vascular disease would cause something like this outside of damage to the branch itself. From the pictures, I'm leaning towards unseen branch damage, perhaps it broke while moving it and you didn't notice? The entire branch and the buds attached to it look dried and bleached, the bleaching would come from the lights once the tissue has died.
As you can see in the video, this issue I am having with branches dying is continuing :s shame that those buds are fattening up, but they do get me high :) I am just cutting them off the tree and smoking immediately. In total I'd harvested 18g of dry bud before taking the video on end of week 26. At time of writing (mid of week 27) I've harvested the dry branches in the video and the total is now 35g of forced harvest of these narcotic branches.
Which is really not such a bad thing, since the Peach Puree CBD turned out to be quite weak and I've nothing to with proper thc content. This baby is giving me a constant lifeline while the top is getting ready closer to the lights.
Previous question's Issue with dying branches is spreading to other branches, which makes me think it is not branch damage when moving her. I noticed some weird dryness and black marking on the base of one of the dead branches. Please see pics and video of week 26 for more detail
So those dying branches are what root rot looks like :s She is still growing ok, I'm smoking the branches that die.
I've added Great White for some bacteria as i read that can help with root rot, hopefully it slows it down so at least buds grow.
Really enjoyed growing this girl, so much adventure :D To think I started her off thinking she is an autoflower and will be done in 3 months :D
She is supposed to indica dominant but at >2m I think I got a more sativa dominant branch.
Can't wait to smoke after all this time
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