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grand daddy purp
3'x3'
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weeks 6
LST
weeks 6-9
Main-Lining
weeks 6-9
Topping
weeks 7
Defoliation
weeks 9-12
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Week 8
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Green_Coffee Green_Coffee
4 years ago
The non mainlined girls are starting to be a right pain to take care of. The wire ties from the LST make watering difficult, and they are keeping the humidity up. Also, the heat outside disappeared, so the house is running a bit cool. I would start to exhaust the air to the house, but my current carbon filter (from the last time I grew 15+ years ago) is failing, and for some reason I don't want to put on the new one until the next grow. The work to LST, trim the anemic undergrowth and difficulty water says enough that this rando LST is not something I'm going to repeat. I haven't made time to get a stable screen setup to attach to the pots, so that's also out. Of course, I also happened to snap one of the mainlined girl's stems. It was a 1/4 stem, so only 2 of the 8 growth tips are affected. I'll update later with a picture of her in her electrical tape, but it's been a few hours since the snap and the leaves are doing well. Her arms are just so thick and short, so don't have a lot of movement to try to pull them further apart from each other. I'm tempted to flip to flower tomorrow just to get this grow over with. The crop and attempt to de-chaos after the super crop is just a mess. I want to be working with 2 4-way LST plants, and 2 neat mainline plants to see how well they compare against each other. The only thing that's holding me back is I think the mainline plant should get a bit more veg time before the flip to flower. But, I will do at most one more week of veg. Wednesday. Considering the mainlined girl was snapped last weekend (and Monday I re-snapped the taped limb), I'm finishing this week of veg. I bought some metal conduit to brace the sides so they can't suck in around the canopy, but likely won't get a chance to put it in until this weekend. The plastic 1/2" PVC piping that others have used felt more bendy than I wanted. I took a few pictures to demonstrate that the girls are currently filling all the space they have with the tent closed.
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indoorontario
indoorontarioweek 20
A couple of things to try to get your plants to finish faster. Increase light distance and reduce light hours. If you've already got big buds on there you really just need them to ripen. Pumping them with light will just encourage more growth and foxtailing. It looks like you may have a variety of phenotypes, maybe not all will turn purple.
Green_Coffee
Green_Coffee
@indoorontario, I can't increase light distance for the plants that most need it; I have the light wire wrapped to the top center pole as close as I could manage. The front two plants are on 4" platforms, but the back two plants are partially using them for support; to remove them I'd have to use more yoyo's (which I do have) and spend the time before I could lower them. And they front two are already around 19" from the light which is in theory a reasonable distance. I could reduce intensity of the light. Moving from 290w to 260w would be about a 10% decrease, and might help with the foxtailing that all but one plant is doing. Also, this would help with some burn the back taller two are doing. Even better, it's a trivial amount of time to do. I don't know why I stubbornly avoided dimming the light seeing the taller plants burn a bit.
BermudaCower
BermudaCowerweek 20
Really good journal, mainlining seems like the way to go. Good luck in harvest
CanadianFillmore
CanadianFillmoreweek 19
Looking good!
unrealmj
unrealmjweek 15
awesome full tent! I moved my ladies outside.
CanadianFillmore
CanadianFillmoreweek 15
Sorry to read that your cat passed away.
Med_in_Tropic
Med_in_Tropicweek 9
Got GDP cross seeds tha I am afraid to grow. Thank you for good looking of info. Will be useful after My raining season passed.
occultgreen420
occultgreen420week 11
wonderful grow and wonderful cat! it's always nice to see both together 😁
NaturalMystic
NaturalMysticweek 7
My last grow is gdp but not make diary. I love this strain so much easy to grow fast great yield and response very well for topping. easy to clone and smell like mint+flower. My best pain killer from serious Herniated disc. I love this strain
Colorado_cookies
Colorado_cookiesweek 8
Question. did you ever cover the top with more medium when the roots were showing? I’m havig same thing where roots are showing from the stem and curious if I should just add more ?
Colorado_cookies
Colorado_cookies
@Green_Coffee, thank you ! Good luck on the rest of your grow !
Green_Coffee
Green_Coffee
@Colorado_cookies, It depends on how much space I've left at the top of the pot. Currently my pots are pretty full, so where I have roots showing, I've just been leaving it. Some of the loose coco/perlite on top gets shoved to the sides during watering, and I'll periodically move some back towards the center (which is primarily where the roots show), but there's not enough to settle, so it slowly gets pushed back out to the sides.
DoDrugs420
DoDrugs420week 20
Lovelly grand daddy purp !!
Tweezer
Tweezerweek 15
Looking real strong 💪! Good luck the rest of the way!
Green_Coffee
Green_Coffeeweek 6
Ugh, I just typed a long rambling update, and it got eaten because I didn't confirm email address yet. Anyways, I'm planning to transpot this weekend. I haven't had time to work on making mini screens to test a scrog vs lst (I like screens attached to the pot (likely the elevator in this case) , to make moving/rotating plants possible, and moving them out of the tent allows the back to be worked with. I think that LST under a screen is much easier/faster not fighting with wires, but the intiial setup is a pain. And if the screen is made of too weak of materials it either doesn't last, or doesn't help train well enough. Mainlined plant seems to far behind the others that I will be amazed if she compares favorably to them in harvest. This might be a crap test, as I'd be ok with a few additional weeks of veg if the total harvest was at least on par with just LST/HST training, as they're more time intensive due to the number of branches.