The girls are looking quite pleased with their new lighting arrangements. I removed the top from the aluminum table frame in the shower stall, dropped plants to the floor, and lowered light fixtures accordingly. Gonna put a SCROG net on the frame.
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As you can see in the preceding tent pic, I sprung for a set of self-watering bases and am using them on all three plants. They’re doing a nice job of keeping the ladies in a uniformly moist “Goldilocks” happy place. Only room for 3 bases in the tent, and it’s a tight fit.
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Plants are thirsty. Bases almost dry after 3 days. Both NL and AH autos ( rear, left to right) have shifted gears to giving bud development first priority. AH shows just a little nute burn, so I top-fed both plants with 2 qt each of plain water.
Younger AH in front, plus two each of AH and Blueberry, continue to veg. You can see the multiple new cola growth after fimming them. Expect to see them blooming any day now. Can’t wait to restock my stash.
Question for you Veteran growers: What’s the consensus as to the best time to lollipop?
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I do mine a week before and 3 weeks after flipping to flower
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Perhaps one of us is misunderstanding the term. I was led to believe that lollipopping entails total defoliation and leaving only buds during the latter part of the blooming cycle. Asking because I’ve never done it before.
I’ve always done periodic defoliation during vegetative and flowering, both under the girls’ skirts and all around, to facilitate air circulation and light penetration.
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My remaining five autos - three Amnesia Haze and two Blueberry - have officially entered the flowering phase today.
Oops! Seven flowering plants puts me one over the Ohio limit, as the law states “six flowering plants.” So don’t snitch on me!
Lollipopping cannabis is a pruning technique where you remove the lower growth of the plant that doesn’t receive enough light, allowing the plant to focus its energy on developing larger, more potent buds at the top. This method improves light penetration and air circulation, ultimately enhancing the overall yield and quality of the cannabis.
There are different opinions on how much to remove though
I do lower third and any small branches no matter where they are
If you click on my avatar take a look through my journal I’m sure I showed pictures along the way
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Girls in the shower stall said, “SCROG me, daddy!”
Looking good in the tent, too. Meanwhile, radishes and lettuce have popped over at the sald bar. Nothing from the onions and tomatoes, yet.
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“Every day, it’s a-gettin’ closer,
Going faster than a roller coaster
Love like yours will surely come my way
Hey, hey, hey . . .”
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Salad bar, too. First cherry tomato seeds broke ground. Added some DIY humidity domes. Picked up a pair of started container tomato plants.
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I like the salad bar idea
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Cerebral flatulence, aka brain fart, strikes again. Such moments often stink, but sometimes they’re brilliant. For example, here’s a cheap, ready-made incubator for seed germination and seedlings that most of us probably toss into the recycle bin.
This one held a rotisserie chicken from my local meijer supermarket. Clear dome, already vented, enough room to house half a dozen seedlings.
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Lovin the Buddy Holly
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I was looking back at earlier posts. It’s been 7 days since I upped my lighting game from 100 and 150 watts in both grow spaces to 250 watts each. The response from all 7 plants has been nothing short of amazing. So when someone tells you to put lighting at the top of your budget, do it. And shop around. There are good deals to be found.
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Peaked in the shower stall shortly after 6am and this is what I saw.
All that phenomenal bud and vegetative growth literally exploded overnight. This is the end of week 1.
Each plant in the tent is drinking over 2 gallons per week. Water only for everyone today because I’m seeing a few fingernails.
Front and center is Amnesia Haze auto. Same chronological age as the shower stall girls, and she dwarfs them and her much older tent mates. I’m calling her Mama Cass.
This much older AH auto, the oldest of my later flowering plants, shows slow, steady bud growth. Bet she needs another 4 weeks minimum.
Northern Lights auto is really packing it on with dense, heavy buds. My guess is she needs 2 more weeks. Maybe 3, but I’m not chasing ginger buds.
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Now here’s an odd one for you.
I clipped this shoot from under Mama Cass’s kimono 3 or 4 days ago. I noticed a preexisting rootlet and dropped her in a cup of water. I know, you don’t clone autos because you can’t wind back the c. Rudelaris clocked. But she never wilted a bit like most cuttings do, and the rootlet is about 1 cm longer. So one more curiosity to ponder.
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Radishes, Parris Island lettuce, cherry tomato seedlings, patio tomatoes. Need to thin and relocate most of the tomato seedlings to solo cups. Green onions are a no-show.
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Today, I released all seven of my autos from bondage and gave them a lot of overdue personal grooming. As my dad used to say, “Here’s looking up your old address!”
Remember that first time you went parking with your high school squeeze, and struggled in vain to unclasp her bra with one hand? Yeah, it was kinda like that.
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Man, all seven of my plants are drinking like drunken sailors on shore leave. It took a gallon each to top off the three self-watering bases in the tent.
Mama Cass in the tent and the four shower stall girls are kicking off week 2 in flower. Pruned them a bunch and fed them their FF trio.
Clockwise from left, NL, Mama Cass (AH), and an older AH. See that stacked lateral cola on the NL that looks like it’s flipping you off? That’s the main cola that I nearly severed a few weeks ago. I gave her buds a close inspection, and she might hit prime time by the weekend.
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