Great reference and movie. I recently been looking at the girls in the tent and saying I can create a sea of beautiful green, like you do, frankly your grows are inspirational. I keep referring your grow progress to mine, and think to myself I can get there. Really excited about the progress and moving forward.
Less work, more buds, hell yea! Am trying to keep the plants top bushy as possible, so we create that sea of green.
No net or bamboo sticks needed to keep the colas standing up?
I appreciate the âCome back tomorrowâ style you have with me!
Yes, you will get there and soon, once you get through a complete grow and harvest and dry and cure, youâll have a system that you know that works for you from seed to buds in jars. Then you just put in your own tweaks and adjustments and style into it.
I am excited for you, just as I get excited when one my students pulls off that spinning heel kick for the first time with perfect form. I was a martial arts instructor for many years, so thatâs where a lot of my teaching style comes from. Glad you get the references even though sometimes I post them without even thinking they are references, LOL
I started using a screen for the reason of heavy colas falling over in late flowering. I got tired of having to tie them up or use zip ties to keep them up, more of a problem with some strains than others. I donât use a screen like the real screen masters that weave and tie their branches into the screen, I just use the screen to separate and support the colas, kind like what a bra does for women. What I like about it is the efficiency, with a screen, itâs once and done and donât have to worry about cola support any longer.
Iâll get that screen, who knows what can happen, especially with 3 different strands going.
You teaching discipline doesnât surprise me, I see it. Our youngest son was doing up till the pandemic. Great for anyone of any age to get into. I had a rough childhood and try to expose mine to the things that give them structure.
Definitely ready to hold my jars up like a trophy and say âWe did it Hellraiserâ
@Hellraiser, get your opinion on the colas. The top two colas are 2" above the other 4. They seem to be outpacing the other 4, because (I think) our lights are 24" above the light. Pictures are just to reference the colas.
Are the colas fine? Just let them do their thing? I have a SCROG net be delivered tomorrow, if that helps us.
Am still getting a very small amount of yellowing tips on (Calcium girl) the AK, itâs definitely sensitive to the light, itâs not hurting the plant, but I could lower the light if that helpsâŚ
She is starting the early signs of showing her sex. !
On the taller top colas, not going to be an issue. When you put the screen in place, you take the taller tops and move them further out from the center to shorten them up to even out the canopy.
Your AK is the sensitive one of your group, almost all grows from seed will have one that is more sensitive to everything than the others. Next time you water her, give her a little extra phâd water to flush her out a bit but she looks pretty good,
No, not yet, waiting on a bag of perlite thatâs taking forever to get to me, should be here in a couple/few more days so will transplant this weekend if not before.
Soonest I would flip into flowering would be 2 weeks after transplant. After transplanting, Iâd get the screen up, do some more bottom/middle cleanup, big fan leaf defoliation, and work them into the screen and let them grow into it for a couple weeks, making adjustments as needed, then start flowering light cycle and do a final neem treatment.
I just found some whiteflies in my flowering tent but too close to harvest to do anything about it, will just ride it out as they wonât do much in the couple weeks I have left. Have had more pest problems this year than Iâve had in many years.
Your plants look great, makes me want to go back to Ocean Forest for vegging.
You must be watering like a hose waiting for the perlite. Am up to watering every 2 days, and know you were there a week or more ago.
I want to stay a week behind you in most steps, so I will wait a week, was planning on it this weekend.
Watering, I take the girls out of the tent and using a big beach cooler to water, dump access. Does the net prevent us taking the plants out of the tent? I read about your saucer method to collect runoff.
Yeah the plants need water every day and a half now.
Another week will just let your plants get a little bigger - more yield.
Not going to be able to move your plants after setting them up in the screen, the only real downside to using a screen. Thatâs why I have the flowering girls up on the pot elevators and use the giant syringe to get most of the runoff.
Though I will be improving that setup as I think I can come up with a better way, thinking about a big tray (slightly elevated and slightly inclined in the back) with a drain tube in the front, still working out the details.
I am in no hurry and definitely want the yield patience young grasshopper.
I saw that comment you posted too. I have been thinking through the process of building something too. I thought about the lean from rear to front and adding a portable water pump, like something for a fish tank. Since am going to run the trio nutes and will be flushing with gallon after gallon.
Am thinking (more hope) that I will have to use the net to keep the buds up. I will watch some SCROG videos tonight. Maybe even ones about drainage. Thanks again for your time Hellraiser. By the way, I got so much FFOF, if you werenât so far west from me, Iâd bring you some big bags, and beg for a jar of your cherry buds. Howâs Vicky Vallencourt?
More yield will help as you want to grow enough bud to hold you over til the next harvest + drying / curing time, sucks to run out, though that hasnât happened to me in many years.
I find sativa dominant hybrids are more prone to fall over with their thinner stems, more indica dom strains have really thick strong stems and donât have that problem usually but ya never know. My Cherry Ice Cream has really thick strong stems but some of the larger monster colas do bend over near harvest time and itâs a sticky mess trying to tie them up to stuff.
Yes if we were closer, we could definately work some things out, would love to smoke you out with some Sticky Cherry or Cherry Ice Cream and see what you think of it.
Vicky has been topped and is doing very well, growing fast and may take over a tent position in flowering as I like the way she is growing more than one of the other GG plants (my sensitive GG) which may get the outside duty instead of Vicky. With the GG plants, Iâm looking for the one that will be a clone mother, so growth characteristics like hardiness, stem and leaf formations, self canopy developement and not being a whiny baby is high on the list of requirements. I like that Vicky never gave up even after 2-3 weeks of over watering abuse and came back strong, sheâs a trooper.
Can we do any damage with low PPM? Girls need watering today, and going feed-water-feed with FF trio, they are due for feed, however I donât think they need any nutes, so much growth! Last watering I didnât check ppm, but confident itâs below 900.
If they donât look like they need it, donât give it, specially with how often they need water right now, skipping a feed wonât be a problem, can always feed them a little next watering.
As you mentioned to add more pH water to the sensitive one, I did 2 days ago, I would say total 3/4 of a gallon. She is wayyy moist then the other. Didnât think it would make that much of a difference.
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