Started her up indoors, under some Chinese LEDs that I know nothing about, so I aint going to give you no specs. She’s been a beautiful plant! She came from a scrounged seed from an oz., purchased. I didn’t even know what sex she was for a long time, but she was the strongest so I put my faith in her. Eventually I transplanted her outside when the weather became agreeable.
. I been messing with her a little bit, tying some strings, trying to get her to grow this way or that, been pretty successful I think. I seem to have a feel for this, I think…except for in real world weather.
am fully into preflower wanting to maximize harvest as much as possible, best recommendations for saving broken branches and just making it through the harvest.
Your Maui was looking good. I’ve seen people here do a lot worse to there plants on purpose. Check out some of @kaptain3d latest grows. I believe she will bounce back.
She should bounce back, same thing actually happened to me today due to strong winds during a storm we had this morning, all I do is put some honey on the break as it could help it repair the issue and then tie the broken branch to one above or next to it with string . Over some time it will knuckle up and create a superhighway for nutes to flow through hope this helps
Thanks, I just love growing these things! It’s even beyond the high, they become a part of your life! I hate it when they’re injured. And I don’t grow many. Right now I’m vaping up the last of a 2019 grow,
I kinda hope this thing succeeds, or I have to resort back to commercial products. All I have in the ground right now are this Maui and 2 small clones, and a Blueberry fem, or some dam thing that I been growing just as a back-up in case my Maui turned out to be male.
She’s actually looking pretty good, thank you. I taped up the broken joints and am going to watch her for a few days, so I can get a feel if the branches are going to live or not. I have 4 breaks, right now I have a good feeling that at least 3 of them may make it and possibly all 4. However. if they look like they will just continue to go downhill and drain energy from the the main plant, I’ll just have to prune them , I guess…If I have to do that, what do you think about cuttings from them, and either trying to continue with the flower, or re-vegging and overwintering for another try next year? I really hate to push a plant that hard, but this is my last seed! (Although thanks to ILGM I expect to have access to more Maui for next season. Anyway, right now, fingers crossed…
I was rather aggressively “training” this Maui, it had, until the storm, roughly a 10’ diameter canopy, just too large to “move to safety” easily, and I just love the idea of it growing in the earth, where it was intended to grow. Whatever becomes of it will only be more rewarding because of the trials, I agree.
you don’t HAVE to fix the breaks, maybe just support the branch above or below it. I did that with a couple branches outside and like kaptain said they REALLY took off once i supported their weight and they could continue growing. I’ve also successfully repaired broken plants 3 times now, with my neighbor’s bee honey and clear packing tape. The fourth, i taped but didn’t use honey and lost everything above the break…there’s something there, with the honey
Thanks @TheVirginian , that’s actually kind of what I’ve done with a couple of the branches. It really depended upon the break. If gravity naturally held the break in place, I just taped them off, but there are a couple instances where I also needed to support the weight of the broken branch and I’ve used string to do that in those instances. I checked her a few times yesterday, and all of the damage branches were turning their heads back towards the Sun so at least they still seem to be alive, functioning right now.
, but I think these might be the ones from yesterdays survey. I didn’t put honey on them because I had not heard of that at the time, and I just wanted to get them stabilized as quickly as possible. I’ll definitely try and remember that trick!
I think she’s going to come out okay. Check that yellow string? A couple of days ago that was taught. It was supporting the entire weight of that branch from the joint.That was a bad break, it’s one of the worst of the four, maybe the worst, now she’s supporting herself, of her own volition, and just the tape at the wound.
Yesterday I did a little pruning for air circulation and sun exposure, and to reduce the energy needs of the injured branches. The injured have all turned their heads back towards the sun in the three days since it happened. I’m very encouraged!
So thanks for the input and suggestions!I’ll keep updating until I’m sure that the branches have regained their strength, so those who are interested can follow along.
So I probably shouldn’t have done this, especially with the approaching storm, but I did it anyway. It was just too dang tall, and I wanted some of the other flowers to get some action…
Before…
You know what I would like to do one day? I’d like to splay one of these things out like a spider. With branches 1 1/2’ foot or so off the soil and heading outward like the spokes of a wheel. Keep running it like that until flowers, and then let 'em run straight up…that’d be fun!..take up a helluva lot of space, but she’d be a fun one, that’s for sure! One day…one day…
So the one that I bent a little bit ago, trying to create some light and some height for the others has just about caught up to the tallest of the bunch. Trying pretty hard to be the boss… I guess I’ll let it.
