Here's the thread.Hey Scottay, nice to see you
Light Addict is the most creative grower I've encountered. Did he document that grow? I'd love to see flower pics! Wow!
Thanks!
She is well trained and looking good, be she behaves.Happy Monday folks,
Status update:
Chocodope
I continue to work on opening this plant up. It's as if it is growing tentacles, not branches. It's another pretty little thing. I wonder if it will remain under lights or be relegated to the outside garden. I'm not happy to use electricity to grow mini plants.
The Blueberry may need both lights on its own, depending how big it gets.
Blueberry
Blueberry lost a branch today. I was adjusting hooks and a third level branch snapped off. At first I thought I'd try and graft it back and then I thought I don't want the plant putting energy in repairing a branch when it could be building others, so I cut the branch off properly. It's unlikely it would have healed in any event. Something to try on a vegging plant maybe.
Thank you Bode. That Blueberry is a little long in the internodes. It's a challenge keeping those two dominant branches from going apical. I'm bending the main stem to do it. The Chocodope reminds me of working with a reveg, constantly opening it up and exposing branches and flowers to light. I am happy with progress in both too
Thank you Bill! So far neither one has given me anything to stress aboutShe is well trained and looking good, be she behaves.
It's summer and that always brings a ray of sunshine
You too my friend, thank you.Take care.
FTFY
I can certainly see why even GDB would find this a serenity grow!
Unfortunately there's no way to prove the hypothesis that topping delays flowering in autos since we can't run clones to test it. I can tell you that I topped my Le Creme CBG auto as soon as I saw pistils and it said IDGAF!
Lol! Yes, I honestly didn't expect all that amber.FTFY
I know, but a few people have anecdotal experience that it does, and there are always going to be exceptions to the rule. I feel as if it does delay flowering if I snip at first site of pistils but no way to prove it, you're quite right. Thanks for that, I probably shouldn't make a statement I can't back up!
I top because I have tried the alternative and it isn't as effective for my method of training. I need to keep my plants low and flat. I grew a photoperiod plant on the tabletop, bent the trunk over and pulled branches out. It worked but I prefer the topping method for my space. I think most growers adopt and adapt methods that suit their circumstances, so what works for one will not necessarily work for another. I have no qualms about topping, as I have not noticed a negative impact on plants, and I have only had good outcomes myself.
I hear ya. We all do what we feel is right for our situation. I have no big issues with topping it just doesn't fit my style. I keep my canopy flat and wide too.
I look forward to following your new grow! It will be great to see how you do it.
This late on a school night! Well I never…I got nothing on the Chocodope other than autos gonna auto, but if I may make a suggestion on the BBa training:
Push that branch up rather than tying it down. As long as it's lower than the rest it will never get as big, and keeping your lowest branches low is counterproductive.
Thank you. It's a constant tweak. In the end my biggest buds seem to be on my second node branches. Do you mean let them go vertical? Won't that just produce popcorn buds on the secondaries? I've untied them for now.I got nothing on the Chocodope other than autos gonna auto, but if I may make a suggestion on the BBa training:
Push that branch up rather than tying it down. As long as it's lower than the rest it will never get as big, and keeping your lowest branches low is counterproductive.
Yebo Baba.
LOL!
My most recent harvest was the second of two Red Russian XXL autos. You couldn't have found two different plants if you tried. The only thing they had in common was purple flowers.
It's the only way. That, or if you have the beans to spare, cull.
If it's not level with the canopy when you untied it I mean either push it up from below or attach the wire to the stick and use that to pull it up.
Thank you Shed. What would you advise with the secondary branches now that the mains are free?
Your secondary branches are already flowering, so getting them to the canopy is probably a lost cause, but if you can keep the buds on the ends of those branches flat (pointing out rather than up) it might help give the lowers more oomph.
