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Day 24 (D1 flower): Hi all , just a quick update to show the stretching over the last 24 hours since restaking again. They have begun going vertical again and re-created the bushy appearance . Now that they are in the transitional phase and will potentially double in general structure , I plan to let them keep going a little more lateral before using the final stretch to start the bud stacking hopefully. It has allowed a good amount of growing tips to emerge as mains that should all recieve a similar portion of the available energy and food to create some uniform buds in a crown and a couple in the middle. Both of the Banana trained have responded with the same bounce back so should play ball if I can keep the #1 from dominating the light height setring. She wants to go tall after her F.i.m so I think some form of gentle supercropping needs to be used. she easily reaches the pot edges now so with stretch to come , I need to work it out.
The 3 Purple monkey are really going for it now and have some very nice stems thickening up alongside definable flowers so I can see their plans for heavy buds already. They are in some big 60L pots but could be easily held at the pots edges with their size. I am impressed with them so far and they look so damn healthy too. Inhave given them a feed of 12g/10L Megacrop to offer a little boost and see how they respond. tips are green and clean so if too strong , will show quickly . I also added 10ml silicon and 10ml calmag to each bucket. They took the 10L between the three and a slight runoff was visible. They are being fed every 2 days due to the pot size mainly and drying out in the room temps but thankfully the Mc doesn't build excess salts up like normal feed so the plants are hopefully using it before the tops of the pots dry out.
The Cream cookie is happy and showing flowering signs too. Her size is nice and chunky so should be a bud monster soon.
The Mango X mimosa lemon has some very big fan leaves at approx day 16. bigger than my hand already!!! I think if female , she will be a huge plant !!. The X mystery is playing catch up and way behind by about a week. In general , all is as should be and it is a case of guiding the mains as stretch gets busy. Happy days. Be well.
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Day 25 (2f): Don't panic, this won't be a daily update. just to show the initial stretching using the mainline on the Banana ladies and lst use. Might help anyone thinking of getting busy on the autos to see how it progresses.
The P.monkey are doing brilliantly with stretch really starting to become evident. they have some great limbs forming up now and some very good contenders for monster mains I think.
The banana are flying with their training. each time I stake them , 24 hours later , I have to reset them to get them less like a ball shaped bush. Now they are easily reaching the edges of rhenpots , I will tie them into their final width and let the stretch start building the long colas and fill then middle with a couple of secondary growing buds. This should give them a final uniform bud size instead of 1 heavy main and a few supporting cast members. We want them fighting for the star spot. !!.
The cream cookies is happy to get on with it in the middle along with the X mystery that has remained really squat and full of nodes close together. She looks female by the forming bracts hairs but it's hard to tell as she is so stumpy still. Her high position is stopping her reaching for the light now so needs a shuffle round I think.
Mango X Mimosa Lemon has now had her 5th node bent 90% and had a stem clip put in place to keep her down until the lowers get closer to the canopy top. She is showing some heavy ind8ca genetics with those huge fan leaves down low. bigger than my hand now with fingers twice the thickness of mine too !!!. Her potential to go tall needed controlling a little so the clip will help. just have to remember to remove it before the stem swallows it up. No feed today and the rh is a stable 62% with no humidifier help. as the buds get growing i will be using the dehumidifier to slowly drop the rh to around 40%.
All in all , doing excellent and looking promising. I need to get ready to drop the next run into the soil to follow on. Still undecided on 3 but have 6 I will be planting.











Peace and blessings folks .
 
Now I KNOW I’m in the right place! I take it you guys are friends? Great post!

NTH
Yeah he goes alright I guess.

If you are female don’t stand too close, he sneezes and you’ll end up with a belly full of baby. Given his age he stores a superhuman amount of viable sperm in this arthritic body. .

And welcome to 420. :)
 
Evening.
Those purple monkeys have shot up, but that banana mash#2 is gonna be a beast.
Looking good ganjagrandady. :thumb:
it does seem very willing all of a sudden. stretch is so useful right now.lol I have done banana strains before and they seem to grow scruffy initially like a banana tree. #4 is more what I expected as a mutant type. #1 is a different pheno too , she is more sativa looking with her node spacing and structure. going to be fun keeping the canopy even !!. lol
 
Yo yo G Banger!

Look mate I’m just gonna say what the neat freaks everybody is thinking:-

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hahahaha damn , how can we not love you T. ?. Here come the excuses...... "A big lad did it and ran away !"...," gremlins did it ", "It's a special way to store cables during flowering period , the air electrifies which causes negative ions to reverse to positive and feeds the diatiminous leaf camudgeons , saw it on bro-science weekly grow advice !" ........ reality, cable is a pain in the ass but no alternative due to so many extensions to get power up in the loft without risk. Towel is for a spill prior to pictures and is a spot that water pools for some reason . the soil is coco and so light that it moves around like dust as is fairly dry, initially clear but moving pot out caused a spillage . I hardly notice any of it now .lol
 
Now I KNOW I’m in the right place! I take it you guys are friends? Great post!

NTH
T is a fake newbie who pretends she knows nothing and produces some beautiful plants somehow ( bloody ringer from aus bureau of cannabis science really!) . Love the humour and her pool and garden are amazing too she often annoys us with great pics of the yard. lol I am a fully paid up member (" A Trala Troglodyte ") of her fan club. heehee
 
Yeah he goes alright I guess.

If you are female don’t stand too close, he sneezes and you’ll end up with a belly full of baby. Given his age he stores a superhuman amount of viable sperm in this arthritic body. .

And welcome to 420. :)
hahahaha has me crying with laughter here T. you are brilliant at roasting hun. missed your calling for sure. You can really brighten a dull day x.
amazingly , this pregnancy was from sleeping on my side of the bed !!!
doctor needed a stool , urine and semen sample a few weeks back so i just threw him my pants !! I am hoping this child is at least white like us both this time, Mrs GG and Winston next door reckon its a throw back from my past family ancestory. !!.
 
Day 4 Flowering (27d): A few days on and the Banana mash look untouched again.


They are happy looking and should begin to head more vertical now. I will keep them held until flowering is well underway but will need a defol around Day 21flowering to get them some par below decks. They both have (#2,3) a lot of potential budsites but will struggle to exploit them all if they don't get a good portion of par. The leaves will be tucked where I can but I will be taking some out too . reason for the 21 day wait is to allow the veg period to fully end and the focus to be fully on bud formation. The fans will become more of a storage and processing plant than direct plant growth so the fans change their effectiveness for speed and become storage , I can add nutes and boosts to replace the big fans i take out and after around day 21 f , they won't replace the leaves again tobfocus on bud building. That's if I understand the processes correctly and feels like a conclusion from trying different ways and methods over the years. Full defol on autos would be a scary experiment as I don't think they can process as well without every leaf pulling energy in for the quick growth rates. Photoperiod is so different with time to get the plant exactly as you want it before deciding to flower them.
The Purple Monkey are heading upwards and a good rate so I need to consider their final height and how I can keep the mains in a good position for best growth. I have tied a few down more lateral and will need to keep this going until they finish stretching or they could waste a lot of space in height gains. This would mean the light higher and neglecting the potential lower growths needs. They are growing very similar to the Mexican airline of the last run. Buds are really starting to show up all through their structures too



They look nice and healthy too which is perfect for hitting the flowering cycle. These are the most developed with the Banana mash still developing the small hairs at the tips. They do look sativa dominant in their pattern now with a good size to them . Inthink I would have run out of room without the lst initially.
The Mango X that I used the clip on to bend over , is now more of an S shape at her 5th node . This few days held down has allowed the other lowers to gain a good foothold for merristem ( single main) contenders. It is really thickening quickly and had started to swallow the clip up already.

She could be a very heavy lady at the harvest with her huge fans and thickening stem !.
Mystery X is still in veg mode amd very squat growing. lots of thick fan leaves stacked up close to each other. she needs a good stretch to stand any chance of yielding well. Her shared pot is now her own so she can spread out more now.
The cream cookie is happy and spreading her wings nicely so should impress too.
I have begun to add some shogun sumo boost to the feed now too at 5ml/10L water. This will support the transition period initially but boost it once stretch is complete and the dosage is increased. Also the addition of the PK warrior 9/18 after stretch will boost even more. I am hoping I can fill the available space with the canopy full of fatties but the height differences are going to create a slope I think.




Temps have been just about copable with co2 addition and now I will begin to lower the rh as the buds start fattening.
Happy days ahead and I even had a mini tidy up in case Trala does a surprise visit. ;) :laugh: :Namaste:
be well growmies
 
I bow to thee ye Ganga Master. You have quite the operation going. Thanks for letting a peasant farmer like me tag along. I’m taking notes!! Hope Trala likes the effort you put into the cleanup. In my opinion it’s looking very tidy!

NTH
Thank you mate. been fun getting to this point and finding a simple but effective medium sized harvest from the room. tried a few systems and ways but found most frustrating or very messy if any mistakes happen. mixed l.o.s soil/coco and the megacrop/shogun nutes have been an easy to manage medium . The lights have been solid and really usable in the room size I have . the addition of rhe dehumidifier and a small humidifier seem to have made a big difference on the start this run too. With those things happy , The strains have been self fulfilling with a little guidance to exploit the needs and shape and most of all the absolute love i have for this process. learning to listen to the plants and really look into how they tick is truly fascinating mate. learning about the microscopic world going off within the plant and how it operates took many of us into full on nerd domains. lol . does give a brilliant 2 way comms with your growing plants that is really bizarre and many learn to experience. the science stuff and names baffle me most times but the concepts and ways are really logical when it clicks too. There are some brilliant and unbelievable growers on here like @Emilya ( A 420 Godess) and @InTheShed ( another firm foundation to learn a lot from ) among so many others too. playing around with ideas is a good way if you have multiple to try stuff with. I try in most to do a couple different for live results I can actually see myself. pics give such a positive view and everyone has trees except the viewer of the pics !. does seem to be that in my space, the autos give around 2/3oz in general with the odd bigger yield along the way. This means I don't have to panic about what will be cropped each plant so I can get the right number to grow initially. 9 comfortable is the optimal I think now with 9 starting out in pots around the edges with a time gap of around 4/5 weeks for flow through . thanks for the positives sorry for the waffle but smoking rhe strawberry Pie now cured and its a thinker !. lol be well buddy.
 
I bow to thee ye Ganga Master. You have quite the operation going. Thanks for letting a peasant farmer like me tag along. I’m taking notes!! Hope Trala likes the effort you put into the cleanup. In my opinion it’s looking very tidy!

NTH
Look granted it’s an improvement, but I’m not going to give him a gold star just yet.

:)
 
I bow to thee ye Ganga Master. You have quite the operation going. Thanks for letting a peasant farmer like me tag along. I’m taking notes!! Hope Trala likes the effort you put into the cleanup. In my opinion it’s looking very tidy!

NTH
my pleasure mate. more the merrier and we all have something to bring to the table brother ,a simple comment or emoji can lift and re-energise many a stressed out grower here. always a warm seat and giggle for your here. i am aiming for the simplistic, cheap and hands off for stealth grows so peasant farmer is a title we all wear after lighting layouts .heehee My conclusion is now that we get in the way of their ability so much that we have to compensate with even more complications and tech tech tat . Mc is ridiculously cheap and brilliant and lasts a long time too. soil once active is also really efficient and now paid for itself. just free electricity to work on now.lol
 
my pleasure mate. more the merrier and we all have something to bring to the table brother ,a simple comment or emoji can lift and re-energise many a stressed out grower here. always a warm seat and giggle for your here. i am aiming for the simplistic, cheap and hands off for stealth grows so peasant farmer is a title we all wear after lighting layouts .heehee My conclusion is now that we get in the way of their ability so much that we have to compensate with even more complications and tech tech tat . Mc is ridiculously cheap and brilliant and lasts a long time too. soil once active is also really efficient and now paid for itself. just free electricity to work on now.lol
Good luck with the free electricity!! Let me know when you get that lined out! And pardon my ignorance but what is Mc? And I’m really feeling the love here so I’m glad to be here.

NTH
 
Day 6 (29)flowering: Hi all. Rhe ladies are really showing their stretching now , mainly the Purple monkey who have really shot up well. it has given the nodes on #3 even more distance which I hope she fills out well. maybe a scrog indoors for her would have been more suited than straight upwards. Rhe lights are strong enough to reach low but if they get too much taller I could run out of room. I did supercrop her tallest main to avoid this now. The other two seem happier to stay bud productive with less height stretching and look nice and furry where the buds formed.


The Banana Mash have become bushes of big leaves again already and will have to be defoliated without doubt to benefit from the method used. I am re-seating the ties but not to pull down now but more to hold in place till the stretch has done They are stretching slowly and steadily so far with the buds still looking fairly young at the tips so behind the monkey on this part. The taller #1 is similar at the moment with a slow climb to height so far.


#4 mutant needed a little thinning out and structure reset a little so she is now held a little wider amd looking like she is stretching too.

Mango X continues to match forward with stretching kicking in now too.


She has surprised me with her burst of energy the last few days.

Exotic ? is a lead machine right now and needs to get a little height in to fit the nodes stacking up in this clump of leaves!!!!. Next to the Cream cookie who is flying now, she looks a non starter...




I am hoping to get the canopy space totally full over the coming week or so with the stretching left. The younger plants should close the gaps up nicely once they hit stretch too.
That's it for freedom day 2021 be safe and well growmies.
 
Good luck with the free electricity!! Let me know when you get that lined out! And pardon my ignorance but what is Mc? And I’m really feeling the love here so I’m glad to be here.

NTH
sorry, mc is megacrop. can't mention it too much as we get told off for mentioning it as not a sponsor here!. a lot of us were on a thread here for using it but it got took down as other sponsors were unhappy it was being "sold" and not paying for sponsorship as they had to. understandable but frustrating. I think we have a great community here and always enjoy injection of more like minded souls on a mission for great weed . We all grow so much from the contact here and thankfully there is always someone who has tried something you intend to give a go to pick the brains of I have bugged many members here for tips and tricks. lol Welcome aboard.
 
sorry, mc is megacrop. can't mention it too much as we get told off for mentioning it as not a sponsor here!. a lot of us were on a thread here for using it but it got took down as other sponsors were unhappy it was being "sold" and not paying for sponsorship as they had to. understandable but frustrating. I think we have a great community here and always enjoy injection of more like minded souls on a mission for great weed . We all grow so much from the contact here and thankfully there is always someone who has tried something you intend to give a go to pick the brains of I have bugged many members here for tips and tricks. lol Welcome aboard.
Oii I’m now on the Minny Cinny/ Tega Drop *taps nose* train. I got spanked by admin for saying the actual words lollllllinggg. I had no idea it was a word you can’t say. Here I was thinking cunt would be the forbidden word...forums, they can be a strange place.

I got it delivered here, cost me $80! It better perform!
 
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