My next grow is stardawg. Those dogs are getting sprayed...Question: Sir, why is your dog growing trichomes? Answer: the air freshener was too strong.
Cannabis Rezination
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Maritimer
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My friend I hope you will remember what I am going to tell you now.My next grow is stardawg. Those dogs are getting sprayed...
I am fond of smoking joints and even if you are not, check this out.
I am burning 60 day cured, fully rezinated Purple Urkle.
Don't grind it, use scissors and roll a bone.
The joint spits at you when you inhale. The glands explode as the cherry hits them.
You are going to want to tell your friends, but try and wait. When you pass that joint their way a few times they will look at you and say "what is this shit?" At that moment, being shit is a good thing.
I am really excited for ya
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These new lights are killer. I changed the leaf morphology of two plants by pointing light bar straight at them at around 30 inch separation from the canopy for a week. The design engineer told me I would have a blast playing with them.
Check it out.
Check it out.
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The folks at Curtis Mathis have hired a famous French chap with the title of "Geneticist" . We don't have the budget to compete, but there are lots of us. The race is on Jeanne La Flue
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Looking really nice!
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Four plants rescued from drought today. 11 days
Emilya Green
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How wilty did they get before you watered? Twice during bloom and twice during veg, I got several of my plants to the point of pretty severe drooping... even lost a few leaves... but in the end the trichomes were amazingly thick on those plants. The problem is without a double blind, I have no way of knowing for sure if this is as a result of holding back the water several times and in the process flushing the roots with oxygen, or if this is just their natural way of growing, or if without that stressor they might have been even better than what I ended up with. Some day we will know, and work like what you are doing here is helping add to our knowledge of this. Keep up the great work!
Have a Merry Christmas!
Have a Merry Christmas!
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Hi Em,
Dang, the camera was there and I blew the pre fertigation ugly picture. They get pretty sad looking.
I have not conducted testing on vegetative phase drought applications but my mentor has. Doc Caplan says it tested adversely in regard to flower development and dried total yields. Also he studied multiple drought applications and found them no good either. I tend to agree with him that the veg phase is not when to withhold food and water. But I cannot say for sure. I am just a old jarhead playing with a few cards in my deck missing and unaccounted for.
But hay, I know where most of my cards are
Thank You, Have a Merry Christmas
Dang, the camera was there and I blew the pre fertigation ugly picture. They get pretty sad looking.
I have not conducted testing on vegetative phase drought applications but my mentor has. Doc Caplan says it tested adversely in regard to flower development and dried total yields. Also he studied multiple drought applications and found them no good either. I tend to agree with him that the veg phase is not when to withhold food and water. But I cannot say for sure. I am just a old jarhead playing with a few cards in my deck missing and unaccounted for.
But hay, I know where most of my cards are
Thank You, Have a Merry Christmas
Emilya Green
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Been there many times... like, I really should show everyone what I am doing here (or not doing as far as watering goes) but it is usually so scary and ugly, the camera is not used.
I regularly run my vegging plants through strong wet/dry cycles because I know that a dry vegging plant is throwing out roots, trying to find any last remaining water in the container. After forcing them to dry there is a huge growth spurt upon the next watering, and then the time between watering diminishes, because there are more roots in action. Do this over and over again with each watering cycle, and it forms some pretty dense root balls.
It is only recently that I went against the common advice to never let a blooming plant dry out, especially when organically grown. I saw one of the seed houses was promoting a regular "flushing" of the roots with oxygen, by getting them to an extended dry and forcing oxygen to be pulled all the way down to the bottom, and their plants were spectacular. Experiments with this current grow have proven this to be the case. Going dry momentarily does not kill off the microbes or in any other way harm the plants as best I can tell... it only seems to make them stronger.
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It seems like a long time ago, but a couple years ago I became friends with an academic scholar with the title of "Professor Emeritus of Biology, Cornell University" who has written many of the textbooks currently in use. Talking about Professor Pete of course, and this great gift he gave me when we disagreed about the primacy of abscisic acid. When I began bowing to his "conventional wisdom" and yielding the argument he said to me.
"To become the best botanist, you must challenge conventional wisdoms, that is if you hope to find what the others have missed. Otherwise, just read their book."
The best advice he could have given us all.
Santa delivered me some Stardawg puppies today and I am guilty of watering too much throughout previous grows.
How long are you leaving them between watering?
3 or 4 days?
Thanks
Emilya Green
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Thanks for the question @Desormais! You must have been a very good boy to have Santa be so nice to you! So Merry Christmas and lets get you watering correctly right off the bat. My answer to how long I leave them before watering is until they are dry all the way to the bottom... Until my human senses can not tell there is any water weight at all in the container by lifting it at arm's length. I would rather see my plants starting to wilt, than over water by watering too soon. When I water, the soil is as dry as the Sahara Desert and it is pulling back from the sides. I am extremely hard on my plants, for I make them work for a living. I know that as they run out of water, in desperation they throw out a bunch of new roots, trying hard to find that very last drop.
Running your plants through hard wet dry cycles builds up your root ball rather quickly, but there is an art to it. Most people accustomed to growing anything other than a weed would think this was cruel. A coddled weed is a lazy weed, and it has no need to grow roots. A threatened weed is a voracious fighter, and it will aggressively do what it needs to do to survive. If you get stingy with the water, it grows more roots.
So here, your answer gets more complicated, because there is no set number of days between waterings. At first, a little sprig of a plant will need 5-7 days to drain a solo cup. Put it through a few aggressive wet/dry cycles and soon it will be able to dry up all the water you can get that soil to hold, in 4 days, then 3... and then finally the plant will be able to drain all of that water in 36 hours or less, and that will be the time to uppot, and start this process again.
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Maritimer
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plant fitness Captain D
piss with them plenty
like our lady friend just pointed out the water discipline
thats one of a bunch of ways to stir the pot
works every time when done well.
your stardawgs may turn into Starhogs and make you very happy
best of luck with them
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Looking at the rescue and harvest plans and a big oh heck jumps out at me.
Starting tomorrow, I will be chopping about every three days until the 15th of January.
Big ladies in 5 and 7 gallon pots
"I've got blisters on my fingers" Sammy Hagar?
Starting tomorrow, I will be chopping about every three days until the 15th of January.
Big ladies in 5 and 7 gallon pots
"I've got blisters on my fingers" Sammy Hagar?
My best plant during the last grow was in a home made air pot, which was probably drying quicker than the others.
Admiral M says to "piss with them"
All last year, after the frosts were gone, I vegged outside and would only tend to them by pissing ON them, haha.
These were my strongest plants.
Take some of your own medicine dogs.
Merry Christmas everyone.
D
I’m glad to see the new thread @Maritimer.
Im on my 3rd harvest of rezinated haze. Ive been letting them wilt towards the end of flowering and then water a day before harvest. I couldn’t be happier with the results.
I’m also glad to see that @Emilya who said I was wrong and misread the studies are now here sharing in the technique.
Im on my 3rd harvest of rezinated haze. Ive been letting them wilt towards the end of flowering and then water a day before harvest. I couldn’t be happier with the results.
I’m also glad to see that @Emilya who said I was wrong and misread the studies are now here sharing in the technique.
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That would have been Ringo on Helter Skelter (The White Album 1968).
And merry Christmas Maritimer, to you and all those you love!
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Gonna blow up the thread with pics. Shed say;s its ok.
