Buck5050
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Profiles look on point as usual.
FelipeBlu’s Outdoor Hempy Photos & Autos 2020
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Piña Delores
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Good to see you've got your monsters caged up Felipe. Looks like they're going to test that mesh, maybe Rebar would have been more appropriate. 
Congrats on the MOTM nomination, well deserved.
Congrats on the MOTM nomination, well deserved.
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¡Muchas gracias, Piña!
Good to see you stopping by!
Yes, the backyard is full of hulking shadows!
Good to see you stopping by!
Yes, the backyard is full of hulking shadows!
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The stretch is on!
GLGA
BeBo1
GLGA
BeBo1
I googled over Norcal and could see your plants! 
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Ya never know which satellite photo they will use for your area. You can bet that next year I’ll be checking out what my yard looks like on Google Earth this year.
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It’s Tuesday, so it must be Clone Day! 
This was BeBo2a when I stuck her in the dirt on June 23
And here she is today - overlooking the tomatoes, and almost as tall as GLGA was a week ago.
And SaugaView
Speaking of GLGA, here’s her clone on July 2
and today - getting it on in the sun with proud Mama looking on
This was BeBo2a when I stuck her in the dirt on June 23
And here she is today - overlooking the tomatoes, and almost as tall as GLGA was a week ago.
And SaugaView
Speaking of GLGA, here’s her clone on July 2
and today - getting it on in the sun with proud Mama looking on
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Oh, I almost forgot - remember that fallen BeBo2 branch that I took cuttings from and stuck in water? They not only are starting to send out roots, they have started flowering to boot.
So, cuttings taken on July 4 - in bloom by July 19 - and hardly any roots yet. The only light they got was indirect and diffuse from a skylight in the bathroom - the same duration as outside, plus some additional light when I get ready for bed (maybe for 10-15 minutes sometime after 10PM). No special effort made to light dep them.
I’m thinking that this would be a quick way to determine gender on young regular plants. Top them at 4 to 5 weeks above node 3, stick the identified cuttings in water, and subject to only 10 hours of light a day. By weeks 6-7, you should know which plants you want to proceed.
So, cuttings taken on July 4 - in bloom by July 19 - and hardly any roots yet. The only light they got was indirect and diffuse from a skylight in the bathroom - the same duration as outside, plus some additional light when I get ready for bed (maybe for 10-15 minutes sometime after 10PM). No special effort made to light dep them.
I’m thinking that this would be a quick way to determine gender on young regular plants. Top them at 4 to 5 weeks above node 3, stick the identified cuttings in water, and subject to only 10 hours of light a day. By weeks 6-7, you should know which plants you want to proceed.
syenite
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Baaah I forgot to do this. I should've!
Brilliant! Definitely worth doing some more trials for repeatability.
GLGA is a beauty but BeBo1is a beast! I hope you get some help at harvest. 
We like to call them a rootopsy! Earliest reference I can find on the site is from SweetSue.
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Hi Shed - thanks for stopping by the garden! 
I decided to try something that might be interesting to see during BeBo1’s rootopsy. Since there’s more than a foot of horizontal space between the trunk and each end of the tub, I added about 6 more gallons of perlite to these areas. I‘m curious whether the roots will grow up into this perlite, which is still within the 12” wicking height. If it does, an increase in root volume like that can only help build bigger buds.
I decided to try something that might be interesting to see during BeBo1’s rootopsy. Since there’s more than a foot of horizontal space between the trunk and each end of the tub, I added about 6 more gallons of perlite to these areas. I‘m curious whether the roots will grow up into this perlite, which is still within the 12” wicking height. If it does, an increase in root volume like that can only help build bigger buds.
Of forgot this quote:
Amy shades hers as well.
I know that if I don't put my black 1 gallon plastic pots in something to shade the outsides, the roots next to the heat are brown rather than white.
Amy shades hers as well.
DrDoob
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This is pretty interesting to me. My hempies always grow roots all the way down. There’s a couple inches at the top where it’s too dry and no roots grow but other than that I pull out one solid cylinder if roots/perlite with none left over in the bucket.And since you’re here, and I just harvested Ka1, I can show you what the roots do in perlite hempy
Here, you can see that there is quite a bit of unoccupied perlite above a slope angling down from the trunk to the sidewall. The narrower the container - the flatter the slope. The “original hempy” was supposedly 2L soda bottles. In that case, the slope would be flat indeed.
You can also see here that the roots stop about 1/2” away from the plastic wall. I’m not sure why - maybe too much heat cooks off the moisture, so the root stops at air.
Here, you can see that there’s really no roots going into the perlite below the hole. That part of the pot volume must be excluded from root volume.
Here, you can see that, contrary to popular belief, there doesn’t have to be a “tap root”. Instead, when the roots hit air on the sides, or water on the bottom, they stopped, and then numerous lateral roots shoot out.
I hope that this information helps you with container selection, should you decide to try hempy again.
I’d guess it’s cause I’m lazier and don’t really water as regularly as you and usually end up letting my reservoir dry up a bit before the next watering. Kind of interesting, I always assumed everyone’s hempy roots grow all the way down.
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That’s a good point, I do probably tend to fertigate more often
- especially this year!
My next hempy, I will let them dry out more in-between.
Thanks Doc!
DrDoob
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I doubt it’s any kind of issue or anything, just interesting to me. I’d be smarter to water more regularly (less watering is really the main reason I switched to soil). I’ve gone a day too late in between watering my hempies a couple times and of course had disastrous results, which would probably be a lot worse outdoors.That’s a good point, I do probably tend to fertigate more often
- especially this year!
My next hempy, I will let them dry out more in-between.
Thanks Doc!
Was thinking about my statement above. Many grams over an ounce doesn't make 2 ounces... I was otfl over that!
Damn Bro!
I may be getting into hempy or coco/ perlite again. I've got Amnesia Haze in what I think is a 7 gallon container. She's been drinking every day! I finally got a larger rez and filled it with h2o. I did that yesterday and 24 hours laters its pretty much gone. Tent stays no warmer than 80-82 & the plant has really perked up. From now on Drain to wasted then fill rez with water. I'm hoping and can go the next two days without having to water or feed.
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Well, I don’t know if you can get away from watering less than every 2 days with hempy during flowering - it always gets down to daily for me. Best you can do is automate it, but then it’s a hybrid.
It’s funny - after last summer, when I grew both a top-drip 5 gallon perlite hempy, and a wife-fertigated 10 gallon fabric pot soil plant, and they came out pretty close on yield and quality, I thought that I probably wouldn’t go back to soil in pots again. But now I’m considering trying a pre-buffered mix like Pro-Mix next year - primarily to see if I can stave off the daily fertigation a little longer. This year, it started way too early in veg. At least I had plenty of time this year!
Enjoil
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Battery acid? I don’t think you should be putting battery acid in your plants water. There is now way this is good for them. What is it you think it does?