GanjaGrandaddy Grows Great Ganja, Sometimes!

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Day 16 since flip (cont..)
LOS girls are going crazy with growth and look like they have finished their stretch. Their canopy is looking cracking now with so many heads visible and so much also going on just under the main canopy. Once stripped out , these huge bushes should look great and allow some more air through
FFT#1

FFT#5

FFT#7

They are not showing any real issues besides a lot of foliage. buds stacking nicely and are looking nicely developed for 16 days since flip

Onto tray 2
cont....

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Day 16 ( cont..)
Tray 2 has been slightly behind the other one due to my drowning g of the bottom 2 ladies. This caused them to struggle a little i think and contributed to the ghost being so odd looking.
They have all improved since sorting this out and the wedding cake didnt seem to be too bothered by ot
Wedding cake is doing amazing . She is full of life and lots of mains to bring to the top after a defol. Her stems are nice and strong with a lot of smaller growth tips trying to burst I to life. She is going to be a nice big lady when she is done.

Ghost of has been struggling a little but has sent a few decent sized secondary shoots up to take over. she is a lot wider now the stretch has been active. It shouldn't take too much to get light into her but her leaves are huge and she is a very compact lady

GG#4 took the worse of the drowning and has now started to recover her colour better. She has a good size to her and can now get busy sorting some nice Gorilla buds. I expect I have hit the yield a little with my error but not to worry.

To finish todays update I want to add that no matter how protective our govt are , we can still be in danger around the home !!. I managed to kick the sofa foot with a decent force a couple of days ago. I snapped my pinky clean through , my second broke without doubt and numerous bones are very odd feeling around the area too. I cant go to the hospital 30 miles away alone as I couldnt drive , they would do the " not a lot we can do with toes silliness and send me back home anyway.l The kids have made it a mission to crunch them at every possible opportunity to boot so the "Ladder to Heaven" has become " The Steps to Flashing pain." lol .had to fucking happen

All in all a great few days for the girls !!!. lol . Be safe and sane Growmies. peace and blessings

 

[DonkeyDick]

I snapped my pinky clean through , my second broke without doubt and numerous bones are very odd feeling around the area too.

Ffs, GG. Wtf? Omg. Ow!

Ffs dammit.
I see you taking it in your stri... ah.
Hey! Your plants are banging, too!
Jeezizz

 

[Tomuk17]

Oh GG what you like lol and your plants look great, very bushy things

 

[Fredwak]

Great looking shrubbery GG but ya don't gotta kick stuff over it! Ouch! Ya know your toes will be unnaturally attracted to every hard surface for the foreseeable future. Just sayin..... Have a great day all! Stay safe and stay stoned!

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Ffs, GG. Wtf? Omg. Ow!

Ffs dammit.
I see you taking it in your stri... ah.
Hey! Your plants are banging, too!
Jeezizz

A perfect Donkey response and reply. lol cheers buddy.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Oh GG what you like lol and your plants look great, very bushy things

sods law mate . all going too well. heehee

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Great looking shrubbery GG but ya don't gotta kick stuff over it! Ouch! Ya know your toes will be unnaturally attracted to every hard surface for the foreseeable future. Just sayin..... Have a great day all! Stay safe and stay stoned!

very perceptive mate. I keep finding all the sticking out things too. lol
Thank goodness for Ganja.lol

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

(yesterday) Day 18 since flip:
Heres a quick update following the last waffle.lol
These girls are killing it as a grow. Not one has really been an issue. The Black ghost Og took a while to stop being a total twat and decided to join in thankfully so she is now paying the price in catch up ..
The flowering is racking together now for the whole canopy but the FFT girls are so far in front still. The room feels good on the rh and reads at 59% so far Temps are around 26°c which is a little warm for comfort but they have the CO2 bag to help if gets too much. No dehumidifier needed just yet and I still have a good defol session to come in a few days. Without further ado , heres the girlies.

 

[BudShark]

Looking Great, my girls are exactly same age. Going switch from MH 400 to HPS 600 any day. Cheers

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Looking Great, my girls are exactly same age. Going switch from MH 400 to HPS 600 any day. Cheers

welcome aboard ,seems a good time with stretch hopefully done with too. Been a hps guy for decades and only converted a couple of grows back.
good to switch before the heat gets silly outside too. will come and see what beans your doing. Thanks for the positives.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Day 20: All budding and being plants. They are a out done stretching now and the upshoots are looking copable . I did worry about the defol , as it's that time again !!!!!. Every grow gets me the same , do I do or dont I ????. Again I hit the net and spent so much time in the zone reading both sides of the coin that I have decided to strip out the rubbish and a few leaves for air flow. I will be taking lower fans if I need to as well. I have beat myself senseless on the why and why not but my main motivation is the re-leafing. Seeing the plants replace the same leaf matter that we strip has now hit my " why" button and ibcsnt shake it. been a dilemma many times at this point and i have gone both ways ( No @MrSauga your luck hasnt just changed , I mean defol and non-defol!) The energy and process involved with the leaf building is taken away from the bud building to replace what we took out !!!! As everything is , it is down to plant biology. seeing the live results as folks crop here is also a huge contributor to the dilemma. I see folks strip the living hell out of their ladies and come up with excellent results and yields so this can throw a spanner in the works. Is there anybody here that has an actual side by side with pics of the results using the same plants ect... ???. This was also something I read recently in a no defol paper..... researcher had scoured boards and forums to find any that had been completed after starting and felt this was because they had failed to prove defol worked and had actually lost face so left them incomplete !!!!. thinning out is a more approriate option I think for me. seeing all the leaf driving the production of buds now and knowing that buds DO NOT NEED DIRECT LIGHT!!! but DO NEED LEAVES to convert the light to sugars for buds has me sold now. Been throwing this round for years now and had some good conflabs with members over time too. Prof flora being one I remember well. I know from my own experiences that the colas do build very differently depending on how you place the plant for their final cycles so training and pruning is a must. Seeing how amazing the Hulklato is doing with @DonkeyDick in her natural form proves this point very well too. With that said and decided , I will be cleaning out the bottoms and popcorn crap over the next week or so gradually. Time to bring "big bertha" into play !!!!! Airflow WILL be king.lol
Heres some pics from day 20 (yesterday)
Tank 1 FGS , C Banana ,Monster Zkittelz

L.O.S FFT#1, FFT#5, FFT#7.

Tray 2 Wedding cake, Ghost o.g, GG#4

Everybody is happy and looking bulbous!!
I fed them at 40gmc/30L(T1) , 26g/15L(T2) and subsequent Ml in Calmag and silicon .1/1. The Los girls had a microbe tea with biosys at 10ml/10L. Each pot had 3.5L and just hit a little run off. Been keeping them in a good place for moisture content I hope now. The joy opening the tent brings now is very welcome. Seems forever to wait to hit this point. Thanks for the support guys. hate being in a ghost town.
Ghost og fan leaf

Happy place

Be safe and soon be out of the dark into the light. enjoy the new world we will be building together !!.

 

[DonkeyDick]

Hiya GG. Great update mate. Good to see how well everyone is going!
LOS FTW? IDK.
I’m surprised to hear you wondering out loud about leaf removal. On my first grow up here yours was one of the more decisive voices.
Anyway, happy to loop back to you with your own advice - however well we grow indoors these are not natural conditions, so don’t get caught up in what is natural or not for the plant.
Hmm. You were more convincing than that though.
Convincing enough to keep me doing it, anyway.
I dug out these pictures of the Hulklato (GG genetics) to support what you said above..

I thought it interesting that regardless of what she looks like from side-on all the ‘sun’ sees is solar panels.
Hey I love your work, man.
Your garden is as inspiring as ever!
How is your foot?

 

[ProfessorFlora]

I'm here now. Page 7 isn't so bad lol. Plants are looking clean as a bean me old mucker. Foot, not so much .

 

[Lapidavitque]

Happy 4/20 Ganjagrandaddy

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Hiya GG. Great update mate. Good to see how well everyone is going!
LOS FTW? IDK.
I’m surprised to hear you wondering out loud about leaf removal. On my first grow up here yours was one of the more decisive voices.
Anyway, happy to loop back to you with your own advice - however well we grow indoors these are not natural conditions, so don’t get caught up in what is natural or not for the plant.
Hmm. You were more convincing than that though.
Convincing enough to keep me doing it, anyway.
I dug out these pictures of the Hulklato (GG genetics) to support what you said above..

I thought it interesting that regardless of what she looks like from side-on all the ‘sun’ sees is solar panels.
Hey I love your work, man.
Your garden is as inspiring as ever!
How is your foot?

Thank you immensely DD. learning from each other in real terms and often with a little egg to wipe off over methodology v science too. I used to believe a fat bloke Snook in the house and left toys and I would have kicked your shin for trying to tell me otherwise. lol
In honesty , watching the Hulklato show how to it with little disruption and a lot of solar panels powering it , had me hitting the science and previous grows searches , comparisons and side by sides that never really proved much. There are def members in out or circle who have stripping out down to an art form and produce huge stacked buds which defy the science and botany BUT it does seem they are the pros. In the various forms i have used it , the results have been inconclusive as I had no real controls to measure against. My last run was a hope of doing a whole comparison but the girls wont play ball and demand equal treatment in the end. I fail to risk the yield when they were looking so happy and being autos had me "newbie" again. Seeing how well they did unstripped and a previous coco grow done similar was already wobbling my approaching strip out day , then u went back on Hulklato's pics too now. SOLD......
Space for growth and airflow of each limb and stack is the goal now. Loving that big girl DD. I am so excited for the smoke report ( not rushing , just saying). Thanks for the positives and rethink. be safe mate.

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Hiya GG. Great update mate. Good to see how well everyone is going!
LOS FTW? IDK.
I’m surprised to hear you wondering out loud about leaf removal. On my first grow up here yours was one of the more decisive voices.
Anyway, happy to loop back to you with your own advice - however well we grow indoors these are not natural conditions, so don’t get caught up in what is natural or not for the plant.
Hmm. You were more convincing than that though.
Convincing enough to keep me doing it, anyway.
I dug out these pictures of the Hulklato (GG genetics) to support what you said above..

I thought it interesting that regardless of what she looks like from side-on all the ‘sun’ sees is solar panels.
Hey I love your work, man.
Your garden is as inspiring as ever!
How is your foot?

Tha ks for asking buddy , def some fractures and broken toes but still not ready to run the gauntlet of over zealous British hobbies to go to get an xray. not a sore now and will keep a zone around it from the kids till this silliness gets overthrown.lol

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

Happy 4/20 Ganjagrandaddy

back at you buddy. have a great hazy day.

 

[Fredwak]

Happy 420 GG,DD,Lap, and everyone! Let's have a toke! White Tahoe for me, what are you enjoying this morning? Really sweet lookin pics, DD. Stay safe and stay stoned!

 

[Ganjagrandaddy]

I'm here now. Page 7 isn't so bad lol. Plants are looking clean as a bean me old mucker. Foot, not so much .

looked as shit before I fucked it up .lol All going well so far. love the laziness of the NFT. L.OS is even lazier.......... nothing to do now but watch and wait. glad you made it mate. no pressure but great to see you about. Happy 420 Bud