GDB Does Tangerine Dream Fems

I'm with Penny on autos. I now grow only two or three a year.
Southerncough said:
I wonder of chocolope might work for her?
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I may be able to get my hands on some Chocolope for the summer grow. :thanks: for the suggestion SC!
 
Hello, growers. Hope all is well in your households!

My first photoperiod grow is creeping along without issue so far. My Tangerine Dreams are 44 days old. I've been looking at them grow and thinking I need to do something. I've read about manifolding, quadlining, supercropping and LST and now my brain is scrambled. My main objective with these plants is not to screw up, so my inclination is to just let them grow and maybe bend them a bit as needed. But that tactic was used with an Chocolate Skunk auto during my prior grow and it ended up getting so big and heavy that it was falling all over itself. (I could have addressed the collapses if I had had some 4ft bamboo stakes, but I only had 3 footers.) I have no idea how big these photos are going to get so I'm paralyzed and not sure of what to do. The safe strategy seems to be just let them grow and buy some 4ft stakes. Both plants are about 14 inches above the soil.

Any "low-risk" suggestions are welcome.

Here they are, flanking the little Stardawg auto. (The 3 solo cups in the corner have new babies. Californian Snow, Blue Dream'atic and Caramel Cream, all autos. They popped out about 4 days ago and are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the 2.5x2.5 tent. They will be moved there along with the Stardawg and will be the subjects of my next journal.)

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And here is a picture of the smallest bird in the world.

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They're in no danger of turning up on anyone's fast food menu.

Later.
 
So if you’d like big heavy yielding plants, my suggestion would be to wait til they’re about 16-18” tall, then top them. Once they’re topped, give them a week. After that week, select your 8 strongest branches and remove everything else. As their tops come up to the canopy, bend the taller ones out to the edges of the plant, as to keep everything even as all the branches come up. Then you’ll end up with two girls that look like my Northern Lights did
NL Harvest

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NL Harvest

NL Harvest

 
Grand Daddy Black said:
Any "low-risk" suggestions are welcome.
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ChefDGreen said:
So if you’d like big heavy yielding plants, my suggestion would be to wait til they’re about 16-18” tall, then top them.
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I'm with you right there, but then...
ChefDGreen said:
After that week, select your 8 strongest branches and remove everything else.
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I think you've now left the "low-risk" part of this training!

My suggestion for low-risk would be to top it about the same height Chef suggested (shorter if you want to flip sooner), and then just train the top nodes flat while the lowers catch up. That's even lower risk than bending the main stem as there's not chance of anything breaking.

You can always take off the weaker stuff before you flip, but I wouldn't do that after topping.
 
InTheShed said:
I'm with you right there, but then...

I think you've now left the "low-risk" part of this training!

My suggestion for low-risk would be to top it about the same height Chef suggested (shorter if you want to flip sooner), and then just train the top nodes flat while the lowers catch up. That's even lower risk than bending the main stem as there's not chance of anything breaking.

You can always take off the weaker stuff before you flip, but I wouldn't do that after topping.
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I don’t see any risk in leaving the 8 strongest branches and removing everything else. If you don’t do that, there will be side branches that don’t make it to the canopy. Leaving low down branches is a much larger risk to a good yield!
 
I try to make that decision before flip. Leaving just 8 branches that early means you have no backups when you drop the light on it!

You should still end up with the same yield.
 
InTheShed said:
I try to make that decision before flip. Leaving just 8 branches that early means you have no backups when you drop the light on it!

You should still end up with the same yield.
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Thats why I give it a week between topping and branch selection. I get a pretty good idea of which branches are worth my while after a week.

you’ll end up with the same yield, but your buds will be bigger cause they’ll be concentrated on 8 branches instead of 12-14
 
Depends on the strain as well. Not every plant will stack like that. And I find that the root system dictates how many tops a plant can handle.

It completely depends on your definition of "low-risk"!
 
InTheShed said:
Depends on the strain as well. Not every plant will stack like that. And I find that the root system dictates how many tops a plant can handle.

It completely depends on your definition of "low-risk"!
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Well that’s true, genetics and rootzone will play the biggest role in the proper way to train a plant
 
@InTheShed and @ChefDGreen, great info gents! I definitely learned something from your banter. Many thanks!! :Rasta:
 
Hey there GGD! It can get so overwhelming, all the training choices! I always encourage some sort of training, but to each his own. To me, LST is the easiest on the plant. Next level is topping and maybe opening up with a few ties. I think either of those would be totally manageable. If you want to take it further still, you can do stuff like lollipopping and removing branches. That’s my .02 on the hierarchy of training. No matter what you decide you want to try, we’re here to help you through! :thumb:
 
That's good to know, Heavenly. I was thinking about just LST and using my scrog net. With only 2 plants in play, the net would not be the pain in the ass that it usually is. I'd like a big yield, but I'm really more interested in the quality. So many have said that the quality of photos is far superior to autos. And I love autos. So I'm thinking if these folks are correct, this old man might be about to discover the fountain of youth! :Rasta:
 
DutchinAB said:
10 pages late to the party, but love me some tangerine dream. Looks like you’ve got that garden sitting right. I shall be watching you’re finish!!
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Welcome, DutchinAB. Nice to meet you! :Rasta:
 
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