Hempy Headquarters

Buck5050 said:
This method produced very little larf and was really easy to trim. Bud quality was top notch in direct comparison to the mothers that were flowered prior. @SweetSue you aren't the only one getting excited here.

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When I ran small pots I got an average of one ounce per in a mere 2.5 cups of perlite. That easy trim is one of the biggest bonuses for this type of grow.

Doing a bang-up job of showing us an easy way to increase yields Buck. :thumb:
 
Buck5050 said:
Four tubes in one square foot = 53 grams.
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Nice.

Buck5050 said:
This method produced very little larf and was really easy to trim. Bud quality was top notch in direct comparison to the mothers that were flowered prior.
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Nice, again.

Looks like a winner. Are you going to scale this up? If so, do you anticipate any problems in doing so (too much labor, PITA dealing with relatively large numbers of plants, et cetera)?
 
Ok , soooooo

My Amnesia Haze that vegged wayyyy to long still is showing issues

5 weeks into flower, gunna up pot her
Keep in mind she is a 10-12 week flower girl

What ya think????
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5gal bucket, in that now
7gal can, same height, wider
7gal nursery pot, shorter much wider
10gal nursery, same same as 7gal

Thoughts??????
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I'd try not to put it into a shorter container. Taller would be a plus (IMHO) but may not be feasible.

Go for it. If a restricted root zone is causing your plant's issue(s), then reducing that restriction should help.

I suppose there's some possibility of you seeing a renewed stretch.
 
TorturedSoul said:
I'd try not to put it into a shorter container. Taller would be a plus (IMHO) but may not be feasible.

Go for it. If a restricted root zone is causing your plant's issue(s), then reducing that restriction should help.

I suppose there's some possibility of you seeing a renewed stretch.
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Sue did a wider when she did it in flower

Her last Carnival, we saw what it did


Already started the goopy plugs on the 7gal Nursery pot

We shall see
 
Sue had new roots growing into the additional perlite that far into flowering?

If I was going to up pot in flower, it would be to get a bigger reservoir, so I would go wider, but no shorter. What are you going to do - root prune during bloom? :oops:
 
Guys... you watched it happen. :laughtwo:

The 7 gallon nursery pot more than doubled my root space, and yes Felipe, she grew roots that late into flower. My Carnival was so tall going into flower that I was forced to restrain her, and her vigor demanded more space to grow in. I could feel her asking for a bigger pot.

Given her size we expected more roots than we found, but she did grow a considerable amount from the transplant about two weeks past flip.
 
This one is 24 days past flip (17 days since first pistils, which I count as actual start of flowering). I am conflicted on whether to disturb her by moving into a 5 gallon bucket, primarily for the additional reservoir capacity.

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hello headquarters ... it's time for a jungle patrol report

jungle is at the end of wk 3 flower and it was defoliate time. a few looks before the snip..



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everyone is looking mostly ok. there is a little nute tipping here and there, nothing drastic. bumper to bumper traffic however, and there is little light penetration. this is one of the corners...



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pretty thick and some of the secondary sites are kinda covered. not unhappy with anybody's development. with less than a square foot / plant, these were grown to be smallish.

i started a defoliating program in veg and have kept to it. the last defol was just before flip. i took a lot of the larger fans and a bunch of smaller branches, concentrating on the bottom two thirds and interior of the plants. i've been amazed at how much they fill back in and develop. can see how thick it gets from the side..



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defoliating has been the only management i've used on the grow. no lst or anything. even so i was still super ssscaredy cat to do it in flower. jungle patrol sucked it up went ahead for sake of knowledge..

similar shot after the big snip



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a lot more open, with light getting thru, and more airflow. the top third of the plant is what will produce and the defol is designed around that. from the top the it still looks fairly jungle-ish, but you can see to the pots now for the most part...




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i defoliated with exactly the same principles / intent as in veg, and at about the same percentages. was a bit nerve wracking. super interested in what results.

the carnage


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the best way to see the result was sticking the camera in the middle of the undergrowth..



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way more opened up, can kinda see light everywhere. left a little larfy bud lower down for now. may remove it on the last defoliation planned for end of wk 6 .

will report back in on wk 6.

keep at it headquarters.


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Felipe, I’d hesitate to upcan that far in too. I upcanned at day 12. Anything after around day 15 would make me stop and consider if there’d be enough change to make the upcan worth it.

bluter, fantastic job of defoliation. :high-five:
 
From a cloner to a cup than to a tube. All hempy all the time.
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As you can see, the Sunny D OG just had its first flower leaf strip at day 21. From the side angle you can see how much this pheno of Grape Pupil has stretched. It's on day 11. Noticing the massive vigor and stretch this pupil has I will be moving the clones into tubes for a few days and they will go in this weekend.
 
i absolutely love your plants felipe. they look so much better than what i am doing. my clones are all over the map compared to yours. my bubble cloner took a dump all over my next run as well. i gotta figger it out better, you sure have it down.


felipe pointed out to me i meant buck's post .. ah well

have some white cookies

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FelipeBlu said:
This one is 24 days past flip (17 days since first pistils, which I count as actual start of flowering). I am conflicted on whether to disturb her by moving into a 5 gallon bucket, primarily for the additional reservoir capacity.

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If the goal is just a larger reservoir, I personally would go ahead and do it. As long as you’re careful not to disturb the roots too much, I doubt you’ll have any issues. It probably won’t fill out the larger bucket much more but you’ll be able to water less often.

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That would be the objective. But I decided to do an external reservoir (5 gallon bucket), and put a water feature pump in it. This way, I can keep it outside of the tent, and my wife can keep an eye on it for me.
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Well, it can’t be any weirder than what I just went through. On a whim, I checked the pH of the runoff, after watering a very dry plant (nothing in reservoir). The fertigation solution had been adjusted to 5.6, left standing for about a half an hour, and then measured 5.62.

The runoff, of this mix, measured seconds after it started pissing out, was 6.68! WTF?! :oops:

So I proceeded to plug the hole, float the perlite, hold for 2-3 minutes, and release. Did this for 6 gallons of straight tap water, pH-adjusted to 5.6, before the runoff was 5.6 pH. Then I fertigated with my current mix, pH-adjusted to 5.6, and the runoff measured 5.65 pH.

The next night, it only took 4 gallons to get the runoff down to 5.6 pH. And another 3 gallons last night.

What is going on? :hmmmm:
 
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