Homer's Legal 4-Plant Max Perpetual Minimalist Garden In Ontario

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Pennywise said:
Little sticky indicas like to pull stakes out of the ground.
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With the girth of my GG trunk and branches, it sure looks like it could pull out some stakes but it is so well behaved; looks can be deceiving.

I'm thinking my problem is I just vegged mine way too long and maybe that's the answer with Sativas but then again I would think they would be awfully scrawny and not big producers if you don't vegged them very long to keep them short. I was thinking one could maybe start laying the plant down horizontal at some point somehow? I don't know I'm just spitballing because I have 14 inches and this thing seems to be growing about an inch or two a day.

People say supercrop and then tying the branch down which I'm sure would work but that is a huge investment in time and effort because I have so many branches that make up my canopy. That just seemed like a nightmare. Are you still vegging your Bandaid Haze?

InTheShed said:
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Maybe that's best, I could never afford the electric bill for that much light. :( I admire your strict adherence to the rules! :nerd-with-glasses:
 
oldsmokey said:
I find after supercropping I need to tie them down or they stand right up again. Last one I did I tied it down with a pipe cleaner and it still broke free.
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I found with previous plants if I crush the stem just a bit it might pop up but if I really destroy the structural integrity it would not pop back up and the whole branch would lay down for a while until it curved up farther down. But with this thing no matter how much I crush the branches they recover.

I think holding them down with a pipe would work but that would be a lot of dickering around on a regular basis so I hope to come up with a less labour-intensive method. Not that I will.
 
Pennywise said:
I started both the BH7 and the NH under 11/13 light schedule.
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I remembered you told me something radical like that but I didn't realize you started them under it. That is crazy they are still stretching and not deeply into budding. Are you going to keep them at 11/13 or switch to12/12? My Bruce Banner is only 60% or 70% sativa so hopefully she won't stretch crazy like that but I'm not counting on it.
 
Pennywise said:
I’ll actually go to 10/14 once the hybrids are done.
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Now I am confused because when you were at 11/13 I figured because you started from the beginning that was 13 hours of light and 10 hours of dark but since you will be going to 10/14 and wanting them to slow down I am thinking it is 14 hours of dark so I'm not sure what you will be really giving them; 14 hours of light or 14 hours of dark?

After that you are probably confused too, lol.
 
Homer Simpson said:
I remembered you told me something radical like that but I didn't realize you started them under it. That is crazy they are still stretching and not deeply into budding. Are you going to keep them at 11/13 or switch to12/12? My Bruce Banner is only 60% or 70% sativa so hopefully she won't stretch crazy like that but I'm not counting on it.
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I have seen several growers here who start at 11/14 and even keep it like that the whole grow. I switched to 14/10 a few weeks ago in order to hurry up the grow since I was having problems with bugs. All four of my Cindy's were born in 16 Feb so they begged for a long time before I switched the light for the tent gals, and they started flowering in their own outside... The outside gals are huge and like I said, super super cropped twice. I've been taking a bamboo stick and using a binder clip to hold them at the 90% bend. It's not elegant but it's been working!
 
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Pennywise said:
Right now they are 11 hours light and 13 hours dark. I’ll go to 14 hours of dark at the end.
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OMG!!! I thought you meant the other way around all this time. I can't believe that that thing is so resistant to budding. I had no idea sativa's were so different; only growing indica's I can't believe that plant with 13 hours of dark since the beginning isn't about a foot tall and almost completely budded by now. This is nuts and interesting.
 
BooWho2 said:
I have seen several growers here who start at 11/14 and even keep it like that the whole grow. I switched to 14/10 a few weeks ago in order to hurry up the grow since I was having problems with bugs. All four of my Cindy's were born in 16 Feb so they begged for a long time before I switched the light for the tent gals, and they started flowering in their own outside... The outside gals are huge and like I said, super super cropped twice. I've been taking a bamboo stick and using a binder clip to hold them at the 90% bend. It's not elegant but it's been working!
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Are these sativa's? You wouldn't start an Indica with 14/10 would you? I like that system; any pics?
 
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