Thanks man, yeah things are moving along. The clone zone is bumping and looking healthy. About ready to choose the donors actually and start treatments.
Inside The Mini-Tent, 150W LED, Going Coco For Tropicanna Bananna
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Looking great Burdok!! I have been super busy with work and my hobby had to Take a back seat the last month or so. Last time I checked your journal Anna was a baby. You have certainly done a great job getting her filled out. Curious to see how she looks after the stretch.INCOMING UPDATE
I'll be going over what's been happening over the past couple days, as best as I can. So skin one up or pack one and catch up with Anna and I!
20/06/2020
This was a big day in the Mini-Tent for both the plant and me. She got poked and shimmied and snipped, and my skills as a grower were tested.
This is what was removed from below the canopy. This most definitely hurt me more than it did her, as she has shown no signs of slowing.
Here is the difference below the net:
And after the snip:
She's going to need another trim at some point soon to help her focus on her tops.
Which brings me to my next task that day. I needed to rethink how I'm going to get an even, uniform canopy in the havoc that's been tucked below the net. My real concern was that when I leave her alone and let her grow up the branches will find some way of straightening and make my efforts wasted. My second concern was that tucking in such a small space under a net leaves very little room for real control over what goes where. I didn't want branches getting too think to be manipulated into a different space when the buds are forming.
My solution is to lift the net off of the plant and then untwist and organise the branches.
She sprung up when I lifted the net. She is really a beast, if I left her alone she wouldn't fit in my tent, guaranteed.
The next step was to bring the net down again but this time guide the branches through the squares in the net. I wanted to get the best spacing between the buds as possible. I then began the long, long process of bending the branches down to where I want them and securing them to the net with soft garden wire.
Starting the job:
After about 45 minutes:
And finally, after about an hour and a half:
Sorry about the mixture of picture sizes. Resizing takes ages.
All in all I'm pleased about the work I did this day. I managed to get a nice even spread and get a good few inches of growth contained above the net along with the growth contained below.
She was fed 800ml of megacrop at 1.9g per 1200ml and 1.2ml of calmag at 5.8ph and then the last 400ml 6 hours later. This is the feeding that she is now receiving with no difference except a drift in pH.
21/06/2020
This day was round 2 with the garden wire. Here's why:
She just sprung up with a false sense of freedom. Not yet, my dear.
You shall be free soon...
24/06/2020
This brings me to today. Now. Ahora.
She has been left to do her thing since her second round of bondage.
Here she is, in all her glory:
The photos aren't the greatest because I didn't want to bother her when she's sleeping for long so it was a quick snap shot as I wont have time to today when the lights are on.
Look at those buds!
That's all for now, really. If I've done my research well enough I'm expecting another 10 or 11 inches of stretch before she settles and I've measured that I have plenty of space for that. So all in all I'll call that a success!!
Thanks for stopping by, guys!
Another update coming soon
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burdok420
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I've been very impressed with everything you've been trying in your journal, it's really got the cogs turning in my head about when I eventually have the same opportunities
Welcome back, Rugsy!
Thank you very much. I think there was probably an easier way to do it but I got here eventually.
Stick around and find out how she turns out! I'm just as curious as you
I will take a front row seat from here to the finish line.
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burdok420
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Just a little photo update.
Day 18(?) of flower
Day 18(?) of flower
Very nice! Stacking up, love watching the little buds form!
McRib
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Looking the goods. Tent is chockers!
Hey ShaggyINCOMING UPDATE
I'll be going over what's been happening over the past couple days, as best as I can. So skin one up or pack one and catch up with Anna and I!
20/06/2020
This was a big day in the Mini-Tent for both the plant and me. She got poked and shimmied and snipped, and my skills as a grower were tested.
This is what was removed from below the canopy. This most definitely hurt me more than it did her, as she has shown no signs of slowing.
Here is the difference below the net:
And after the snip:
She's going to need another trim at some point soon to help her focus on her tops.
Which brings me to my next task that day. I needed to rethink how I'm going to get an even, uniform canopy in the havoc that's been tucked below the net. My real concern was that when I leave her alone and let her grow up the branches will find some way of straightening and make my efforts wasted. My second concern was that tucking in such a small space under a net leaves very little room for real control over what goes where. I didn't want branches getting too think to be manipulated into a different space when the buds are forming.
My solution is to lift the net off of the plant and then untwist and organise the branches.
She sprung up when I lifted the net. She is really a beast, if I left her alone she wouldn't fit in my tent, guaranteed.
The next step was to bring the net down again but this time guide the branches through the squares in the net. I wanted to get the best spacing between the buds as possible. I then began the long, long process of bending the branches down to where I want them and securing them to the net with soft garden wire.
Starting the job:
After about 45 minutes:
And finally, after about an hour and a half:
Sorry about the mixture of picture sizes. Resizing takes ages.
All in all I'm pleased about the work I did this day. I managed to get a nice even spread and get a good few inches of growth contained above the net along with the growth contained below.
She was fed 800ml of megacrop at 1.9g per 1200ml and 1.2ml of calmag at 5.8ph and then the last 400ml 6 hours later. This is the feeding that she is now receiving with no difference except a drift in pH.
21/06/2020
This day was round 2 with the garden wire. Here's why:
She just sprung up with a false sense of freedom. Not yet, my dear.
You shall be free soon...
24/06/2020
This brings me to today. Now. Ahora.
She has been left to do her thing since her second round of bondage.
Here she is, in all her glory:
The photos aren't the greatest because I didn't want to bother her when she's sleeping for long so it was a quick snap shot as I wont have time to today when the lights are on.
Look at those buds!
That's all for now, really. If I've done my research well enough I'm expecting another 10 or 11 inches of stretch before she settles and I've measured that I have plenty of space for that. So all in all I'll call that a success!!
Thanks for stopping by, guys!
Another update coming soon
Looks fabulous!
You must be stoked
And ripper flanno shot in there
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burdok420
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Me too! I've grown autos a couple times but flipping for flowers is so much more satisfying
It's bursting at the rims, mate!
Hey Shaggy
Looks fabulous!
You must be stoked
And ripper flanno shot in there
Cheers, Tinkerbell!
I'm super stoked, can't wait to be rolling in buds!
Haha, flannel shirts are 90% of my wardrobe
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burdok420
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We love a flanno here!
You‘d fit right in
Never been to your part of the world. I'd bloody love to come over and see some spiders
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burdok420
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Yo, Preston! Welcome to the journal, bud
Feel free to chime in with any advice or pointers!
Glad to have you on board
Ganjagrandaddy
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I was going to tell Burdock about yours too. LolHey burdock. The TB's looking great. I think mine finished stretching around day 25 from flip. I trimmed the hell out of it on flowering day 17 and then again around day 30 as it bushed right back up. She's solid and forgiving so you shouldn't have any problems with defoliating her. I found that super-cropping early on was futile as she reached straight back up even with heavy damage done to the bend. After she finished stretching I super-cropped again and the branches stayed down though the tips bent back up. I love this plant as it just grows. You try and stop it lol. (don't actually try otherwise I'll look stupid)
She hasn't got the largest flowers out of the 4 I'm currently flowering but she does have the most and they are pretty frosty as well....
Good seeing you mate. My C Banana didn't fair too well but I will try them again at some point. Boy do they hump a diesel pheno. !!.
Ganjagrandaddy
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I didnt know that about that machine. Thats the only reason I enter. !!
Ganjagrandaddy
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Nice buds forming B. Nom nom.Just a little photo update.
Day 18(?) of flower
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burdok420
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Welcome to the thread, bud!
Yeah that was a huge disappointment when I found out that we can't win them!
Thank you!! I'll blast one up with you all when I've harvested
I costs like a hundred quid for the postage and packaging. AngryBird gave me hers but I can't afford to actually get it to my house lol. Sweet Sue is currently holding on to it but I doubt I'll ever have enough spare cash to pay for it to be shipped.
I'm glad you were going to tell him about this one and not the previous two lol. That would have been awkward.
How are you and @burdok420 coping with the weather at the moment. It has been mental down in Devon. I've had to have all of my tent doors open and even then I couldn't get the temps below 29C. The plants seem ok for the moment and it looks like cooler weather is on the way but this has easily been the hottest my grow room has been this year.
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burdok420
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I've been okay so far, thankfully. My tent is floating around 26.5C at its max but it is in a cold cupboard in the hall hidden behind a fridge haha. I've been leaving the door open now and again through the day to suck some heat out of the cupboard and hopefully help inside the tent.
Apparently we're going to be getting into the 30s this week! I don't know about you lowlanders, but people here will melt!
OMG not the 30’s! Lollllling
I nursed an Englishman last year, he came out here to see his son for xmas on a background of COPD and our heat coupled with our humidity had him literally unable to breath. He couldn‘t believe we could function in such conditions. Funny thing, it wasn’t even hot by our standards.
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