Jon's Dedicated Fruity Pebble Cookies Grow Plus The Mystery Plant

[Jon]

Use the top off a tomato basket, or something that will let light in.
Have you got an umbrella?

Stay safe
Bill

I already had the Eureka moment! If this works, which it does, then there's no reason a simple ring, or maybe a series of two or three concentric rings, like a baking tray type thing, wouldn't work too. Then total light would get through. In this case all I care about is what's outside it, but enough light gets through all the air holes (this is the bottom of an AirPot, lol) that it'll be fine. But with just the rings? I grow many plants that would support this idea at some point, and talk about evening out a canopy on ONE plant without the bother of a screen or sticks or any of that garbage? All it needs to be is the right weight. This AirPot bottom is really close, almost the perfect weight. And hell, why not make it so that all you have to do is turn a little knob on the interior and it extends the outer ring out as you turn!

I'm going to make my mark, and my money, in this industry, one way or another, Bill. I promise you that.

 

[StoneOtter]

Fun With Kief

Last of the Apple Blossom trim got kiefed today. Man is it better when the leaves and trim are BONE dry. I got this from a relatively small pile of clip. I love how blonde the kief from the Apple Blossom turns out. It's the lightest in color of all the kief strains I have. It's also the strongest, although the kief from the hermie scrog is up there too. If I smoke a well-packed Perfect Pipe's worth of the Apple Blossom kief, I have to put my head down on the table for a couple minutes. It just slams you in the face and then your entire body. I try to only do it when my pain hits a certain point, so as to not trash my tolerance, as it's bad enough already.

Here's the haul.

Genius! PerfectPipe full of kief!

Ok, NOW we're having fun!

Smoking the Strawberry Banana gets my creative juices flowing.

I was thinking about training out the top of the Mystery Plant, but I just couldn't bring myself to do the whole 12 sticks, tape, twist tie thing. Just too much work for this plant. Lol. But then McGuyver got an idea.

If you would like to tell me why this will not work to help with the canopy please do. But I'm betting it will. I betcha nobody has seen it done quite like this before, lmao. I'd tell someone they were crazy. But what the hell, let's see what happens. We'll let this stay like this for a while and see how things shake out.

Heh.

There's some out of the box thinking man! Love it! Brains Without Borders award for you today!

 

[Jon]

Genius! PerfectPipe full of kief!

There's some out of the box thinking man! Love it! Brains Without Borders award for you today!

Thanks Otter! Btw - take the damn filter out of the PP before you try to hit the kief bowl. You'll never finish it in one pull with the filter in. And the second pull is less desirable. I try to finish it in one. Lol.

 

[Jon]

Watermelon WeddingCake Auto
Day 36

This plant has simply become a beast. No other way to say it. She looks like a mountain or a pyramid or something. Never really had an auto behave quite like this before. Check her out this morning.

 

[Jon]

Tuesday Random Pics from Gorillatown

This is a picture of Fulvia up top.

Fulvia tops from the front side.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 12, 2022

This is a shot of the side of Elora that faces the front of the tent.

Side of Elora facing the front door of tent.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 12, 2022

And this is the new canopy on the Mystery Plant after 48 hours of plastic round tray treatment. (lmao)

Canopy after 48 hours of plate treatment.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 12, 2022

Enjoy!

 

[Kanno26]

Tuesday Random Pics from Gorillatown

This is a picture of Fulvia up top.

Fulvia tops from the front side.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 12, 2022

This is a shot of the side of Elora that faces the front of the tent.

Side of Elora facing the front door of tent.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 12, 2022

And this is the new canopy on the Mystery Plant after 48 hours of plastic round tray treatment. (lmao)

Canopy after 48 hours of plate treatment.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 12, 2022

Enjoy!

Hi @Jon, it looks interesting how you used that plastic tray.

 

[Jon]

Hi @Jon, it looks interesting how you used that plastic tray.

Lol! Thanks Kanno. I don't recommend it. But it was fun to try for a couple days. Next grow I'll unveil the handmade from scratch version of my own design. I can make something to serve this purpose that checks all the boxes easy.

 

[Jon]

Elora
Flower Prep
Veg Day 43

Started to begin the process of making order out of chaos on Elora. She's a beast too, albeit a shorter, bushier one compared to Fulvia. Tons of tops. Tons of big leaves. I'm seeing a haircut in this girl's not too distant future. This is the longest I've ever gone with any plant without taking a single leaf off, or at least the furthest into development of any plant. And developed she is. This plant is begging me to flip her. As we don't have a whole lot of flower prep for the big plant, once this one gets her shit together we'll be ready to go to flower. Shouldn't take more than three or four days. All I want her to do is have *some* semblance of branches spread evenly out, I'm not trying to create more bud sites at this point. She looks a bit messy right now and it's a little hard to tell exactly what I did, just because the plant is so big compared to my camera screen. I can't get less busy pics of her! She's busy! But all I really did was pull the mains to the side a little bit and pulled branches to the side to make a more evenly spaced out ring-(ish) thing. Lol. I promise in a week she'll look very organized. Anyway, we're looking at flipping the tent on or about day 50 of veg. If I can contain Fulvia for one more week.

Here's the closest I can get to an overhead shot, and a couple side shots, post today's flower prep.

EDIT: Just noticed this! Check out the overexposed cola in the last picture. You can't miss it. It looks a little like a ghost cola. Almost like it might not really be there. Very cool, I dig that.

 

[Jon]

Watermelon WeddingCake Auto
Day 37

I know I show this plant daily. I'm documenting the stretch. Feel free to ignore the next two weeks and jump back in when it's over and we have buds going on. Lol.

Here is what she looks like at wakeup from the side and top. That would be wakeup from her nightly four hour nap. We're on week 2 of flower on the PB feed chart. Always to the letter of the chart with no adjustments, since day one.

Also have yet to take one leaf off this plant. Heh.

 

[Jon]

Fulvia
Flower Prep

We went through the yada yada yada earlier. Here's Fulvia's flower prep showing the entirety of the plant. We have more work, but first we let this all come back up. Then we'll evenly space the colas around a lot better and clean out the undercarriage, and potentially a bit of defol.

EDIT: Here's a picture from the side that shows our temporary "canopy" and gives a better idea of what I did here.

Canopy Fulvia.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 13, 2022

 

[Jon]

WWC
FULL ARSENAL

It's hard for me to get high enough to get a true overhead shot, but I managed to do it so as to display the full arsenal this plant has developed and what's about to happen in flower. This picture makes is crystal clear. It's not going to hurt.

 

[LKABudMan]

She looks healthy and ready to go! Great job on the training.

 

[Jon]

Zkittlez Auto
Day 21
Topping Day

 

[Jon]

A couple pictures that'll make you smile, hopefully....

This first picture displays what I call the very definition of a "cooperative plant." This is Fulvia, the giant FPC I did some pre-flip work on earlier today. Some of you saw the pics I posted right after doing that.

That was only six hours ago.

Now she looks like this. This is a plant doing exactly what I want it to do. And at absolute lightning speed. I was jaw on the floor shocked when I opened the tent to water them and saw this already. I continue to pursue @West Hippie training style on these FPCs. This one has to fill in and get better spaced yet, but I think I'm on my way to a similar looking plant (on a much smaller scale than West's absolute monstrosities, lol, he's on a different planet than me, but I used his look as my model and grilled him on it a bit, which he was gracious enough to help me with.....it's not the easiest thing in the world to get a canopy out of a gigantic relatively untrained plant...never done this before.) (how am I doing so far, @West Hippie?)

Cooperative girl that Fulvia.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 13, 2022

This second picture is pure Jon having fun. I call this one, "Damn I hope this is blasphemous."

I hope so.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 13, 2022

And there you have the Wednesday smile file.

 

[StoneOtter]

Love the smile file Jon! Glad everyone's green and happy as it gets! Don't you like it when one plays along with you! That one is going to be fun!

 

[Bill284]

A couple pictures that'll make you smile, hopefully....

This first picture displays what I call the very definition of a "cooperative plant." This is Fulvia, the giant FPC I did some pre-flip work on earlier today. Some of you saw the pics I posted right after doing that.

That was only six hours ago.

Now she looks like this. This is a plant doing exactly what I want it to do. And at absolute lightning speed. I was jaw on the floor shocked when I opened the tent to water them and saw this already. I continue to pursue @West Hippie training style on these FPCs. This one has to fill in and get better spaced yet, but I think I'm on my way to a similar looking plant (on a much smaller scale than West's absolute monstrosities, lol, he's on a different planet than me, but I used his look as my model and grilled him on it a bit, which he was gracious enough to help me with.....it's not the easiest thing in the world to get a canopy out of a gigantic relatively untrained plant...never done this before.) (how am I doing so far, @West Hippie?)

Cooperative girl that Fulvia.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 13, 2022

This second picture is pure Jon having fun. I call this one, "Damn I hope this is blasphemous."

I hope so.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 13, 2022

And there you have the Wednesday smile file.

Only if you say Jehovah when you exhale.

Stay safe
Bill

 

[Jon]

A Couple Training "Tricks"

Before I do this, I'm sure this is not original, people have been doing this way too long for me to actually "invent" something that's never been done. Lol. To be clear. This is simply part observational/experiential, and part preference that I'm certain I'm not alone in. To call them "tricks" is a bit overstating the case, but for purposes of the post it'll do.

That said, here's a couple pictures to explain a few of what I call my "tricks."

Trick #1
- Use anything at your disposal that is already ON the plant to help shape the canopy whenever possible.
- Also a very good reason to keep leaves for as long as possible.
This picture shows how I am using a stiff-stemmed leaf, one I used to defol by now, to send one of two tops from a topped branch towards the center of the canopy. This leaf happens to be solid, so I'm using it. It only has to hold for a day or so and the branch will be set enough to be headed that direction. It beats the crap out of another bamboo stake and that whole rigamarole. You can do this all over the top if you look around many times, I've found.

Jon trick #1.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 13, 2022

Trick #2
- Discontinue the use of MSA in veg before you flip
I stopped giving this plant MSA around day 28. Many people continue to use it all through flower, which is great, you get really strong stems that way. But I feel I get what I want from it by NOT using it all the way through. It's already worked it's magic in terms of strengthening the cellular walls and improving your nutrient transport system. But if you stop after a month, the stems, at least I've found, stay plenty strong, yet you can still do what you want/need to with them because you haven't overdone it and they retain significant flexibility until flower. They're going to firm up through the stretch anyway. Yes, you've seen me have to support buds from underneath, but it's rare, and I'd rather have the flexibility so that I can do this - note the way this stem is twisted. This is one of two tops from a large branch topping. The other one is part of the exterior ring.

Jon trick #2.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 13, 2022

See? Toldja. Nothing as dramatic as actual "tricks," but I thought maybe someone might find this useful.

 

[BubbaKush909]

Morning Jon! Finally re-caught up the plants look awesome.

One of my LSD-25 autos started flowering around day 25, it's now day 45 from sprouting and I swear this plant is looking really close to finishing. Haven't checked the trichs yet because it's so ridiculously early but I'm going to start checking today. Maybe some of these autos really do finish in 8 weeks from seed its crazy/awesome.

Back in the day we used to track 4/20 seed sales, have you seen anything exciting yet? MSNL has some 2 for 1 deals going on award winning high THC strains.

Have a great day my friend! Finally getting a whiff of spring around here!

 

[Jon]

Morning Jon! Finally re-caught up the plants look awesome.

One of my LSD-25 autos started flowering around day 25, it's now day 45 from sprouting and I swear this plant is looking really close to finishing. Haven't checked the trichs yet because it's so ridiculously early but I'm going to start checking today. Maybe some of these autos really do finish in 8 weeks from seed its crazy/awesome.

Back in the day we used to track 4/20 seed sales, have you seen anything exciting yet? MSNL has some 2 for 1 deals going on award winning high THC strains.

Have a great day my friend! Finally getting a whiff of spring around here!

Hey there @BubbaKush909, how you be man? Thanks!

I haven't had one finish that fast yet, but apparently some do, yeah. Was it specifically listed as a fast flowerer by the seed bank?

I've been working on something else with a seed company, let you know soon enough.

Bout time for some nice weather, eh?

Have a great day!

 

[Jon]

Watermelon WeddingCake Auto
Day 38
Defol Day

I got up and checked the WWC this morning and I learned something in the process:

You can only take zero leaves for so long before it gets so jammed up that you begin to get this:

found this on leaves.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 14, 2022

This is just water sitting on a leaf I took. I started lifting some of the big fans up today to see what was under the hood, and I kept finding spots like this. Anywhere there were two gigantic fan leaves laying on top of one another there was this condensation in the space between. That tells me I need air flow big time, and I can't ignore defoliation any longer. Lol. Hey, we pushed it 38 days in coco!!! A record!

Anyway, so defoliate her I did, and due to where the moisture buildup was the worst, I was even forced to take a few large fans off the top. However, I didn't take all that much, and now she's opened up sweetly.

Here's a shot from overhead post defoliation.

WWC overhead shot post defol.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 14, 2022

And here's a sideshot post defol. Now she looks like a Mexican sombrero or something.

WWC sideshot post defol.jpg

• Jon
• Apr 14, 2022

Now we shouldn't have to take a whole lot else, just little stuff that won't get out of the way of a desired photon beam or two.

Let's get this show on the road!!!