Journeying Into The Unknown With High Brix

Figured I would repost a drawing I made of how my tent grow is setup. Maybe it will help someone.
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I noticed sitting in the garage reading journals and noticed that the dehumidifier in the attic area raised the temps in the tent by two degrees. I turned it on to make three gallons of water for future use on the plants.
 
It's good morning for the plants at 8pmish. I was pessimistic with my improvement percentage. Three out of the four look fifety percent better during lights out. The fourth and tallest to the worst of it. It's better but permantely deformed. Which by the way is the driest plant out of the four at six days since dunking. That's encouraging. Pictures below from two perspectives. Let me know if guys want more pictures for details of light damage/stress. For learning purposes.
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Plant in front left of the pic below faired the best and recovered the best. That's the one that split its trunk early and rated low and bushy.
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I was thinking doing more training with wire to encourage the plants to outgrow the damaged areas or do you think I should wait a few more days.
 
I agree, let them grow and heal. I don't have the long term experience but I'd even remove the lower leaves so to reduce the plants entertainment use trying to repair what can't be repairs.

In saying that, I only mean the very bottom leaves, first and maybe second depending on how many sets you have. You don't want to lose to many and cause more stress.
 
Observation,
I believe most adults would agree in saying that when a house fly flies its legs hang down. They must be quite acrobatic to land updside down on lights, ceilings, or other objects. One very lucky fly escaped the sticky fly ribbon hanging on both sides of the light, not once, but twice. Lucky bug! Been hanging since last fall. Starting to dry out. I had one fresh ribbon but I just hung it in the tent too catch flies in there.
I have decided what I am going to do with the damaged leaves. I will write about after I do it and take pictures. Stay tuned to find out in about six hours.
 
Hello all,
I decided that there was plenty of new tops to capitalize on and to just encourage the plants to grow past the damaged growth. All the signs are there. Healthy new tops and plants are drinking well. I did all that training and only cut off one small five bladed leaf on the first plant that was going to shadow the middle. So I took it out.
All these pictures are setup with a before pic first then the after pic second for all four plants.
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All those primary and secondary tops will turn up towards the light and create an even top.
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Lots of light stress visable on this plant.
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I decided to band those damaged leaves close in to open up the middle.
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Evened out top to get secondary growth more light and to catch them up.
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More lowering tops to allow secondary to catch up.
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Group photo back in tent with new hair styles.
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Tomorrow evening will be quite exciting to see how they shifted towards the lights. Next task will be watering some of them and need to know if it will be plain water or I will need to do some feeding. Comments and questions are welcome. That's it for now. Time for a night cap and then bed. Laterz peeps.
 
So this is what I've noticed with most people and along with my training is that when removing lower large fan leaves during trading, especially damaged ones; the plant recovers quickly and grows much fasted. I've noticed how much faster they drink waster as well! Here's

Both of the plants below have I continued to take the fan leaves off that grow below what I will call the "lower canopy" when the plant is allowed to grow a little taller. During training I don't want them to bushy. Just enough for my Brix foliar to not burn the girls (which I have done). Once my roots have set I want the plant to produce as many stems and tops as possible. So I keep it as thin as necessary at the moment to get the growth I want. These three plants are growing with the hopes that they come out like Duggans, in going to transplant soon I hope into 10gal pot before flower, that's the plan anyway. But more than likely I'll by the DIY air pot walls and built some 10 or 15 depending on how much cooked soil I have left.

You're plants are coming along nicely but I don't think keeping the damaged leaves on is doing the plant any good other than for photosynthesis and I think your plants would do better with out them if your going to be training right now. If it were "me" I'd removed them all and hit with light mixed DeStress and lightly misted over the canopy. That's my move tho. Have a good one bud ..

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Mag7 said:
So this is what I've noticed with most people and along with my training is that when removing lower large fan leaves during trading, especially damaged ones; the plant recovers quickly and grows much fasted. I've noticed how much faster they drink waster as well! Here's

Both of the plants below have I continued to take the fan leaves off that grow below what I will call the "lower canopy" when the plant is allowed to grow a little taller. During training I don't want them to bushy. Just enough for my Brix foliar to not burn the girls (which I have done). Once my roots have set I want the plant to produce as many stems and tops as possible. So I keep it as thin as necessary at the moment to get the growth I want. These three plants are growing with the hopes that they come out like Duggans, in going to transplant soon I hope into 10gal pot before flower, that's the plan anyway. But more than likely I'll by the DIY air pot walls and built some 10 or 15 depending on how much cooked soil I have left.

You're plants are coming along nicely but I don't think keeping the damaged leaves on is doing the plant any good other than for photosynthesis and I think your plants would do better with out them if your going to be training right now. If it were "me" I'd removed them all and hit with light mixed DeStress and lightly misted over the canopy. That's my move tho. Have a good one bud ..

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Thank you for your input 7. I decided to follow your advice. See below for the results.
 
Ok folks here is day two post heavy LSTing all four plants. They look great for what they have been through. Just that one plant with the rubber band.
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The discussion about wether or not to cut the damaged leaves off left me something to think about. Keeping them and growing past will make the leaves available to the plant for what it needs. Removing them could allow the plant to just move on without it having to worry about it. Plus the plant will redirect growth to the new tops.
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Two little cuts and they are all gone. Should I or shouldn't I?
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I did it! I think 7's ideas/thoughts will pay off for this plant.
Look how the top is more level then before.
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One plant got plain water last night and one got it today. Another will need it tomorrow. Leaving one still using what it has. Laterz for now.
 
Ok, so I'm interested in seeing what happens with this plant. I'm not sure how I would have gone. I may have waited a week to see how she responded or maybe I would have cut. I don't know, I would have had to really see her up close.

I think she will be your short socks plant. Train here wide and far if you can. Maybe even keep her in veg longer if you notice she's not as big as the other three when you want to flip her. I could be wrong tho. Well see for sure .
 
Great morning to ya '7'...
 
Nice work TB...training coming along nicely. Probably best to remove those "bad" leaves. No sense in the plant working extra hard to repair those.

Great post on training Mag!
 
Beavis said:
Nice work TB...training coming along nicely. Probably best to remove those "bad" leaves. No sense in the plant working extra hard to repair those.

Great post on training Mag!
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I have a thought on the Leaf removal, I normally wait for the leaf to turn mostly brown before
removal, my thought process is if I remove a bad leaf that the plant is cannibalizing and pulling
from (Mobil Nutrients) to other parts of the plant and the plant needs these Mobil nutrients I fear
she will only start taking from other leaves ?

EDIT:
The above is a throw back from my Liquid nutrient days so my not ever be
a problem in the KIT but old habits are hard to break :)
 
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