Ok this makes a bit more sense. I’ve done something similar. Whenever I lose a leaf I crumble it up and sprinkle it across the mulch so it gets watered in. Same with the bits and pieces from teas.
Yeah sorry, Sometimes I take little details for granted.
Crumbling leaves back in, however, in theory can cause you grief.
1 or 2 no big deal, but introducing raw nitrogen to a live rhizosphere will allow for the raw carbon in your soil to decompose, and once that starts it becomes a smoldering log. When the leaf runs out of nitrogen, the smoldering log will immediately hog all atmospheric nitrogen, and you will see a deficiency that you can't cure evolve.
The only way to stop it is to put the fire out, which won't happen until all the carbon burns up. Only then will atmospheric nitrogen become available to the plant again, but its a moot point if all your carbon is gone.
Don't play with matches.
Feed those leaves, and all fresh vegetation to the worms or compost. The compost needs it desperately. Every leaf helps.
I’ve noticed the amazing root growth above the soil line. When I move the mulch to put down a top dressing there’s a lot of nice thick feeder roots there where I’ve top dressed, plus you can see in multiple spots where a root has latched on to some of the bark and it’s like it’s almost pulling it down into the soil.
Once you go mulch, you never go back.
I’ll never not use mulch again after what I’ve seen. It’s especially cool because I’ll either band my nutrients or make little piles and the roots congregate in those areas. They also snake up and snatch the little tea pieces out of the mulch. All just very cool looking.
Its amazing what goes on in the dark.
Super cropping, so far I’m impressed with it. There’s a few points I think it would work best. First, if you know before you flip that you’re going to need to do it, then do it 3-4 days before you plan on flipping. There’s not a lot of recovery time if you do it right, however the plant does spend some resources adjusting in that spot.
If you’ve already flipped for flower then I’d recommend right about 14 days after flipping. Too soon and you may shock it right as it’s getting ready to explode, if you wait too long then it may not turn itself back toward the light. 2 weeks was perfect. The majority of the stretch had taken place, but the plant was still able to flip itself back toward the light within 12 hours. This will also prevent the plant from wasting budding time and resources on readjusting itself.
Super cropping also seems to have had a sort of manifolding effect. Instead of the majority of the resources going to the apical point, they’re now being spread around the top colas which in my case is about 5-6 colas on one plant and 8-10 on the other.
Another thing to note is, in my reading, it’s said that super cropping will widen the stem, giving you a larger xylem and phylum, which I can see being true with the additional colas getting more resources. If this is in fact true, I can see there being a benefit in supercropping while in Veg, perhaps alongside manifolding. This will create extra stress and a longer Veg but I can see there being some powerful benefits from say, manifolding the plant then supercropping each cola. Each cola will have a wider stem to feed it and be much stronger at its knuckle.
Ok this is really helpful stuff
Thank You.
I will hold off until I have to do it. This pheno is as lanky as your tall ones. Actually very similar looking.
I'm hoping not to, but at 2-4 inches of growth a day, and 2 weeks of stretch left, the growth is only going to excellerate.
If its like manifolding for fattening up the main trunks then it's gotta be worth it
That alone makes me feel way better about bending her over.
We shall see....
I actually appreciate any sort of questions or comments, that’s how we wind up teasing out some of the best info.
