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Light Addict said:
Hey GF
OK I get asked this quite a bit lol. My ability to keep my girls small and compact in veg is due to me using CFL lighting really close.

Then my simple opening up of the plants top a few times a day promotes the compact form. :) Now if you want you can start part crushing nodes! I use this sometimes to stack my plants up a little more. Basically just pic a node and crush between finger and thumb. Growth will stall above that point. Below this node growth continues and helps stack your nodes up some!

Also use extreme defol to stunt her from the stretch. They need foliage to stretch take it away and your golden.

Hope that helps. Ill go through stuff in detail if required just post pics here! :)
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Ah, ha...lol. Reinforces my thought pattern to pinch the internodes during fluxing to control the original arms till the side shoots catch up.
 
He he :) you shouldn't need to touch the main flux arms as your taking every other node off along the way. Also as you top each end of the flux arms when your at the size you want, this means whilst these two new shoots grow out on each end and are being trained as limbs, all other branches grow out!
This is the thing when done correctly you can just let a flux be on its own for most part. All branches will set themselves just fine on their own, I promise :)
 
It rained over five inches last night. Poured. Plants look fine. It is still raining more today with wind and it is COLD! Holy cow, enough already.

Fifi, this is coming toward you. Ack. It is supposed to go as low as 49 tomorrow night. Is this Earth?
 
It will be here Thursday and I can't wait. We had 2 days of spring and it is hotter than hell now but drops to the 70's Thurs and the 60's for the rest of the week but the lows are only dropping to the 50's so the girls will be fine.... I hate watering with the water hose and I think I can go till then without having to water anything except maybe the original outside girl and if I have to water her it will only be a little bit to get her through till the rain. We are now 5" below water level for this time of year so it needs to rain and rain good....
Hey Garden you said you had some FF that was supposed to be organic but it is not... Which one is it?... I think the only one that is organic is the Grow Big and I don't think it is certified but I could be very wrong. Just curious....:circle-of-love:
 
It's the Grow Big for vegetation. It is definitely not an organic product, certified or otherwise. It does not list what the nitrogen is derived from, and that is not allowed in organics. Ammonia nitrate is usually derived from urea or even petro chemicals.

If I am wrong I'll be the first one to admit it. You can usually be pretty certain that, if a fertilizer is blue, it is synthetic.
 
My bad I went and looked and it is the Big Bloom that is organic... Total Nitrogen .002% Ammoniacal Nitrogen, .001% Nitrate Nitrogen, and .002% Water Insoluble Nitrogen... Derived from Earth worm castings, Bat and Seabird guano, Rock Phosphate, Sulfate of Potash... This one is certified organic.... I do like the Grow Big though....:circle-of-love:
 
Hell if you aint on medication etc and have clean urine just water that down for a good organic source of N!!! Hell I saved a crop like that when I ran out of nutes. Also puts a smile on your face as your mates smoke it lol.
 
Uh. No thanks. I'm not from the urine anything school. Haha. One of my Buddhist teachers drinks urine for therapy and insists I do it also. NOT A FRICKIN CHANCE! I can barely stand having to go to the bathroom...TMI TMI TMI

I guess I can use the FF on the tomatoes and onions and stuff. The Big Bloom sounds interesting, but I do think after I finish using all my nutes I am switching to Growology. I don't know why I like it so much, but I just do. Easy, easy. Nothing to question and mycorrhizae too. And, look at Fifi's plants! Holy smokes. Literally!
 



FLUXY MOMMA (Power Flower, Flux style) Day 76








Training Day...

Professor Flux, I was wondering. Should I start removing some of the wires so as many sites within the flux as possible will be free of obstacles? You know I had to use more cross wires at weird angles to get it growing in the right direction after all my accidental snaps & be-headings in the beginning.




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gardenfaerie said:
Uh. No thanks. I'm not from the urine anything school. Haha. One of my Buddhist teachers drinks urine for therapy and insists I do it also. NOT A FRICKIN CHANCE! I can barely stand having to go to the bathroom...TMI TMI TMI

I guess I can use the FF on the tomatoes and onions and stuff. The Big Bloom sounds interesting, but I do think after I finish using all my nutes I am switching to Growology. I don't know why I like it so much, but I just do. Easy, easy. Nothing to question and mycorrhizae too. And, look at Fifi's plants! Holy smokes. Literally!
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Growology rocks but keep in mind the only step that is organic is #1 the other steps are not. I love step 2 and 3 though , out of all the micro nutes I ever used the end product was the best and clean tasting with excellent burn. So I continue to support Growology as they might be developing a canna specific easy to use organic line of nutes. I am glad you are going to use it too it makes life a lot easier than playing mad scientist and what not lol....
 
BAR, great growing buddy! :) release any unnecessary tethers by all means. Yet you want her kept strapped down flat up until you reach the size you want. Then keep her stapped but no more lines needed as she goes vert.
She really is looking all fluxy :) happy daze!!
 
Yes, I agree on the nutes. I forgot 2 and 3 aren't organic. I hope they do get set up to go organic. It is just so much better than not. And who knows, maybe it's all in my head, but I cannot compare the results I have using only organic methods vs. anything else. I also have been using OM so long I am not sure I know enough to use synthetically derived nutrients. Some people say a plant does not know where the element comes from. I say, not true. Anyway, that's not what it's about. It's about giving nutrition to micro and macro organisms and the humates they produce are the thing organic method seeks to restore in the soil.
 
Light Addict said:
BAR, great growing buddy! :) release any unnecessary tethers by all means. Yet you want her kept strapped down flat up until you reach the size you want. Then keep her stapped but no more lines needed as she goes vert.
She really is looking all fluxy :) happy daze!!
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:thankyou:
 
gardenfaerie said:
Yes, I agree on the nutes. I forgot 2 and 3 aren't organic. I hope they do get set up to go organic. It is just so much better than not. And who knows, maybe it's all in my head, but I cannot compare the results I have using only organic methods vs. anything else. I also have been using OM so long I am not sure I know enough to use synthetically derived nutrients. Some people say a plant does not know where the element comes from. I say, not true. Anyway, that's not what it's about. It's about giving nutrition to micro and macro organisms and the humates they produce are the thing organic method seeks to restore in the soil.
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The math on the growology products could not be easier :)

I'm not organic on my nutes... yet. I'm using the Bio-Bizz brand of liquid nutes.
:peace:
The local hydro shop is run by a rasta man who does a great job with organic compost supplemented with compost tea. I mixed that with basic pro-mix. I figure the mycorrhizza(sp?) and humates from the fancy potting soil can migrate to the pro-mix. I have been thinking about adding my local forest soil to a mix, but I need to get a clean supply of medical cannabis cured and ready before I make risky experiments :)
 
Light Addict said:
He he :) you shouldn't need to touch the main flux arms as your taking every other node off along the way. Also as you top each end of the flux arms when your at the size you want, this means whilst these two new shoots grow out on each end and are being trained as limbs, all other branches grow out!
This is the thing when done correctly you can just let a flux be on its own for most part. All branches will set themselves just fine on their own, I promise :)
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Go it.... I was thinking that some extra pinching may be necessary to slow the growth. Topping the arms does this for us...got it.

And hey, the Profeesor did promise....lol.
 
gardenfaerie said:
Yes, I agree on the nutes. I forgot 2 and 3 aren't organic. I hope they do get set up to go organic. It is just so much better than not. And who knows, maybe it's all in my head, but I cannot compare the results I have using only organic methods vs. anything else. I also have been using OM so long I am not sure I know enough to use synthetically derived nutrients. Some people say a plant does not know where the element comes from. I say, not true. Anyway, that's not what it's about. It's about giving nutrition to micro and macro organisms and the humates they produce are the thing organic method seeks to restore in the soil.
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It is not all in your head plants totally know what we are feeding them and they show it! When you use the growology stuff you will have a good comparison to form a true opinion. Even compared to the Advanced Nutrients the after taste was much much better and my nugs were solid like a rock on the same strains as the advanced nute fed plants also they matured faster. The advanced nutes I used were not organic either though so I cnn ot compare with experience other than my many years of fish emulsion and bloomers. Growology wins to me over all of them! I even tasted some metal and ammonia even with my fish emulsion so I feel safer using growology too.... Just my penny thought , I am not an expert just love the simplicity <3 I will hang off your old journals with organic nutes and compare with your newer journals using growology because I trust your opinion and you explain in great detail your experiences I love that :)
 
WildRosebud said:
It is not all in your head plants totally know what we are feeding them and they show it! When you use the growology stuff you will have a good comparison to form a true opinion. Even compared to the Advanced Nutrients the after taste was much much better and my nugs were solid like a rock on the same strains as the advanced nute fed plants also they matured faster. The advanced nutes I used were not organic either though so I cnn ot compare with experience other than my many years of fish emulsion and bloomers. Growology wins to me over all of them! I even tasted some metal and ammonia even with my fish emulsion so I feel safer using growology too.... Just my penny thought , I am not an expert just love the simplicity <3 I will hang off your old journals with organic nutes and compare with your newer journals using growology because I trust your opinion and you explain in great detail your experiences I love that :)
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I guess I could look it up, but did someone tell me Growology was organic, they just didn't bother to get the certification? I don't recall.

Thank you for nice compliments. I have not been very good at starting an outdoor journal. I get a paralysis of the brain and there is nothing I can do about it,but wait it out. When the fog lifts, and it will, I'll get the new journal going. For me there really isn't much to tell.

I really prepare my soil. There's an old saying, one dollar plant in a hundred dollar hole. So my soil is rich, very fertile, teaming with everything. It makes its own worm castings. After this rain, I will take photos of the casting mounds which can be 6" deep! Piles and piles everywhere. It's because I feed the soil, not the plant. I do realize this may be more difficult for indoor growers. I did mix a bit of compost in with my indoor grow, but it was really sifted clean and I made sure it was dry and had no odor. That is totally finished.

Hey, I've been meaning to ask a question for a month and keep forgetting...what does everybody do with your roaches? I have tons of them and do not know what to do with them. Some are much bigger than others. Very gooey too.
 
gardenfaerie said:
I guess I could look it up, but did someone tell me Growology was organic, they just didn't bother to get the certification? I don't recall.

Thank you for nice compliments. I have not been very good at starting an outdoor journal. I get a paralysis of the brain and there is nothing I can do about it,but wait it out. When the fog lifts, and it will, I'll get the new journal going. For me there really isn't much to tell.

I really prepare my soil. There's an old saying, one dollar plant in a hundred dollar hole. So my soil is rich, very fertile, teaming with everything. It makes its own worm castings. After this rain, I will take photos of the casting mounds which can be 6" deep! Piles and piles everywhere. It's because I feed the soil, not the plant. I do realize this may be more difficult for indoor growers. I did mix a bit of compost in with my indoor grow, but it was really sifted clean and I made sure it was dry and had no odor. That is totally finished.

Hey, I've been meaning to ask a question for a month and keep forgetting...what does everybody do with your roaches? I have tons of them and do not know what to do with them. Some are much bigger than others. Very gooey too.
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I am too lazy to make tea lol but it is the way to go....
I save my roaches as a stock pile and eventually have enough to save on dispensary meds here n there :) some I dip in water and let dry before I puffem , not as harsh....

I knock the cherry off them before I bagem so they are not as stale.
2 ounces roaches (Saved for 2 months)
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