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Your setting them up nicely, so nope not much I can add to be honest 
Just check them from above and work every limb into max space. Also on main branch ends or main tops, try opening up the foliage a few times a day to aid in nodal stacking!
One big note is before trying fluxing please scrap your pipe cleaner tethers. Get some plastic coated garden wire, its a lot safer when you have limbs under stress pulling on the tethers! pipe cleaners may get you some beheadings!
Just check them from above and work every limb into max space. Also on main branch ends or main tops, try opening up the foliage a few times a day to aid in nodal stacking!One big note is before trying fluxing please scrap your pipe cleaner tethers. Get some plastic coated garden wire, its a lot safer when you have limbs under stress pulling on the tethers!
pipe cleaners may get you some beheadings!
GardenFaerie
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Hey Light, I see you say often to open up the foliage. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Do you have a photo or explanation my numb brains can grab onto?
It's yoga for the emerging baby branches. A light stretch, and hold, now relax.
Gentle stretch, now hold it for the count of 10... hold it, hold it... relax.
Doesn't that feel great
little branches just emerging at the ends. You are SPECIAL little branches that get to stretch from being a baby because you grow side to side.
Those nasty up down branches get PINCHED right away, but you get baby yoga!
Now let's try again. A gentle stretch...and hold it ...
I crack myself up sometimes
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It's yoga for the emerging baby branches. A light stretch, and hold, now relax.
Gentle stretch, now hold it for the count of 10... hold it, hold it... relax.
Doesn't that feel great
You are SPECIAL little branches that get to stretch from being a baby because you grow side to side.
Those nasty up down branches get PINCHED right away, but you get baby yoga!
Now let's try again. A gentle stretch...and hold it ...
I crack myself up sometimes
You cracked me up too, Radogast! 
GardenFaerie
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Cracked me up too! I'm doing a big update with photos in a few minutes on whichever LA journal is the flux central open thread.
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GardenFaerie
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Okie Dokie...I took photos of each using a few views. Front, top and side. I think I may have missed one angle. So far I am happy the plants look healthy and I hope they continue down this path. I hate to mess with my Lemon Kush plants with the one broken central node, but I may xplant them this weekend if the roots seem to hold together. I can use the method of burying the pot to make the exact size in the big container for the plant to slip right in. We'll see. Photo spread time:
Any questions or suggestions, please blast them out.
Any questions or suggestions, please blast them out.
Ive never flowered with CFLS, always just used in veg to be honest, yet if your going to do so, then fluxing will work well for you as you would leave the interior of plant unfilled and be able to have bulbs surrounding outside as well as placing some within the circle of buds itself!
This would give great coverage for your lower light levels
That is a great idea. Looks like I'm off to buy more CFL's! For the veg period do you use a mix of cool white and warm light bulbs or just cool white? I know your supposed to mix them up for flowering but not to sure on veg. Thanks for all your input! Getting some great advice from all your threads!
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OK lets get going
Firstly to answer your question earlier on opening up ends to stack nodes! This shows how tiny I go, right to the tiniest leaves I can part open. Be very gentle or you will snap em off or top by accident!
The idea behind this is simple, your forcing light prematurely to the young tips! This done regularly simply gives tighter nodes!!!
Now onto your lovely girls and your fluxing. They all look really healthy, so well done indeedie! As for your fluxed girl, wwe need to do a few things. Firstly yep the split joint and the nuckle formation at this point aren't Ideal for flow but shouldn't impede to much!
Please get that split bound directly over, its only going to be temporary, but we need to be safer now than having major issues later. Dont be afraid to get tough we want it really held firm!
Now for any branches big enough coming off the main flux arms. Get them trained down as soon as they're mature enough to withstand some tension. The reason we do this early is that the limbs are constantly flexing against the tethers. This is like a human muscle, meaning it fattens up the stems and gets them set to carry bigger weight in buds!
Also please try to get the height of her set correctly when she moves up a home! This will just make life easier if she nice and low and on level with pot rim.
So yep all else is good, just go for it on the opening up of ends to promote better node stacking!
Hope that helps
Firstly to answer your question earlier on opening up ends to stack nodes! This shows how tiny I go, right to the tiniest leaves I can part open. Be very gentle or you will snap em off or top by accident!
The idea behind this is simple, your forcing light prematurely to the young tips! This done regularly simply gives tighter nodes!!!
Now onto your lovely girls and your fluxing. They all look really healthy, so well done indeedie!
As for your fluxed girl, wwe need to do a few things. Firstly yep the split joint and the nuckle formation at this point aren't Ideal for flow but shouldn't impede to much!Please get that split bound directly over, its only going to be temporary, but we need to be safer now than having major issues later. Dont be afraid to get tough we want it really held firm!
Now for any branches big enough coming off the main flux arms. Get them trained down as soon as they're mature enough to withstand some tension. The reason we do this early is that the limbs are constantly flexing against the tethers. This is like a human muscle, meaning it fattens up the stems and gets them set to carry bigger weight in buds!
Also please try to get the height of her set correctly when she moves up a home! This will just make life easier if she nice and low and on level with pot rim.
So yep all else is good, just go for it on the opening up of ends to promote better node stacking!
Hope that helps
GardenFaerie
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Yes, it definitely does. I will go back now and get that break sealed to itself. It will distort the main arms upward, but maybe I can train them another way. When I xplant I definitely plan on planting it deeper so the arms are an inch or two above the soil. I know I have to do that.
Do you think I should remove the lower leaves on the in ground plants? I left all foliage on so the vegging will get them nice and healthy for heat and stress of summer. Then I can possibly remove more. I'm also planning on needing to have some type sun screen for the really hot days. Well, they're all really hot days, but...you know.
Right now it is 99.3 degrees where my plants are sitting in the sun. Ambient temperature is 75 about 20C.
Outside now to open em up.
Do you think I should remove the lower leaves on the in ground plants? I left all foliage on so the vegging will get them nice and healthy for heat and stress of summer. Then I can possibly remove more. I'm also planning on needing to have some type sun screen for the really hot days. Well, they're all really hot days, but...you know.
Right now it is 99.3 degrees where my plants are sitting in the sun. Ambient temperature is 75 about 20C.
Outside now to open em up.
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Id let your girls alone in the ground. Like you said you want them to have plenty of surface area to transpire in the heat Im only going on my gutt as never done MJ outside lol.
Im only going on my gutt as never done MJ outside lol. Hey Light Addict,
Thanks again for the wealth of information provided, I'm a first time grower and hoping to draw as much inspiration as I can from your technique!
I'm at the very early stages at the moment, my plants stalled for about 8 days but I fixed this with the application of nutrients. I'm wondering when I should top my plants to initiate the flux, I've read conflicting information- some suggest waiting for the fifth node and then topping down to the third, others suggest topping immediately after your second node is formed. Could you shed some light on the matter please?
Here are my plants at the moment:
I'm growing Shiva Skunk and Jack Flash in coco/perlite 75/25 you can check out further details at my journal. You can see I'm trying to emulate your grow as much as possible for a first timer (it has been really motivating to see something to aim for), I even got a Budmaster 2!
Cheers mate
Thanks again for the wealth of information provided, I'm a first time grower and hoping to draw as much inspiration as I can from your technique!
I'm at the very early stages at the moment, my plants stalled for about 8 days but I fixed this with the application of nutrients. I'm wondering when I should top my plants to initiate the flux, I've read conflicting information- some suggest waiting for the fifth node and then topping down to the third, others suggest topping immediately after your second node is formed. Could you shed some light on the matter please?
Here are my plants at the moment:
I'm growing Shiva Skunk and Jack Flash in coco/perlite 75/25 you can check out further details at my journal. You can see I'm trying to emulate your grow as much as possible for a first timer (it has been really motivating to see something to aim for), I even got a Budmaster 2!
Cheers mate
GardenFaerie
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Good news/bad news. Good news, I will leave foliage on plants in ground as they really do need all the shading they can get UNTIL it is time.
One of my LK's is showing some flowers, I think. I really couldn't see. I have to bring my scope out with me. I see the eye doctor Monday, and I have my fingers crossed that I am not losing my vision. That, would suck.
So on the fluxed LK, the central break is already healing over and hardened. That was fast. But it is not "together." I'm not very concerned as I will plant it really close to the soil and if it drops down onto the soil it will probably make a root. I'll just have to manipulate it so a node is what's touching the soil or just above so when it does drag down it will hit in the place where a root will grow.
Temperature in the sun is 110 right now. None the worse for wear. My strains are all from the same latitude and climate. The only difference is we can get 31 inches of rain a year in a normal year.
One of my LK's is showing some flowers, I think. I really couldn't see. I have to bring my scope out with me. I see the eye doctor Monday, and I have my fingers crossed that I am not losing my vision. That, would suck.
So on the fluxed LK, the central break is already healing over and hardened. That was fast. But it is not "together." I'm not very concerned as I will plant it really close to the soil and if it drops down onto the soil it will probably make a root. I'll just have to manipulate it so a node is what's touching the soil or just above so when it does drag down it will hit in the place where a root will grow.
Temperature in the sun is 110 right now. None the worse for wear. My strains are all from the same latitude and climate. The only difference is we can get 31 inches of rain a year in a normal year.
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Ok, lol I dont know who's been saying these funny topping numbers
I always go at the 3rd node, just about where you are right now! I count up like this. First node is the single blade leaf that will wither and die on its own in time. Then you have the more normal full leaf set. Then again one up you have the second set of norm leaves. This is third node and where I top.
I go at this node as in my opinion its the first one developed enough to carry good flow and cope with the extreme training !
I always go at the 3rd node, just about where you are right now!
I count up like this. First node is the single blade leaf that will wither and die on its own in time. Then you have the more normal full leaf set. Then again one up you have the second set of norm leaves. This is third node and where I top. I go at this node as in my opinion its the first one developed enough to carry good flow and cope with the extreme training !
Ok, lol I dont know who's been saying these funny topping numbers
I always go at the 3rd node, just about where you are right now!
I go at this node as in my opinion its the first one developed enough to carry good flow and cope with the extreme training !
Thanks for the swift reply
Should I top this plant in its current pot then and secure the two new tops down before I transplant into a 20 litre pot? Or should I transplant first and then top?
Also I am a little concerned that my stems seem a little too thin in comparison to other growers', are they okay for fluxxing?
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Id top in the pot she's in as for stem width it will soon fatten up once topped. Also your gonna bury most of it anyhow!
I also rub the stem between finger and thumb to aid in it shedding its skin onfe in a while whilst it young in age.
as for stem width it will soon fatten up once topped. Also your gonna bury most of it anyhow! I also rub the stem between finger and thumb to aid in it shedding its skin onfe in a while whilst it young in age.
GardenFaerie
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Shedding its skin? What means dis?