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GF thanks to members like you :thumb: she's reaching for the sky like there's no tomorrow!

I was reading about Lady Bugs, I let all 1000 free on all plant life in my grow area, they should make local

"homes" and breed like bunnies, I counted at least 5 pairs locked up in :Love:


where's Batman? :circle-of-love:
 
Batman is out saving Gotham! :) Nah just busy, Trichster my friend start taking top set of leaves of all secondary growth, not topping just the first open set, nip off. Then open her up some more. If you think it will give better airflow and light penetration, then Id consider tying every other one back. So it would be one in one out. This would sort the side by side crowding! So yeah get your hokey kokie on lol. (Spelt wrong Im sure)
 
Radogast as above take the top open leaves off, to hold a limb back to fatten. Flex and bruise each limb, this also fattens the limbs up. Or you can crush a node! Just pic a topish node and slighty crush it between finger and thumb. Everything above this point halts, below squats up some! :)

Hope that helps! :)
Im now off for night. Back to answer all Qs in detail tomoz! :)
 
thanks LA, i understand most of that:thumb:

Today we introduce a very happy infant

She is a from a photoperiod fembean & she will be fluxed to every extreme she will tolerate.

Northern Lights from a private commercial source, she'll be referred to as NoLie

I think this baby pic, shows how a happy these girls can be, a day after they've been beheaded.

Shown in a 6 inch/15cm pot, she's tiny. A couple more days & she'll meet, "the wire".

NoLie
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Hey all, lets get some more info on how to get the best flux joint. :)

First pic shows nuckled joint.
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Second shows a slightly better join.
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Third is the perfect join :)
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Now to get the perfect join for your flux you want to firstly top early! Then the most important bit is the removal of the fan leaves that sit directly underthe flux join! The 3 pics show how the joint is effected, The leaves were taken at different times. If you leave them on you get an uneven join. So we take them off.
As the pics show some have little stumps of the leaf stem. Take it off completely for easier manipulation!


Now how to stunt by using defol!

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So these pics show one of my girls that Im doing in my Tutt style. Notice the top pair of shoots, these are higher than the rest of the plant. I want an even canopy. So by taking the top set of open leaves off these two shoots they will be slowed nicely. The other limbs will now catch up, giving me an even canopy with hardly any effort! :)

Now you can of course use this technique to help control any limb! These pics show a smaller branch on one of my girls, so to even things up I used this defol technique.
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The one on the right has been left more foliage, so it will now catch up with the others.

Also shows how even little old me can lopp a limb off every now and again :)
 
Nice 90° angle in final flux-joint pic LA :thumb:. At least I ended with one good 90° angle. I know, practice makes perfect, lol.

Fluxy Lady has taken up golf! Here's a today-pic for the class.:circle-of-love:

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Nice one Trichster! That is some fat ass bulky truncage!!
 
Cap'n Style Top-Fed Simple Hydroponics With Grow Chunks

Funny you mentioned this. Yes, I would still like to try one of them this way but am having some concerns; not with the style, more like "admin" kinda things that I'm trying to figure out. That's actually why I haven't topped one of the Jack Herer's that's ready to be yet.

I'm moving to a nicer place in early June and am hesitant to blast forward until I have the area set up and checked out where I'll be housing the garden. Silly thing is that this is an almost completely unfounded concern as I've seen it both current and "mind's eye" future (not to mention there's plenty of space elsewhere to adjust & overcome if need be anyways) yet the apprehension is still there.

The two Jack Herer's are both reg seeds and the original idea was to do one or both of those, but it really looks to me now that it would be better to do one or both of the others based on how the group as a whole is/would be growing down the road. A more pragmatic concern is that I'm trying to figure out how to securely do the tie downs. You think the medium I'm using will allow the plant to be able to handle this? Don't misunderstand, I still plan on at least one of them going flux regardless; just not sure as to which and whether I'll do it prior to the end of the 1st week in June when I'm all settled in.

I was delayed by a little over a month in receiving a March order of seeds and its really caused some hassles in scheduling and inventory so to speak, lol. I had expected some potential delays and threw in some Autos in the order to help minimize the problems but the delay on the order & now the imminent move kinda made that quick fix obsolete...looking at a 1 month down time gap here shortly pretty much no matter what course I take, so I can't really take larger than neccessary risks with the Carmel Ice or Critical Hog which are increasingly looking like they might be really nice and high yielding pheno's.

Truth be told though, my nature being history tested...my lack of patience and manic personality will probably pot the Carmel Ice up to a 3 gal (skipping the originally planned 1 gal interval) container within the next couple days and pull the trigger on her. So any thoughts/instructions are welcome and requested; it's this one:
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OK I get your concerns, firstly your medium will be fine. Capn style gives great anchorage for the root system. If you remember Skybounds comments on checking root mass on your thread, this is a prime example. You can check the root mass as the chunks will be held nicely together by your root system.
As for moving etc. A flux is held firm in training, so is really easy to transport etc.
For training tethers etc you must get the nice plastic coated garden wire. You can start really gentle right in the home she is in now and go gradual on-potting up. Or straight to final home, it would work well either way.

If you do want to get going once all is said and done then just take all other lower branch points off now. Leave the foliage by all means. Then 2 simple loops around the two top points, attached to the lip of your little cup. Just go gentle on the bending down or these points. Then just let her grow on removing the over under nodes as she grows.
Looks like a nice candidate for fluxing to me so best of luck. If you have any questions queries whatsoever just post on here and ill do my utmost to aid :)
 
Light Addict said:
OK I get your concerns, firstly your medium will be fine. Capn style gives great anchorage for the root system. If you remember Skybounds comments on checking root mass on your thread, this is a prime example. You can check the root mass as the chunks will be held nicely together by your root system.
As for moving etc. A flux is held firm in training, so is really easy to transport etc.
For training tethers etc you must get the nice plastic coated garden wire. You can start really gentle right in the home she is in now and go gradual on-potting up. Or straight to final home, it would work well either way.

If you do want to get going once all is said and done then just take all other lower branch points off now. Leave the foliage by all means. Then 2 simple loops around the two top points, attached to the lip of your little cup. Just go gentle on the bending down or these points. Then just let her grow on removing the over under nodes as she grows.
Looks like a nice candidate for fluxing to me so best of luck. If you have any questions queries whatsoever just post on here and ill do my utmost to aid :)
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Hey Thanks!
 
High LA :passitleft: gettin' late over there! I saw your light on, do you want more pics here as I post my progress pics? I don't want to

upset your yard too often, but the class seems to like her. I am removing the large leaves, as they come out of the new tops on lower growth which is rapidly increasing in density. Some of the low growth limbs are 5" / 11cm long and 3/16" / 5mm thick. Do we want these, to focus growth to the coloas, or do we let them grow? Some are going to catch up with the top canopy, possibly. :thankyou:
 
Northern Lights, did I top her too early? She had a mutant like top, she seems to be liking the early training, thanks again teach:circle-of-love:

Her name is NoLie she's 1.5" / 3.7mm tall

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Trich my friend, my girl started with 28 sites for canopy and ended with over 32 top sites that pushed nice large buds. So secondary growth is good as long as substantial. Taking them top leaves will stunt them and help them stack up in nodes. I even defoled the inner areas of secondary growth, so they sat in closer to the main colas. Then with some that were manageable, I wove them into the main colas site! :) :)
So medium mature secondary growth can be woven to the main colas stems. The proper mature can become canopy big bud producers. Small immature can be removed.

As for the bubba! Nah she's ginna be just fine my friend! :)
 

FLUXY MOMMA (Power Flower, Flux style) Day 86




Once again it's Training Day



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After

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