Light Addict's Fluxing Central - Featuring The Original Flux Journal

[PlanetJ]

Aargh .. please people .. I'm still trying to learn how to FLUX .. now everybody starts showcasing their DFW, something I thought only the FLUX-god could do ... and now I want one too :|

j/k .. I'm so envious of you all ... funny too .. I forgot what it felt like ... must mean I found the right hobby

 

[Light Addict]

He he DFW ftw! My first was a split level one then it clicked and I went a fimming!

 

[Light Addict]

So yep as for what I leave, every side on node along your main flux arms. Just remove the under over nodes

 

[FatBeaverBuds]

Hey LA I know you are a busy man but if you could pop over to my journal and drop some wisdom on me it would be greatly appreciated. links in my siggy. Thanks a bunch. Go Deathstar!!!!

 

[Light Addict]

Hey there LA and everyone else
This is an awesome journal to look through which I have not had the pleasure of doing so yet.
I got directed here from the nice bloke Tassie.
Run into a minor issue, I was planning on scrogging my Strawberry cough Fem but I have an auto BS going aswell which has just started flowering/stretching.
I don't think it will be quiet efficient to scrog SC anymore especlly since some of the training I started doing to her, so Tas saw the training I did and directed me here to get some advice/help.
Hope you don't mind me sharing a few pics to aid my words.
This was her maybe a week ago

And a day or 2 after

And here she is today

Hey my friend sorry for the late reply
I've been flat out and lost track with so many fluxing my mind sometimes gets fluxed up!

So if i remember your response last time you have as long as you want for veg? If so we can get you a mad crop
Firstly if you have a long time to veg I would strip all the secondary shoots off along the limbs. I train fluxes to produce just one monster colas per limb. this lends to be able to fool the plant into believing they are all the main dominant one!
Your nodal spacing looks great so all good there!
So yep if you wanna flux it up big then I'm here and will reply with a little more haste!

 

[Hiddenkoncept]

Going to be able to start posting pictures here again soon! Just waiting on my blue dream girls to get a little bigger so I can start my magic again. I really enjoyed my flux waffle waste time (flux after a fim instead of after topping) but it was harder work and I'm not sure weather to flux or flux waffle again!

What you think sensei?

 

[Light Addict]

For your space buddy a norm set of fluxes are a better fit by far! The DFW is a personal little fiddle design lol. Loads of work and great for a monster solo grow, but not for multiple girls!
Its just an indulgence of mine, as I love spending inordinate amounts of time in my plants world!
Also a norm flux will yield far more. I'd just run ya fluxes with less height but more depth. As in leave more low down foliage and build colas from down low . Using less wasted vert??

 

[Sir Budlovski]

Hey my friend sorry for the late reply
I've been flat out and lost track with so many fluxing my mind sometimes gets fluxed up!

So if i remember your response last time you have as long as you want for veg? If so we can get you a mad crop
Firstly if you have a long time to veg I would strip all the secondary shoots off along the limbs. I train fluxes to produce just one monster colas per limb. this lends to be able to fool the plant into believing they are all the main dominant one!
Your nodal spacing looks great so all good there!
So yep if you wanna flux it up big then I'm here and will reply with a little more haste!

Hey LA
Don't stress to much about taking your time I can fully understand how flat out you would be with not only your journal grows but also your tutorial journals and everything else you would have going on it would keep you going pretty flat out thanks for replying though
You are correct there I have a pretty much unlimited vege, a little restriction in space with my auto flowering but that won't matter to much.
Thanks I'm lucky with the node spacing its kind of been luck without being able to adjust my LED yet and a nice indoor monster would be lovely to accompany my outdoor one
The next few days ill be away from my grow for a little while house sitting for some one but will be back in a couple of days.
So I thought is grab some pics now for you to have a look at how she recovered from the defol 2 days ago, I think I went a little overboard and may have accidently got rid of a few side shoots still have a few small ones though, there's abit of uneven growth on her aswell which I'm working on but apart from that she's all good and ready for some work

Overall pic

And close up of her stems and limbs

 

[Sir Budlovski]

Alright mate, reporting will be first on my list when I get home
Im keen to get busy with I've been sitting back letting her go to much for my liking its boring haha
Excellent words there I think my last defol I left a few of those fans on so next on my list will be removing under/over growth tips and those fan leaves I missed.
With being away few days I'm hoping when I get back there I have some nice side shoots to work with or coming through.
Very excited to see this come together I've dealt with this plant for to long to not have a good yeild however this experience will be worth it either way

Thanks for your help, ill update you pics when I get home and get all this done

 

[Dan Ultra]

So I flushed and fed and did a pretty heavy defol the other night.

This was her right after

And then this is the EXPLODED growth 24 hours later!!

 

[Sir Budlovski]

Hey all, hope everyone's having a good day/night

I gave SC(strawberry cough) her repot, unfortunately my pots not wide enough for my liking so ill find one to get her in during the next few weeks, she responds well to the stress from repots and defols so far, I'm happy
SC is 75 days old I reported her diagonally in my square pot so each of the 4 main limbs are at each corner of the pot so they can reach the furthest point of pot. I will buy some more garden wire so I can tie these limbs down to some thing else when they get past the pot edge to far.
Anyways, I think I've removed most of the top facing fan leaves and also the under over shoots, there is a new set of long side shoots coming out both ends of the main 2 arms.
Here's some pics

Bit curious if I should be a tad heavier on my trimming?

 

[Light Addict]

OK

Firstly Ultra my friend she is coming along nicely!

BabyG I have one going about the same age/size so we can go step by step together!

SirBud your defol is fine! As you stripped some of the early on side shoots, I'd already be thinking of redirecting a couple of the newer limbs back into the heart of your plant. Pick the busiest main limbs and adjust maybe one or two of the lesser limbs from the busiest points on the main arms. Just start them on a path back to fill in the center.
This will also give more room to the points your now getting plenty of side on nodes forming so its a win win

 

[Sir Budlovski]

Hey all
Well I got abit of training done, focused on getting those lesser limbs more straight and directed inwards, also did a little more trimming.
While finishing up on my training I wanted to lower mains a little bit bit and I went to far and caused a split ahhh, straight down the main stalk, so I took pressure of the 2 mains and strapped her up and ill hope she'll recover from there, I have seen a lot recover so fingers crossed.
I put to big white wire loops in 2 corners to help connect wires to.
So I suppose ill have to take a break on training the main arms, can I continue training the other smaller limbs? Or to much stress while she's healing?

 

[Light Addict]

Give her another day then you can just continue onwards splits as long as bandaged up quickly and let meet up correctly normally heal quite fast. The lesser limbs shouldn't stress her to much

 

[Sir Budlovski]

THANK YOU!
well that's a sigh of relief then, I was starting to wonder what i'll do with myself without being able to peek and train away, so that's good.
She's a strong girl so I'm sure she'll take it in her stride

On a different side note if your willing LA, have you done much work with trimming or working with autos?
I lst my first auto awhile back before I knew about it affecting the yeild, but my next grows going to be all autos, and as I've mentioned I have one now that's in flower so I'm a little curious if there's anything work you can get away with on autos without affecting them to much.

 

[Dan Ultra]

Just a little picture update after defoling the growth sites some more. Basically every other day I am trimming of any leaves that shaded any of the growth sites off the flux arms and any over/unders on the main. Is this okay to do, or should I wait longer?? I try and leave the underside fan leaves on the flux arms so its' not totally bald all the time. lol.

 

[Sir Budlovski]

Thanks BAR, sorry to hear on the loss of the young fruity seedling, that always sucks
Ultradan, that's is a tight plant you have, looks nice

 

[midasone]

Is this and mainlining the same thing? If not what are the differences?

 

[PlanetJ]

Is this and mainlining the same thing? If not what are the differences?

Nope, not the same. Main-lining involves getting a main node with a couple of branches on the usually 2 nodes.

This involves getting 2 'flux arms', where you let these tips grow sideways, and let their side shoots grow just their tips as well. The end result is the same, main colas only.

 

[Light Addict]

Midasone,

Fluxing is my adaptation onwards from ML. With ML you top and top again etc, with fluxing you only top 3 times. This is the same even if you had a flux with 60 sites
Fluxing uses more LST and HST than ML. Then you have the perfect level of a fluxes base frame. This lends to being able to keep every single colas on a level and total manageability for even colas spacing.

Then with fluxing if done correctly, you can use my feeding loop idea!

So yep its a different style