that is about where the 2046 was when I chopped it. have you sampled any of it?
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I have a sample that will be dry in a coupla days, it looks good and smells good...that's the Tahoe, I don't have samples of all of em.
I just went to have a look at the super skunk info and pending who is the breeder you should have little or no trouble. says for the most part easy to moderate to grow. any where fro 8to18% thc pending on the breeder and a good yielder to boot
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I just went to have a look at the super skunk info and pending who is the breeder you should have little or no trouble. says for the most part easy to moderate to grow. any where fro 8to18% thc pending on the breeder and a good yielder to boot
I hope it yields, since I'm only growin two, how many times would you top it?, it's been double topped so far and is growing normally......normal branching...ect..
I would Fim every one of the new tops. but I would consider how long you are going to continue veg.
if its for 3or 4 weeks more Fim them all.
if its for 3or 4 weeks more Fim them all.
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I'm not bound by any schedule on this one, I planned on sticking em in the flower room and playing it by ear. Have you ever fimmed a plant and it didn't work? I fimmed two purple kush moms I have twice, for a total of three fims, and none of them worked, I've done it before so I trust my technique.
to quote OMM "Fim=Fuck I missed" so to answer your question. yep yes I have
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I topped em instead of fim fishy, those 5 gallon pots were no match for these plants, I have a feeling that them being root bound may have been the issue for a lot of my troubles, it makes sense why none of my corrective measures worked, I have never had plants with this many roots! I'm excited to run the ten gallon pots next time, I'm gonna hold off on the sns 604A, that's the stuff that is supposed to promote root growth, I think it would work well outside. As for the 604B that I used this run........I didn't see anything spectacular, I have got to see some dramatic difference when I try a product, or it's just more money to get very similar results without it. The Humboldt nutrients..........they worked, again...nothing spectacular. The only thing I used this run that I SAW way different results was the sns 604A. I will do a thorough cleaning in the back tomorrow, after I chop the two mexikush, then, I have to wait til the money appears to get soil. I will say this, the one thing that has given me the most dramatic indications was the bpn liquid blue, I'll use it again sometime when I'm prepared to support the rapid bud growth. I'll do some studying, I have a feeling that rapid bud growth can be a cause of poor bud density, if you don't support it with nitrogen, and no one wants to hit em real hard with it in flower.
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to quote OMM "Fim=Fuck I missed" so to answer your question. yep yes I have
I think it may be strain related.......or I missed it about six times!
Howdy Mcl 
Looks like you harvested some nice nuggs.
I haven't bought them yet, but I'm planning to get pots like these. My hydro store stocks these. I was looking at their various cloth bags, and one of the guys there tried to sell me on these pots. I'm glad I waited to think about it. At first, I wanted actual air pots, then I heard people complain about their propensity for fungus gnats, so I started to reconsider the smart pots. My issues with those are 3 fold: first, I try to be very frugal in general, and the smart pots will not last for years. Second, they dry out very quickly. This is a minor issue for the most part, but I'm using them for mothers, and I'd like to be able to ignore them for a week at a time. I can pretty much already do that with the 1g plastic pots they are in now. I'm not sure I could get away with that in a smart pot. Lastly, yourself, and some others, have questioned whether the air pruning is beneficial or not. With these pots, some roots will still air prune if they find one of the openings, but all the curves eliminate root circling while still allowing those tap roots to keep exploring and branching more secondaries.
Anyway, these are the pots I'm going to pickup next week:
Accelerator Containers
The first time I read about smart pot's advantages, I wondered about that. If all the roots grow out and then get pruned, I would think it would make for a very dense root ball as the plant continues to 'promote' existing roots, or build new main roots. With the traditional nursery pots, we get root circling, but the plant isn't pressured to grow 'more' of the main branch roots. We're after secondaries since that's where the bulk of absorption happens.
I think Doc Bud and Curso are the main guys promoting this technique. Curso was very kind in answering a bunch of my questions via PM, but you might start by searching for posts under his username and the keyword "wash".
Briefly though... They are using 3 buckets. The first has a wash mix of baking soda and lemon juice. The other 2 just have plain water. You wash the branch by agitating it a little in the first bucket and let it wash/soak for ~30 seconds. Then do the same thing in the next 2 buckets. Depending on how large your plants are, you want to dump out the dirty buckets every plant or two. Based on how it was explained to me, it seemed like you can probably wash what will dry to be around 4-6 ounces before you should change the buckets. To save a little time and effort, you can just promote buckets, ie dump #1 and #2 and make the final rinse the new wash bucket by adding the baking soda and lemon juice, then fill 2 fresh buckets of rinse water.
I like hearing these comments. I've yet to hear anyone NOT react like that. I'm excited to try it based on all the comments I'm hearing. It doesn't sound like it's a small improvement. The affect sounds like it's pretty dramatic! ie 'night and day'
Would you agree it's that big a difference even with your minimal washing?
It's true that not everyone can grow cannabis, and even fewer can do it well. Luckily for you, you do seem to be in that later category.
You can do that now. Not legally, but you can do it.
While attending college in San Diego, I knew a guy who put a couple bricks of mexi weed (we had easy access being close to the border) in the mail to NYC. AFAIK, he did it a few times and never had any trouble.
We need to help defend those folks of course, but I broaden it further to any person that is unable to defend themselves against an aggressor. This includes all the ignorant sheeple. As much as I want to let them reap the consequences of not questioning what they are told, it's in mine, and humanity's, best interest to help defend them as well. It is usually a futile effort to try and make the 'blind' see, but we have to try.
Keep em' green McL. Actually, scratch that... cut 'em down McL!
Looks like you harvested some nice nuggs.
I haven't bought them yet, but I'm planning to get pots like these. My hydro store stocks these. I was looking at their various cloth bags, and one of the guys there tried to sell me on these pots. I'm glad I waited to think about it. At first, I wanted actual air pots, then I heard people complain about their propensity for fungus gnats, so I started to reconsider the smart pots. My issues with those are 3 fold: first, I try to be very frugal in general, and the smart pots will not last for years. Second, they dry out very quickly. This is a minor issue for the most part, but I'm using them for mothers, and I'd like to be able to ignore them for a week at a time. I can pretty much already do that with the 1g plastic pots they are in now. I'm not sure I could get away with that in a smart pot. Lastly, yourself, and some others, have questioned whether the air pruning is beneficial or not. With these pots, some roots will still air prune if they find one of the openings, but all the curves eliminate root circling while still allowing those tap roots to keep exploring and branching more secondaries.
Anyway, these are the pots I'm going to pickup next week:
Accelerator Containers
Its funny you say that bro I was just wondering the same thing with my girls, can they still get root bound if they're really big plants in 6-7 gallon air pots?I can hardly stick my finger into the promix.I think I ll be switching to nursery pots myself next round. Reps for the beautiful afgan brother looks delicious
The first time I read about smart pot's advantages, I wondered about that. If all the roots grow out and then get pruned, I would think it would make for a very dense root ball as the plant continues to 'promote' existing roots, or build new main roots. With the traditional nursery pots, we get root circling, but the plant isn't pressured to grow 'more' of the main branch roots. We're after secondaries since that's where the bulk of absorption happens.
I think Doc Bud and Curso are the main guys promoting this technique. Curso was very kind in answering a bunch of my questions via PM, but you might start by searching for posts under his username and the keyword "wash".
Briefly though... They are using 3 buckets. The first has a wash mix of baking soda and lemon juice. The other 2 just have plain water. You wash the branch by agitating it a little in the first bucket and let it wash/soak for ~30 seconds. Then do the same thing in the next 2 buckets. Depending on how large your plants are, you want to dump out the dirty buckets every plant or two. Based on how it was explained to me, it seemed like you can probably wash what will dry to be around 4-6 ounces before you should change the buckets. To save a little time and effort, you can just promote buckets, ie dump #1 and #2 and make the final rinse the new wash bucket by adding the baking soda and lemon juice, then fill 2 fresh buckets of rinse water.
I like hearing these comments. I've yet to hear anyone NOT react like that. I'm excited to try it based on all the comments I'm hearing. It doesn't sound like it's a small improvement. The affect sounds like it's pretty dramatic! ie 'night and day'
Would you agree it's that big a difference even with your minimal washing?
Thanks fishyI'll keep pluggin away and tryin, I know this; I can't afford brick weed, and I'm very thankful that things always seem to turn out mostly fine...........growing the cannabis is truly an art...........a goal not easily attained!
It's true that not everyone can grow cannabis, and even fewer can do it well. Luckily for you, you do seem to be in that later category.
I hope someday we can just walk to the nearest post office and send sample nuggets to eachother
You can do that now. Not legally, but you can do it.
While attending college in San Diego, I knew a guy who put a couple bricks of mexi weed (we had easy access being close to the border) in the mail to NYC. AFAIK, he did it a few times and never had any trouble.
We need to help defend those folks of course, but I broaden it further to any person that is unable to defend themselves against an aggressor. This includes all the ignorant sheeple. As much as I want to let them reap the consequences of not questioning what they are told, it's in mine, and humanity's, best interest to help defend them as well. It is usually a futile effort to try and make the 'blind' see, but we have to try.
Keep em' green McL. Actually, scratch that... cut 'em down McL!
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Good weed folks and thank you! Hiker, thanks for your posts and comments. With minimal washing I saw a huge difference.......like I said...the weed was just friggen dirty..........dusty. I took a sample from another plant, one that is much denser, 4 days and it's still pretty wet. My concern is mold, I'm drying in rH of around 60, and a temp of around 85F, so far no mold.............The plants just do NOT have any amber, I'm going to keep waiting no matter how hey look, the buds are still putting on weight! I'm using regular nursery pots next run, it just makes sense to me, and with the results I got this run.....well, something was definitely out of whack.....possibly me!
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What do you think of the way I trained the last run OMM?, I have a mind not to supercrop, but the plants are close to 16" already!
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You can do that now. Not legally, but you can do it.
While attending college in San Diego, I knew a guy who put a couple bricks of mexi weed (we had easy access being close to the border) in the mail to NYC. AFAIK, he did it a few times and never had any trouble.
Hihi then i'd only need the addresses to send them to... don't think i'd get many!
But it could be a bit more problematic doing this across the ocean.
Good luck with the fimmings McLoadie if you decide to do that. Think last grow i managed like 3 from about 15 attempts... but at least they got topped. One fim had 3 branches, no idea how that happened.
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I can't see really good under the hps light, so I took a bud off the yeti, the leaves appeared so yellow I thought i'd get a better look. The yellow leaves are purple on the bottom...not a dark purple, but definitely purple. The buds are bright green, and got greener when I washed the one I cut under the faucet. I was checking to see what a pain in the ass it's gonna be to cut all that yellow out...it's going to suck and be way time consuming....but the product is LOVELY......lovely, perfumed lemony fuel smell..........best quality yet with this strain, second best yield! It has good density, and my estimates of weight may be a little low.
Good weed and a Fine Sativaday to you and young miss loadie!
I hope your guess is way low too
I hope your guess is way low too
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Good weed and a Fine Sativaday to you and young miss loadie!
I hope your guess is way low too
A fine good weed to you fishy!, yeah, I hope to get a few oz.'s, it's a full time job keeping medicated.......but, we daring few will bear the task...hehe!
invi
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Maybe the yellow stuff will dry quicker and you can just shake it out
