I love the pics of those plants. They look so uniform and clean. My tent is well and truly disorganized. I will spend some time in there today to try and make it look a little less messy but yours is wow to me.
Thanks for the compliment! I just try to keep everything easy to get to into the tent. Makes it easier to do everything I need to do with the buckets.
So I have been calling the biggest plant big bertha for a couple weeks now, well from the looks of the plants the last couple days, I am going to call the plant on the back right mini bertha, she is almost the same size as her sister and just about as bushy. She is actually a little taller than big bertha. After looking at her and her sister big bertha, these 2 plants alone can easily fill my entire 4ft x 4ft grow tent.
Big Bertha as she sits right now, and that's not completely stretched out like she can be under a scrog, takes up more than half the tent to her self. If I were to run those branches under a scrog screen, your looking at about 3/4 of the tent being full. Now if you add in Mini Bertha, and stretch her out under a scrog as well, hell I would have the entire tent covered and then some weed running up the walls of the tent. So since they are not all stretched out , I am expecting a lot of popcorn buds unfortunately. I have stretched all the plants out as much as I can to give them enough access to light, but without having them under a scrog I fear I have limited my plants potential. I ran out of tie down screws on the bucket to LST the plants, plus they had gotten so bushy and big I couldn't use the screws anymore to tie down the branches since the branches were so long. I think next grow in this tent under these conditions I will just have 2 plants instead of 4. The other 2 plants take up much needed and valuable space that could be used as a scrog.
Either way, its turning out to be sort of a SOG instead of a SCROG. I cant complain too much, the plants are healthy and growing and thriving, it could be worse! But yeah next time I do monster cropped clones, which will be the only way I clone from here on out, I will only keep no more than 2 clones per tent for a personal grow since they actually do grow out like monsters.
I am having a hard time pinning down when the plant actually started flower, it is either going to be the 6th of October or the 9th of October as the actual start of the flower stage. I don't count from when I switch the light schedule. Depending on your grow style and how you have grown your plants to this point, depends how long the plant takes to transition between veg and flower. For example, if you grow using DWC, it may only take a couple days up to a week to transition under great conditions, meaning no nute burns or deficiencies. As soil can take almost an extra week. Soil tends to hold on to all the nitrogen and veg nutes, DWC you can easily flush everything out, Soil tends to hold on to nutrients. So it all really depends. Plus other factors like have you been flushing during veg, did you flush before the switch, did you stay adding veg nutes or switch to flower nutes right away, and more importantly did you turn off the lights for 24 hours before the switch. Me personally, in DWC it usually takes about a week for transition to end. All I do is change the bucket water and put in full strength flower nutes, then switch the light schedule, I don't put them in extra darkness, or keep them on veg nutes, I do however watch the plant during that week or so and see what she needs, watch your plants, they will tell you what they need. Memorize the leaf chart for deficiencies and toxicities and you will have a good eye at spotting problems before they actually become one and you can get a real good handle on whats going on in your garden.
So if you count the 6th as the first day of flower, they have been flowering for 15 days so far as of today. The bud formations on them are looking very well for as young as they are, I may not have as much popcorn as I initially thought.
On to more important news, about 6 months ago I put up the money to run a legitimate dispensary where I live. Just a little info on how to do it where I am from. You have 2 different categories you can apply for, commercial growers license, or dispensary license, and that comes in the form of storefront, delivery, or both. Well in order to even apply for a commercial growers license, you need to have $250,000 in the bank, and fill out the app, and give a non refundable $25,000 application fee. You have to have this for any and all licenses you apply for. So for example if you wanted your growers license, and dispensary license for both store front and delivery, you need to have $750,000 sitting in the bank, and pay $75,000 in non refundable application fees. You also are not guaranteed to be approved for the licenses.
That being said, I went legitimate around 6 months ago with my dispensary. I run a 24 hour delivery service as well as I just opened up a store front last week that is also open 24 hours. Well this morning at around 3am a undercover cop made his way into my shop. He was attempting to purchase concentrates and herb without a valid recommendation, he even was saying well I have bought from here before and gave the usual excuses to try and get sold some meds. After about 15 minutes of telling him no and eventually to leave the store, another cop came in undercover, this went on and on for around 3 hours this morning. I wonder if this is going to be the new thing for dispensary owners? I am not doing anything illegal and to be treated by the police like I am some kind of drug lord is ridiculous. Is anyone else having issues like this around the USA?
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