OregonFarmer
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Try to keep em' cool today, OG - it's going to be a hottttttttt one! 
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Not sure I would say I was killing it, though for what little amount of time I am able to invest into this grow it is coming along quiet nicely
Well they sure didn't seem to mind 1 day of that hot weather.. I would hate to see a few days of it though. Would suck having to water more often though with that amount of watering to be done. Oh if only we could own monkeys and train them to do things for us
Congratulations on 32 years! Hope you 2 have fun!
Well the last 8 days have been sunny and hot here and the worst is to come today and tomorrow. So far the inside of the greenhouse has been over 100 at least 3 times this week and while I would prefer the inside of the GH to be more like 72 to 78 I have yet come up with a way to accomplish that goal. So in the mean time I am giving a shot at using shade clothe for the days when the outside temp is pushing 100. I installed some this morning that I picked up at Costco for cheap and will give it a try today. It is only 11:08 here and it is way to hot to work outside already, though I was able to do some pruning on my plants and make sure they are watered in well for the approaching heat. I am not a big fan of pruning plants when it is this hot out but since I have limited free time to work on them and both days I have off this week are going to be hot as hell I felt I had no real choice, they needed to be cleaned up.
Last year on my outdoor grow I aimed for as many branches as my plants could produce, and while I did ok, I had a ton of popcorn buds and a lot of the bigger buds did not come out as dense as I would have liked, so this year I am shooting for quality over volume.
This is my 1st attempt at dealing with the 100 degree heat, it was the simplest and required the least amount of effort on my part. If it does not work out, no harm done, on to plan "B".
I did have to get the wifey to help me install it but the whole process took about 4 to 5 minutes to install and less to remove.
So I went through my plants today and looked at the branches and said to myself, "Where will this branch be in 4 weeks?" Since the plants should start flowering in roughly 4 weeks I decided that if it was not going to be a nice healthy thick branch, it needed to go away. From the looks of things, I had a lot of pruning to do.
It seemed like a lot being taken out but when I finally stopped and cleaned up, the plants looked so much better. It opened them up for more light and better air circulation.
I did screw up and I left the gate to the garden open, here is the reason I have to keep the chickens out of my greenhouse
Hope everyone has a great weekend
StonyMagoo
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I was wondering how the heat was going for your grow. My grow tent in the spare bedroom (the temple of doom is being built this friday in the backyard) is a little concerning, lol. 96 in the tent humidity is 26. I need to move farther out and get some property so I can follow your outdoor Jedi lead! Lol. Hot as fuck on the far west side, stay in the shade my man!
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Hey SM
My outdoor thermometer said it was 109 today and I am pretty sure it was close to that yesterday. I had the shade clothe up both days, in fact I just took it down like 2 minutes ago, the inside of the greenhouse has cooled down to 80 so I figured it was safe to remove it now. I ventured out a few times today to check in on the ladies, the highest temp inside the GH was 105 but they are dealing with the heat just fine. Though I will say this last week has really caused a growth spurt, I have at least 4 of the ladies who are now 6 foot tall so tomorrow morning around 4 I will head in and top a few branches, just to get them all below 5 foot. To be totally honest I am a bit surprised on how well they handled this heat, I had my exhaust fan stop working on me once during an indoor grow and when I looked in on them the tent felt like a sauna. The heat was unbearable and it had to be close to 100% humidity because my whole tent was drenched. I just kind of assumed that when the temps got that hot in the GH they would react like they did on the indoor grow, but they didn't. I am pretty sure the humidity in the GH was relatively high both yesterday and today, each plant got almost 2 gallons each day but the 5 fans I have doing horizontal air flow and the exhaust fan helped some I am pretty sure.
Glad to say that the weather forecast for this week is all week in the mid to high 70s which will be perfect.
NizzlyBear
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Looking amazing! Looks like they love their haircut for sure!
redmud
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They look great! my plants don't get much input either.
redmud
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Overcast in the Eugene area today it feels good!
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It was over cast here as well, though I did not get much free time to work in the garden. My job has me on call this week so I have been all over fixing electrical issues. I need to get out and do some more trimming on the girls, you might say they have been growing like weeds
I have been feeding the girls a combination of flora micro, flora grow and alaskan fish fertilizer every 3rd watering. Then once a week I also do a top dressing on each plant of worm castings and every other week I give them a dose of epson salt and molasses. I try to trim out all the small branches at least once a week but being there are so many of them I always end up missing a bunch, that really needs to be a daily job, though I just do not have the time right now to do it.
It sure is easy to tell which fan is the new fan, dang they get dirty fast.
Hopefully tomorrow I can spend some quality time in the garden and give them a good trimming. It is getting very hard to find the room to take pictures of any of the plants by themselves except the end plants. Just no room to back up.
Keep your gardens green and have a great 4th of July holiday
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Hope everyones weekend is going well,
Mine has been extremely frustrating but at least I did get a chance to get out to the garden to do some pruning this morning. This is about the same amount I have been removing from the ladies every week now for about a month. I really would prefer to do it daily but who the heck has that much free time.
Part of the reason I do so much pruning is so that I will not end up with a ton of popcorn buds but I also do it to slow down the traffic of insects onto my plants and for their general health. Much of what I trim out, I look at it and ask myself, will this branch produce big healthy buds? Since I am pretty sure that my plants will be starting to switch to flower in no more then 4 weeks from now, that means if that branch will not be a thick healthy branch with in 4 weeks, it needs to go. All it will be doing is stealing energy from other branches that will be ready in 4 weeks. Did I get them all? Heck no way, there are so many branches on these plants it is just short of impossible to go through the whole garden and not miss a bunch but I did get as many of the obvious ones out to promote the growth on the ones that are left.
As for how does this help with insects, well many insects can not fly, so they have to have a path up the plant. Low hanging branches and leaves give them alternative routes onto the plant besides the stock.
As for the health of the girls, it opens up the center of the plant to allow more air movement through the plant as well as better light penetration. I know there is a lot of debate about leaving the leaves but taking the sucker branches out, after all those leaves are solar collectors for the plant. Yes they were, and the key word here is were. Now they are covered by a dense canopy of new growth and see very little if any sunlight. They need to go. Yes they do store energy that the plant can use if the plant starts starving, but I have no intentions of starving them so the plant really does not need them to survive and flourish.
Here are a few pictures of the ladies legs all cleanly shaven and ready for the catwalk.
Here is a good example of one of the plants that did not get pruned soon enough and you will see that the majority of the branches are still fairly small. Had I removed say 25 to 50% of those branches early on, the remaining branches would be considerably bigger. Now once this plant goes into flower I will have to watch it carefully because the branches will be weak and less capable of handling bigger buds. I will also have to de-bud these branches considerably more to produce larger buds, keeping only the upper buds on the branches.
If you noticed, that is only 7 sets of legs, what about the other 2. Well one is under the SCROG and it had already been cleaned up and the other is a control plant that I am using to prove to my wife that by pruning like I do it will produce better quality buds with less popcorn buds. I have left one Thick Wicket as my control plant.I will not loli pop that plant until a few weeks after it starts to flower.
As for how the ladies look I think they look just dandy.
Have a great weekend, what is left of it and keep your gardens green. I am off to purchase either a Twister t-4 or a Centurion Mini Pro. I personally want the mini pro but the person I am going partners on with it thinks the T-4 Twister is the better machine. Time to go sell the mini pro to them.
Mine has been extremely frustrating but at least I did get a chance to get out to the garden to do some pruning this morning. This is about the same amount I have been removing from the ladies every week now for about a month. I really would prefer to do it daily but who the heck has that much free time.
Part of the reason I do so much pruning is so that I will not end up with a ton of popcorn buds but I also do it to slow down the traffic of insects onto my plants and for their general health. Much of what I trim out, I look at it and ask myself, will this branch produce big healthy buds? Since I am pretty sure that my plants will be starting to switch to flower in no more then 4 weeks from now, that means if that branch will not be a thick healthy branch with in 4 weeks, it needs to go. All it will be doing is stealing energy from other branches that will be ready in 4 weeks. Did I get them all? Heck no way, there are so many branches on these plants it is just short of impossible to go through the whole garden and not miss a bunch but I did get as many of the obvious ones out to promote the growth on the ones that are left.
As for how does this help with insects, well many insects can not fly, so they have to have a path up the plant. Low hanging branches and leaves give them alternative routes onto the plant besides the stock.
As for the health of the girls, it opens up the center of the plant to allow more air movement through the plant as well as better light penetration. I know there is a lot of debate about leaving the leaves but taking the sucker branches out, after all those leaves are solar collectors for the plant. Yes they were, and the key word here is were. Now they are covered by a dense canopy of new growth and see very little if any sunlight. They need to go. Yes they do store energy that the plant can use if the plant starts starving, but I have no intentions of starving them so the plant really does not need them to survive and flourish.
Here are a few pictures of the ladies legs all cleanly shaven and ready for the catwalk.
Here is a good example of one of the plants that did not get pruned soon enough and you will see that the majority of the branches are still fairly small. Had I removed say 25 to 50% of those branches early on, the remaining branches would be considerably bigger. Now once this plant goes into flower I will have to watch it carefully because the branches will be weak and less capable of handling bigger buds. I will also have to de-bud these branches considerably more to produce larger buds, keeping only the upper buds on the branches.
If you noticed, that is only 7 sets of legs, what about the other 2. Well one is under the SCROG and it had already been cleaned up and the other is a control plant that I am using to prove to my wife that by pruning like I do it will produce better quality buds with less popcorn buds. I have left one Thick Wicket as my control plant.I will not loli pop that plant until a few weeks after it starts to flower.
As for how the ladies look I think they look just dandy.
Have a great weekend, what is left of it and keep your gardens green. I am off to purchase either a Twister t-4 or a Centurion Mini Pro. I personally want the mini pro but the person I am going partners on with it thinks the T-4 Twister is the better machine. Time to go sell the mini pro to them.
redmud
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They look great!
Peeece
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Love the setup and healthy looking girls you have there!! Gonna pull up a chair and watch the magic!
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Thanks RM I am still finding more branches that needed to be removed, did not have to work today because of the 4th so I spent some time going through and getting some of the branches I missed on Sunday.
Welcome P
Dinsdale
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Wow, that's beautiful garden! Congrats!
I think I'm gonna enjoy watching this
I think I'm gonna enjoy watching this
SunWorshiper
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Looks great man. Hope the fall weather cooperates. Cheers!
How's it going OG? 2 weeks and no words, hope you didn't get lost in the greenhouse 
OregonFarmer
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Hey! How's it goin OG.... where did ya go? Curious about the final choice; T-4 or mini pro? Hope all is well and you're staying busy out there!
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Sorry I have not posted, been a very busy week
Just walked in the door after doing a 3400 mile trip with the wife that was a blast, we covered everything from Oregon to South Dakota and everything in between. Good times.
I went with the T-4 Twister with the leaf collector package.. total price was just under 9,000 but I went partners with a friend. They picked it up a few days after I had left on vacation and tomorrow or Monday I will head over for the unboxing ceremonies.
I had my son and my brother cover for me with watering and feeding while I was out of town and for the most part they did a great job though my brother did leave the gate open one day and the neighbors did have to herd a few chickens back into my yard since they got out of the open gate.
Here are a few pictures I took when I checked in on the girls once I got home.
Yep it is a jungle in there, I will need to start super-cropping a bunch of the main colas since the highest peak of the greenhouse is only 12 foot and Many of the branches are touching the roof just not in the highest point.
Tomorrow I need to head over and check out the T-4 and get it all set up, but I also need to make some sort of plan for the flowering stretch these girls are about to start. I did not really take the time to look closely but my brother told me earlier this morning on the phone that the plants in his greenhouse are starting to pre-flower so hopefully mine are as well. Will take the time to check tomorrow, right now all I want to do is take a shower and get a good nights sleep in my own bed. Been a very long week, will have a better update soon.
Just walked in the door after doing a 3400 mile trip with the wife that was a blast, we covered everything from Oregon to South Dakota and everything in between. Good times.
I went with the T-4 Twister with the leaf collector package.. total price was just under 9,000 but I went partners with a friend. They picked it up a few days after I had left on vacation and tomorrow or Monday I will head over for the unboxing ceremonies.
I had my son and my brother cover for me with watering and feeding while I was out of town and for the most part they did a great job though my brother did leave the gate open one day and the neighbors did have to herd a few chickens back into my yard since they got out of the open gate.
Here are a few pictures I took when I checked in on the girls once I got home.
Yep it is a jungle in there, I will need to start super-cropping a bunch of the main colas since the highest peak of the greenhouse is only 12 foot and Many of the branches are touching the roof just not in the highest point.
Tomorrow I need to head over and check out the T-4 and get it all set up, but I also need to make some sort of plan for the flowering stretch these girls are about to start. I did not really take the time to look closely but my brother told me earlier this morning on the phone that the plants in his greenhouse are starting to pre-flower so hopefully mine are as well. Will take the time to check tomorrow, right now all I want to do is take a shower and get a good nights sleep in my own bed. Been a very long week, will have a better update soon.
Dinsdale
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WOW! That's awesome!! It's a jungle indeed! 
redmud
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Beautiful ladies OG gotta thank your fam for that!! I came home to a disaster once
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