Skunnymonster's Multi-Strain Perpetual LED Grow

I've watched a few brit movies and I do get lost in translation sometimes. I know Saturday night live did a sketch about a British movie and it was pretty funny. But I'm not afraid to ask when I don't understand. Wish I knew you guys when I was watching those movies, would have made them better
 
Hi Skunny , Very nice update.... everything is going good for ya, the clones have healthy roots and the girls in the tent are look really pretty.It seems that I have had so many problems and stuff, I haven't been able to sit back and enjoy growing.., I have a really big plant that I grew from a clone but don't know if I should defoliate or how to... and I have other plants that I want to do.some.LST too.When can a plant start being topped ??Sorry to ramble Skunny ! You know what's up dude..Lol. ( more slangish ).
 
skunnymonster said:
Us Brits might have to employ a translator for our American brothers :) Just think yourselves lucky you can't hear our accents coz you'd need subtitles too :laughtwo:
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Yea deffo i got a Welsh accent and that can get confussing even for me sometimes. Lol
 
If you ever need an explanation Payton just ask :) I seem to be able to understand all American accents, even deep south rednecks. I watch a lot of Discovery channel so I can even understand the swamp dudes who shoot alligators :)

GrannyT, the roots you see are my seedlings, I've not done a clone yet as I've only got one dome. I'll be doing some in a couple of weeks I think.
With the defol all you do is cut the leaf stem at the base but not any growth shoots near it, these are bud sites so are very important. You can see from the plants this week that only the weak pheno tangerine didn't respond too well, it's done it no harm but I expected to get big bushy branches. The reason I did the defol so heavily on the two tangerines is they are a very short & bushy strain. My plan with these is to keep them nice & low but maximise the bud sites. I'm constantly training the branches down to keep the top level & trying to allow light to the branches. Just remember with any training, the highest point is the dominant part of the plant. It will always feed & grow this 1st. The strong pheno Tangerine responded beautifully to the defol, here's a couple of pictures of two separate branches which I'm pulling down.
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As you can see they no longer looks like your average branch but more like a bush.
The Toxic is a different beast all together but I'm still using a similar technique this time with selective defol. The plant is taller & more spread out so I'm mainly just training it's twin tops & any side branches that get higher than the others. The selective defol is to allow light to the branches to increase bud sites. The structure of the plant means each branch only needs defol on one side as the other side the leafs aren't shading anything but the fan leaves from the branch to its left. I'm also pinching the tops on all three plants which aids bud site development. To explain pinching is pretty straightforward, all I do is squeeze the stem just underneath the end shoot to crush it, this sends a signal to the plant which stunts its growth & in turn, it concentrates building on what is below it.
Basically with any defol it depends on the shape & structure of your plant & what you wish to do with it. It's the same with topping, mine all got topped at slightly different times which was dictated on how they grew & how I wanted them to grow. You can top a plant very early at the 2nd node if you wish or the 15th, it makes no difference, you can even top your branches if you like. Every time you top a branch it sends out two shoots instead of one.
I like to look at my plants natural growth before doing anything, so it's usually around the 4th or 5th nodes when it starts to take shape. I then use a mixture of the above techniques to sculpt them into my desired shape & structure.
If you need any advice, post pictures of your plants on here & I'll tell you what I'd do.

Did I waffle too much:)
 
skunnymonster said:
I love Welsh accents mate, do you sound like Craig Bellamy?
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Na not really hes from the next city across from me. Different parts from wales have diff accents also. Lol
 
My fam is in Snowdonia region :) Skunny its so cool to find another person that uses pretty much the same bag of tricks as me! :) :)
 
I've only been to Wales a couple of times so I'm no specialist :) I've been to Drew Pritchards place in Conwy so went round the castle whist I was there & I went on a weeks trip around the coast on a sales training exercise. It's a beautiful place from what I've seen with lots of traffic hedlu (police) & confusing street signs in two languages :)
 
skunnymonster said:
If you ever need an explanation Payton just ask :) I seem to be able to understand all American accents, even deep south rednecks. I watch a lot of Discovery channel so I can even understand the swamp dudes who shoot alligators :)GrannyT, the roots you see are my seedlings, I've not done a clone yet as I've only got one dome. I'll be doing some in a couple of weeks I think. With the defol all you do is cut the leaf stem at the base but not any growth shoots near it, these are bud sites so are very important. You can see from the plants this week that only the weak pheno tangerine didn't respond too well, it's done it no harm but I expected to get big bushy branches. The reason I did the defol so heavily on the two tangerines is they are a very short & bushy strain. My plan with these is to keep them nice & low but maximise the bud sites. I'm constantly training the branches down to keep the top level & trying to allow light to the branches. Just remember with any training, the highest point is the dominant part of the plant. It will always feed & grow this 1st. The strong pheno Tangerine responded beautifully to the defol, here's a couple of pictures of two separate branches which I'm pulling down.
IMG_0016102.JPG
IMG_0015116.JPG
As you can see they no longer looks like your average branch but more like a bush. The Toxic is a different beast all together but I'm still using a similar technique this time with selective defol. The plant is taller & more spread out so I'm mainly just training it's twin tops & any side branches that get higher than the others. The selective defol is to allow light to the branches to increase bud sites. The structure of the plant means each branch only needs defol on one side as the other side the leafs aren't shading anything but the fan leaves from the branch to its left. I'm also pinching the tops on all three plants which aids bud site development. To explain pinching is pretty straightforward, all I do is squeeze the stem just underneath the end shoot to crush it, this sends a signal to the plant which stunts its growth & in turn, it concentrates building on what is below it. Basically with any defol it depends on the shape & structure of your plant & what you wish to do with it. It's the same with topping, mine all got topped at slightly different times which was dictated on how they grew & how I wanted them to grow. You can top a plant very early at the 2nd node if you wish or the 15th, it makes no difference, you can even top your branches if you like. Every time you top a branch it sends out two shoots instead of one.I like to look at my plants natural growth before doing anything, so it's usually around the 4th or 5th nodes when it starts to take shape. I then use a mixture of the above techniques to sculpt them into my desired shape & structure.If you need any advice, post pictures of your plants on here & I'll tell you what I'd do. Did I waffle too much:)
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Oh no no no !!!! You didn't waffle too much at all..It's extremely educational and interesting. Thanks so much h for taking the time to explain to me...I have 6 plants in soil then that freakin monster in DWC and I can't believe the DWC isn't sick or dead with the way I've been trying to care for it... I am 5 feet tall and weigh 110... I cannot handle it to clean reservoir so I add plain tap water that's sat out 24 hrs ...and give her flora series and cal mag. There were some gnat larvae so put dunk in . I haven't foliar sprayed any of them ever. I know there's more I can do to get more yield, oh I have 3 autoflowers, do you know if suppose to use growology step 2 or 3... Now I waffled to much... much smilies aren't working or there would be thank you and Namaste.. almost forgot, I guess you could call me down south red neck cause that's where I live. I admit I do talk slow with that southern drawl...LOL.
 
:) :) lmfao :)
 
grannyT, 5 feet tall & 110, you sound like my kinda lady, small & throw aboutable ;) :slide::laughtwo:
With your nutrient range, DWC & auto's I'm the wrong man to ask sorry. I've never got my head round the benefits of this, that, or the other. I've only just made the switch to coco from many years growing in soil. With nutrients I just switch & swap ranges until I find something I like that gets good results.
KingJohnC might be the man to help you out on that one :)

You talk slow? Not like that Shelby dude off Swamp Loggers then :) It took me a few episodes to get my head round his accent. He's from Pender County, North Carolina :)
 
Cheers for the welcome from u lot as a m8 8f skunnymonster he's not wrong, plenty of diversity and open minded people , just gotta get the hang of this site,
Go forth and grow
I can't pm until 50 posts , so will be making polite comments :high-five::high-five:
 
Hey susat, just go round putting random emoticons on everyones journals (diaries) You'll get to 50 in no time :)
I think I'm done over there mate CBA with it, too many dickheads for me
 
skunnymonster said:
grannyT, 5 feet tall & 110, you sound like my kinda lady, small & throw aboutable ;) :slide::laughtwo:
With your nutrient range, DWC & auto's I'm the wrong man to ask sorry. I've never got my head round the benefits of this, that, or the other. I've only just made the switch to coco from many years growing in soil. With nutrients I just switch & swap ranges until I find something I like that gets good results.
KingJohnC might be the man to help you out on that one :)

You talk slow? Not like that Shelby dude off Swamp Loggers then :) It took me a few episodes to get my head round his accent. He's from Pender County, North Carolina :)
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No I don't talk that slow or like that, we can be lazy at pronunciation and slang though. Wonder what he would sound like after smoking a doobie...ha! :lot-o-toke:
 
Bristols is a quaint cockney word for thru pennies or mamory glands, skunnys talking about old maritime sayings, got to get my posts up. Happy days(page 25 )
 
A few good geezers but they seem to travel around and get p###ed with the old place. Good here but I did read some very weird chat in a coco thread, bit scary lol
 

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