Sorry had to break away to watch a movie with my wife.
hey hypo hippo click on thread tools near the top right and hit subscribe or unsubscribe... hey wood lookin at ur pics a few pages back, looking great! nice big fat leaves! you were talking about LST i suggest supercropping, just bend the top branch over just below the lower outer branches. saves the upper and brings the lowers up to the uppers level. good to see your progress! looks like it will be a good journey!
After reading your post I had to go and do some studying. I found this here on 420:
Supercropping - a tutorial
I always thought that 'supercropping' was when you topped the plants many times! Embarrassing!!!
So I guess I'm doing some LST right now and later I will be doing some 'bending'. I guess I wasn't so far off! LOL. HK, instead of bending the 'tops' I will try to bend lower down so that a majority of the plant will be bend. Do you think that's possible or do you think that I'm taking a chance of snapping the main stem and doing terminal damage?
I do it all the time and it gets you more buds.
Have you ever done it lower on the plant or only towards the top?
Whew,
I just finished reading your journal, so now i'm exhausted !! On the fish emulsion, I use the Neptune Harvest fish emulsion on my tomatoes and garden vegs., and there's no or very little smell. How long you gonna let them babys veg. for ?? Have you ever used coat hangers to lst. ?? I find it much easier than string. I've heard about the technic that your getting ready to use (pinching the stems and laying them down) and That's known to be a real good way, to lst.. I will be watching with interest when you decide to do it. I accidently, partially broke a limb off on my last grow, and that branch had the largest bud on the plant. Maybe i'll have the balls to do it after watching you. You're doing a great job, for what you got to work with. And if you don't mind, i will hang around till the end ?? My ballast blew, and i'm trying to decide if i want another hid, or move to cfls, you cfl guys are really impressing me. And my wife smokes more than i do, and she's still a b---- !! Just no sence of humor sometimes !! She was all mushy today, for valentines day, ok, but that leaves 364 !! We love each other though !! How much longer before you pinch the stalks ?? I don't want to miss it !! And i wanted to ask you about the northern light #5. I just acquired some northern light seeds, but he did'nt say anything about #5. He grew these last summer and i can tell you it was potient stuff. I think he said it came out of canada ?? Right now this white widow is kicking my ass !! Ha !! :
Slowpuffer (great name) welcome to the thread and very glad to have you!
I had only used the fish Emulsion outdoors and as long as you don't stick your nose into the bottle (whew). I never really noticed the smell. Indoors that is another story!
As far as bending, wish me luck because it seems like after reading about bending in the link above, mostly it's done higher up on the plant (I think).. lower down I'm wondering if it will crack rather than bend. I'll investigate this more. I could always just tie the top over (bow it over) instead of pinching it. We'll see. Any one out there is more than willing to advise me on this.
I've never used coat hangers for LST just string and thumbtacks . I've never grown with 'just CFL's', I have a 100w MH and a 100w HPS located over the center of the grow. The CFL's are to either side to supplement my inadequate HID. There are many here that are using CFL's exclusively and they seem to do very well!
I take it that the NL seeds were acquired through a friend rather than a seed bank. No way of knowing then, I guess. If they are from a seed band You can email them for the answer as I did.
Glad to have you on board, pipe in whenever you like!
super cropping is when you pinch stems until you feel and hear a crack then bend the plant over at that point. The technique works well but the cracking of the stems is stressful and the plant will shunt some energy away from growth and into repair of the places where you pinch and bend. Usually it only takes 2-5 days for the pinch to repair and then energy is no longer shunted for that function.
Hey HTL, I feel real old and out of touch sometimes here when it comes to Cannabis Terminology. That why I went 'back to school' so to say and read that link that I posted above. Here is the opening paragraph as weritten by Medical Marijuana:
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Supercropping is a term given to a group of techniques that, when used in conjunction, will produce greatly improved yields over untreated plants. Various methods can be used when supercropping, and they are outlined below.
You can use one or all methods of supercropping, modified to your individual needs. The end result is an increased yield. "
As I mentioned above I'm wary of doing damage if I bend the plant too low down on the main stem. What do you think? In the past I have inadvertently bent my main stem and always had it recover well. I've used duct tape at the point of 'near breakage' with great success! Just never close to the bottom, say 1/3rd the way up.
Our seeds, i don't remember. And no, indoor grow for us
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The weed is still wonderful after 1 month of cure/dry, but i rememer a pleasant changment after 4/5 months -------> Wonderful high, and improved taste.
The NL i have now, are for sure NLx5haze by GreenHouse, The start wasn't to good for the reasons of bad light i was explain to you in other 3d.
Fortunately we started early, so we have time to recover them.
Maybe i will open a journal, anyway i will update you and stay in touch to help each.
I can't wait too, it's so much time i haven't nothing good.
Now this months are really long for me.
Support me.
Hey Superweed welcome back, Thanks for the smoke report on the NL. I hope you will do a grow journal. It will make it easier for you to get assistance ar advise. Through pics people will better be able to assist you. I know what it's like not having stuff around. I always stash my roaches for a rainy day!
We are all here to support you!
