My first grow guys!
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Greenthumbntraining
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Yeay u can top it again,win I usually do something 2 my plants I give them a week 2 bounce back
Greenthumbntraining
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My plants r getting 2 big getting kinda nervous prolly bout 3 n a half feet from touching my ceiling
cdd10
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Cool I'll probably top it tomorrow it will be close to a week, six days anyway.
cdd10
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Damn man! I'd be nervous too! Lol
Matt420Aus
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lol green, you will need to cut a hole in your roof so they can grow out, when I visit the USA ill just look for the house with Cannabis sticking out, haha
Cdd you can lst to cause new tops to form
It is less stress on the plants, when you bend it over it forces the plant to send energy to the growth lower and believe that is the new top of the plant, then when you see that growth coming up after about a week you can untie and release your old top back up, now instead of the 2 tops you will have 3, but without any of the recovery time.
That is the point of LST, constant growth without any stress and resulting in additional tops.
Id advise this over topping again for sure since you only topped a short time ago, but ill leave it up to you.
Also unlike green I wont be able to find your plants sticking up through the roof, haha
Matt420Aus
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To lst is super simple, a long piece of cable tie is all you need, make a hook in one end and loop that at the top of a node so it wont slip down the stem, slowly pull the stem over, move it back and forth, don't pull in one go, this will flex the stem more.
Just slowly work it like this until it is as far over as you want it to go, not to far then tie off to pot, just tight enough to keep it in place
Just slowly work it like this until it is as far over as you want it to go, not to far then tie off to pot, just tight enough to keep it in place
Matt420Aus
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I just ordered 35% food grade h2o2, I will do a full and last reservoir change when it arrives, keep the plants in veg for another 2 weeks, going to use it to get more oxygen to my roots and see if I can't keep away diseases.
found a few little red worms floating around in the hydro set up, think with this heat wave and the amount of bugs around in the summer, my grow set up is just getting to many little creepy crawlies. Cleaned out the whole thing last night and found another one today, so not happy about that.
would be nice to have a tent and a free space inside to put it, but unfortunately just working with what I have which is to open to bugs, change fly strip every three days which is totally covered by then in pests, it's not fun having to worry about everything since this heat wave started. Water is just a haven for pests, think next summer I will take clones into soil, ditch the hydro, to many issues with heat,bugs etc. my soil grow outside is just relaxing in comparison.
winter grows will be where the hydros at, easier to heat water to the right temps than to cool it.
found a few little red worms floating around in the hydro set up, think with this heat wave and the amount of bugs around in the summer, my grow set up is just getting to many little creepy crawlies. Cleaned out the whole thing last night and found another one today, so not happy about that.
would be nice to have a tent and a free space inside to put it, but unfortunately just working with what I have which is to open to bugs, change fly strip every three days which is totally covered by then in pests, it's not fun having to worry about everything since this heat wave started. Water is just a haven for pests, think next summer I will take clones into soil, ditch the hydro, to many issues with heat,bugs etc. my soil grow outside is just relaxing in comparison.
winter grows will be where the hydros at, easier to heat water to the right temps than to cool it.
cdd10
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Well I topped that other one, the biggest. This is my first grow. I might as well experiment just a little now that I know I can keep them alive. Think it will be okay it looks healthy as can be since the transplant six days ago. Sorry to hear about your bug problem that sucks and yeah its hot I watched some of the Australian Open lol
Matt420Aus
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Haha, yeh feel sorry for sharipova, three hours in the sun, playing that grade of tennis, speaks to her fitness level. I think I would last about 3 minutes in that heat playing low level of tennis before I said screw this and went into ac.
my plant area was at 100+ all week basically. They are only just starting to show some signs of heat stress, I'd moved the light down a bit but this morning had some brown spots from what I think is light burn so I just put it back up again, night phase now so will see how they are when lights come back on. Decided to leave them to just grow out, not going to bother with scrog until I know I have female plants, and this grow has just been a long line of issues. Going to just get what I can from any plants that turn out to be female, focus on a good group of clones, my autumn grow should be much better, closet temps for veg space are only 70-85, and that will drop coming into autumn.
autumn grow should be much easier on the stress levels I believe and learnt many things about summer growing that really showed the issues with hydro in my current set up, soil it is next summer. Going to have a look at my soil grow now, see how it's coping, everyone is either working or has their shutters down on windows to keep the cool ac inside so not much chance of getting spotted.
yesteqrday my city had the highest temp in the world
, gives you an idea how hot it is at the moment
my plant area was at 100+ all week basically. They are only just starting to show some signs of heat stress, I'd moved the light down a bit but this morning had some brown spots from what I think is light burn so I just put it back up again, night phase now so will see how they are when lights come back on. Decided to leave them to just grow out, not going to bother with scrog until I know I have female plants, and this grow has just been a long line of issues. Going to just get what I can from any plants that turn out to be female, focus on a good group of clones, my autumn grow should be much better, closet temps for veg space are only 70-85, and that will drop coming into autumn.
autumn grow should be much easier on the stress levels I believe and learnt many things about summer growing that really showed the issues with hydro in my current set up, soil it is next summer. Going to have a look at my soil grow now, see how it's coping, everyone is either working or has their shutters down on windows to keep the cool ac inside so not much chance of getting spotted.
yesteqrday my city had the highest temp in the world
, gives you an idea how hot it is at the moment
Matt420Aus
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Just add a little nitrogen to next water if it looks bad but I think your creating problems where there aren't any, sometimes leaving the plant to grow is sufficient. My soil top growth is healthy even though the whole bottom of the plant got light burnt all I added was water, sometimes plants just need time to do their thing
cdd10
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Oh I know I haven't done a thing different yet lol just waiting to make sure it's what I might think it is
Matt420Aus
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he doesn't have a vented light hood so is forced to keep it at a higher level than if it was vented, you can't keep the canopy at an even height either if your not doing lst which he decided not to but rather grow it out instead and only top.
Also you don't need to keep your canopy at an even height unless your doing a scrog, which he isn't, you can prune lower growth in flower or before you flip 12/12 to ensure that top growth is receiving better light coverage and your plant is not wasting energy on lower growth.
if your talking about the different plants at different heights it really doesn't make sense as this is how people would run a perpetual flower grow, by moving pots around to get better light coverage or moving bigger plants into a flower tent.
sorry but your comment just doesn't make sense to me if you can explain it better.
Matt420Aus
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haha this was like a week ago...I would personally keep them on regular light cycle. 45 mins is not too stressful. Clouds do happen in natureLookin good!!!!!!!!!!
cdd10
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That's what I do I usually move them around but really they are all about the same height besides the seedling. I didn't think they looked that stretched lol I've seen worse I keep the light 18" away..I usually stay around 75-76° but usually a little closer than that jumps it to 78-79° and I don't want it that hot