giving defoliation during flower a try

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TheChemist77 said:
Nice pics in your journal! your set up looks almost just like mine, mine is 5x5 with 4'' pvc,,, what size tubes and pots u useing? also we both use 2 600 watters they seem very close..maybe only a few diferences i use rockwool cubes insted of stones but i can run either way i thought about switching to stones as they can be reused and save money...anyways NICE
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Thanks :) My setup is 4x4 with 4" pvc, I have only one 600watt, actually use 400watt first couple of weeks in that closet, 58watt T8 for vegging seedlings in separate smaller closet. There are rockwool cubes in my cups (3.75") on and below a layer of hydro pebbles. I rarely reuse cups and hydro pebbles, I'd have to cut them out, too much work.
 
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Uncle Ben said:
And now we have a newborn Troll-It-Up member opining...... :bigjoint:



Cannabis flowers, pistils or stamens, are not capable of photosynthesis and they aren't green. That goes for calyxes too. ;)

I don't consider leaves flowers.

Get your facts straight, shit-fer-brains.

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You might be surprised , due to your extreme and highly obvious stupidity, that green is pretty much the standard condition for most pistillate cannabis flowers. All parts in the pic below ,including pistils , are GREEN.
 

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bigworm6969 said:
wow there is alot of argueing in this thread i wasnt going to posts but fuck it, over the years when i first started out i to was a believer that fans leafs shouldnt be cut cause the plant needs them, but the last couple of years all throught the grow i been chopping any fan leafs that cover up bud sites just a little here and there and about 3-4 weeks in flower i do one last chop, chopping off any leafs that block out light from getting to the lower bud sites and i must say my plants have never been happier, it doesnt delay flower and my buds are hugh, im not scientist but i think this is a good method of getting good yields, i know for a fact when them lower bud sites dont get no light they dont grow and yellow and die so i try to make sure they all get light just my two cents
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That was interesting reading. Do you do this with sativa Dom strains and can you tell me more about how you strip at the 4 week mark?
 
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Thanks :) My setup is 4x4 with 4" pvc, I have only one 600watt, actually use 400watt first couple of weeks in that closet, 58watt T8 for vegging seedlings in separate smaller closet. There are rockwool cubes in my cups (3.75") on and below a layer of hydro pebbles. I rarely reuse cups and hydro pebbles, I'd have to cut them out, too much work.
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I ACTUALLY REUSE THE CUPS,AS ITS NOT TO HARD TO CUT THE ROOTS W SCISORS AND PULL OUT THE CUBES. My 5x5 is on a table w a res underneith it, the water level in the 4'' pvc stays at a certain depth and once a day a pump recirculates the water from the tubes to the res but the depth never changes and my ph is always right on also each 5' 4'' pvc has 5 bubblers in them 1 by each plant site, i bought a hydrofarm 8 outlet air pump that is a bit noisy but man does it create bubbles, 1 line to each of the 5 5' pvc's and t's so there are 5 bubblers in each pipe and 2 lines go into my 25 gal res..when i pull plants next week im hoping my wife can take pics and put them up,,very happy w my set up and each 3,75'' net pot has roots hanging out that fill the 4'' pvc but when i pick it up the roots hang about 2-3' long.. i had a 4x4 ebb n flow system for close to 5 years growing in 4'' rockwool cubes, then i bought a bloombox and mothership from bc northern lights and after seeing the yields from dwc i got rid of the ebb n flow table and built my own recirculating dwc this will be my 2nd grow useing it and the yields are far better than what i wouldve had with ebb n flow...
 
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Any one ever had clones that finished a week sooner than the original mother??? just happened dont know how or why??
 
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TheChemist77 said:
Any one ever had clones that finished a week sooner than the original mother??? just happened dont know how or why??
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Maybe mother took longer due to stress or lighting, different feed schedules or? For example, a week could be the difference between a well timed plant and a topped or cut plant thrown into flower before it recovered from the stress. If you keep journals on each harvest, they're good references.
 
Uncle Ben

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TheChemist77 said:
Any one ever had clones that finished a week sooner than the original mother??? just happened dont know how or why??
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Most likely temp related....or other cultural factors like food, water, etc. Unless you can strictly control your variables, you'll never know.

I have to laugh at the seedbanks and their stated flowering times for a "strain". For starts the ads are always aimed at gullible noobs who don't know any better, have these dreams. They tell them what they want to hear which may be 8 weeks flowering instead the reality of 10 weeks and they never consider or state the most important factor that controls plant vigor and flowering times - temps....all things considered.

But then again, why should they? As long as they get the sucker bets buying their pollen chunkers, it's all good. ;)

Having said that, I can take a seedling and beat someone to harvest weeks ahead that does clones no matter what nutritional delivery system they happen to choose. By the time your little cutting has rooted and is planted, I'm already flowering a 14" tall plant....to finish at 36"-44" indoors, 5-8' outdoors.

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TheChemist77 said:
I ACTUALLY REUSE THE CUPS,AS ITS NOT TO HARD TO CUT THE ROOTS W SCISORS AND PULL OUT THE CUBES.
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Scissors? No that doesn't work for me. I use a handsaw to cut them lose from the mass. The labor isn't worth the 20 cents, I only have 6 plants in the tubes.

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Any one ever had clones that finished a week sooner than the original mother??? just happened dont know how or why??
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That's not uncommon if you didn't veg the mother from seed to full maturity before flipping the switch, then the older clones tend to transition faster to full on flowering.
 
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Uncle Ben said:
So you just "signed up" to just to troll, eh? :spew:




I've taken on lil trolls like you for over 15 years. A recommendation, before you starting "shredding them to bits", you best get your happy ass back into the defoliation/lollipopping threads and read them first.

Unkie Ben doesn't take kindly to repeating himself with every new crop of smart ass noobs nor those who take his posts out of context.

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No, Aunty Ben repeats its self all the time. And wrong most of the time. The "flowers" are green and do photosynthasize. Or are you calling them leaves?? Or do you just include the hairs as the flower? You truly make no sense. You are all over the place.
And the hairs are ok white. Remember you said they don't photosen anyway. So why green??
 
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...and the new "Active Member" sock puppets come out of the closet....

Pistils are white turning to brown, not green. Kids...... :roll:
 
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