Mohican's 2014 Season

Mohican

Mohican

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Aloe can do it. Many different things can cause the plant to pray. Sometimes it is because it is getting too much light and it is a defense mechanism to reduce the amount of light hitting the leaf surface. The praying is caused by increased fluid pressure in the cells (Cell Turgor). I am still not sure whether it is beneficial to make a plant pray.
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Stomata usually only open at night to prevent water loss. That is why your plants get all wet at night/lights out. The stomata open and transpire. All of my outside girls are soaked in the mornings lately. The rain and dew point are giving me hell. No sign of any PM yet. I turned the sprinklers off a month ago so it has been very dry in the garden. So far so good! I usually see PM first in the garden area that is in the winter shade. No signs yet :)

I really want to go back to school and get an advanced degree in plant bio. Love this shit!
 
beuffer420

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I'm not sure why the leaves do that? I don't foliar feed ever (never been a fan of foliar unless I'm using pure from Kyles line). Haven't done that in a few harvests tho, they even stand like that in the dark too. maybe it's the photothensesis plus bottle allowing more light to b absorbed. @Dr.Amber Trichome I do use the nourish l, photo plus, amino, and yield enhancer from microbe life, other than that the only thing they are given is the 3 roots organic top feed bags for a little food boost. I just figured the plant was happy and metabolism was at a high rate.
 
FLkeys1

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I wonder if it could also be a genetic thing along with water..

I have found on some of my plants after they are watered some will display this upward leaf turn while other plants that I watered at the same time show no upward turn.
 
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greenthumb111

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FLkeys1 said:
@greenthumb111

The two clones I did outside this summer were from a disp. That had them under T5's 24-7 so when I put them outside in the ground I took a old 33 gal. Plastic trash can cut a hole out of the bottom and stuck a 100 w spot light in the hole and I would put the trash can over the plant each night to make the daylight hours longer so it would not go in to flower
I slowly cut back the length of light until I no longer needed it anymore. This was in July and August. both plants grew to about 4 4 1/2 feet tall and each plant gave me little over a pound of dried flowers..
The first clone I put out was a GSC with no sup. light and it went right in to flower and was never taller then 12" tall..
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What a great idea FLKeys1! I will try that if I ever get any clones again. thanks for the tip
 
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snowboarder396

snowboarder396

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Damn it has been a long time since I have been on here. How's it going Mo?

and just for some clarification Marijuana plants are classified as C3 plants they do transpire during the day, the only plants that only transpire during the night are C4 or CAM plants such as tropic or desert plants. This is due to the fact that they have adapted to better water conservation methods, too much water would be lost during if they transpired during the day. It also has a lot to do with carbon fixation, Photorespiration, and the cycle involving RuBisco.
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

Dr.Amber Trichome

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beuffer420 said:
I'm not sure why the leaves do that? I don't foliar feed ever (never been a fan of foliar unless I'm using pure from Kyles line). Haven't done that in a few harvests tho, they even stand like that in the dark too. maybe it's the photothensesis plus bottle allowing more light to b absorbed. @Dr.Amber Trichome I do use the nourish l, photo plus, amino, and yield enhancer from microbe life, other than that the only thing they are given is the 3 roots organic top feed bags for a little food boost. I just figured the plant was happy and metabolism was at a high rate.
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Thanks for the info @beuffer420 . Sometimes, just once and a while my leaves will get like that and I just love it! it looks like the plant is so happy and it makes me so happy to see it. I really would like to see all my plants doing that all the time. But it sounds like your feed protocol is very sophisticated and a bit over my head.
 
Mohican

Mohican

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@beuffer420 - Here we don't drink out of a tap or drink the water that they serve at restaurants. Unless you like birth control and prozac with your water.

@snowboarder396 - Where have you been? I am good. Plodding along in the dirt still! I do think some of the equatorial sativa strains are C4. Not sure though. I was trying to locate some info about this and was unsuccessful. As for praying, the plant is changing the angle of the leaves to reduce the light incidence angle. You will also notice that strains from low sun areas have darker leaves where the "gold" sativa strains always seem pale. Under intense light the dark leaves would get too hot. So hot weather plants are pale, thin leaved, long node, slow growing girls.

@FLkeys1 - Jurple - the winter cold medicine (VapoRub)! I can't wait to hear the smoke report. I wonder what the cured smell will be? The Bubblegum pheno of Mulanje smelled like cat piss when it was drying!

@BobBitchen - The LACon is starting to get that old school pine smell I remember from the '80s! I was pruning some fans away to expose the flowers and the seeds to more sun. I started with the LA Con and finished with the SOG BX. My fingers smelled like penny gumballs! Thanks for the gumball Mickey!

It definitely looks like a storm is coming today. Stormageddon 2014 is expected to hit starting tonight. I hope it is done by 9 AM tomorrow. I have a long drive ahead of me.

Found some slugs in the trash babies last night. Today the plants are looking so much happier! Time to get out the copper tape.

Cheers,
Mo
 
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