For those who were interested in following my girls after heavy defoliation by a noob

Afgan King

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Looking better than I expected.

Why are you worried about mildew? 30% rh is low. I wouldnt drop below 40% unless you've had a watering incident.

Your root systems are fully developed though, probably isn't hurting anything keeping it that low.
35% rh is ideal been growing a long time causes plant to make resin glands more active to protect the buds from the dry air. I run 35% their whole life cycle love it IMG_20160929_131543819.jpg IMG_20160922_214125711.jpg IMG_20160917_140428114.jpg
 

Lucky Luke

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Damn u stripped allot. You nearly defoliated it.

My prediction. It will come back and finish well but you have lengthened the start to finish time.
 

Afgan King

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Those are beautiful buds bro. Do you know why the lower humidity promotes fatter buds?
Not necessarily fatter just promotes the resin growth and allows plants (when using colder weather) to grow tighter and more uniform @Dr. Who grew that same gg4 in warmer temps and prob higher humidity don't quote me on it but think so lol but here's his still stupid fire but formation is wayyyyyyy different than mine on bottom same exact cut different environments bud formation is different in colder weather (71° day 58° at lowest night and 35% humidity day and holds around 40-45% night) I've found they grow tighter and more uniform than when hotter and more humid which promotes foxtailing in my experience. Still stupid fire tho he murdered it and looks organic as fuck lol 20161102_095818.jpg IMG_20160924_155558689.jpgIMG_20160912_163005019.jpg
No way you stripped as much as he did lol..
Na I strip only 3rd node and down all fan leaves that are essentially just large water leaves. He went nuts lol but shouldn't be that bad tbh these plants bounce back hard if you keep environment and nutes on point
 

Afgan King

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Smaller but nicely dense buds
Ya with what he did probably just went over to a buddies house last night saw he had stripped some just like this like 3 a light blah blah blah told him he was nuts there's a point that's plenty and they go wild lol I'm interested to see it at his house had him do one my way
 

Dr. Who

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Not necessarily fatter just promotes the resin growth and allows plants (when using colder weather) to grow tighter and more uniform @Dr. Who grew that same gg4 in warmer temps and prob higher humidity don't quote me on it but think so lol but here's his still stupid fire but formation is wayyyyyyy different than mine on bottom same exact cut different environments bud formation is different in colder weather (71° day 58° at lowest night and 35% humidity day and holds around 40-45% night) I've found they grow tighter and more uniform than when hotter and more humid which promotes foxtailing in my experience. Still stupid fire tho he murdered it and looks organic as fuck lol View attachment 3849839 View attachment 3849843View attachment 3849850

Na I strip only 3rd node and down all fan leaves that are essentially just large water leaves. He went nuts lol but shouldn't be that bad tbh these plants bounce back hard if you keep environment and nutes on point
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Ya Mon! She was 100% organic.
The temps where held pretty exact at 74-76F lights on and 45% RH is the setting on my German dehuey's ....They over shoot by 5 - down to 40% and coast back up. That's day and night operation on that.

Night temps are 65F . This is in the breeding facility......whole nother place that no one visits......I keep things warmer and more humid there.....I like a multi layer temp climate in the actual grow.....Canopy at 85+, Mid plant around 75 and the pot area around 68-70......but do keep the RH lower at that 35% setting...It's the same kinda thing RM3 does.
 

Afgan King

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Ya Mon! She was 100% organic.
The temps where held pretty exact at 74-76F lights on and 45% RH is the setting on my German dehuey's ....They over shoot by 5 - down to 40% and coast back up. That's day and night operation on that.

Night temps are 65F . This is in the breeding facility......whole nother place that no one visits......I keep things warmer and more humid there.....I like a multi layer temp climate in the actual grow.....Canopy at 85+, Mid plant around 75 and the pot area around 68-70......but do keep the RH lower at that 35% setting...It's the same kinda thing RM3 does.
Yup yup figured a lil warmer caused dreads still looks bomb organic and trichs like that I'll deal with the foxtails lol glad u like her breed with her stupid stable cut buddy all the shit I put down of her was stable and real consistent def more stable than the original
 

Dr. Who

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Oh yeah! I love this cut!

I have a feeling that the soil I trans'ed into was bit on the N side for bloom......My 2 cents on the extent of the foxtails but, I'll tell ya what....the more I looked at her doing that.....The more I liked it!
The buds were stupid dense too! The yield was like 33% higher then I expected and they didn't shrink in size as much as she would have if not as dense as she ran!

Thanks again.....

Say, this is some lower budding on a nice little "Superdog" .....I got this handed to me in late 2014......FROSTY bitch!

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Afgan King

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Oh yeah! I love this cut!

I have a feeling that the soil I trans'ed into was bit on the N side for bloom......My 2 cents on the extent of the foxtails but, I'll tell ya what....the more I looked at her doing that.....The more I liked it!
The buds were stupid dense too! The yield was like 33% higher then I expected and they didn't shrink in size as much as she would have if not as dense as she ran!

Thanks again.....

Say, this is some lower budding on a nice little "Superdog" .....I got this handed to me in late 2014......FROSTY bitch!

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No I love your look on it I knew it was organic seen way too much synthetic and organic to not notice the difference lol glad you like her give her to whoever I know the people who made glue wanted everyone to have it and thats the closest thing to it without being it and does the strain name and expectation justice
 

Alwayslearnin

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Very nice buds, i know what i did was well stupid, i did go way overbored and thouvht that as i was doing it but i was stoned and just go done talking to my buddies granfather and he got me thinking when i shiuld have just gone to bed and left the pro's to the defoliation till i had a clue.
 

Dr. Who

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Very nice buds, i know what i did was well stupid, i did go way overbored and thouvht that as i was doing it but i was stoned and just go done talking to my buddies granfather and he got me thinking when i shiuld have just gone to bed and left the pro's to the defoliation till i had a clue.
I'm still going to say keep updating us with the pics of that plant though!
 

Alwayslearnin

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So afganking, i see though in a dumbass i have been keeping my environment also pretty cool as well as low humidity. and they are ok i guess. But is it true that the La confidential is a nute hungry strain? I have been using a fix farm schedule and to be honest i must have really stressed them iut long before i raped them. Cause they are midgets about 20in tall but probably 2' around. but the blue dream is a different story they are 3-4 ft tall and at this point they all look like they are gonna be fine. they have all started to recoup their leaf and the bud site look as though if i can give them what they want witout killing them.
 

Dr. Who

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So afganking, i see though in a dumbass i have been keeping my environment also pretty cool as well as low humidity. and they are ok i guess. But is it true that the La confidential is a nute hungry strain? I have been using a fix farm schedule and to be honest i must have really stressed them iut long before i raped them. Cause they are midgets about 20in tall but probably 2' around. but the blue dream is a different story they are 3-4 ft tall and at this point they all look like they are gonna be fine. they have all started to recoup their leaf and the bud site look as though if i can give them what they want witout killing them.
I have a nice LA Con pheno. They do have a rather strong height ceiling and I have not been able to get mine over 4 ft.
Very straight Indica strain. Very classic Indica growth and look to them!
They can tolerate higher feed rates......When I did synthetic runs, I would feed them daily with lower ratio NPK value spread....Off the top of my head - about 3-2-3 and at the flip, bumped it to 3.5-2.6-3.5. I tried a bloom of 3-4-5 and that worked well also! At week 4 I would add a PK boost of 0-5-7 and had success with a different boost of the opposite of 0-7-5 as well (I liked the first value better though).....Ran that through week 7 and stopped the boosting...I like higher K levels all grow long!

This was done in soil.....Solo cups were not feed as the soil is my base organic - lasts 30 days. Feeding began in 3 gal pots after 20 days and they finished in the 3 gal pots. Yields are nice too!

That help?
 
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