Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

Rsawr

Smoke and Mirrors
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I like that funky kinda taste, I"m really enjoying the gassy flavour of my most recent harvest. I think I was between weeks three and four when I flipped into flower. I am going to top and do some LST this time so I may take it a week further than the last grow. Do you have the roomie help you with harvesting?
Yeah! I hope the training is nice and easy. Do you top when the part you remove is small (like a fingernail pinch), or do you wait until the material is large enough to clone?

Nah, no help harvesting. I assume she would help if I asked. I am dubious of how helpful she would be, despite her being earnest and well meaning. She has yet to complain about the quality of my trim yet, which is the second I make her help. Lol.
 

Laughing Grass

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I'm not going crazy, just trying to keep an even canopy. I wasn't thrilled single cola untopped plan. I usually let them go an entire node further than I want and top it back.

I'm surprised you haven't pulled her in as cheap labour... I've even had my sister help. She was really bad at it lol.
 

Rsawr

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I really like the way single topping, or one really big supercrop session makes them grow. Did you take all of the side branches off, for the single cola plant(s)? How even are you trying for, like how far above or below the canopy line is what you are aiming for in cm?

She has a black thumb... I think I got the whole 2 pounds chopped and trimmed in like 12 total hours this time (not including the drying time, obviously) and since 5 plants is the limit, I have no plans on expanding. I have a grow friend I have been teaching that I just moved closer to, and he has interest in helping me in exchange for lessons. I think I have my free labor lined up o_O
 

Laughing Grass

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I really like the way single topping, or one really big supercrop session makes them grow. Did you take all of the side branches off, for the single cola plant(s)? How even are you trying for, like how far above or below the canopy line is what you are aiming for in cm?

She has a black thumb... I think I got the whole 2 pounds chopped and trimmed in like 12 total hours this time (not including the drying time, obviously) and since 5 plants is the limit, I have no plans on expanding. I have a grow friend I have been teaching that I just moved closer to, and he has interest in helping me in exchange for lessons. I think I have my free labor lined up o_O
I just took the two lowest ones off for clones, otherwise it was au natural. I would like for all my tops to be at the same level or as close a possible so they have even access to the light. Maybe 12" 30 cm.

How is she at making edibles?
 

Rsawr

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I just took the two lowest ones off for clones, otherwise it was au natural. I would like for all my tops to be at the same level or as close a possible so they have even access to the light. Maybe 12" 30 cm.

How is she at making edibles?
Gotcha! That sounds way more uniform than any of my canopies, youbused to scrog, so it's probably natural for you, huh?

She likes smoking joints. I would probably not give her any to experiment with until I have my grow space running. To preserve the stash...
She can hardly make a frozen pizza >.<
 

Laughing Grass

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Gotcha! That sounds way more uniform than any of my canopies, youbused to scrog, so it's probably natural for you, huh?

She likes smoking joints. I would probably not give her any to experiment with until I have my grow space running. To preserve the stash...
She can hardly make a frozen pizza >.<
What I like and what I get are two very different things lol. I think it's almost impossible to achieve with seeds. Too many variations. I'm taking another stab at clones with this grow so we'll see.
 

manfredo

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You going to be starting soon? How's the power issues?



I don't think there's much difference between coco and dirt. It looks like dirt to me lol.



Can't really say yet. I was using Holland Basics coco, but they were sold out. The Fox Farm coco was double the price.

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What do you do with the used coco? Throw it away? Or can you use it a few times?

I did buy a brick once and mixed it in with some soil...IDK why now...Must have been in a recipe I was using....or something.

My "problem" with the soil I mix, is every batch varies a little bit...Sooo some are hotter than others, and occasionally I get myself into trouble.
 

Laughing Grass

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What do you do with the used coco? Throw it away? Or can you use it a few times?

I did buy a brick once and mixed it in with some soil...IDK why now...Must have been in a recipe I was using....or something.

My "problem" with the soil I mix, is every batch varies a little bit...Sooo some are hotter than others, and occasionally I get myself into trouble.
I leave it for a couple weeks to fully dry out then we put it in garbage bags and my partner throws it out in a dumpster at work. Seems like a real hassle to try to reuse it.
 

manfredo

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I have not topped a plant since I learned how to super crop, unless I snap a top off accidentally...And I haven't done that in a long time with the Sharpie trick and making sure they are watered ahead of time.

So why couldn't you use that stuff LG?? Because you want to add the nutes yourself? Save it for houseplants maybe...Grow some tomatoes in it maybe. I need to get some vegy seeds here soon.

Yeah tomorrow is MARCH!!!! Only another 2 months of Winter o_O
 

manfredo

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@Jeffislovinlife I'll get you some pics of the 2 phenos of Chernobyl...Plus I have to check and see if I have the Slymer cut...I saved the label. I think so.
I know I am excited to chop them....well try them I should say. I'm gonna guess the green will be stronger. But that's purely a guess...and stronger isn't necessarily better, especially for me right now.

OK, back to work for me...trying to break my slacking cycle. I even got up early today...Well early by MY standards, not you insomniacs! :lol:

Road trip tomorrow to see the shoulder replacement dude.
 

Jeffislovinlife

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@Jeffislovinlife I'll get you some pics of the 2 phenos of Chernobyl...Plus I have to check and see if I have the Slymer cut...I saved the label. I think so.
I know I am excited to chop them....well try them I should say. I'm gonna guess the green will be stronger. But that's purely a guess...and stronger isn't necessarily better, especially for me right now.

OK, back to work for me...trying to break my slacking cycle. I even got up early today...Well early by MY standards, not you insomniacs! :lol:

Road trip tomorrow to see the shoulder replacement dude.
Awesome can't wait to see and the best of luck with your visit
 

Laughing Grass

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I have not topped a plant since I learned how to super crop, unless I snap a top off accidentally...And I haven't done that in a long time with the Sharpie trick and making sure they are watered ahead of time.

So why couldn't you use that stuff LG?? Because you want to add the nutes yourself? Save it for houseplants maybe...Grow some tomatoes in it maybe. I need to get some vegy seeds here soon.

Yeah tomorrow is MARCH!!!! Only another 2 months of Winter o_O
My grandmother's birthday is Feb 29, she was born in 1928. If it was a leap year she'd be 24 years old.

I guess it's what you know and are comfortable with. What I like about topping it it slows the vertical growth while allowing the lower shoots to catch up with the rest of the plant.

It's amended coco with earthworm castings, bat guano, Norwegian kelp meal, oyster shell and dolomite lime. I won't be able to run my blumats. I'll have to let it dry out like soil and I have no way of knowing how much I should be feeding. Plain coco seems like a way better solution.
 

Jeffislovinlife

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My grandmother's birthday is Feb 29, she was born in 1928. If it was a leap year she'd be 24 years old.

I guess it's what you know and are comfortable with. What I like about topping it it slows the vertical growth while allowing the lower shoots to catch up with the rest of the plant.

It's amended coco with earthworm castings, bat guano, Norwegian kelp meal, oyster shell and dolomite lime. I won't be able to run my blumats. I'll have to let it dry out like soil and I have no way of knowing how much I should be feeding. Plain coco seems like a way better solution.
I'm confused I've always heard that Coco has to be watered everyday???
 
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