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[Doctor Cannabis]

How bout:
Elaine (from the Seinfeld sitcom)
Watermelon (the Canadian drug dealing pin-up girl with that show where she cooks with cannabis)
Michelle (from the Beatles song, the Guns N' Roses song, or the character played by Milla Jovovich in Dazed and Confused)
Mary Jane (from Half Baked)
Alison (from Knocked Up)
Honey bunny (from Pulp Fiction)

Sweetleaf, Drippy, Budzilla, Trichy, Beasty, Yoko, Stringy also sound like nice names.

 

[stuboy892003]

hmmmmmmmm nice choice of plant names. i will have a think see if i can think of any good names aswell. is it super cropping when you pinch the branch and bend it if it isnt what is it called. i see it on youtube, i been practising it on the male branches. them males came in handy for something

 

[diggitydank420]

hmmmmmmmm nice choice of plant names. i will have a think see if i can think of any good names aswell. is it super cropping when you pinch the branch and bend it if it isnt what is it called. i see it on youtube, i been practising it on the male branches. them males came in handy for something

Yes, that is supercropping. Be careful not to pinch too hard though, just until it 'pops' between your fingers.

 

[stuboy892003]

i havnt done it to the females yet i want them to get a lil bit bigger.i thought id try it on the males as i dont care if they die.

 

[Doctor Cannabis]

Yup, it's called supercropping and has 2 major advantages:

1. Get's upper leaves out of the way, permitting better light penetration for the lower buds.
2. Stops auxin flow. The plant will start producing huge cola-like calyxes on every secondary stem. The main cola will still be huge, but now all stems will have such a huge growth.

Supercropping, I believe, works perfectly with any type of growth, micro growth, SOG or ScrOG.

 

[stuboy892003]

does this stress the plant??

 

[Doctor Cannabis]

That's the advantage of supercropping compared to topping or fimming, the stress is much smaller. You shouldn't worry about it at all.

 

[stuboy892003]

do i do it to the fan leave branches??

 

[Doctor Cannabis]

you probably mean the sunleaf branches? Sunleaves are the big individual leaves. They grow on stems with no nodes or other leaves.

I can't really see the effectiveness on supercropping these, except in a ScrOG, SOG or if you have a very small space and not enough light. Otherwise, leave them be. They're the solar panels of your plant.

 

[stuboy892003]

i will leave them. i wasnt sure if it is done to all the branches

 

[stuboy892003]

i think my plant with the biggest fan leaves and the thickest stalk is male not 100% sure but it looks like little balls forming at tip of plant. im goin to wait a few more days 2 be sure. i was going to call that 1 budzilla as it was the fattest plant

 

[stuboy892003]

right my phone is gettin repaired so i cant take any pics now untill i get it back. but unfortunately i now only have 2 females i think as the others turned out to be male. thay start forming a cluster of balls up the top then appear above the nodes also my poweplant has basicly no leaves at all now only a few at the top as they went yellow so i reomoved them

 

[stuboy892003]

how long does it take for the pollen sacks to be ready to collect pollen? i would like to collect some and pollenate 1 bud when my big bud girls start budding. when is the best time to put the pollen on the bud. when its small or big or how many weeks before harvest

 

[Doctor Cannabis]

You can start collecting pollen as soon as the first pouches of pollen crack.

Pollinate when buds are big, so you get more seeds. You can pollinate somewhere in the last 2 weeks before harvest.

Stop removing yellow leaves, because you're not giving your plant the chance to suck out all the N... leaves should be let to fall by themselves.

 

[stuboy892003]

i will leave them to fall off then. i was told to pull them off when they turn yellow. if the 2 big bud plants that i have left if they were male would they of shown by now?

 

[stuboy892003]

lights just come on and the white widow is not looking very strong as its leaning over and i noticed some of the leaves near on the buds are turning a bit purple. is this normal. also the power plant is slowly bending lower. is it because the energy is going into the buds or are they dying?

 

[Doctor Cannabis]

Buds and leaves tend to go purple in non-purple strains because of low temps during the night cycle. Might want to look into that.

Yes, the PP is lowering because final nutrients are being sucked out of the stem and leaves for bud production.

 

[stuboy892003]

the white widow is worse the weight of the buds is making it hang right down

 

[Doctor Cannabis]

the white widow is worse the weight of the buds is making it hang right down

It's pretty normal for the buds to swell so much that they start pulling the stem down. This happens to me often and can be fixed by simply fixing the lowered stems to the main stem or to the ceiling or whatever you can with a string...

 

[pencap]

[SIZE=+1]1 oz = 28,3495231 grams[/SIZE]

Jus google "1 oz in g" and google automatically answers. you can use this for any other conversions (F/C, mile/km, pounds/kg, gallon/l, feet/cm)

Ummm I think that was a typo......28.4 grams sounds about right....