I broke down and lollipopped (or something that's supposed to resemble it anyhow, lol) night before last. There wasn't enough air circulation at the bottom of the plants; it also was insanely difficult to get in there to water.
I recycled a large number of the pruned bud sites.... they're now future clones. I know that flowering clones take longer to develop than vegging ones, but I've learned that there are many growers who do this in their perpetual setups instead of keeping mothers; which is what I'm planning on doing, so long as I'm successful as getting the clones to reveg.... between my MMJ legal plant limit and lack of room, this is a very sensible approach for me. (One "tutorial" thread on another site demonstrated that taking cuttings at 3 weeks of flowering is perfect timing for them to take root, reveg, and be ready for flowering by the time the plants from which they were cut are harvested.) So not all is lost; I've still got much of what was removed from my girls.
Today is Day 22 of flowering, so I know they're going to fill out over the next several weeks as the buds grow and grow and.... It was really difficult for me to do this, but I'm trusting in you, Gypsy, and other "Lollipop Enthusiasts" saying that this increases overall yield (especially RE: quality) by forcing the plants to focus their energy on the larger colas instead of a lot of popcorn buds.
M Blaze, did I screw this up or do OK? I know it's too late to fix now if I did too much, but I'm asking for future reference. LST is the way I'll be continuing to go, so this means I'll have to make a practice of lollipopping as well. I've read several posts by you RE: lollipopping, and I believed I did it per your instructions, but they look so bare now! I only pruned approximately the bottom 1/3, which I believe is what I've read you and others say to do.
I'm open to constructive criticism; else I'd not be asking if I did this right. Thanks in advance for any advice!
I have to say, I felt much better after M Blaze replied; I knew I'd followed lollipopping instructions, but they do look so bare to me now!Kat it looks like you did a great job. Dont worry about them looking bare because they will fill out again in no time. I will have to wander over and check out your journal soon. Ive just been so busy lately I havnt even been online as much as I would like.
What can I say? I aim to please.Holy shiznizzle!!!! That's what I call a picture update!!! You go girl!
Nope, no more BP. I can't grow hydro in the So. CA Mojave summer heat. Plus, I started out with hydro because I thought it'd be easier on my body than moving around pots, but reservoir changes/cleanings got to be impossible for me, and I ended up having to ask my next door neighbor do things like that for me. So it's container growing only from here on out (my initial plan was to return to hydro after summer was over), and now it'll be coco instead of soil.Thanks for the update, we were geting worried haha
everything is looking great, so your no longer using the BP unit?
I only wish it could've been as sharp as this one....how tall are the ladies, they look wonderful, this is my fav pic
Nah, I remember Gypsy's first GJ (his AG grow) having something like 75-ish in one post, and I think more than once.50 f**king pics! ........
Wow Kat. That's probably the highest pic count that I have ever seen in one post!
I know! Bad bad doggies!!! But hey, at least they left the pollen in a jar for me!Just too bad that those 2 dogs ATE that one plant.
HAH! You should see the videos from my last performance.... video cameras add at least 20 lbs.!The lollipopping looks good. But then again they do say that the camera adds 10 lbs.
Thanks! I've put a load of care into these babies, just as if I were still raising my biological (now "grown men" ) babies!great job gurly girl...i cant wait till u can get yourself an hps..those girls would be absolut monsters right now...but they look great u should get a nice amount of medicine from those babies
Thanks for all the comments! Been one of those weeks (or two? lol), and I didn't realize how long it'd been since I've updated. I'm just going to quote what I wrote to M Blaze a couple days ago; I'm not feeling up to typing the whole story all over again. And my hands are already pissed at me for the amount of typing I've already done this afternoon; they're now locking up like crazy!
I have to say, I felt much better after M Blaze replied; I knew I'd followed lollipopping instructions, but they do look so bare to me now!
The heat wave is back. It's supposed to be well over 100F through Saturday. I'm feeling like I'm dying here, but at least my plants are happy with the A/C right next to them!
OH, keep forgetting to mention.... I switched to coco a couple/few weeks ago. Transplanted the WW and the BH clone into the coco, and everything new since (i.e., the Afghan Kush that sprouted on the 21st and all the cuttings I've taken from my girls and from one of the NLs in veg).
OK, so the first 10 photos (yes, there are a lot today!) will be the ones that I posted for M Blaze to examine. Then I'll go from there. And I've still got photos in my camera's SD card from today! Yeah, I can be a very "Camera Happy" person.... should've seen me with my kids!
I'm also doing a side-by-side comparison.... flowering clones, some of each strain in coco and some in rockwool. Nothing different but the medium. I've got photos of those in today's shots, not that they're anything spectacular right now. I'll get today's photos up once I get around to resizing them.
And that's that for now! Stick a fork in me.... I am done!!!
Have you opened a new thread yet?lol...dont do it!!!! step away from the plant..lol
i know what u mean when i had to chop due to the lil security prob i had they were 2 weeks away and frosty as hell but no taste and lil to no buzz..trust me i know its hard but wait and then wait some more...lol
and dry as slowly as possible no fans ...i dried my bud with a fan on it to speed it up and b4 i found out that the taste will evaporate with the moisture
so next time i plan to dry for atleast aweek and cure for two...it just sucks to grow your own go thru all this trouble,pick a nice strain and just to have it smoke like regs or shitty mids
im at 1 month flower ill put up some pics soon we're right about the same spot should be fun to race