These Plants Amaze me!!!!!

Lord Dangly Bits

Lord Dangly Bits

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About 4 days ago, I snapped off a secondary stock of my monster plant, about 80% the way threw. This plant is 5'8" and 3'-4' in Diameter. The stock was about 5/8" in Diameter. I took the stock and tied it tight into place where it should be if i had not broken it. It even peeled a little way down the main stock. This section of the plant is not even showing any wilting or anything. I am totally amazed and so very happy. I am a few weeks from the end of flowering, and this one stock has about 2 zips of buds on it, and if it had died those two zips would have been yucky. These plants can go threw a lot of crap and bounce right back. When I first broke it, I thought FUCK!!!!!, then I thought ok.. I will just dry it and use it for my first go around in my new bubble bags I bought.. then I thought.. hmmmm, no hurt in bandageing it up and seeing what happens, the worst that will happen is it starts to dry in place. but it is doing well after 4 days.. I am one amazed guy..........:hump:
 
Lord Dangly Bits

Lord Dangly Bits

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HOT DAM!!!!!! That Stock is still doing really well, I can not believe it. I thought for sure it would die off. I wonder, if I had done this earlier, to where I could leave it for a month or so, if it would mend itself enough to where I could un bind it and it would hold itself up? I have snapped a branch off before, but never this large of one, and this late in the flowering stage, so I just cut them the rest of the way off. From now on, if I break a branch, I will pull out my first aid kit....
 
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antipythium

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It is really cool, isn't it..

When i started growing pot i never did real well, it was outdoors and i was the sorriest farmer you ever met; and i'd come to sites and see people talking about indoor growing and their various questions, and i was like.. ''i'm fucked''

a few years ago my wife and I moved and we're older now, she's in her fifties i'm pushing it. And she's a lefty-liberal hippie type who always believed in the good in others, and actually, it got us into some pretty substantial trouble with the scum she'd have come around pushing bags of skank weed.
Finally at long last i bit the bullet yet again but this time indoors and it turned out well. After treating the plants like red-headed step-children and still getting some very respectable yields, i started to believe the anecdotal references to how easy pot is to grow.

I started looking around and found stories like yours; people breaking limbs and just taping them up, people doing air layering, where you wrap some moist material around a growing limb, and roots come out: then you can chop it off and start with a clone over a foot high; i read about people's cloning expeditions failing, but also about people literally cloning just like grandma and her yard plants: snip and throw into a jelly jar with tap water, set into the window sill;

i read about people having fogger leaks or bubbler leaks around the bases of plants, and having roots just pop out on the main stem where that water hit: and in a small degree that has happened to me in my aero setup although i plugged those leaks and let the little rootlets re-assume their bumpy stem status; they never got very long just about 1/8th inch.

I personally, when i started, crash-coursed myself in botanical chemistry and fed plants every thing you can imagine: from fruit rind ashes to off the shelf fertilizers to specialty ones;

and the plants really are some serious contenders for 'easy to grow' status especially after the very early seedling stage when they're kind of fragile. Even so, i've also read the stories where people say they accidentally lost a seed and it fell into the soil bag; and after planting they came back and opened it and had a 4 inch seedling growing in their bag of soil, and they hadn't even watered.

It is a great gift that the plant's so easy to grow. I know i'm grateful for that.

And, of course i'm glad to hear yours.. is doing fine and i hope you have lots of successful harvests till you're many decades old man. Great story about the huge limb good to be able to read it
 
Lord Dangly Bits

Lord Dangly Bits

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Well that branch is 10 days from the day I snapped it, and it is still doing very well, the buds are plumping up nicely and getting a nice glaze of trichs all over. the main bud on this one branch is close to 2' long and 4" in diameter. I will try and get a picture of it, but I only have a cheap camera right now. I need to buy a new one.
 
DND

DND

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Nice save and GL with the rest of your grow. I remember my first grow, I abused unknowingly (over watered, fertilized, burnt tips etc) and as long as I listened to the plant and corrected it they always bounced back. I got nearly a 1/2lb dried from those 4 plants using a 250W MH light. Pot Of Gold was the strain.
 
Lord Dangly Bits

Lord Dangly Bits

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Well, I will be cutting this big huge monster down this friday. She is a big girl. I think Nirvana did not send me the Northern Light seeds I ordered. It has taken 15 weeks to fully mature, and the Bitch is 6 1/2' tall. To dam tall for an in door grow, and that is with some LST also. The bad thing about it is I had to pay that extra elect for the double long flower cycle, plus my flower room has been occupied with this plant for 2 months longer then it should have. So now I have 8 plants that have been veggeing for 8 weeks now. I have chopped them, topped them, and did some major LST to keep the hiegth down. And they are dieing to flower. there is pubic hairs already showing all over the place. I am going to be so releaved to finally get this plant out of my flower room.

The good side of it is, I have a huge harvest from this one plant. Biug huge juicey buds the size of a strong mans arms. I think I am looking at about 5 zips of good buds, and a couple zips of pop corn buds, perfect for bubble hash.

PS.. I bought the northern light seeds from nirvana while they were back ordered on most of their seeds, taking up to 2 months for delivery. I have a strong feeling they sent me a different strain. Like a Sativa strain. Never again will I order from those Butt Nuggets.
 
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Deeyou

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Lord Dangly Bits said:
Well, I will be cutting this big huge monster down this friday. She is a big girl. I think Nirvana did not send me the Northern Light seeds I ordered. It has taken 15 weeks to fully mature, and the Bitch is 6 1/2' tall. To dam tall for an in door grow, and that is with some LST also. The bad thing about it is I had to pay that extra elect for the double long flower cycle, plus my flower room has been occupied with this plant for 2 months longer then it should have. So now I have 8 plants that have been veggeing for 8 weeks now. I have chopped them, topped them, and did some major LST to keep the hiegth down. And they are dieing to flower. there is pubic hairs already showing all over the place. I am going to be so releaved to finally get this plant out of my flower room.

The good side of it is, I have a huge harvest from this one plant. Biug huge juicey buds the size of a strong mans arms. I think I am looking at about 5 zips of good buds, and a couple zips of pop corn buds, perfect for bubble hash.

PS.. I bought the northern light seeds from nirvana while they were back ordered on most of their seeds, taking up to 2 months for delivery. I have a strong feeling they sent me a different strain. Like a Sativa strain. Never again will I order from those Butt Nuggets.
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tahoe58

tahoe58

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this was an interesting read, and I( certaqinly appreciateyour sharing this with us. In my view (as a biologist), nature fills a void - provide the void and it will be filled. I was always amazed at our grain seed from hay would sprout and grow almost anywhere in my past life on the farm. and the power of dandelions to push their way through ashphalt! amazing. The power of nature. truly astonishing!:hump:

antipythium said:
It is really cool, isn't it..

When i started growing pot i never did real well, it was outdoors and i was the sorriest farmer you ever met; and i'd come to sites and see people talking about indoor growing and their various questions, and i was like.. ''i'm fucked''

a few years ago my wife and I moved and we're older now, she's in her fifties i'm pushing it. And she's a lefty-liberal hippie type who always believed in the good in others, and actually, it got us into some pretty substantial trouble with the scum she'd have come around pushing bags of skank weed.
Finally at long last i bit the bullet yet again but this time indoors and it turned out well. After treating the plants like red-headed step-children and still getting some very respectable yields, i started to believe the anecdotal references to how easy pot is to grow.

I started looking around and found stories like yours; people breaking limbs and just taping them up, people doing air layering, where you wrap some moist material around a growing limb, and roots come out: then you can chop it off and start with a clone over a foot high; i read about people's cloning expeditions failing, but also about people literally cloning just like grandma and her yard plants: snip and throw into a jelly jar with tap water, set into the window sill;

i read about people having fogger leaks or bubbler leaks around the bases of plants, and having roots just pop out on the main stem where that water hit: and in a small degree that has happened to me in my aero setup although i plugged those leaks and let the little rootlets re-assume their bumpy stem status; they never got very long just about 1/8th inch.

I personally, when i started, crash-coursed myself in botanical chemistry and fed plants every thing you can imagine: from fruit rind ashes to off the shelf fertilizers to specialty ones;

and the plants really are some serious contenders for 'easy to grow' status especially after the very early seedling stage when they're kind of fragile. Even so, i've also read the stories where people say they accidentally lost a seed and it fell into the soil bag; and after planting they came back and opened it and had a 4 inch seedling growing in their bag of soil, and they hadn't even watered.

It is a great gift that the plant's so easy to grow. I know i'm grateful for that.

And, of course i'm glad to hear yours.. is doing fine and i hope you have lots of successful harvests till you're many decades old man. Great story about the huge limb good to be able to read it
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Lord Dangly Bits

Lord Dangly Bits

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DeeYou,

LST is Light Stress Training. it is where you tie the plant over, and bend the branches, and maybe even use wires and such to make the plants grow the way you want to. With this plant, when I figured out it was going to get taller then my room would allow, I bent it over as far as I could with out breaking it. about 7 days later I had 4 branches that were taller then the main stock. the main stock and most of the branches will go upwards, then you can again bend these over also. I have seen 3 trees grown next to each other that were braided together. I have also see a tree grown to look like a Peace sign. Good way to get the most out of your light coverage.
 
Lord Dangly Bits

Lord Dangly Bits

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well an 8' ceiling is usually enough for me also. But it was close with this plant. My light is all the way up tight to the ceiling, and the plant is bent over at about 30 degrees.
 
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