Cranker's Experiement: Cranking a plant

[cranker]

holy crap you already made a huge leap forward in cannabis growing! i was planning on doing this dam you must have discovered my secret plans! im on to you crankster lol just messin.

that method you did on accident is called "layering". by combining it with all that topping and LST'ing your bound to get a huge bush!! i hope you've heard of re-vegging after you harvest cuz that sucker needs to go into the ground outside next year!

and yes i will be doing this to my plant, when i take her out of the bucket(which shes getting root bound in) im going to keep her laying down, and im gonna bury the main stem and a lot of the plant, its gonna be 8" below the surface

shes gonna be a moster omg i cant wait!!!

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just imagine where instead of the wood its gonna be dirt instead! and this thing is gonna have its personal 6'x10' prepped soil grow space

i want to see you doing this to your plant too crancker

Yeah I do this with my tomato plants for fun. Half the stem has been buried for some time. I'd love to see how yours turns out, I have a very small garden area probably 10x10 so I can't really try this outdoors but I'm psyched that you're gonna. Can call it Cranking Dirty Snow! I'm probably gonna start my next attempt at this around January because I already had my next grow planned. I was planning on revegging this one because I keep getting branches popping out of the ground lol. The one I try in January should finish about the time to transplant it outdoors so come May I'll be ready for it.

 

[edsweed]

Can you give me a quick breakdown of what your doing? Sorry i'm a little burnt

so are the plants...lol

 

[cranker]

so are the plants...lol

yeah, that was explained in the post, what's your point?

 

[edsweed]

nice grow anyhow,,,
sheesh, chill bro. thought it to be a wee bit funny is all.
wanna pet another puppy?

 

[dirtysnowball]

i guess the point is that hes snappy...

im gonna call it cranking too, my plant is gonna be ranking out the fat colas

 

[cranker]

nice grow anyhow,,,
sheesh, chill bro. thought it to be a wee bit funny is all.
wanna pet another puppy?

I frankly just thought that the fact that I'd put this all together and I had said it had nute problems because of the over rooting didn't merit a cheap shot at the grow. So far even with the issues the plant has actually done pretty well and I'm happy with what I've learned and what people have learned from it.

 

[CR500ROOST]

post some new pics up.

 

[cranker]

post some new pics up.

I'm going to when I harvest which should be in the next 2-3 days, I'm gonna try and trim it so you can see kinda how it worked, about 6 inches of stem is still under the soil.

 

[cannawizard]

*the advanced cannabis forums looks tidy.. i like it that way.. wassup cranky

 

[cranker]

still findin' friggin caterpillars, fortunately they've only been eating the leaves and the buds plumped, harvesting tomorrow or the next day

 

[cannawizard]

still findin' friggin caterpillars, fortunately they've only been eating the leaves and the buds plumped, harvesting tomorrow or the next day

*check this out brodo.. i got the caterpillar-bitch-be-gone-spray..

---get some (ghost peppers), toss those in a pot, add some h20, boil for 30mins on high heat, filter-- put in spray bottle.. and unleash holy pepper hell

--o yea, MAKE SURE.. to wear plastic gloves and alteast a goggles for your eyes, if that stuff gets sprayed there accidentally.. well lets just say... its gonna suck 'ass'.. lol



goodluck w/ your caterpillar prob budd... but that ghost pepper remedy works.. just saw it in action..

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[cranker]

If you look at the pictures with the circles, you can see where the plant has started revegging straight into flowering. I've picked about 40 3 hair bud sites off the stem and lower branches. I'm thinking if I could get a smart pot that was about 20 gallons but only say 2 feet high, I could eventually stretch the main stem all the way around and loop it and have a perpetual reveg/flower of epic proportions that I wouldn't have to worry about anything but topping and pruning.

 

[cranker]

*check this out brodo.. i got the caterpillar-bitch-be-gone-spray..

---get some (ghost peppers), toss those in a pot, add some h20, boil for 30mins on high heat, filter-- put in spray bottle.. and unleash holy pepper hell

--o yea, MAKE SURE.. to wear plastic gloves and alteast a goggles for your eyes, if that stuff gets sprayed there accidentally.. well lets just say... its gonna suck 'ass'.. lol

goodluck w/ your caterpillar prob budd... but that ghost pepper remedy works.. just saw it in action..

Well, I hadn't seen one in about 5 days, killed about 15 the first day, 2-3 the 2nd and 3rd day, then 1 the 4rth day. Then nothin for a while then today I found a monster. Basically just following the trails of eaten leaves and shit. Funny thing is, none of them have touched the blue widow.

 

[cranker]

I'm gonna go look for a kiddie pool on clearance and see if I can transplant the stem, I just gotta figure out if it'll hold that much dirt and drainage and finding a place big enough is gonna be a bitch...This is akin to perpetual SoG without a mother plant!

 

[cranker]

After battles with nutes, caterpillars, root locks, this is the pic of the trimmed stem, I didn't dig up the stem that's buried, there's about a foot under soil. Yield pic doesn't include about 14g of popcorn nuggets and smaller stems I'm drying separately. Total yield was about 4 1/2 ounces wet, so not terrible. (the 2 biggest colas are overlapped there)

 

[cranker]

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One of the buds from the popcorn stems....looks like it's sexy

 

[kevin murphy]

nice cranker mate...

 

[cranker]

thanks

 

[CR500ROOST]

looks dank,good job.fuck i hate caterpillars,i spray safer caterpillar killer and i still have them.

 

[cranker]

looks dank,good job.fuck i hate caterpillars,i spray safer caterpillar killer and i still have them.

Yeah, they came in fast and furious, basically woke up to them attacking, they bore through the branches on 3 of the medium colas, I harvested them but the smaller nuggets hadn't matured at all at that point. Granted I'd already lost a lot of growth from the various nute and root problems but my dog and his moth fetish

I took a hand 10x magnifying glass and got most of them in about 4 hours. I was afraid to spray being 2 weeks from harvest, and I have a blue widow that is almost done that I just did plain and simple grow that they didn't even touch. Funniest thing is, I found 2 that were dead after eating the sugar leaves, I think they OD'd lol.