That’s awesome. Do you have anything recorded? I’d love to hear you guys’ band.
Yeah, we do, actually. We cut a little 5-song demo CD for soliciting gigs and then we played with a couple more songs just for the fun of it. The gig demo is just myself and my partner/boyfriend/lover/best friend--there are just no good words for his role in my life!!--playing as a duo. The other songs we recorded we had much fun playing with: we added bass lines, keyboards, doubled vocals, percussion, etc. It was great fun!! We play everything from Santo and Johnny's "Sleepwalk" to Merle Haggard to Jethro Tull to Grateful Dead to The Amazing Rythmn Aces to the new one by Mishka and Willie, "Homegrown". Don't know how to post any of the tunes here but I'll play around a bit and maybe figure out how to put one up
We even have a few we rearranged for the fun of it: we do "Bye, Bye Love" as a reggae tune and "Country Roads" as a jazz arrangement
Its definitely the bending. In my past grows I let them run amok but I think as I went, I started internalizing the growing pattern data in my brain. This is my first year bending back and I really like the
results.
I really like the idea behind bending them and it sure looks like you can control the growth habits and growing tips without harming the plant. The idea reminds me of what they do to the trees in fruit orchards to make them yield more. I'm definitely going to do this next year!!
I think all your assumptions are correct. It depends on you though, do you like having all those extra pop corn buds at the end of harvest. Supposedly pruning your extra stuff underneath will help put more energy into the parts that are left. Im not sure how much cleaning the lowers affects yield, but what I do know is I hate trimming pop corn bud.
I've been reading through a couple of other threads on this site that pertain to cleaning up your plants underneath. The consensus seems to be "leave 'em alone". I can't remember who posted what, now, but I remember FresnoFarmer and another member who has a good rep pretty much agreed that the plant knows what it's doing and to let her do her thing. They also seem to think she'll drop the leaves she doesn't need any longer as she goes into bud production. So, yeah, I'll get a lot of popcorn buds but my plants seem happy and healthy. I'm glad I didn't mess with them too much while I'm still in this steep learning curve. I don't mind popcorns
I don't get too fussy on how clean the buds are for personal use and the little sugar leaves in the buds are also covered with trichomes so I usually just leave them. I helped a friend manicure last fall and there's no way I'm putting that much work into bud I'm using at home. Plus, if the bud is too small to clean up quickly and easily, I just cook with it
Forget “late in the season!” I took some clones in late July. Here’s a cut of Jack I took before the root pruning. Who says its hard to clone in early flower? Jack might be the easiest clone I ever took. The other ones are way behind it.
For the record, and for other people on a budget, my new cloning technique is as follows: 1)Cut clone 2)Sit in sushi wrap water.
3) Dip in rooting hormone powder from Walmart! 4) Dip in honey, careful not to disrupt powder from stem wound 5) Water with sushi wrap water.
Ok, cool!! Yours look very happy!! The ones I took Aug. 3 don't look as good as the first ones I did, or your Jacks. They're limper, saggier? I think maybe part of that is that I wound up with thinner, paler shoots because of how deep under the canopy I went. I was specifically looking for shoots that did not have any flower buds on them yet and the thin stuff is what I wound up with. Since I didn't start with heavier, thicker shoots, I have thinner, paler clones, I think. They're all still hanging in there, though. The first cuttings, from July 16, have been potted and are growing great guns. I've been cruising this site a LOT looking for info on growing indoors and have found some good advice
I like ABM's thread. I don't use the honey and sushi wrap stuff but I rooted all of my cuttings as simply as you've outlined and it works. I know honey can be an antiseptic and food source and I assume the the sushi water is also food?
You’re an inspiration and a saint. When my harvests get large and my skills progress, hopefully I can do something like that some day.
I don't really think so but thanks for the kind words
I believe that marijuana should not be illegal and that adults should be able to obtain it as easily as going to buy beer. If I have to call it medicine and give it away to make sure anyone who wants or needs it can get it, then that's what I'll do. Although I didn't know about the Greenery last year, we still managed to give away a shitload of pot to anyone who came along. I may be able to reach more people through this resource center so I'm going to give it a try, you know? I'm a retired cop. I belong to LEAP. I've seen both sides of this and I'm also old enough to remember the 60's since I graduated high school in the mid 70's. Listing marijuana as a Schedule I drug is stupid. Preaching to the choir, I know. I'll stop now
That's what makes us beginners homies...there will be a time where every single plant we grow will go smooth from beginning to end!
Jeez!! I hope so!! Or maybe not? I'm really having a blast with my homegrown and learning a LOT on this thread and others. BigJon, I love your Alaskan Ice!! It looks wonderful and the buds are getting so big and fuzzy!! I wonder if I can find some of that for next year? What's fim? Did I miss that somewhere? I really do like the way your plants looks and how you've got them under more control that I have mine. I'm really going to have a mess curing this fall because the plants are so big. We only had 6 plants last year, which didn't get as big as this year's, and I barely had enough room to hang them up
We may be living in one big pot plant this year by the time I get everything hung up to dry
And I'm like you: I want that stuff CURED and ready to go. None of that wettish, spongy crap in my pipe!
My Smurfs are blooming and I'm spending some of my garden time just sitting on my orange milk crate and looking bemusedly around. I don't have "buds" yet, except on the Blue Kush, mostly just individual flowers blooming where the buds will be but it's started!! Yay!! Ol' Blue Kush is looking pretty frosty, already. Too bad it's not a big plant; it looks like pure Indica from its growth habit and leaves. I think it's going to finish first unless the buds take a long time to ripen. I'll get pics and post them. BK still does't look anywhere near as far along as your Alaskan Ice. I've haven't heard anyone mention the way their girls are perfuming the air. My Smurfs can be smelled from 50' away
I can hardly wait for the buds to get big enough to leave that sticky residue on your fingers when you're inspecting the plants
I had deer come through a couple of nights ago and sample a Blue City Diesel and the White Widow. They didn't do much damage and obviously didn't like the taste of green, growing cannabis
They haven't been back since. I remember they did it last year, also, around this time. The fawns are almost grown and they deer are "vegging out" and fattening up for winter so they'll eat almost anything that grows. Last year they did the same thing: tasted a sample and decided it wasn't any good. Wonder if I had stoned deer staggering around this morning?
Well, I'm not getting on here very often right now but it seems I write these huge novels when I do--just trying to keep up and learn something every day
I appreciate the kind words and it helps boost my confidence that I'm going to have a good crop this year. I love the advice I'm getting and I wish I was as brave as BigJon when it comes to experimenting
Maybe next year? I'll stick some pics up here soon--maybe I'll have roots showing on my new cuttings! And an update on how the compassion program is going to work.......................
Happy growing, all!!
