2016 Grow your own thread

Cut down Thursday, I hang the whole plant for two days puts me to Saturday. Saturday I cut it down to branches and hang them for a cple days. Here we are Sunday, I took a cple larf nugs and set them on my night stand. Just rolled a joint. This is still green as hell and well moist so it should burn black by the "only moist weed burns black" rhetoric. Well I'm half way thru my joint while typing this on my phone. Burning like a champ, pic attached. #3 weeks of water.
 

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I'll post a yield update once I'm there, still branches hanging, see if the reduced yield due to water holds up, not looking that way at the moment but I won't count my chickens till there dry.
 
gb123 said:
Flushing is for times when things have been "OVER DONE".............. read about it. Most times will see this process screw things up even more depending on the stage.
...that covers just about every person who grows... :)
If you give a plant what it needs, it uses that.
If you think that feeding a plant a full nute regimen all the way to the end is part of this deal???....think again!
It's that simple really.
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I use way less then my nutes recommended amounts. I'm def not over feeding. Ill never tell anyone they have to flush but I've been doing it for a cple decades now and it's always worked for me, just a water flush the last two to three weeks depending on the strain. As for wet weed, I cut and hung plants Thursday, took em down to branches Saturday, left a cple larf nugs on my night stand Saturday. Rolled em up , there still green as hell but burning and burning quite well and no black ash, pic attached. I'll do a yield update once I'm there, see if the water hurt my yields or flavors but right now it's smooth as silk and I can barely taste the "green" flavor, it's there but the flavor of the blue widow is stronger already, can't wait till the cure is finished.
 

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Ask Limpy said:
water the last two to three weeks depending on the strain.
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All you are doing is hurting your plants production at a critical stage of its life.
.in other words you are starving your plant and it will not see its true potential.
The last two weeks is when they produce a great amount of meds you so eagerly waited for. To not feed them or give them what they want at this time, will see them do the same in return ;)
 
gb123 said:
All you are doing is hurting your plants production at a critical stage of its life.
.in other words you are starving your plant and it will not see its true potential.
The last two weeks is when they produce a great amount of meds you so eagerly waited for. To not feed them or give them what they want at this time, will see them do the same in return ;)
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Wired, never had any issues yet. Great production, flavor and smooth smoke. Like Brian said best smoke I've gotten has come from stressed plants.
 
I tried...
Brian Savage said:
The best tasting and most potent plants I've ever grown and smoked have been starving and looking relatively haggard near the end of their lives. The last thing I want to smoke is a plant that is dark green right until harvest. Yellow please!!
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... lots of people and plants struggle to the end and their plants appear to be ok once done.
Was trying to be nice but hey... No one likes being told after all

;)
 
in my opinion..almost everyone uses too much ferts..yes you might get more growth
but since i started to give them 1/3 of what theyused to get..i never have to flush and they taste/burn
good ..unlike all the times i followed the jug nutes directions..
until i used way less i was never happy with the finished herbage
and i find more extraneous tastes[organic] in most people organically grown herb
 
who said anything about following directions???..What's on the bottle is only a GUIDE...!!
you have to know what your plants wants and when.
Starving your plants and seeing them turn yellow the last two weeks is not a good thing when you grow indoors and have control.
 
Purple kush, finished same time as the blue widow. Mixing GH @ 10 / 5 / 2.5 and then flip 2.5 / 5 / 10 reduced towards the end to just water last cple weeks.
 

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some new blood - i-spice 15, Nepalese x c-99 and underdawg

also some overwintering poppies
 

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OLD MOTHER SATIVA said:
in my opinion..almost everyone uses too much ferts..yes you might get more growth
but since i started to give them 1/3 of what theyused to get..i never have to flush and they taste/burn
good ..unlike all the times i followed the jug nutes directions..
until i used way less i was never happy with the finished herbage
and i find more extraneous tastes[organic] in most people organically grown herb
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What is happening in the soil ( grow medium) is what will mainly determine your end results... An example would be grapes grown for wine. the grapes grown on the south west facing hill may be dramatically different in taste and quality than the same grapes grown on a north facing slope. This difference may be as simple as slight difference in soil PH, soil temperatures, or stage of soil decomposition. My point is the slightest variances may cause a lot of variation in quality.
Todays growers tend to push everything - faster / bigger / more thc. To do this over feeding has become the number one issue a lot of growers have. To combat this, many people flush their mediums for the last two or three weeks. This is only required when the food available to the plants grossly exceeds what is required by the plant. Over feeding plants ( prior to actual nutrient burn ) is very much like over feeding anything - sure it will grow fast - but what other physiological changes are occurring and at what cost to the plants other processes ????
 
jafro daweedhound said:
What is happening in the soil ( grow medium) is what will mainly determine your end results... An example would be grapes grown for wine. the grapes grown on the south west facing hill may be dramatically different in taste and quality than the same grapes grown on a north facing slope. This difference may be as simple as slight difference in soil PH, soil temperatures, or stage of soil decomposition. My point is the slightest variances may cause a lot of variation in quality.
Todays growers tend to push everything - faster / bigger / more thc. To do this over feeding has become the number one issue a lot of growers have. To combat this, many people flush their mediums for the last two or three weeks. This is only required when the food available to the plants grossly exceeds what is required by the plant. Over feeding plants ( prior to actual nutrient burn ) is very much like over feeding anything - sure it will grow fast - but what other physiological changes are occurring and at what cost to the plants other processes ????
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Sometimes less is more, people seem to over complicate growing cannabis. Keep it simple stoners......

Itsme.
 
Jafro..good read..i am hydroponic..i use the natural soil out doors though..

i never need to flush either....i can taste "organic stuff" i people organic too

when i used jug nutes and followed directionss... it didn't matter what i did..i could always taste something else in there..

now each crop still amazes me how the [low ppm]ferts don't get in the way
 
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