Topper H Marley
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Basically I joined the forum specifically to share this. I have no idea if this a freak occurrence or maybe a strain-specific feature... but I haven't seen word one of this online. My hand to Demeter, true story.
I have three plain ol' Blueberrys flowering which I culled from six with perfect accuracy less than a month after germ. When I topped them there were a pair of pre-flowers that grew shortly after, right where the main stem branches off into two. Simple as that. It happened again every time I topped (3x) without fail. They just pop up and stop, and not even the plant seems to notice.
I wasn't sure if these were true signs or maybe it was a stress reaction to topping (i.e. hermie?) ... so I didn't remove the males until 2 weeks before flower... left them in normal daylight (lucky me, it was October.) That way I freed up some breathing room for my "females" to spread out a bit before flowering, and if i ended up wrong, I could just move plants back into the grow space with little harm beyond some wasted lumens of veg.
Long story short, it was no fluke. I have 3 healthy females (and 3 tearfully destroyed males) that were accurately showing in under a month, with no forcing needed. (decapitation aside)
Why? Haven't? I heard of this before???
Like i said, i don't know the parameters, i just know that shit happened. This may not happen for everybody but holy Moses, spread the word. Check after you top!
--me: 3'w 6'l 7'h... 400w MH veg... soil... plain Blueberry from CKS... 1st topped at 4 nodes.
I have three plain ol' Blueberrys flowering which I culled from six with perfect accuracy less than a month after germ. When I topped them there were a pair of pre-flowers that grew shortly after, right where the main stem branches off into two. Simple as that. It happened again every time I topped (3x) without fail. They just pop up and stop, and not even the plant seems to notice.
I wasn't sure if these were true signs or maybe it was a stress reaction to topping (i.e. hermie?) ... so I didn't remove the males until 2 weeks before flower... left them in normal daylight (lucky me, it was October.) That way I freed up some breathing room for my "females" to spread out a bit before flowering, and if i ended up wrong, I could just move plants back into the grow space with little harm beyond some wasted lumens of veg.
Long story short, it was no fluke. I have 3 healthy females (and 3 tearfully destroyed males) that were accurately showing in under a month, with no forcing needed. (decapitation aside)
Why? Haven't? I heard of this before???
Like i said, i don't know the parameters, i just know that shit happened. This may not happen for everybody but holy Moses, spread the word. Check after you top!
--me: 3'w 6'l 7'h... 400w MH veg... soil... plain Blueberry from CKS... 1st topped at 4 nodes.
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