Sorry Bhudda, i cant help myself man, lol.
So you tied them up a bit huh, sounds good. Did you notice any reduction in the vertical growth after the super cropping. You said you didn't bend them when you super cropped them though didn't you, that prolly makes a differance. They sure are getting beastly though huh.
Also King you might have posted this before, but I'm starting to think about nutes for mine, and I was wondering what your total nute regiman has been, your girls seem to really like it. You've got lime in your soil too right?
Nope, not tying them down yet. im waiting to see if things taper off naturally before i do anything to fuck with the natural order of things.
N nope, i didnt bend the tops down at all when i pinched the branches. i just figured that shit didnt matter too much cuz i was basically snapping the stems already, and the plants had to focus on repair reguardless, so it wouldnt matter. I guess that stupidity on my part, lol.
As far as nutrients go, my regimen isnt too involved, but i follow it to the t pretty much.
Soil is just FF OC soil, with like 3 handfuls of perlite, and 1tbsp of Dolemite lime per gallon of soil. Basically comes out to one big handful of lime. that keeps my ph balanced, and ive only had to check it twice since i started this grow. its been right on themoney both times, and i probably wont check it again until right before flush.
Now, the nutes -- i waited until the beginning of the 3rd week of veg to give my first dose of nutes. until that point i used nothin but distilled water. Once i got to the nutes, i used regular tap water.
I started out with 1/2 strength FF grow big, and big bloom. By the 4th week i started up full strength GB n BB, with about 1 tsp mollasses per gal of water. i feed once every 4 days, one just a watering, one with nutes, alternating every time.
Last week of veg i got some Blue Mountain Organics Super plant Tonic, and i started to use that with my Fox farm, just adding a teaspoon per gallon to everything. Nothin burned, so i figured they must like it. turns out they did.
1st week of flowering, i did the same thing - Full Strength FF grow big, Big Bloom, SPT, n mollasses. After that, 4 days later when i was supposed to do water only, i did 1/2 strength of Tiger Bloom with nothing else.
1st nute feeding for flower - 1/2 strength Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, SPt, n Mollasses, and added cottonseed meal for a small last dose of nitro before it was too late to do anything about it, and i ended up with yellow leaves 5 weeks in. Just sprinkled a fat ass handful of the shit onto the top soil, and watered.
then i ordered my Pmaxx n Gravity. Week 2 of flowering i did just Water, and then 4 days later i did my regular flower regimen at full strength, taking out the SPT. Next Water only feeding, i added 1/2 tsp of Pmaxx to each gallon of water, and set the Maxxed gallons aside. I then took a Gallon of Distilled Water, and I did a MINI flush on each plant, just dumping a gallon of pure water through each plant, and then dosing them up with a gallon for each plant with the 1/2 tsp of Pmaxx in the water. they seemed to respond pretty well cuz i got about 4 inches of growth spurt the next morning, lol.
Next nute feeding, i cut my nutes back again by 1/2. The bottle of Pmaxx basically says that if your using this all the way through flowering, cut nutrients back by 1/3 so you dont burn your plants - because the Purple Maxx opens up the root system, and makes the roots more able to suck up every last bit of nutrient left in the soil that they can get theyre hands on. So just to be safe i cut back by 1/2 on everything. So 1/2 strength Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, Mollasses, and no SPT. With 1/2 tsp of Pmaxx added in.
The last watering i did with nutes (this past watering), i bumped up the nutrient strength, to where im at 3/4 strength, and im stayin right there for the duration. I dont wanna push shit too far man, lol.
N 3 weeks before the chop, im supposed to add in 1 tbsp of Gravity to a Water only feeding, and do everything normally for the rest of the week. The next week, i do my Final Flush, and then when it needs watered again, add in one more tbsp of Gravity, and then feed just straight water from then on out. i need to read the Pmaxx bottle again to find out if im supposed to use that shit right up until the chop though, i cant remember.
It helps to write all this shit down when you feed, so you always remember when your last feeding was, what you fed them, how much you fed them, ect, ect. This way you can always make adjustments going off of what you last did to your plants, should something go wrong. i live by the Motto "You can ALWAYS add to the mix, but you can NEVER take away from it", which is actually a Chef's creedo, but it applies to growers who use nutrients just the same, lol.
hope that helped bro, n yes, its absolutely worth it to order your nutes online, as opposed to settling for Walmart nutes or Home depot nutes. Home depot has worm poop, and a couple other things that you could probably get away with making a decent compost tea with, but i wouldnt do that shit unless its been tried and true by somebody else first, lol. Go with the mail order nutes if you can, if not, then you know what to do man
-K1.