kingofqueen
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Right on I can't afford that much either . Most importantly just be sure your on a good watering cycle with proper dry time . 
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shishkaboy
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i guess i make it rain then. this run i have been feeding then phed tap water.
masscom25
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does that mean that you run gallons of extra water through ur soil?
masscom25
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I really hadn't given my girls a good thorough flushing yet and fear some moinor lockout issues and then read all that stuff about making it rain and so this is what I did. I put 'em in the shower and ran a good 25 gallons i'm sure through each one strait outta my shower head then dumped a gallon and a half of pure ph'ed RO water through each one so thats what would be standing in them at the end. We shall see how they react. Cross ur fingers, lol.
shishkaboy
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no i just dont feed with nute everytime. but no extra water running through. i usually just water/feed slowly until it starts to drip.
shishkaboy
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i would say if you are feeding everytime. prolly a flush once a week should remove any build up
masscom25
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Thats the way I've always done it too.
budman2014
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Mass! Your babies are looking great man... They are really filling out now. I was wondering and meant to ask before this. What did you do to your plants to grow them out like they are?
Concord Dawn
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looking good mass, the trunk on the tree in the orange bucket is huge!! nice job man.
masscom25
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The orange bucket is the KK. Each one of those "individual Christmas tree trunks" on the KK are loaded with bud underneath all those leaves. You can't tell so much with all those leaves hiding it in the pics but shes def loaded. Shes still got the funkiest smell too but that lil Exile is starting to give her a run for her money. That lil guy is covered in res and startin to put out a wierd but def intoxicating smell. Ummmmm!
masscom25
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This is simply the outcome of my first attempt at LST'ing and some super cropping. As my branches (starting with the main top) grew tall enough I would bend them down to the rim of their buckets and secure them there with rubber-coated paperclips. I hook the paperclip around the branch, thats whats actually grabbing it, then use a roll of twist tie to tie the other side of the paper clip to a screw I put in the top rim of the bucket. Now all the small budding sites below the main top that is now tied down are exposed directly to the light and will grow strait up becoming its own lil top which becomes much bigger than if it had stayed hidden under the top on its branch. Also when you tie the tops down it causes the plant to distribute its auxins more evenly over the whole plant which encourages all the other lil branches to race upward toward the sun instead of the vast majority of the plants auxins and therefore energy being focused on sending just that one main trunkline toward the light. Istead of having a tall plant with just one or maybe a few huge colas, this way you end up with a much shorter plant with lots of big colas on it. I hope I've helped!
budman2014
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first off: AWESOME
second off: I have learned something new and i do believe i will try this on my next one.. thanks mass.
masscom25
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I came in to check on (look at, like I do so many times a day lol) my ladies and walked up on one of my lady bugs hard at work. How cool! I've had no problems with any kind of bugs since introducing the lady bugs. Anyway, I snapped a pic of her b4 she disappeared back n2 the canopy.
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masscom25
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Budman, I'm just passing on what was passed on to me but I'm def pleased with the results. Super cropping is where you pinch a branch and bend it back and forth making a "kink" in the branch so instead of standing up strait it lays over sideways exposing all the lower budding sites to direct light. This I believe is usually done in the mid to later parts of flowering when the top main colas get so big they aren't allowing light down to the lower budding sites depriving them of their full growth potential. It was difficult for me to do at first cause I felt like I was harming my plants but when you see the results all that fear goes away cause you better understand what you are doing. My ladies take all the abuse I give 'em and come back for more. The breaks are healing within hours and now I have much happier and in the end much bigger lower buds and isn't that what we all want, big buds. I have pics posted through this journal of me using this technique. And it has never slowed my growth. Never!
Michael Sparks
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Masscom do you advise topping and LST ? great thread btw
masscom25
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I've never topped a plant. a lotta guys do both with great results but I hate cutting off something that will otherwise become a huge mass of bud. Instead of chopping my main top I just bend her over and tie her down to the top of the bucket. You still accomplish what you want which is turning the lower budding sites that would otherwise be popcorn buds into their own main colas growing strait up into the light and you don't have to sacrifice another main top in the process by chopping it off. But thats just how I do it.
Michael Sparks
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Yeah i have her bent now but i was considering doing both but i am pretty much the same i don't want to cut my ladies
masscom25
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I had difficulty supercropping b/c I hate "breaking" any part of my plants but am very comfortable with it now as I see and understand its benefits after having done it and witnessed the reactions firsthand.