papablunt
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So veged three ak-47, and two g-13's for 36 days, and flowered for just under 8 weeks.
My setup, I veged under a 400w cfl with 1/2 veg tubes and 1/2 grow tubes....then moved them under a 600w dual spectrum aircooled daystar, i did not use CO2 on this grow. Aside from the aphids, this grow went great....
So Meanwhile, I cloned a plant that I grew from a solitary headband seed I found in some of the crippest shit ever. I built out a new room with co2 with 2 1000w and 55gal barrel with 12 sites.
NUTES
I used an ebb and flow tray to provide nutrient (veg1200ppm....flower2000ppm+....flush 700ppm...using roots organic, floral nectar, tigerbloom, sil mag, and a few others) I felt like overdosing on floral nectar was responsible for the large stalk growth on the trichs about 3 weeks into flowering....as it happened on both strains....i used almost three times the rec dosage in my tank.
TRIMMING OF FAN LEAVES AND LOWERS ON AK-47
So i experimented on trimming...using a small 600 and all..only getting 2-3 ft penetration I was worried about the nugs down low..as a trusted friend told me that you can trim the lower floamy branches of the pland and about 15% of the leaves on an AK, and that anymore is a no no...so I did one at 15%, one at 25% and one and 40%. Guess what, he was right. THe 25% and 40% trim job plants barely made it to harvest, the 40% I harvested two week early even. The 25% one was good till harvest but yielded half as much as the 15%.
USING CFL TO HIT LOWER LEAVES
This worked really well, the areas of the plant affect by the cfl produced larger resin glands, plainly visible to the naked eye
FREAKING APHIDS
First I used neem and soap, then alternated, then just neem, they are unruly little bastards and rotted the roots on my weaker ak's that I trimmed...and forced harvesting slightly early by eventually rotting all the roots. I hate aphids, and dread ever having the problem again, I dont know if I didnt sterilize well enough, or if they walked in on the clones...but they blow.
HERE ARE MY PLANTS AT WEEK 6 FLOWER
My setup, I veged under a 400w cfl with 1/2 veg tubes and 1/2 grow tubes....then moved them under a 600w dual spectrum aircooled daystar, i did not use CO2 on this grow. Aside from the aphids, this grow went great....
So Meanwhile, I cloned a plant that I grew from a solitary headband seed I found in some of the crippest shit ever. I built out a new room with co2 with 2 1000w and 55gal barrel with 12 sites.
NUTES
I used an ebb and flow tray to provide nutrient (veg1200ppm....flower2000ppm+....flush 700ppm...using roots organic, floral nectar, tigerbloom, sil mag, and a few others) I felt like overdosing on floral nectar was responsible for the large stalk growth on the trichs about 3 weeks into flowering....as it happened on both strains....i used almost three times the rec dosage in my tank.
TRIMMING OF FAN LEAVES AND LOWERS ON AK-47
So i experimented on trimming...using a small 600 and all..only getting 2-3 ft penetration I was worried about the nugs down low..as a trusted friend told me that you can trim the lower floamy branches of the pland and about 15% of the leaves on an AK, and that anymore is a no no...so I did one at 15%, one at 25% and one and 40%. Guess what, he was right. THe 25% and 40% trim job plants barely made it to harvest, the 40% I harvested two week early even. The 25% one was good till harvest but yielded half as much as the 15%.
USING CFL TO HIT LOWER LEAVES
This worked really well, the areas of the plant affect by the cfl produced larger resin glands, plainly visible to the naked eye
FREAKING APHIDS
First I used neem and soap, then alternated, then just neem, they are unruly little bastards and rotted the roots on my weaker ak's that I trimmed...and forced harvesting slightly early by eventually rotting all the roots. I hate aphids, and dread ever having the problem again, I dont know if I didnt sterilize well enough, or if they walked in on the clones...but they blow.
HERE ARE MY PLANTS AT WEEK 6 FLOWER
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