Nice Flowa...my hat is off too you! I run a 5 week veg cycle with similar results. My ceiling height allows me the benefit of a longer veg. Running 5 weeks in veg upped my yield considerably. Have you tried a longer veg time? That one extra week every grow does slow thing down in the long term like a year but the additional yield from every crop literally has given me an extra crop in yield in that said year. Do you manipulate your girls at all? Topping at the RIGHT time will also allow you additional time by keeping your girls shorter and fatter. All in all my friend...its looking nice. Great job.
Thanx for your kind words
My growtime is limited, as we get house inspections 4 times a year, so working around that can be somewhat tricky and takes some perfect timing indeed to get things done in my time given! I do give my girls a hard time, they get mild stress throughout the grow phase to stimulate the immunity system and to grow as much leaf as possible, then come flowering time the transition will be fast, manageable and alot of room to work with. I use LST, topping, cloning, fimming and sometimes even splicing if needed. You are right in that topping a plant can considerably shorten the overall structure of a plant, and used with LST you can really help spread a plant out
Thanx again matey!
Spectacular as always FlowaMasta! Still working on my Greenhouse
Great to hear Mo! Thanx for the compliments! I can't wait to try this stuff! soo cold though! drying veeeeeery slow!
OMG! those colas are freakin MASSIVE!!!! what a killer grow FLOWA! you are amazing. you have it down, you know your shit, you are one of the top growers on this site, no doubt and with that comes the jealous haters, fuck em, god damn bastards . No one can do it like you my friend. I love your style, ambition and ability to be able to take risks and try different products and nutes and methods every grow. You keep it interesting, that's why your the best damn grower on this god damn site. You blow away all these mother fuckers. Peace out Brotha!!!!!!!!
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Dr.!!!! They are some firm words! I'm speechless for your compliments, they give me a nice warm feeling, knowing i do this to help people see how easy it is to grow big buds
Might have to chop those huge colas down to size today!! they still feel ridiculously heavy, and still haven't wilted!! they have so much weight i'm shocked! mrs Flowa is going to have trouble trimming these even when dry!
HUGE AWESOME COLAS MAN!!!
CAN YOU PLEASE WRITE UP YOUR DRYING PROCESS MAN!!!
I know you gotta have some insight or interesting techniques that varies from other common techniques. I'm about to dry my first harvest and I want to do it the masta way! This thread is my GodSAve.
Technically you do have a growth phase of 10 weeks, as you have written on this forum, the clones get minimal amounts of nutrients for about 6-8 weeks and then you put them in VEG for 29 days.
Therefore, when the clones are growing prior to your 'VEG Stage' its technically still a growth phase and thus is part of the Vegetation growth period, which is all-in-all about 10 weeks.
Hey Man! I'm not knocking anything, what you do is not only inspirational but absolutely amazing!!! Just wanna help people understand your method.
Awesome response, and good insight and observation
ofcourse i would love to try and explain both my theories
Drying tech:
My drying technique is quite simple really, i leave the large colas to hang/rest for 3-4 days until they start to wilt, and the leaves give that wrap over effect, it's not until then in my opinion that the humidity can drop below a certain point, if i were to chop them down straight away, it would shorten the drying time too much, and i may be left with bright green buds heavy with chloraphyl, which takes a minimum of 8-10 days to evaporate. The smaller buds get snipped off and put into light small piles with all leaf still remaining except for the fan/shade leaves. keeping them fairly close at all times to keep the moisture/humidity consistent. You don't want them to sweat, so give them a little space and no heavy buds on little ones ofcourse. after the 3-4 days, time to turn things over, move the centre buds to outside, and the outside layer into the centre... By now the large colas are to be snipped down and added to the smaller piles to help retain moisture, and consistency. another 4-6 days things should start to feel dry enough to handle and be placed into curing jars or tupperware, where my curing will take place every day replacing the air each day, and for the first week of curing leaving the containers open during the night hours, and closed during the day, and always kept 100% dark (very important!!! THC IS LIGHT/WIND/HEAT SENSITIVE) leaving the leaves on until completely try will help protect the trichomes from premature degradation, and maybe even increase the taste of your product
Cloning/Regenerating.
You are semi-correct with the clone technique, It takes me roughly 3 weeks for the clone to get roots, and keeping her under only a 11 watt fluorescent tube will only JUST give her enough energy to survive, she will be far from being a plant or in 'grow phase' as some may call it. I restrict the roots by air pruning around the base of the container with the Rockwool, If you were to analyze these clones, they would sure enough be in 'regeneration' mode where they will only be trying to grow new nodes, and with the little amount of light given only the tiniest amount of nutrients will be necessary. Over the next 3-4 weeks she only grows maybe 8-12 inches high. Still not yet a 'plant' as such as if you were to place her in a high HPS environment, or outside, she would die a horrible death almost indefinitely. BUT she needs 'hardening' off first. This changes the cell reproduction, and how i do this is placing her in my tent and at the very bottom of the tent using only 1 HPS 600 and for maybe 4-6 hours i will blast her with some hard light, then continue the rest of the hours with the flouro. keeping 24hour light all the time. She will only become a plant, once the hardening off phase is completed and the night cycle begins, where Dark hours are introduced into the plant. Dark times are what cause the plant to 'grow' its not really 'the light' as such..... When there is darkness the plant knows to produce enzymes, and these are not produced by 'clones'. Clones do not
need darkness, the process can be kept alive even in a fridge for weeks without ever growing....
So a clone by definition she most certainly is
BUT i do this for a singular purpose, its my guarantee of growing again the next round, and having a ready clone to take off right after inspection is completed, then my 30 days growing begins with 18hrs light, 6hrs dark. (remembering hydroponics is about simulating/synthesizing it would be unnatural for any plant to receive 24hr sunlight, but we can use it to our advantage)
Seeing what darkness can do to a plant tells you all you need to know
darkness makes stems stretch for light
so we are only going to get branches when she wants to grow
I hope that helps explain a little better about my technique, not to get the wrong idea, or thing i may be cheating some secret grow time
I haven't always done this, it was a self learning experience, and worked to my benefit,
There are still many more grows to my name with many started from a fresh new baby clone (rooted) and still harvest well over a lb, just for reference, feel free to check them out I actually found that it doesn't really gain any more yield from this concept i have, but it saves me time. Time is valuable in hydroponics!! especially when the landlord want to do his 'visit' for the record, i've ALWAYS finished each and every grow, but i have been VERY close where i've had to dry elsewhere
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Thanx for the awesome feedback, compliments and excellent query! I might add the awesomeness at how you came across asking me aswell!!
Thankyou VERY much!!
Are ya still using the Cyco XL when ya use the Dutch Masters lineup?
Most certainly do
get it
its the best
Just awesome mate 
My weirdest, and HEAVIEST crop to date. 
