waxman420
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What's your secret with those stocks man ?? I picture 6 inch seedlings beside a 20 inch hurricane generator
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What's your secret with those stocks man ?? I picture 6 inch seedlings beside a 20 inch hurricane generator
socaljoe
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No idea, lol. I'm going to credit them to the coco, Mega Crop and Recharge. I've just got a smallish clip fan running in the tent...the hurricane generator was on backorder.
HonestGenetics420
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Most females with proper feeding will start stacking real flowers around day 14-21, before that they’re mostly just showing flowering sites and further revealing their sex 
HonestGenetics420
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In veg you should be defoliating lower leaves and cutting off weak lower growth shoots the entire time to improve the movement of hormones/nutrition. Before flowering most strains you should for sure clean the plant up as well, you only want the top half or less of the plant to be green, and at week 2-3 of flowering you should defoliate unnecessary lower leaves and any growth that look weak. That’s how you get the best yields possible. Newer growers tend to get scared about cleaning up their plants, but the better you get the hormones and nutrition moving through the plant the more growth and flower you’ll ultimately get. A nice even canopy will always produce better and most of the weight will always concentrate in the top foot or so of a plant. Topping plants to even up your canopy and trying to get as many top shoots as possible before flowering the plants is also important
Big Perm
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Great canopy, joe! They look very healthy, and they do know what time it is.
socaljoe
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Thanks. Fortunately all 4 girls decided to stretch more or less the same, a bit of pinching and bending made up for the difference.
HonestGenetics420
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Some Blueberry Lollipop at day 28 sent to me by a grower over email. He says it smells like pure candy
min0r
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lookin really nice!! when's defoliation?
socaljoe
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Good question. I'm not crazy about the idea of stripping tons of leaves, but I probably will thin them out at some point...another week or two maybe.
I sent you a pmMost females with proper feeding will start stacking real flowers around day 14-21, before that they’re mostly just showing flowering sites and further revealing their sex
growslut
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Honest, I tried that topping technique you recommended and chopped this Banana Cocktail in half. Does this look about right or do you have any suggestions to do it better next time?
(The last pic shows how I had to tape the middle branch. I tried bending it to even the shape and it was brittle and snapped. This is the 2nd time I've broke the same branch on different plants trying to bend them so next time won't touch the plants until the branches limber up a bit)
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socaljoe
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Looking good. Fingers crossed for that MCC.
ColoradoHighGrower
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Should have topped earlier to avoid losing all that growth/energy/time. Now wait a few days/1 week and then top all the other main top branches. When you top a branch, all you need to remove is the very tip, like no more than 1cm of material. That tip contains the "apical meristem," which is where the cell division/length growth occurs on each branch. Remove that tip, and the branch is forced to split and grow two branches. FIM'ing stands for "fuck, i missed" because sometimes people dont pinch enough of the tip off to make the branch actually split, but instead it just stunts/delays the branch growth...
HonestGenetics420
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You did well, clean up the first internodes on all the branches and it’ll get the hormones moving extra nicely too
Good work
HonestGenetics420
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I told him to cut the plant in half if he wanted, those particular genetics respond well to that method. FIMing is an inferior grow method IMHO, it causes lag. You’ll soon see he didn’t waste any time at all, doing what he did supercharges the plant by creating a situation where the roots are more established than the plant itself. After doing a major cutback he’ll see the roots and the plant go nuts with new growth because the roots want the plant to catch up. All he has to do is feed the plant well and provide good light right now and he’ll have a bigger and bushier plant than he’s ever had before
ColoradoHighGrower
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Totally- i could see forcing root development for sure. FIM definitely sucks, but i think more gradual training is equivalent in the same time, but provides even more nodes to select from for structuring pre/post flip?