Monster-cropping 101

H.A.F.

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These are the undecideds.
The Christmas tree is probably going to be left alone.
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And "lefty" will probably get some training for height, but likely no more pruning.
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This is the bottom right one in the room-pic. You can't see the right-angle trunk in this view.
 

H.A.F.

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When the lights come on tonight I had an idea for the Christmas tree. If there are no leaves popping on the 4 lower limbs they might be gone. I am thinking that seeing what one single cola will do might be fun, and that is the only one naturally set up for it.
 

H.A.F.

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And I did it. Should pickup in a few days and start growing and will probably catch up and pass the rest..
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H.A.F.

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I should also add a pic of lucky number 7. I'm looking at about 14 hours of sunlight right now, so this could get interesting. All she's getting is the run-off from the feeding of the others. If she takes off I may actually toss some top feed around her. I have had temps in the 90's, but she is shaded by a tree limb during the worst part of the day. My soil is mostly hardwood compost from whatever falls off oaks and hickories. "Mountain Forest" soil ;) Ocean Forest can kiss my ass LOL.

I think this speaks to the added vigor you can expect from a re-vegged plant. IMG_0553.JPG
Funny thing is, because of where I live I can't really mess with it much. I just bought my house last year, so I can always claim ignorance. I have no idea what the previous owners did...
 
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H.A.F.

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Funny thing is, because of where I live I can't really mess with it much. I just bought my house last year, so I can always claim ignorance. I have no idea what the previous owners did...
Tough home-owners Association...
 

New Age United

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I should also add a pic of lucky number 7. I'm looking at about 14 hours of sunlight right now, so this could get interesting. All she's getting is the run-off from the feeding of the others. If she takes off I may actually toss some top feed around her. I have had temps in the 90's, but she is shaded by a tree limb during the worst part of the day. My soil is mostly hardwood compost from whatever falls off oaks and hickories. "Mountain Forest" soil ;) Ocean Forest can kiss my ass LOL.

I think this speaks to the added vigor you can expect from a re-vegged plant. View attachment 4366798
Funny thing is, because of where I live I can't really mess with it much. I just bought my house last year, so I can always claim ignorance. I have no idea what the previous owners did...
I had one looked just like that, cant kill them she bounced back and now shes a beaut, she had a few weeks of outdoor veg tho.
 

New Age United

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I wanna monster crop, my first attempt was unsuccessful, I actually did notice some white bumps on one outta 6 cuttings after 4 weeks, but I got tired of waiting and threw em out, I wanna try again when I can afford to wait.

Watching thread
 

H.A.F.

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I had one looked just like that, cant kill them she bounced back and now shes a beaut, she had a few weeks of outdoor veg tho.
As far as I know she'll be in veg for another month or two until the daylight shortens.

I never plan to be an outdoor grower. Way too many variables you can't control - temps, rH, bugs, bud-rot, etc. At least if stuff goes sideways inside I know it's my fault.
 
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H.A.F.

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Can't complain.
The little one has about 4 sprouts on top all with little true-leaves. I see an explosion in the near future when she recovers from having 4 arms chopped off :)

I was looking at more height-training that I could do, but in the grand scheme of things (since they are flipped) I think the canopy is level-enough. So - tops are done - next will just be pulling stuff sideways to fill in holes.
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I get bored easily, so this might be the last time they are all together except for a pic. I have a second flower room that they will all end up in eventually, so I am going to try to fit the 2 smaller ones in now.
 
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H.A.F.

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First things first - Watch for this and prune them throughout the grow.
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Its easy now, but if you get bushy they are hard to see later on. These will continue to pop throughout the grow. First attempt I had half a dozen of them that were nothing but larf - nute-suckers... never saw them.

But since I am eventually shifting them you get to see my other two get done.
Room 1 (back to veg room eventually)
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And room 2. Need to get something to prop those up higher, but the plant on the left (Skywalker OG) only has a week or two left and I'll squeeze more in, maybe all 6. The Bruce Banner on the left has a month or so.
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H.A.F.

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Well, My job here is done. I think I have documented it pretty well, but now I'm just growing weeds. Nothing is different.

I'll drop an update on here every few weeks for progress (if I remember), but it'll be on my grow page. My intent was to have this just about monster-cropping.
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If the one I dumped outside takes off I'll toss that in too.
 
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Opie1971

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Did that come from a topping? Looks really uniform for a clone, but cool. If it is, I have thought about doing that every time I topped a manifold. Never did.
Yep, it’s the top off a plant, it exploded with growth after it got some roots going, I’m thinking it’ll turn out to be a real bush.
I’d like to see how your plants are doing, it’d be great if ya kept posting them here.
 

H.A.F.

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Yep, it’s the top off a plant, it exploded with growth after it got some roots going, I’m thinking it’ll turn out to be a real bush.
I’d like to see how your plants are doing, it’d be great if ya kept posting them here.
Yeah, I have so many seeds to run (considering I drop a few at a time) that I am done with cloning for a while. I have wanted to see if a manifold-topping (usually 6-7 nodes tall but chopped about node 3) would re-start, then be ready for another manifold after it rooted. Clones don't usually do manifolds well because they have no symmetry. My flowers above are trained and pruned 'like' a manifold, but they will never develop that big knuckle of a nute-distribution-system that a manifold does. Then again, clones don't have that apical dominance (big center cola, small everything else) that a seed does so that's probably a wash.

I would rather this be like the 300+ page thread about manifolds, where everyone contributes their little piece. I added a few pages to that thread just to add my 2 cents and brag a little, but then back to my page. I'm old - too much to keep up with :)


Like I said, I'll toss an update pic on here occasionally, but
my signature block has both links, and I update my grow page almost daily.​
 
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