Uncle Zen, i mean Uncle Benjammin,
... You are damn right about me focusing on the end product. My firstime stupidity retarded my ladies growth. Ah well, experimentation is only worthless if you don't learn your lessons.
My first harem of 5 cherokee heirloom tomato ladies are looking fine now in late flower, but my complete and utterly Cannaba-tarded defoliation massively prolonged the time required for complete flowering, as the flowers were forced to releaf before continuing flowering. They are in their twelvth!!! week of flower with three weeks more required. That is a warning to all noobs to leave the leaves alone, unless you have good reason for taking one or two off the plant's body. The varieties of tomatoes i am nurturing currently, are medicine man, two solid freebies - auto dinafem white widow, and one lucky yet-unhermed OG Skywalker Kush bag seed- by far the best looking of the bunch with purpling stems even without low night temperatures. I lucked out with sexing the regular strains, using much banana ethyelene in the seedling stage with cool temps to produce 4 of 4 females. Definitely not a large enough sample size to draw conclusions about banana effectiveness, but intriguing nonetheless! Is sex determined genetically, epigenetically, and/or environmentally, at different points in the plants' lifecycle?
There are many heirloom tomato forums on the intertubes but RiU keeps me coming back... And no its not the clueless noobs as myself, its the old head experts with decades of experience, quite humbling if one has an open mind. Sure Wish i had joined in 2008 when i first lurked!
Thanks to the following inspirational grow airs:
From Uncle Zen I learned to continue N through flower, to forget lollipopping or removing bud sites, listen to my elders and take my verbal medicine, and to skip defoliation except for rare cases. You cannot reattach a leaf, once plucked, it fades to black in the compost pile. Entropy is a bitch to skip so i focus on syntropy, negentropy, and extropy. Back to reading Botnical txtbooks for me!!
From subcool I learned about the intricacies of SuberSoil, an all organic mix with massive potential. Enjoy your new home in Cali!
From Nugbuckets I learned mainlining isn't a shortcut
to Overdosing. Gotta love that symmetric Hub! Powers of two up to 16/32/64?
From Budologist I learned about scientific liquid and gas chromotographic CB measurement techniques. i wonder if they can measure other chems like limonene, various terpenes, and other aromatic molecules responsible for tastes? Soon I am going to call your lab guys and ask about the meaning of the THc percentages in terms of dry weight of the herbal meds.
I hope the future brings me into real life friendships with the creme de la of creme of RIU.
what is the difference between foxtailing, crowning, and dreading? Are any of these bad at the end of flower, as last bursts of pistils spring forth? I cannot see the harm in my queens crowning themselves.
also, can a dehumidifier hurt ladies in late flower? rH is kept around 35-42...
One last Closing thought and i mustoprocrastinating: Someone more expert than I, should compile an evolving RIU meta-synopsis of growing info, or at least a viral pdf of the prettiest colas/trees/setups.
