Stress+Recovery time=Better yield & potency

[charface]

This is a cross of banana kush and green crack.
One pheno gets purplish black leaves
Bud buds stay green.

Another gets purple spotted buds.

Happens indoor and out.

 

[whitebb2727]

The pics don't do it justice. It's the deputy from Greenpoint. You can't see the purple on top. My phone's camera didn't pick it up.

 

[shrxhky420]

Triple Purple Rhino fr. Docs Dank Seeds
I popped 1/2 a pack. I got 3 girls
The stretchy , shitty vegger has lavender color buds , n smell like my dream girl
I thought I got the green pheno too, but it’s purplling up with very dense nugs
The one in the pics I’m calling the purple velvet pheno , not crazy dense but the color is unreal,
They re coming up on week 9 , probably needs 2 more .
I’m a 8-9 week kinda guy but I’m going to do a clone run , and will decide if they’re keepers after some smoking .

Yea, I don't like anything over 9 weeks either. Make sure you tag me on a smoke report. I like the fruity flavors the purple strains have.
I've been growing a few cookie strains lately and even with temps being what they are in the summer, I'm still getting purples. In the winter the buds get that deep purple/black color.

SH420

 

[Kushash]

White Castle (ice x white widow)

 

[Pwezzy]

You shouldn't be giving advice. His plants look like shit. You were a better grower when you were just reading about growing.

Remember it's not grow experience that makes you a grower, it's reading. Do yourself and everyone else a favor, go back to reading... oh and shut the fuck up pussy! Next time you're in my hood look me up, you can come kis... uh kick my ass.

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SH420

What's yo hood then mf?

 

[shrxhky420]

What's yo hood then mf?

Cali, 408. We already know what you are... internet tough guy.

You're still a pussy.

SH420

 

[JohnGlennsGarden]

I told a guy at work about these awesome new stress techniques I've been reading up on. He loved them so much. . .

 

[Pwezzy]

Cali, 408. We already know what you are... internet tough guy. View attachment 4167721

You're still a pussy.

SH420

N u still can't whoop me. Internet banger lmao

 

[Gary Goodson]

My homie crossed purple Moroccan with Ron Burgundy so he named it Purple MoRon lol but it was killer.

And this is bubblegum from idk where

These are all old pics because I stopped growing weed back in 1963!

 

[charface]

My homie crossed purple Moroccan with Ron Burgundy so he named it Purple MoRon lol but it was killer.
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And this is bubblegum from idk where
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These are all old pics because I stopped growing weed back in 1963!

Perfect

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

Here is my perpetual flower room. You can see the plants are staggered a couple weeks apart in growth. All are from different seeds.

Looks happy and productive. And the environment is way too stable. What am I doing wrong?

And am seeing very little stress.

Maybe I should go in and donkey punch each plant in the back of the head?

That should stress them out pretty good. More yield!

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

donkey punch
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What a great name for a Strain.

Pretty plants my friend.

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

What a great name for a Strain.

Pretty plants my friend.

Thank you very much. I keep on practicing.

 

[Kushash]

I started a perpetual a couple of months ago and I'm off to an awkward start. I should have started a lot more seeds at the beginning and started out staggering my seedlings. Now I have one 600 w going in the flower room instead of two because I don't have enough plants to move from the veg tent yet.
Should have things smoothed out in about a month.

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

I started a perpetual a couple of months ago and I'm off to an awkward start. I should have started a lot more seeds at the beginning and started out staggering my seedlings. Now I have one 600 w going in the flower room instead of two because I don't have enough plants to move from the veg tent yet.
Should have things smoothed out in about a month.

It takes a while to get everything going properly. Good luck. It’s a pain in the ass. Lol.

 

[MichiganMedGrower]

Since we have turned this thread into a healthy green plant thread here is another angle to show what as little stress as possible can do.

I think all this stress talk is stressing me out.




Flash used to cut through hps light.

 

[Kushash]

It takes a while to get everything going properly. Good luck. It’s a pain in the ass. Lol.

My old style was to harvest then take a break then restart a crop.
I'm pheno hunting and have 4 plants re vegging from the last harvest.
The perpetual style is going to give me a new way of looking at the plants and a new way to experiment.

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[MichiganMedGrower]

My old style was to harvest then take a break then restart a crop.
I'm pheno hunting and have 4 plants re vegging from the last harvest.
The perpetual style is going to give me a new way of looking at the plants and a new way to experiment.

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I think growing each plant individually this way gave me much more experience in a shorter time.

I have grown a few hundred plants one at a time now mixing its own nutes and only watering when the specific plant is absolutely ready.

It helps with recovering deficiencies and such too.

I look at every new seed/clone as a whole new grow every time.

But it is a time consuming pain in the ass. I do it so I stay in plant count and amount of usable meds on hand. And for constant variety.

I must have headstash of 10 different strains on hand.

It can be very frustrating especially with all the seed plants.

I wanted to show off those pics because I have been fighting deficiencies for a while. I am back on track.

A bunch were starting to look like this.




I nursed them all through and obviously lost a good amount of yield. Like 25% per plant.

The solution was obvious if I remembered the basics. I had started taking a shortcut. I used to always pour a cup or two of fresh water in before mixing their nutes. I was slipping this step.

And summer came and even in the air conditioned growroom in my old converted lake cabin the plants seem to know it’s hot out and transpire harder.

Pre watering helps sooth the roots from the high ec caused by the soil drying out. It also must help the calcium and other elements to become soluble again and clear the roots of mineral blockage.

Simple step. Whenever I mess up I always try to repeat exactly what worked in the past.


I asked my breeder how to fix the garden a couple years ago. He said it looked nice before. Do what you did then. Lol.

 

[Kushash]

Funny! I'm turning stressed plants into happy plants in real time.
My grow tent started out with bad ventilation and heat issues so I have the lights further away than normal. Outside temps hit 100 here in the summer making it more difficult to deal with the temps.
I noticed all my plants were lagging in growth and just figured out yesterday that all of my plants are in amended soil that has a salt build up that was not properly flushed before being amended.
I don't water to run off these days. The run off water in the plant yesterday was very dark and the ppm's going in were about 200 and coming out at about 1200.
This plant is nothing to brag about but it was the 1st to be flushed yesterday and is the happiest plant in the room.
I'm going to flush all of them and hope to see a bunch of praying plants in a few days.

Is it flushing or leaching?

Anyway, pic just taken, flash to compensate for hps. It wasn't praying before I leached the soil yesterday.

 

[lokie]

White Castle (ice x white widow)
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Nice. And a very good smoke too.