MrHowardMarks
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Yeah, your pic shows it a little better... I imagine it would create a considerable amount of stretch outdoors...
I also supercrop them to reduce the stretch, did you do that fdd?
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I also supercrop them to reduce the stretch, did you do that fdd?
superman27nc
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Dang all of those are some nice looking buds! Hey Mr. Howard..was that part of your grow or some you found on the web?
MrHowardMarks
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Twas mine, find it on the web pffftt.
Yeah MissHester, I actually crawled around under them to water... Pain in the back...
Yeah MissHester, I actually crawled around under them to water... Pain in the back...
superman27nc
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awesome! very nice forest! i would like to live in it too!
MrHowardMarks
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I have more pic in the link to my albums in my sig...
superman27nc
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I have a couple more questions for you Mr Marks if you dont mind..when do you tops your plants for a scrog? and what do you mean by supercrop...thanks!
MrHowardMarks
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Hells yeah, i watched your grow this summer, I have to say, I'm jealous, and you've got enormous balls...
I wish I could get an outdoor crop growing, but around here there's no 215, and the possibility of big trouble, so I keep it inside.
Supercropping- Pinching the stem to keep nodes closer together... Look it up.
Oh, if you liked the pics from before, and thought that it was a forest, I added 2 lights to my latest grow, 6 x 600W.
I wish I could get an outdoor crop growing, but around here there's no 215, and the possibility of big trouble, so I keep it inside.
Supercropping- Pinching the stem to keep nodes closer together... Look it up.
Oh, if you liked the pics from before, and thought that it was a forest, I added 2 lights to my latest grow, 6 x 600W.
MrHowardMarks
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I personally decided that, it's actually a whole process during the vegative phase, training the plants to grow big colas. I don't want to promote too much stress during the flowering time, but I do trim here and there throughout the entire flowering cycle.
The first two weeks are when the bud sites are created, therefore if you haven't trimmed of the unnecessary popcorn buds by then, it's too late.
smartsoverambition
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smartsoverambition claims that crackerjax claims that GrowTech claims that your friend is wrong
CrackerJax
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Those are some sweet looking plants. I keep mine in 1 gals and space them far enough apart so sun hits everything. I've never had a plant crowd itself out, so I don't trim. I can see where you might indoors or when grouped tightly together. 
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The Martian
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Hi All.
Yeh, I was actually talking about trimming when vegging really, as when flowering the plant has already ndergone the change into maturity and is now intent on producing sexual reproductive organs, instead of "solar panels".
BUT surely, leaves don't TAKE energy, as you put it, they are the plants engine and supply the plant with growing energy, (IE converting solar energy into plant using photosinthesis).
Granted if you remove lower parts later on then the plant will transfer growth to where the plant finds easiest, which will be the allready growing upper plant, as to grow from below again is harder, and is also now much more shaded than when the lower portions originally grew. As is usual in the universe as a whole, things usually take the path of least resistance.
Whaddaya reckon?????
Any other/opposing oppinions???
Ta Ta.
Yeh, I was actually talking about trimming when vegging really, as when flowering the plant has already ndergone the change into maturity and is now intent on producing sexual reproductive organs, instead of "solar panels".
BUT surely, leaves don't TAKE energy, as you put it, they are the plants engine and supply the plant with growing energy, (IE converting solar energy into plant using photosinthesis).
Granted if you remove lower parts later on then the plant will transfer growth to where the plant finds easiest, which will be the allready growing upper plant, as to grow from below again is harder, and is also now much more shaded than when the lower portions originally grew. As is usual in the universe as a whole, things usually take the path of least resistance.
Whaddaya reckon?????
Any other/opposing oppinions???
Ta Ta.
MrHowardMarks
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Yeah, I don't see much use in an outdoor crop, there is no way the sun isn't penetrating all the way to the bottom.
Fdd's scrog looks funny as hell, "apple tree" best description.
I like looking at outdoor plants once in awhile to see how huge they get... (Thinking of the good old days when I grew outdoors)
Fdd's scrog looks funny as hell, "apple tree" best description.
I like looking at outdoor plants once in awhile to see how huge they get... (Thinking of the good old days when I grew outdoors)
CrackerJax
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Your name is Herman Munster and you live at 1313 Mockingbird lane. Your wife is hot and your son has issues. What else do you want to know?
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The Martian
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WHAT???? NO ONE AT ALL. if thats the case you've done seriously well.
I've treid to keep it as quiet as possible, but my girlfriend, and 3 of my mates know, And now I wish it was only two of them, Absolutely the fewer the better, JUST you is best, but imposible for most folk I'd imagine.
I do feel sorry for the younger ones though, I doub't I could have kept it as quiet when I was a youth.
Ha Ha Ha, Nice one.
Tatty Bye.
The Martian
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Hiya All.
I'm assumimg you meant, "no way it iS penetrating".
It will mostly be dependent on the structure of the plant, as sunlight doesn't tend to fall off with distance the same as artificial lights, due to the fact the sun is so far away. The distance from the lightsource to the top of the plant and the distance from the lightsource to the bottom of the plant could be four five six or more times distant.
Whereas the sun being so far away, is esentially the same distance from top as it is bottom.
Man I wish I could grow outside properly, but our climate is hardly conducive, would certainly save some juice though, and a nice big outdoor number would come in splendidly just before crimbo
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