jumboSWISHER
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honestly, the first time making it rain made me realized what potential i had been missing out on my entire time growing. i had no idea any plant could have such vigerous growth haha
hey man, i gotta lil homie thts jus getting into growing. he's been burning a candle about 5-10 feet from his plants, and SWEARS tht it releases co2. this is incorrect, right?
im not to good with this kinda stuff so i jus wanted to make sure befor i say somethin n make an ass of myself haha
I am by no means a close minded grower. Everything in my body wants to go against other peoples ideas, but I fight it like the plague cause I know that I am a newb and I will fail if i dont listen. This idea seems smart to me and after asking my parents about this they also agreed that making it rain in an indoor environment would cause better nutrient uptake, they also said this is something growers have been doing for years. Im excited to see what it does, I still got a long time till flowering tho....Blazed,
You're going to be surprised by how much faster your plants start sucking up the water once you start using this method. Before i started this i was only needing to water every 5-6 days, but now its usually every 2-3 days at most. The plants I just stuck into flowering that had this method used through three weeks of vegging are actually needing water almost every day, though they are in smaller pots then I normally use (3.5 instead of 5 gallon).
As for the temperature thing, I agree that keeping it under 85 would be optimal, but it's not really an option for me currently. Right now those room are varying from anywhere between 65 and 90, with most of their time spent in the low to mid 80's. It only seems to get up over 85 in the late afternoon when my house has had all day to absorb the heat, and the lights go off early enough that the plants usually only have a few hours of that high a temp each day. Either way, this strain seems to be responding a lot better to the higher temps then the last strain I grew did (opium), so my first guess was that this particular strain must have genetics that are better suited to the hot and dry climates I live in. I know that DJ Short created this strain by crossing an Afghan, Thai, and one other land race Indica (can't remember which), so my guess may be pretty accurate.
did u read the thread? Outside it rains and it doesnt mess ne thing up. Why wouldnt it work inside? Nature does things for a reason, I really think hes onto something. Also flushing gets rid of all the nutrients and salts in the soil so you can re nutrient it when its "fresh"wait...so lemme get this straight, if you put 3 times the pots capacity of water into the pot(flush it), it will release the h20 back into the air(wicking) without over watering the plant??..
n how do you know when it starts/ends the wicking period?,, liek is theyre any visual signs ??, besides the fact that it droops before this process ??, rite?...
please correct me if im wrong...also, is it safe to continiously flush your plant ?, liek every other week or something ?..
wait...so lemme get this straight, if you put 3 times the pots capacity of water into the pot(flush it), it will release the h20 back into the air(wicking) without over watering the plant??..
n how do you know when it starts/ends the wicking period?,, liek is theyre any visual signs ??, besides the fact that it droops before this process ??, rite?...
please correct me if im wrong...also, is it safe to continiously flush your plant ?, liek every other week or something ?..
Yeah it was 12/12 from seed, needed a harvest before june 1 for vacation smoke. I started end of Feb... Next grow in july will be full size. Thanks for the comment. Yeah they are getting real fat now!!!Plant is looking to have bounced back very good. Was it a 12/12 from seed, or just a short veg time? It just looks small, but those buds are fattening very well.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with 12/12 from seed. Just check out v12's perpetual 12/12 pc grow here https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/161995-pc-case-grow-stealth-perpetual-92.html. I have decided to try this he has done so well. My only downfall is I have a bunch of bagseed, so I will need to start buying fem'ed seeds or clonin to make it work right. Still a nice bush man, b proudYeah it was 12/12 from seed, needed a harvest before june 1 for vacation smoke. I started end of Feb... Next grow in july will be full size. Thanks for the comment. Yeah they are getting real fat now!!!
make sure you use a stretchy material to mend the "grafted" limbs together. i have read it allows the plant to stretch as it heals. an ace bandage should work, or even better would be something that sticks to itself that stretches. hope this helps.Riddle,
I think I must have offended the Ganja Gods or something. My 600w flowering light decided to pull it's hooks loose from the ceiling today and took a header into my garden. Luckily it happend while I was home and it only directly landed on one plant, but it tore the one it did hit up pretty badly. It was one of the blueberries that just moved into flowering a couple days ago, and it pretty much ripped all the branches off one side of it. There are a couple that are still partially attached that I tied up tight in the hope that they would heal/graft back to the main stalk, but the plant is still in a pretty sad state. Any advice anyone can offer on ways to help the stalks that were partially torn off reattach or other advice on how to help her recover quickly would be appreciated.
I would say part of that whole stress em to make resin myth thing similar to stickin a thumb tac in em etc.heyy riddle, this morning an old family friend i havent seen in probly 10 years stopped by. he's an old school hippie type guy, i remember missing the first day of 5th grade to help manicure at his warehouse lol so i trust his judgement, n his warehouse is still up and running after all these years so i trust his growing methods. but he wus checkn out my setup, and givin me sum pointers. he mention something about "pruning", i think he jus calls it that tho. but he wus saying something about how he clips all his fan leaves in half on the lower branches. or clips em completely off. he said it makes the plant focus on the buds, and will make em double. something about the sugar leaves transport energy to the buds more efficiently. im not totaly sure wut he wus talkn bout, cuz bein so happy ta see him n stuff we smoked ALOT.... haha. but i figured since you've been around learning methods for years n years maybe you've heard of this. or something similar to this. sound crazy as fuck? or reasonable? lol
haha yea diffinatly came from old hippie growers. you think its worth experimenting with on a stunted clone i have flowering?I would say part of that whole stress em to make resin myth thing similar to stickin a thumb tac in em etc.
But most of that stuff comes from old hippie growers so what are ya gonna do?