nice work lillian mate very nice work that is defo up for most inative invention in growing..
Cheers Kev, hows ur large lady coming along? Would've loved to see u try this grow in a waterfarm, u'd end up with a full blown tree!
i hope this helps. Not the best handwriting/drawing in the world but you should get the idea
Very much appreciated man, i get u now. Could definitely work. The only problem i have is removing the base from the blue bucket without the whole plant falling through. Obviously it wont due to the screen holding the plant up and the root mass ect, but it'll put a lot of strain on the plant which i want to avoid. I might build a temporary base out of Knex that will support the bottom of the plant and at the same time allow the roots to grow through it. So when i put the air pot on, i can leave the K'nex thing there and pack soil all around it. Will take up like 5% of the space so wont be losing out on any area. Anyway its arriving on tuesday so got a couple days to plan it out. But yeh ur plan sounds good with a few tweaks.
The stretch, it all depends on the strain you are growing. With a sativa dominant plant it could take up to five weeks before it fully transitions from veg to flower. An indica dominant plant the stretch may last only ten days but not in a sativa dominant plant. I personally don't think your plant is going to need your top screen, I just don't think with the number of bud sites you have competing to become the terminal leader, they will grow up that much further. I wouldn't do anything further to your plant other than feed it and see what happens. Just remember, this is all an ongoing experiment and if you've learned something from this grow, apply it to your next grow.
Just being curious Lil, how long have you been growing? Sorry about the pics last night, my lights went out and I forgot. Made a little hash yesterday. I took my jars and put a couple ounces of alcohol in one, shook it for a bit and poured the alcohol into the next jar, etc. etc, until I rinsed them all and then set the liquid on a plate on my t-5 to dry. Got enough hash out of it to last several days.
Edit. Instead of increasing your daytime temps, I would be trying to lower my night time temps. A ten degree difference between your lights on temp and your lights off temp should promote stretching and it's a lot safer than raising your day time temps. Heat is the killer of our hobby. It does all kinds of nasty things to our babies.
I was well aware stretch was strain dependent but didn't know a sativa dominant plant could take up to five weeks! Rarely hear of someones plants taking that long to begin flowering properly. I'm slowly realising i wont need this second screen, everyday my hope is fading a little more as i continue to see minimal stretch! Thing is though, say ive got 100 branches, and each branch stretches like 3 inches up in the first 2 weeks, thats 300" of growth in a fortnight! Which is quite a lot for one plant. When i put it like that, it almost seems hugely unrealistic to hope it would've reached my second screen. Fuck it, this is what a first scrog is all about! As you said i will now use this knowledge towards my next scrog which hopefully will be even better.
I've moved the lights up and will continue to feed with no extra training now. I can't lower the night time temps by 10 degrees! In fact, the way things are currently working, the night time temperature (lights off) is actually warmer than the lights on temp, due to the unusually warm october days we're having here at the moment.
Also that chocolope looks MINT, real nice scrog, they don't seem to be too high yielding tho, am i right? Still a couple weeks to pack on a little more weight tho..
This is only my 3rd grow, or 5th plant. Here's a couple pics of the rest to show u just how alien a grow i'm doing...
2 super lemon haze's grown completely naturally from seed, no training, 5 week veg
Barney's Farm Blue Cheese + Medical Seeds Sour Diesel - LST'd and topped once
And now this one!
I'm a big big big fan of hash, in fact the best stuff i ever smoked was sticky black with a nice gold seal on it, overly expensive but worth every penny. Damn i miss my hash!
You should have used 4-6 shots of 151 or even 90 proof vodka and done the same thing except not evaporated.
take one shot a day and youre good.
i used the kief from 2 of my friends jars and 2 shots of 151, splash of mountain dew and i hardly remember the night.
didnt get drunk but the mix of about 100 different types of kush's trichs combined into a drink made a zombie.
Sounds nuts! Closest i've got to that is having a blunt filled with about 10 different strains straight from amsterdam, hash and skunk mix, can't remember if i finished it or not, says it all really! I remember the night clearly all the way up until rolling it
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