Uncle Ben
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Uncle Ben's Topping Technique to Get 2 or 4 Main Colas
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lefreq
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cheers UB there at 35" already but nice even canopy
one of my cheesus other 4 are pretty much exactly the sameyou can see the one i topped at 5th node for a comparason has stretched a gd 4" above the rest
Phillip Andrew Marx
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First time grower, but Im having remarkable sucess so far. I wanted to keep the plants small but experiment at the same time. Started with 20 seeds and expected some to die, but none did! ^_^ kinda proud of my self ^_^ Anyway, four plants, bag seed, but I know one for sure is 50%+ sativa, one looks to be about 50/50, and the other two look about 30S/70I. Veged for 4 weeks using 120w cool white above plants, all plants were at 6-9" tall. I topped the sativa and both of the 30/50's and began lst on sativa and one of the 30/50's. The 30/50 didnt like it, so I stopped training, but the sativa loved it, a bit too much. started flowering three days ago: added 400w HPS and have had to tie down all nodes. One of the 30/50's now has some burn (the one that was training) BUT it was also transplanted into a different soil. 1: Can I slow growth in the sativa durring flowering, without much stress and without disturbing the other plants. 2: Burn help?
I do not have a camera, so pics are impossiable. The burn isnt awful, but could easily turn into a problem, and with only having 4 plants, I dont want to lose any.
Any advice?
Set up,
400w HPS overhead
120w cool white angled on wall to give under nods light.
circulating fan
1/3rd perilite to 2/3rd "African Violet Merical grow (tm)" 6.3 ph lvl
cant afford nuts so Im using "Shake plant feed" by merical grow with no nitrogen OD ^_^
Hope to hear a responce soon!!
First time grower, but Im having remarkable sucess so far. I wanted to keep the plants small but experiment at the same time. Started with 20 seeds and expected some to die, but none did! ^_^ kinda proud of my self ^_^ Anyway, four plants, bag seed, but I know one for sure is 50%+ sativa, one looks to be about 50/50, and the other two look about 30S/70I. Veged for 4 weeks using 120w cool white above plants, all plants were at 6-9" tall. I topped the sativa and both of the 30/50's and began lst on sativa and one of the 30/50's. The 30/50 didnt like it, so I stopped training, but the sativa loved it, a bit too much. started flowering three days ago: added 400w HPS and have had to tie down all nodes. One of the 30/50's now has some burn (the one that was training) BUT it was also transplanted into a different soil. 1: Can I slow growth in the sativa durring flowering, without much stress and without disturbing the other plants. 2: Burn help?
I do not have a camera, so pics are impossiable. The burn isnt awful, but could easily turn into a problem, and with only having 4 plants, I dont want to lose any.
Any advice?
Set up,
400w HPS overhead
120w cool white angled on wall to give under nods light.
circulating fan
1/3rd perilite to 2/3rd "African Violet Merical grow (tm)" 6.3 ph lvl
cant afford nuts so Im using "Shake plant feed" by merical grow with no nitrogen OD ^_^
Hope to hear a responce soon!!
MeJuana
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Sorry didn't realize you didn't give out your dirt mix Uncle Ben please ignore my PM from last night then. Guess this is what I will use then
http://hightimes.com/grow/subcool/5728
DaveCoulier
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MeJuana, he's posted his soil recipe a few times in his threads before. I wish I could give you a link to it, but I dont have it offhand.
If you want a good soil as your base, I would suggest Fafards Heavyweight mixes. Im currently using Fafard #52, and it provides good drainage, and aeration, but not as much water retention. Then you can decide which amendments to add afterwards. Its alot cheaper too! 2.8cf for $11.xx versus overpriced products like Fox Farms or Roots organic that are costing $20 for about half as much soil.
Life Goes On
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If your paying $20 for a bag of Roots your gettin your head busted! I pay $15. I'd rather pay the extra $4.00 and not have to worry about adding amendments. You'll probably spend more than $4.00 on amendments anyway so the end result is Roots is cheaper.
ANC
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The one in the back has been done, the one in the front is a mutant.
Only brancheson one side develop, the ones on the other side forms like a sheath around the centre stem, so the whole thing keeps curling in on itself, and seems to be makeing two colas.
Both are girls, I just never seem to get boy seeds, despite haveing hundreds of seeds.
lefreq
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Uncle Ben
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Yep, they look great.
lefreq
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cherrs UB you may remember me bein quite sceptical about this method at first as i didnt see the benefits other than to keep height down on tall sativas but since trying it for myself i have found multiple benefits, my canopy is very even and level, having the 4 equal colas i have not had to support or tie in anyway as they sort of balance each other out, and looks like im going to be getting alot of rather large COLAS and not much popcorn, 7 plants with 4 main colas each making 28 MAIN COLAS looks bloody lovely if i do say so myself!
so thanks uncle ben i shall be using this method every single time from now on if i could send you a spliff i would ++++rep
corúm
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After having read most of this thread... and having an 'extra' plant to experiment with, this is my result so far... been vegging for 4 weeks roughly, it's going to be a nice plant to flower!
I also have 8 seedlings i plan on doing this too for my next round for that 'even' canopy, i've been struggling with keeping things even in my cabinet with the way my first grow/plants ended up.
Thanks for the info.
I also have 8 seedlings i plan on doing this too for my next round for that 'even' canopy, i've been struggling with keeping things even in my cabinet with the way my first grow/plants ended up.
Thanks for the info.
Uncle Ben
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I topped this plant about 3 weeks into veg, it was already showing alternating nodes. It's so damn pretty it's gotta be a lady! Hope so as plant 2 isn't doing well. Should be showing sex real soon as week 2 of flower started today. Thank UB!
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The Amazing Hunk
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cool man!going to use this technique.it seems like youre cutting off the node who would become the cola right?
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