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HarvesterPdx

HarvesterPdx

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Happy Outdoor Season! I got Purple Moab, Northern Lights, Agent Orange x Golden Skunk, White Tahoe Cookies, Harlequin x Mail order bride, Purple Kush, Jaeger, Pakman and Thor's Hammer this year! I'm using 100, 65 and 45 gallon pots, feeding with compost tea. I'll be really making effort to trellis this year!
 

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BlazinDucks

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Yesterday's project consisted of lollipopping all the ladies, and putting up the trellis netting. After a lot of searching Google and driving around town a bunch to get 8ft garden stakes I managed to get two plants taken care of. 8ft plastic coated steel stakes are a pain to get. Have to wait a few days on those. I put a scrog net on top the help for lower support and spreading out of the canopy. I'll stack more an when needed down the road. The cherry pie received a full outer wrap. Those things will need it once flowering starts. I had a ridiculous amount of tops last year, it was a daily effort tying each bud up come end of season. I hope to manage it more efficiently this year.

The other two plants which are incredibly bushy are having to wait a few days until the grow store gets more 8ft stakes. They'll be thoroughly wrapped with netting up to about 6.5-7ft up. They're currently about 4 feet tall, and I'm guessing will be close to 7-8 feet when all is done and finished.

The amounts of water I'm going through is far more compared to last. I always phd my solutions and relied on nutrients far more last year, this year I'm just hose watering and I've only used my new nutes once. I have far super soil this year compared to last and from what I've read about the soil working as a buffer to correct ph, I'm not too concerned about those issues arising. They're thriving this year and growing rapidly with this amazing weather. My tomatoes and everything else are going nuts too.
 

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Have any of you guys super-cropped the same branch in more than one place? On one of my plants the super-cropped branches have been straightening themselves out over time, and I'm going to need to bend them again probably about a foot north of where I hit them the first time... unless that's a bad idea?
 
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slow drawl

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Humanrob said:
Have any of you guys super-cropped the same branch in more than one place? On one of my plants the super-cropped branches have been straightening themselves out over time, and I'm going to need to bend them again probably about a foot north of where I hit them the first time... unless that's a bad idea?
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I ended up having to do that to a lot of the main branches on all of my GH plants because they got to big. It just seems to stimulate growth, never slowed them down or hurt them.
 
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Humanrob said:
Have any of you guys super-cropped the same branch in more than one place? On one of my plants the super-cropped branches have been straightening themselves out over time, and I'm going to need to bend them again probably about a foot north of where I hit them the first time... unless that's a bad idea?[/QUOTE
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Humanrob said:
Have any of you guys super-cropped the same branch in more than one place? On one of my plants the super-cropped branches have been straightening themselves out over time, and I'm going to need to bend them again probably about a foot north of where I hit them the first time... unless that's a bad idea?
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If they didn't stay in position I'd say you didn't bend or snap them over well, or far enough. I can't see any issue with trying again in another spot. You could probably do it right next to the spot and then follow even further up the branch to create a long stretching repair job on the stem. If it's beneficial in one spot I can only guess that it's even more beneficial in two spots.
 
Humanrob

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BlazinDucks said:
If they didn't stay in position I'd say you didn't bend or snap them over well, or far enough. I can't see any issue with trying again in another spot. You could probably do it right next to the spot and then follow even further up the branch to create a long stretching repair job on the stem. If it's beneficial in one spot I can only guess that it's even more beneficial in two spots.
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90% of them stayed bent, and even most of them on the one plant where a few straightened. Next time on that one plant I'll tie them after.

I hope its good for the plant, looks like I'll be doing a LOT of it this year. It's turning out to be my only method of training and these girls are way too tall for this time of year and my 6' fence.
 
BlazinDucks

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Humanrob said:
90% of them stayed bent, and even most of them on the one plant where a few straightened. Next time on that one plant I'll tie them after.

I hope its good for the plant, looks like I'll be doing a LOT of it this year. It's turning out to be my only method of training and these girls are way too tall for this time of year and my 6' fence.
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I've topped mine so much that they're just turning into massive round hedges, which I love. The Obama Kush is the only one I've super cropped and tied up in spots. The knuckles that showed up on the bent spots are just about nickel thick now. Just big ol knobs spread around. I'm very satisfied with the turnout :-) that one will stay fairly short I'm guessing, due to me training it to spread outwards and being a nearly full indica. The others are growing super fast. I'm not worried about height really. The immediate neighbors are all weed friendly.
 
Humanrob

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Sir Napsalot said:
I hear you there, my Black Cherry Soda just keeps getting taller- it's 5.5' right now
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Mine are the same, I think they would be about a foot taller if I hadn't supercropped them. I'm really curious about Black Cherry Soda, I look forward to hearing about how you like it.

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I've topped mine so much that they're just turning into massive round hedges, which I love. The Obama Kush is the only one I've super cropped and tied up in spots. The knuckles that showed up on the bent spots are just about nickel thick now. Just big ol knobs spread around. I'm very satisfied with the turnout :-) that one will stay fairly short I'm guessing, due to me training it to spread outwards and being a nearly full indica. The others are growing super fast. I'm not worried about height really. The immediate neighbors are all weed friendly.
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I'm not sure if its too late to top mine? I usually do that early on. As far as the height goes, I live down the road from a police station, they go by all day long.
 
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Humanrob

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(EDIT: I misremembered some things and corrected them...) 2015 was my first summer grow, and I did a bunch of research and tried to do everything "by the book" so to speak, in terms of spraying my plants for mold and bugs. That year we set one plant aside that we did not spray with anything as an experiment -- and that unsprayed plant did as well or better than the ones we did spray. Since we had all different strains, that could be purely luck/genetics that particular one did well, I completely acknowledge that.

2016 we had rain a couple of times about a week apart in June, and I only sprayed once and then stopped because I figured the rains would wash it off. I wasn't worried though, based on my previous experience I figured I'd be fine. But 2016 was the year moths found us, and we had a horrible worm season. Oddly, the one "no spray" experiment we did that year was not hit by worms at all (again, could be genetics).

So this year I'm spraying again. I've been watching the moths flutter around our garden and I have not seen one land on a cannabis plant, they just fly right by. I don't know if they can "sense" or smell the BT, or if they just don't like the smell of Neem Oil which I use as a base for my spraying, but either way, I hope its working as well as I think it is...

Have you guys been spraying this year? What are you using?

For anyone growing autos, do you bother spraying them? I figure they'll be done long before mold is an issue, and BT would only kill the worms once they hatch and start eating, and I was thinking they'll be done before the worms would hatch.
 
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sandhill larry

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Humanrob said:
(EDIT: I misremembered some things and corrected them...) 2015 was my first summer grow, and I did a bunch of research and tried to do everything "by the book" so to speak, in terms of spraying my plants for mold and bugs. That year we set one plant aside that we did not spray with anything as an experiment -- and that unsprayed plant did as well or better than the ones we did spray. Since we had all different strains, that could be purely luck/genetics that particular one did well, I completely acknowledge that.

2016 we had rain a couple of times about a week apart in June, and I only sprayed once and then stopped because I figured the rains would wash it off. I wasn't worried though, based on my previous experience I figured I'd be fine. But 2016 was the year moths found us, and we had a horrible worm season. Oddly, the one "no spray" experiment we did that year was not hit by worms at all (again, could be genetics).

So this year I'm spraying again. I've been watching the moths flutter around our garden and I have not seen one land on a cannabis plant, they just fly right by. I don't know if they can "sense" or smell the BT, or if they just don't like the smell of Neem Oil which I use as a base for my spraying, but either way, I hope its working as well as I think it is...

Have you guys been spraying this year? What are you using?

For anyone growing autos, do you bother spraying them? I figure they'll be done long before mold is an issue, and BT would only kill the worms once they hatch and start eating, and I was thinking they'll be done before the worms would hatch.
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I saw a worm on one of my seedlings this morning. So they can get an early start. I've been spraying with neem, but haven't been as vigilant with the seedlings, figuring they would be safe for a while.
 
Humanrob

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sandhill larry said:
I saw a worm on one of my seedlings this morning. So they can get an early start. I've been spraying with neem, but haven't been as vigilant with the seedlings, figuring they would be safe for a while.
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Wow... that is early. I can't tell you how many times I did not see something that I was not looking for...

I've got to practice that fuzzy logic zen beginner's mind soft eyes thing and just see everything without actually looking... who said growing weed isn't the road to self-actualization? ;)
 
BlazinDucks

BlazinDucks

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Humanrob said:
(EDIT: I misremembered some things and corrected them...) 2015 was my first summer grow, and I did a bunch of research and tried to do everything "by the book" so to speak, in terms of spraying my plants for mold and bugs. That year we set one plant aside that we did not spray with anything as an experiment -- and that unsprayed plant did as well or better than the ones we did spray. Since we had all different strains, that could be purely luck/genetics that particular one did well, I completely acknowledge that.

2016 we had rain a couple of times about a week apart in June, and I only sprayed once and then stopped because I figured the rains would wash it off. I wasn't worried though, based on my previous experience I figured I'd be fine. But 2016 was the year moths found us, and we had a horrible worm season. Oddly, the one "no spray" experiment we did that year was not hit by worms at all (again, could be genetics).

So this year I'm spraying again. I've been watching the moths flutter around our garden and I have not seen one land on a cannabis plant, they just fly right by. I don't know if they can "sense" or smell the BT, or if they just don't like the smell of Neem Oil which I use as a base for my spraying, but either way, I hope its working as well as I think it is...

Have you guys been spraying this year? What are you using?

For anyone growing autos, do you bother spraying them? I figure they'll be done long before mold is an issue, and BT would only kill the worms once they hatch and start eating, and I was thinking they'll be done before the worms would hatch.
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This is my second year growing now. Last year I sprayed once in the early stages with flying skull brand, (nuke-em) I didn't get very good results. They ended up talon clawing up and never came back to normal. It was in the early stages of veg so it didn't matter much.

As far as this year goes I haven't sprayed them. I've been putting it off and putting it off because I can't seem to pull the trigger on a brand. There seems to be a downside to everything I read about. I don't want my plants to have any ill affects afterwards. I don't want to damage what I've worked so hard on. I spotted one worm today that was webbing itself into a leave. I killed that Damn thing quickly.

It seems like a lot of work to get every nook and cranny of the plant. I don't really want to invest in a vaporizer, or whatever they're called. Can't think of the name right now. I have a large pump bottle or the handy old hand sprayer. I've yet to decide what to do about spraying, or of I'll do it at all.

I had a bit of problem on the cherry pie kush last year. The other unknown strain I had maybe only found 5 worms on it. I'm crossing my fingers for good results either way :-)

On a good note, I finished my trellises today :-) lots of sweat and a few F-bombs.
They're done until I need to stack another layer on the tops.
 

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