Mr. Stinkbud,
I have studied the first 200 pages or so of this thread and I intend to read all of it, but I’m going to jump ahead at this point and ask some questions, since I need to know some things now. Before I do, however, I’d like to say that I am grateful for the knowledge you have shared, and I am in awe of your Christ-like ability to forgive the occasional angry, rude and/or stupid poster. You’re a better man than I.
The questions I have are as follows:
1.) I understand that your 3 week clone 3 week veg system results in continuous 3 week harvests, and I understand that you have to expect the plants to double or triple in size when they go into flower. I also understand that you want to limit the fully grown plants’ size because of space considerations, and that the veg time works out for you because you have legal size limits you have to live with. If legal niceties weren’t a factor, what size would you grow to in veg? If legalities and space weren’t a factor, what size would you grow to?
2.) Similarly, you described your light systems for clone, veg, and flower, and said that some of the lights were being used simply because that’s what you had, and you also mentioned that you would like to try T5HOs. If you had to start over and if space, money and heat don’t matter too much, what , in your opinion, would the perfect light system look like for each stage?
3.) Do you ever smoke through a vaporizer, and if so, can you recommend one?
4.) My plants are in soil right now, and I will be switching to your system shortly. But because I am about to move to a different home, I have to time my harvest to happen before the move and not start clones until after I’ve moved. What I would like to do is bring everything to harvest, reveg my 4 best plants, move taking the plants with me, and then start my new grow with clones from the revegged mothers. Would this give me clones that will be slow to veg, that is, are these clones going to be as viable and productive as ones from non-harvested mothers?
5.) I believe you said you have clones under 24 hour continuous light and then switch to 18/6 at veg. Is that correct?
6.) How tall would a container have to be so that the plants’ roots in veg wouldn’t reach a submersible pump?
7.) How often and how much do you trim leaves, if at all? Is there a guiding philosophy that you use, for instance, would you say that leaves provide the energy that plants need to grow, and that is more important to the final harvest weight than removing them and allowing light to reach lower bud sites?
8.) What would be your 5 top picks for plant strains that grow fast but not too tall, produce a lot, and are mostly sativa?
9.) I read your bubble hash procedure but I’m still confused …do you use strainer bags because the trichomes fall off the leaves and the bags sift them out (and therefore the leaves all pretty much have to be trim from the harvest, I would think), or do the bags somehow sift out the THC from all kinds of leaves, such as trim from veg plants? If not, what do you do with those leaves?
OK, before everyone jumps all over me because I strayed outside the specific subject of Stinkbud’s thread with a few of these questions, let me say this: I have asked some of these questions before here and on other forums (fora? forae? fori? ..forget it), and I don’t always get an answer that I believe. I believe Stinkbud.
All the best,
Robert in Arizona