Recent content by Fat Manatee

THE RESULTS ARE IN!! This is the time you all have been waiting for, the product has been dried and has started the curing process. Overall I would say the test is a success, and I think I've done a good job at keeping all things equal. However, the results were not what I expected. And the...

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What was G/W in the end?

Mini Update, end of week 7 Not much has changed, however there has been a little bulking. 20% of trichomas are milky, most are clear and there's no amber trichs yet. Attached picture has a side by side comparison with a 400ml bottle.

You are absolutely wrong on this one. During summer sunlight is blue, and towards fall the spectrum changes to red hues. Even changes during morning, midday and evening are huge. You can't seriously claim, you've never seen a sunset that makes the sky and your surroundings glow orange.

I absolutely agree, I used a wrong term. Defoliation and pruning have been used as synonyms on many forums, and I never checked the meaning from a dictionary. I will know what terms to use in the future ;)

Mini-update, week 6 (day 45) Flushing was started on day 42 with molasses and canna boost, which I will be running for a full week, starting with plain water on week 7. Buds are starting to ripen, as pistils have been turning brown for the past couple of days. Deficiencies are getting worse...

Okay! End of week 4 flowering (day 28), update time! It's been pretty quiet since my last update, and not much has changed. Now I'm finally starting to see the bud sites swelling up. The up coming weeks should be really exciting. There's not much difference between the two groups, apart from...

Further experimentation will definitely be needed. I'm planning on doing a lollipop in the next run after this. Depending if this defoliation run is a success, I will be combining both pruning methods together, for the next test.

Day 2 after defoliation. The leaves have re-arranged themselves so that it's easier to see how much defoliation was done, and a lot more bud sites are now exposed to light. 1st, defoliation side 2nd, not defoliated 3rd, both sides

I ended up pruning three days earlier then expected (day 18 flower), as the stretch ended earlier then I expected, and the plants had shifted to full bud production. In the attached pictures it may seem that I did not chop a lot of leaves, as there's so many to begin with! However I chopped a...

I'm thinking the same, as the lower bud sites could already use the light. The dude I got these clones from has been doing bilbo for a few years now, and he always lollipops his scrog setup at week 3 with good results, so that's how I ended up choosing day 21 as defol day. They do seem to keep...

After I started adding more perlite to my soil mixture, I never had wilting issues post watering. Peace.

Do you defoliate or not?

Okay, week two flower (day 14) update time! Buds are starting to form up, just 7 days to go til' my planned defoliation date. I lent an EC meter and recorded some values, so I thought I might as well share them with you as well. Tap water: EC: 0.2 PH: 6.8 Feeding solution: EC: 1.35-1.70* PH...