Bruh's Beans
- Thread starter CannaBruh
- Start date
Bubby'sndalab
Well-Known Member
Bubbly?
CannaBruh
Well-Known Member
bubbly mama
aka
pre98 bubba swerve
here she is at 6weeks
no defoliation, this is for a comparison of the same cut.
I'll be doing a brutal defoliation on the following bubba in a few days...maybe a little over a week or so in flower... she's already taller than the non-defol comparison/control you can see in the background.
This one gonna beast y'all
been awhile since I've had anything more than a sad sad pathetic snizzle fritz run, I is excited 
That's Symbiotic's Purple Starburst (starburst og x purple punch f2) over on the left puffing up.
Came with herm warnings but I haven't had any problems with them. I only popped a few seeds and found this female and I have a pack and a half left of them. Decent.
CannaBruh
Well-Known Member
Sorry not the greatest shot of my mimosa keeper. Isn't she lovely tho, here she is at 6weeks.
Sister to ©David Mimosa and aunty to all the bubbly
A few fans were pulled but no hard defoliation. Same story being that I have a large veg'd out mimosa going into flower on Sunday that will get a heavy defoliation in comparison. Observations being made.
Sister to ©David Mimosa and aunty to all the bubbly
A few fans were pulled but no hard defoliation. Same story being that I have a large veg'd out mimosa going into flower on Sunday that will get a heavy defoliation in comparison. Observations being made.
CannaBruh
Well-Known Member
Defoliate tek; GML style.
Some comparison of pre98 grown as is vs heavy defoliate, results tbd.
Intent; inform self through observation whether heavy defoliate tek results in significant loss of yield.
Scope; strip 'all' fan leaves after stretch appears to subside, markers are flower clusters starting at tops and green stretchy growth comes to halt.
I see some people doing leaf strips right at the onset of flower, or a few days in. I don't like this but am open to your findings if you care to share. I feel letting them power through stretch gives them all they can muster before they switch gears to making flowers, theeeeen strip. But I'm no plant expert I only poke and watch.
Pre98 Bubba (Swerve) ~14days into 12/12
Note flowers forming
Stretch is done or nearly done. Bubba don't stretch much.
4tops (great band) north of leafy early Bubba is another Bubba @49days (seen earlier in thread)
Same Pre98 profile shot
Naked
Profile Nekked
Note the lowers are now completely exposed to ~every (many) emitters point source relative to bubba's lowers in background covered up by leaves.
Another angle really showing how the leafy bubba still will develop lowers but they're hidden from direct light. Can we improve lowers with defoliation or will the plant overall suffer and do worse than non-defol? I venture to guess lowers of strip will improve, but maybe at tradeoff of some quality decrease overall, less large tops? Who knows, let's find out!
Attempt to frame in the tops of leafy Bubba with stripped out Bubba.
Stripped Bubba will be finished in 8-10 weeks, we'll refer back to this pic for some comparison.
Ideally I'd have many Bubbas staged ready to rip side by side leafy/stripped but we're not that prepared.
Flowing with things as they go.
Some comparison of pre98 grown as is vs heavy defoliate, results tbd.
Intent; inform self through observation whether heavy defoliate tek results in significant loss of yield.
Scope; strip 'all' fan leaves after stretch appears to subside, markers are flower clusters starting at tops and green stretchy growth comes to halt.
I see some people doing leaf strips right at the onset of flower, or a few days in. I don't like this but am open to your findings if you care to share. I feel letting them power through stretch gives them all they can muster before they switch gears to making flowers, theeeeen strip. But I'm no plant expert I only poke and watch.
Pre98 Bubba (Swerve) ~14days into 12/12
Note flowers forming
Stretch is done or nearly done. Bubba don't stretch much.
4tops (great band) north of leafy early Bubba is another Bubba @49days (seen earlier in thread)
Same Pre98 profile shot
Naked
Profile Nekked
Note the lowers are now completely exposed to ~every (many) emitters point source relative to bubba's lowers in background covered up by leaves.
Another angle really showing how the leafy bubba still will develop lowers but they're hidden from direct light. Can we improve lowers with defoliation or will the plant overall suffer and do worse than non-defol? I venture to guess lowers of strip will improve, but maybe at tradeoff of some quality decrease overall, less large tops? Who knows, let's find out!
Attempt to frame in the tops of leafy Bubba with stripped out Bubba.
Stripped Bubba will be finished in 8-10 weeks, we'll refer back to this pic for some comparison.
Ideally I'd have many Bubbas staged ready to rip side by side leafy/stripped but we're not that prepared.
Flowing with things as they go.
thenotsoesoteric
Well-Known Member
Ive noticed much better yields with fans vs no fans. I always clean up the lower half of plants but usually leave all fans on top.
Only time Ive noticed an improvement with heavy defol. was when I crammed too many plants under 1 light.
But a lot of that experimenting was earlier in my growing days so Im not sure if I could improve on those old results.
Interested to see how it goes for you.
Only time Ive noticed an improvement with heavy defol. was when I crammed too many plants under 1 light.
But a lot of that experimenting was earlier in my growing days so Im not sure if I could improve on those old results.
Interested to see how it goes for you.
JohnGlennsGarden
Well-Known Member
Be interested to see how she does, bruh. Ever try the honey wheat clancys? Those are my snack!Defoliate tek; GML style.
Some comparison of pre98 grown as is vs heavy defoliate, results tbd.
Intent; inform self through observation whether heavy defoliate tek results in significant loss of yield.
Scope; strip 'all' fan leaves after stretch appears to subside, markers are flower clusters starting at tops and green stretchy growth comes to halt.
I see some people doing leaf strips right at the onset of flower, or a few days in. I don't like this but am open to your findings if you care to share. I feel letting them power through stretch gives them all they can muster before they switch gears to making flowers, theeeeen strip. But I'm no plant expert I only poke and watch.
Pre98 Bubba (Swerve) ~14days into 12/12
Note flowers forming
Stretch is done or nearly done. Bubba don't stretch much.
4tops (great band) north of leafy early Bubba is another Bubba @49days (seen earlier in thread)
Same Pre98 profile shot
Naked
Profile Nekked
Note the lowers are now completely exposed to ~every (many) emitters point source relative to bubba's lowers in background covered up by leaves.
Another angle really showing how the leafy bubba still will develop lowers but they're hidden from direct light. Can we improve lowers with defoliation or will the plant overall suffer and do worse than non-defol? I venture to guess lowers of strip will improve, but maybe at tradeoff of some quality decrease overall, less large tops? Who knows, let's find out!
Attempt to frame in the tops of leafy Bubba with stripped out Bubba.
Stripped Bubba will be finished in 8-10 weeks, we'll refer back to this pic for some comparison.
Ideally I'd have many Bubbas staged ready to rip side by side leafy/stripped but we're not that prepared.
Flowing with things as they go.
CannaBruh
Well-Known Member
Mimosa aka M1 (keeper of my Symbiotic pack)
Not sure how long she veg'd in this container but she needed some cleanup.
I like to clean up lowers pre-stretch aka first day(s) into 12/12 or before first night cycle, sometime in that first few days so as, in theory, not to allow lowers to sink energy to be allocated to branches/larf that will be removed anyway, waste of motion..
Added benefit to cleaning up lowers is that for a given plant of some size you can obtain cuttings from these lowers. These cuttings will be the new 'moms' which really will be vegged old enough to rinse repeat. So while I don't really keep moms outside of "do i have another one of these rooted and backed up in veg, yes? then it's a mom" the lower cuttings allow for redundancy without need to revert 'monster' cuts etc. They'll root up and be ready to rip in veg, few weeks later they're in this same state ready to head to flower..
pre-cleanup
profile pre-cleanup
post-lowersGone
profile-lowersGone
These photos were taken same day I stripped the pre98, might look familiar on the left.
It's been about a week since the photos were taken, updates will come in early next week and every week thereafter.
Mimosa will get stripped sometime in the next week. Once the branches stop or appear to be mostly done stretching and those early flowers start forming that is our indication it's time to remove all fan leaves.
peace n puffs
..ps we have honey wheat buckets moving in, those are probably my favorite ones.
Buckets doubled up leave a nice few inches air gap at the bottom.
Drill some holes into one bucket and place into second bucket sans holes.
Roots have air gap to climb into.
Pour water into outer bucket few inches, drop in coco bucket, bottom feed roots (roots out bottom will look hydro) coco wicks up all it needs, gnats have no chance at ideal egg laying environment
humans/plants win
Not sure how long she veg'd in this container but she needed some cleanup.
I like to clean up lowers pre-stretch aka first day(s) into 12/12 or before first night cycle, sometime in that first few days so as, in theory, not to allow lowers to sink energy to be allocated to branches/larf that will be removed anyway, waste of motion..
Added benefit to cleaning up lowers is that for a given plant of some size you can obtain cuttings from these lowers. These cuttings will be the new 'moms' which really will be vegged old enough to rinse repeat. So while I don't really keep moms outside of "do i have another one of these rooted and backed up in veg, yes? then it's a mom" the lower cuttings allow for redundancy without need to revert 'monster' cuts etc. They'll root up and be ready to rip in veg, few weeks later they're in this same state ready to head to flower..
pre-cleanup
profile pre-cleanup
post-lowersGone
profile-lowersGone
These photos were taken same day I stripped the pre98, might look familiar on the left.
It's been about a week since the photos were taken, updates will come in early next week and every week thereafter.
Mimosa will get stripped sometime in the next week. Once the branches stop or appear to be mostly done stretching and those early flowers start forming that is our indication it's time to remove all fan leaves.
peace n puffs
..ps we have honey wheat buckets moving in, those are probably my favorite ones.
Buckets doubled up leave a nice few inches air gap at the bottom.
Drill some holes into one bucket and place into second bucket sans holes.
Roots have air gap to climb into.
Pour water into outer bucket few inches, drop in coco bucket, bottom feed roots (roots out bottom will look hydro) coco wicks up all it needs, gnats have no chance at ideal egg laying environment
humans/plants win
Last edited:
that made bubbly, rip)
CannaBruh
Well-Known Member
Symbiotic's Purple Starburst
smells like the name if it were to exist
About a week or so ago it got hot at the canopy and she also was overwatered a bit, regardless, something caused a majority of her pistils to changeover prematurely but she's still swelling on.
4-5weeks in ish
1 or 2 more runs and I'll make a decision on what is going to happen to her. She's solid but very similar to mimosa and m1 smokes this plant.
I had a boulder yielding og leaning funky pheno and while not a 'herm' it was too finicky and would throw too many bananas for my liking. Other than that one plant I hadn't had any herm trouble from the purple starbursts though the packaging label had a warning of herm tendencies.
smells like the name if it were to exist
About a week or so ago it got hot at the canopy and she also was overwatered a bit, regardless, something caused a majority of her pistils to changeover prematurely but she's still swelling on.
4-5weeks in ish
1 or 2 more runs and I'll make a decision on what is going to happen to her. She's solid but very similar to mimosa and m1 smokes this plant.
I had a boulder yielding og leaning funky pheno and while not a 'herm' it was too finicky and would throw too many bananas for my liking. Other than that one plant I hadn't had any herm trouble from the purple starbursts though the packaging label had a warning of herm tendencies.
Bubby'sndalab
Well-Known Member
PurdyChop time, day 70
bubba pre98/SwerveCut
