Culling...Judge, Jury, and Executioner :(

I had to cull a perfectly healthy and happy plant in her first week of veg today. That was a surprisingly tough task.

First tent grow. I set up a 4x4x8 to grow four plants in 7 gal fabric pots. The fans, SS drain tray, drip system, even four Diablo Quantum Board LEDs, all configured for four plants.

I germinated six feminized seeds anticipating a one or two not to sprout. One failed to germinate, doing the job for me, but the other five were thriving. It was VERY difficult to pick the loser and I actually felt guilty after I whacked her.

Does anybody else plant extras and cull them?

Most of us are gluttons for punishment. We put too many or too large of plants in our tents and hope for the best!! Haha

If I start extras and they all end up sprouting, I'll usually let them go a little longer than a week before deciding which one gets voted off the island. More often than not, I just keep them and cram them all in there.

You guys are funny. I almost did the same thing. I was calling local hydroponics shops to see who had 5 gal fabric and 12" pot elevators. Luckily, the only one that did was 40 miles away. That sobered me up.

I planted a bunch of seeds also expecting a bunch not to come up.

Here are my four survivors and the one "voted off the island". Lol

hope you are not in the habit of watering just around the plants. thats not the proper way to water. you should water the whole pot and not leave any dry spots. then wait till it gets dry again before watering.

also i try not to cull them, when i have extras i keep the in nursery pots in a small tent for future grows.

crimsonecho said:

hope you are not in the habit of watering just around the plants. thats not the proper way to water. you should water the whole pot and not leave any dry spots. then wait till it gets dry again before watering.

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I had just transplanted them, and wet the small pots prior to help hold the soil together. Although, they had plenty of roots to do that. When I put them in the big pots, I did just water around them. Day after tomorrow I'll give them a good watering.

Are they all of the same cultivar?

LewberDewber852 said:

Are they all of the same cultivar?

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Same seedbank, ilgm, but two are Girl Scout Cookies Extreme and two are Tropicana Cookies. I did the TC because I wanted a heavily sativa dominant hybrid.

Jw but sounds good.
Although I would say just keep ‘em all and finish ‘em small if ya don’t have the space.

I never plant 'extras' plant just what I need and if one doesn't come up within a week or so, I plant another seed. By the time you're ready to flip them for flower a week give or take doesn't really matter.

The thing I hate happened to me this current grow. I only do 2 plants at a time these days and planted a Durban Poison and a Blue Dream...supposedly both feminized regulars. The Blue Dream ended up being an auto which finished well ahead of the Durban leading me to find an ad-hoc drying setup since I like to dry in tent once harvested, since the Durban is early/mid flower in the tent. It also meant that I treated the Blue Dream Auto like it was a photoperiod and topped/trained it super aggressively right before it showed signs of flower. Ugh.

LeastExpectedGrower said:

I never plant 'extras' plant just what I need and if one doesn't come up within a week or so, I plant another seed. By the time you're ready to flip them for flower a week give or take doesn't really matter.

The thing I hate happened to me this current grow. I only do 2 plants at a time these days and planted a Durban Poison and a Blue Dream...supposedly both feminized regulars. The Blue Dream ended up being an auto which finished well ahead of the Durban leading me to find an ad-hoc drying setup since I like to dry in tent once harvested, since the Durban is early/mid flower in the tent. It also meant that I treated the Blue Dream Auto like it was a photoperiod and topped/trained it super aggressively right before it showed signs of flower. Ugh.

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Ugh. Why do we torture ourselves with this hobby? lol

bigboerboel said:

Ugh. Why do we torture ourselves with this hobby? lol

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I like the challenge and the process/tweak aspect of it. I mostly give away what I grow or what I make from what I grow.

I was more sad just that I didn't know until that one Blue Dream started flowering that it was an Auto. I would have both treated it differently as well as not planted it at the same time as a photoperiod Durban poison. The BD finished fine, but would have been way more to harvest, had I known...now it'll only be a few ounces.

The Durban is happily developing.

I give 90% of mine away too. So much that I have no idea who my REAL friends are.

I'm in such a remote shit hole that I don't even have people to give it to anymore, aside from tossing the occasional nug to the chick working at the Dollar Store. Hermies aside, this last grow went pretty damn well for me, at least in terms of quality of smoke. Got a couple pounds of some pretty damn decent bud, and no one to smoke it with. Ain't that some shit?!

bigboerboel said:

I give 90% of mine away too. So much that I have no idea who my REAL friends are.

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Most popular for me is the 'full spectrum' capsules I initially made for myself so I could sleep at night. I handed some slightly higher powered ones off to a friend who uses them to 'chill'...he gave some to his wife with chronic pain and sleep issues and found they stopped that cycle. He gave some to another mutual friend who has a wife with chronic insomnia as well...and she's been sleeping well for the first time in decades, so I make some for both of them now...and now I've got others all looking for the same all in the same situation!

That said, I continue to make ~27mg capsules for that original friend, but also hand him a few ounces at a time of flower.

I think about the me (and my friends) back in 1980's high school and how we would have cried at the concept of having so much that it becomes discard and/or giving away ounces at a time without a thought.

I dont cull extras if i have any i give em away id only kill it if i had to and if i had a better climate id just chuck em outside someplace quiet

I know he wasn't the first to say it, but I always think back to E$OBAR (breeder) on another forum where he documents his breeding practices, when he said "Keep the best and kill the rest"

Some are happy just to have a plant, some are on a quest for the grail, and there's everything in between. If you feel guilty, I'll be the first devil on your shoulder to say you should make your own seeds, to create equilibrium. Making life is the absolution you seek, doooooo iiiiiiiiit

LeastExpectedGrower said:

I think about the me (and my friends) back in 1980's high school and how we would have cried at the concept of having so much that it becomes discard and/or giving away ounces at a time without a thought.

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HA!!! Truer words were never spoken!

My high school was 70's, and we saw the transition from $10 four-finger bags of Mexican ragweed to $40 a gram Humboldt Country buds. We would have robbed a bank for 1/4 oz of Humboldt skunk. My outdoor grow last year produced nearly two pounds, even after losing two plants to budrot. I gave a two oz jar to an Uber driver because she smelled like weed when I got in, was super nice, and reminded me of my daughter. I give so much to my 65-70 year-old golf friends that golfing with them is like something out of a Cheech and Chong movie.