The Octopot grower
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BigDawg@1964
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I love these guys that just want to give something back to the community then slap a $300 price tag on defoliation techniques people have been using for years. I'm not saying free, but affordable would be a step in the right direction lol. I would have bought his book right now off of amazon for 29.99-49.99 (granted at 50ish I would have thought about it a bit harder) at 300 he can suck eggs lol
I hope it works out for you. I wouldn't buy the book either.
I'd be afraid of herming the shit out of my plants from stress and ruining everything. I think a lot of this equation is going to be genetics, but I know nothing of defoliation techniques to make an educated guess. I'd wager your entire grow needs to be dialed for it not to have bad effects.
There was a guy on here years ago, sadly no longer with us, but he was defoliating much like this years ago and people were constantly fucking with him for it. He was growing bats of bud. His name was Raiderman, if you can find his grows you will see what I'm talking about. Dude was a legit badass grower, everything he did was impressive as fuck. I miss the information he used to put down. People give folks like him a hard time, even when the proof is in the pudding so to speak dude had pics upon pics proving his techniques worked.
You get this figured out and you'll be happyIt works, there's something to it. But there's also a reason cash croppers aren't doing this, I'm sure the man hours in a commercial setting has a lot to do with it.
BigDawg@1964
Active Member
Dude I have grown weed for years, I start early with plants,I stress the living hell out of them,was taught that by an old timer that showed me the tricks of the trade, I top, I fim,I super crop them and bend and bend to I get an even canopy right before I switch to flower, I fim plants again but mostly just 4 or five of main tops then I send them into flower cycle, fiming them right before you flower triggers that explosive growt for the begining of flower, but you have to be patient with stressing plants you have to veg longer periods, they have to have time to bulk up the whole plant. But the out come you get is well worth the extra time in grow room, I grow 4 plants per grow, each plant has its own light, I use only optic one LEDs during veg, and flower with optic ones with 315 CMH in the middle and optic ones on outer edge of plants, only get couple grows a year but they are good ones. Moral of this story is find what works for you, it's not always the top of the line lights or equipment, in my experience in growing man your environment is the key,if you get that dialed in your off to the races even with low budget equipment. Knowledge is experimenting with cannabis plants pick one out of your grow and try the stuff you've heard growers do. In the cannabis community not all things seems to work for everybody. Lol man your always Tweekin to try and get that yeilds. Good luck keep on Tweeking.
westbmorekush
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What organic nutes did you use... I don't want to use any chemical based nutes since organic has been my way of life
actech
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I've got 12 three gallon going now in my 5x5 Gorilla. first run with octos and LOVE them so far. I'm running the Take and Bake bundle from buildasoil in mine. also I didn't plant my seeds directly into mine since they had not arrived yet. I did the solo cup thing and at around 12 days they got moved to the octos. distilled water only in my reservoirs and not one single sign of ANY issue at all.
