2023 "Field of Dreams"

I’m getting in on the same thing, but it ain’t cooling down anytime soon. The 907 is already an imposing monster of a woman - just trying to prune her up a little last night was a challenge. DENSE structure like a hedge. I think I’m going to have a hard time doing anything but trimming up the bottom and pruning off some scragglers, I’ll direct a few of the side shoots way off sideways for seedmaking. I think I’ll attach some bamboos across the cage to extend it out wider to anchor some of the limbs better. Same with Panalawi, I think the IBG is going to be only manageable one of the bunch.

forecast 6jul23

Gotta get 'em bent before the silica hits :rofl:

I’m thanking my lucky stars I didn’t leave all three in each pot.

QUESTION ABOUT MY BALLS:

How long before I need to watch for pollen? I read around 3 weeks from spotting balls. I wanna clip 'em before they spray so I don’t get random seeds in preflowers - I want to know what is what if I can help it.


For the record this will be week 4 of flower, I sprayed STS 3 times starting 4 weeks ago, every Friday. When it gets close, I’ll take pics everyday and try to pluck em the day before they blow, take them inside and either let them pop in a glass of water or cut the individual flowers out and let em dry. Open to suggestions, there seem to be lots of viable techniques. Then into a tupperware with dessicant, I’ll check on em and make sure I don’t over dry. Then vacuum pack and into the fridge until Miss IBG is ready.

On the topic of Silica:
@TopShelfTrees1 that GG stuff looks good. I’ll let you know if I need to get a hold of that Zumsil, thank you for the offer in any case. Still deciding. The Rhino I think will get me through the season and then I’ll need more for next season. It did seem to work just fine last year, and was the only AN product I got other than some Cal Mag I got to help with early seedling Ca deficiciency. I’ve read that silica should mostly be used during veg rather than flower, especially late flower. Probably in that thread I linked. I’d be super interested in your experimental results and apply them to my own grow next run.

@MissinBissin @shag
It’s really a fantastic series of articles. I greatly appreciated reading them and want more people to be exposed to that level of knowledge and fidelity. I’m not a chemist so some of it is “less than intuitive” to me, but it’s all starting to click as I get familiar with the basics over the last several months. It’s been a crash course as @MissinBissin @noknees @Dirt_Wizard and @ColeLennon know I about lost my 2 remaining brain cells trying to figure out soil ammendments :nerd_face:

Cheers guys, I love all your input and the back-n-forth about topics that go beyond what I can find anywhere else - in person or on the internet. Fantastic.

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