Haven’t taken the bottom canopy yet. It was on my mind last night that I should have done it a week ago. There has been a heat wave in my area in mid 90s so I assume it’s heat stress but I should probably back my lights out to alleviate that now that I think about it. Thanks for the advice!
I’m thinking, I’ll clean out the bottom a bit tonight and I’ll tuck as much as I can after that. What I usually do with photos are lollipop the bottom before the flower and I’ve defoliated throughout the flowering period periodically. I’ll try not to stress these autos out any more than I have.
Yeah that’s how I do it as well, being organic things move a little slower, so its easier to just do a little now and again until its right. Some strains need more than others I have a HOG and it has so many leaves tight together that its a constant battle to keep it under control, while others I don’t have to touch after being lollipoped.
I really need to learn how to optimize space for my plants. Always packing them in and getting tight. Next run, I’m going to trim a whole lot more to see how that goes. When I first started growing, I started with the scrog method with lst and I still need to learn to trim a bit more off I think or spread them out better.
5th of August
Sour raspberry kush on the left, owl pellets on the right, and cherry cookies v2 on the bottom.
Thanks! I hope they stay that way. I could really go for a smoke from one of these right about now. I only have one strain on me from my last harvest and i’m itching for some variety!
I found an interesting thick branch in my owl pellets! It split off into two buds at the top with a budsites down the middle! Exciting! My first experience with something like this.
I was thinking the same thing but also hoping it was some kind of special mutation! Before I really noticed what happened, I remember giving that branch a squeeze and it felt hollow and kind of flat.
Thanks for the insight on empath stuff! It’s very interesting and I should read into it. I’ve been trying to control my breathing better to calm things down and try to ground myself instead of taking in what’s around me. It really explains why I’ve been feeling as I do lately. I will make visualizing my chakras something I try more often. I use to do that to calm myself down and it has worked!
yeh it really helped me, I have been meditating and working with energy for 30 years now, I see peoples energy fields/auras as well when I relax, and move myself into alpha brain wave activity, after a while it becomes second nature.
Sometimes though if the rest of the family is on a downer, its hard to control negativity, and not get sucked into it. I just take the dog for a walk, and get into nature or woods, take my shoes off and really ground myself out properly. Just moving positive and negative ions about in your energy field helps a lot.
Yeah family gatherings give me anxiety and always feels so charged. I’ve been going on hikes and just long walks lately to try and ground myself and reset? It has always helped but staying conscious of what I can be affected by hasn’t been something on my mind. I’ll have to think about all this to see how it effects me and see if things can be reasoned out. I’ve been controlling my breathing in hopes of positively effecting my energy and it has helped relieve a tightness I’ve had in my chest. I probably should try more stretches and yoga. Thanks!
Everything is still bushy and packed in. I have taken leaves periodically but still so packed. Sour raspberry kush probably needs a good tucking and maybe some more leaves taken from her? Sour Raspberry Kush is getting sticky, owl pellets has continued to stretch and may have hit its peak, and cherry cookies v2 is still a small plant.
One of the problems of different strains in a confined space. It only takes one unruly one to mess it up and bury the others. you are just going to have to keep thinning them out until they finish stretching. If you can get a small fan underneath that should help out with air flow.
I really need to get new fans. I’ve been putting it off and I should catch up. In this tent I only have one blowing down at the plants. I usually have another underneath the canopy but I have another tent I built and so I moved the beneath canopy fan over to the other tent and still haven’t bought 2 more fans. I think I was too eager to start the autoflowers an will probably limit it to 2 per tent considering my space limits.
Yeah I always pushed my luck with fans but this year I got extra fans and not a bit of PM unlike last year this time. I just check out the free adds people get rid of them cheap they are usually the big pedestal types, which would be no good for you unfortunately.
Dialing them back. One of these days I’ll have to try knf and organic soil grows. Those grows sound so magical.
I also have fungus gnats in my flowering tent! Nothing in my autoflower tent luckily.
I also recently stopped by my local grow shop and I got offered a girl scout cookie clone after giving the guy there some weed I grew! Love my local shop! They grow cannabis right by the windows in the shop and no one ever seems to notice.
Gsc
Thanks! I was wondering about the leaves, I put together a tent in another space to quarantine the gsc along with some sticky traps. So far so good it seems but ill play it safe with the insecticidal soap. Thanks for the advice!
Cool you know what you are doing, the insecticidal should kill eggs and larvae as well, a light spray on the soil, doesn’t hurt, I hate using anything including organic stuff, but you got to protect yourself, and make sure. These pests multiply so fast you can’t let them get a foot hold.
