Added a frame under my tray, now I can flush for days… lol. (seriously though, if your using synthetic nutes, you must flush your plants extremely well for a good quality smoke, don’t want it burning black after months and months of work)
The other plant you may have seen in images above is a ECSD in week 3, just some personal for the misses, but I can already see her eyes light up when she smells Pheno E. It is one of the best smelling strains I have ever smelled, and that’s saying a lot after running hundreds and hundreds of strains in many dispensaries where I have worked as a head grower. You have done it again @Subcool another badass strain!!!
Nice, I didn’t realize there was a topic regarding this already. This turned out to be a good test of the GML method. I have stripped leaves previously at week 3 and only leaves I thought blocked a lot of light. The main difference I see is the bud size on the bottoms is much larger when the leaves are stripped, I saw no slow down in growth and the additional stress everyone talks about was not seen on these plants.
I will run a test soon. I will run 2 clones of the same strain and fully strip one, and only the main light blockers on the other, this will give us a good comparison. I will post the test in the GML Leaf Stripping topic.
Different strains will react differently, but so far I have had no adverse effects from doing it, other than bigger buds on my lower branches.
my take on pruning is it’s really only meant for indoor grows lol maybe minimal outdoor pruning like once or twice the whole grow, but indoors the light isn’t as strong.
Looks like it shall be a fine grow, plants look happy.
Im a firm believer that all your main buds are in the top 2 feet, so most anything beyond the top two feet is waste as the lights power is diminished in that zone.
Iv fucked up hydro by veging too long a few times. damn things get away on me and I end up with 7 monsters with little to nothing down low, all that plant grown I wasted time on.
If people chop all the lower garbage off and feed it to the chickens before flowering then is a good idea.
Tiny lower popcorn buds are nothing.
I hear about subcool strains but never grew any, I think a few years back they were sold out of a bit hard to find so I never tried any.
We have a 12 site flow and grow doing nothing, might have to order some new genetics.
You def should, I have had genetics from many places but hands down TGA wins for my fav phenos, I almost always find a couple keepers then have a hard time picking which one I want.
I’m also a fan of TGA, I’ve had Jillybean since 2015 and love her smell and flavor, tang,sweet and great buzz.
I also had Agent Orange but sadly forgot to take more clones before I put my mom into flowering so I don’t have any morenof that strong orange/fuely smelling dank anymore…
The first is my Favorite so far…
Pheno E:
Medium Height, Not stretchy, very frosty with extra greasy trichomes, shes gonna be a full melt maker ;] - Lemon Lime skittles, strawberry twizzlers, sweet tarts, hint of skunk funk - just amazing terps like I have never smelled before!!!
Pheno F:
This is the heavy feeder from the start. Very similar in growth structure to Pheno G, but different smell, has that rotten fruit baby poo smell.
Week 6.5 and getting the flush… chop and smoke report coming soon… I can’t wait to smoke all these different phenos and make my final selection(s). I have a feeling more than one keeper may be found ;]
Its G-13 x Mystery Strain(we will find out soon I hope), far from a popcorn bud… stacks nicely, and has serious density on a couple phenos. Wasn’t expecting this kind of production on a test grow, very impressed.
The flower formation on the fan leaf is referred to as adventitious bud formation. In this case it means, formed accidentally or in an unusual anatomical position". @shroomgod
This is a branch that was shaded by the canopy, generally the lower shaded buds show less development/trichomes… not the case here look at that frost!!
Pulling the ladies out soon for some real pictures using the macro lens, all previous photos have been with the phone, I can’t wait for the photo shoot because after that they are getting chopped ;]
look at that frost!!