Which has better yields, more colas or beefing up fewer colas

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Part of the results from my skunk berry harvest. Been in the jars about a week. I got 6 oz off this plant. The buds are super dense. I think I pulled her a little too early. It's good... I'm pretty high. Can't wait to see how it is in 90 days though
 
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I don't think so... I've read different things... Actually, skim or 2% is supposed to be better if you can't get raw... I don't know why... I meant to look it up. I've only applied twice but the results were immediately visible... This is before
I did a fat free milk spray for PM on my outdoor last year cause I was in flower and didn't want to use neem or anything... the PM eats the sugars in the milk and gets fat and dies lol... I think skim is recommended for that just so it doesn't sour as much... but I spray it off the next day.
 
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I did a fat free milk spray for PM on my outdoor last year cause I was in flower and didn't want to use neem or anything... the PM eats the sugars in the milk and gets fat and dies lol... I think skim is recommended for that just so it doesn't sour as much... but I spray it off the next day.
At the risk of sounding dumb... What's pm? I've read about people using milk as a foliar spray. I prob won't do that because it's in my apt. They (the ladies) still seem to appreciate it in the soil. No stink that way.
 
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I fed her the milk, molasses and barley syrup combo this morning again. This time 2 cups of milk. I gave her 1 cup 2 days ago. The results werent as visible as when I fed her a pint. I def see the results with 2 cups, but with 13 gallons of soil maybe a pints the way to go... Hmmmm
 
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I wonder how effective the sub-canopy lighting is? Does the plant adjust its leaves towards them and or are you seening shoots more developing buds there?
Cannabis as a dikotyl plant has a specific leaf-structure with most of the chloroplasts sitting at the palisade cells in the upper adaxial part and the abaxial bottom part is filled by spongy mesophyll. So they can take the light better from above, or, at least, the sides.
But I've seen a few reports years ago when somebody used a number of various lamps under a scrogg and it worked out quite well, what would otherwise have been lollipoped produced nice buds :)
 
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At the risk of sounding dumb... What's pm? I've read about people using milk as a foliar spray. I prob won't do that because it's in my apt. They (the ladies) still seem to appreciate it in the soil. No stink that way.
Powdery Mildew. Easy to come by in my climate unfortunately.
 
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I've never seen powdery mildew but apparently milk is effective.
yeah the idea is to introduce lactobacillus to rival the fungus & throw him out by competition. lots of microbes living in a healthy symbiosis with plants being nourished by their old tissue
 
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I wonder how effective the sub-canopy lighting is? Does the plant adjust its leaves towards them and or are you seening shoots more developing buds there?
Cannabis as a dikotyl plant has a specific leaf-structure with most of the chloroplasts sitting at the palisade cells in the upper adaxial part and the abaxial bottom part is filled by spongy mesophyll. So they can take the light better from above, or, at least, the sides.
But I've seen a few reports years ago when somebody used a number of various lamps under a scrogg and it worked out quite well, what would otherwise have been lollipoped produced nice buds :)
Truth be told I don't know how effective it is. My methods are evolving. I did read a couple of studies that said they could absorb light from the bottom though I can't provide those. This is new. I had the blurple pointed from the side. It was in the way there. I do think doing that helped with my skunkberry harvest. My bottom nugs were like rocks same as the top. Maybe they would have been like that anyway... I'm not sure. My goal is total canopy penetration. I kinda want to mimic the ambient light outside... Loosely mimic. I have some mylar sheets on the way that I'm going to staple to the wall.
 
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I should also mention... That blurple isn't a light I'll use as a primary light. I've tried it. The plants didn't like it. They weren't growing/developing properly. I switched to full spectrum and plants instantly perked up. So I'm using it primarily to throw some extra reds at them. We'll see what happens. I do think the lower buds benefit from it.
 
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You can now OFFICIALLY say, "Your plant is lit A.F!" 😉 ☮️🌱
I feel you because like most I enjoy experimenting on (torturing), er, ah, using 'scientific method' on my plants! Also dear original poster, I too am currently growing an LA Confidential! I just now switched her to flowering 2 weeks ago, but yours is a magnificent BEAST! Enjoy, and happy growing!
 
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You're like the Julia Childs or Gordon Ramsey of feeding ganja, friend! Heck, as one poster said, your plant eat better than most 2nd and 3rd world countries....Personally, I say EXPLORE....I did like you, tri0ed a lot of different products and after awhile found my one or two and my fav, lights and the whole growing became addicting! I need more friends near me to share flower with! @Mcsketcher , I LOVE your LA Conf. I would LOVE to- see it hanging and then trimmed. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing you awesome pics!
 
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This plant is a LA Confidential in 13 gallons of Dr earth and fox farm ocean forest soil mixed. I use Dr earth as my base ferts and supplement with down to earth stuff... ie: guano, kelp meal, alfalfa meal, langbeinite. I just started adding coconut water and aloe juice. I also use barley, barley extract and unsulphured molasses. Also hormex rooting hormone (vita B1), ascorbic acid (vita C). I just started using Tribus as well. It's too early to tell if the coco water, aloe juice and tribus will make a difference. My leaf tips are burning a bit but the plant looks healthy otherwise. I'm concerned it might be too much light but I'm not sure. Maybe Im over feeding something in the NPK realm. Oh, I also use fulvic acid and cal-mag. Lastly, I use Dr Earth's metabolic transformer. It might seem like I know what I'm doing but I don't really. This is my 4th grow and I'm still fumbling through it. I attempted to fim early but messed it up or it didn't work the way I wanted it to at least. I wound up topping her 5 times to get 32 colas. Is that too many for 1 plant? Does the stalk need to be thicker? Should I have kept it at 16 colas? She's in early flower, should I damage bud sites so only 24 colas develope? Is it better to have more bud sites or better to have less sites and focus on beefing them up? Which provides better yields?
You did such dedicated work on this, we can maybe add it to the "strain" forum/sticky? @Mcsketcher I am happy to help with the text and medical applications and such. What do you say Staff? ☮️ 🌱
 
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I've got 2 parfactworks 1000 on either side angled inwards diagonally. In the middle is a colofrog 1000 dimmable that's at 70% or so. I'm getting 38000-42000 readings across the canopy. There's also a 300 watt pointing at the bottom of canopy and a bestva blurple aimed horizontally at it
I'm rocking two 8 bar 840w from parfactworks... liking them so-far
 

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