Tell us something unique about your growing style or an admission of something that goes against grower wisdom.

[PK1]

I thought this could be a fun thread..

Tell us something unique/unorthodox about your growing style.

I have an admission. I've never once foliar fed a plant.

lol, same. I've also screwed a plant

 

[Deaner]

I'm a new grower, on my second crop. I was somewhat amazed at the smoke I got out of it.
So. I jumped in with both feet mainlining Wedding crashers strain.

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After reading up I am at the end topping at 8 colas. Now we will let her mature.
Fingers crossed. I only control day and night time temps.

 

[DanC520]

Idk what’s wisdom or not lol. My whole thing is this shit ain’t hard. Not exactly easy, but not hard either. I don’t know chemistry or plant biology. I just use my eyes and this advice.

(I love this clip and will prolly post again)

 

[Deaner]

It's my fun and I'll have it. Lol

 

[growsince79]

Idk what’s wisdom or not lol. My whole thing is this shit ain’t hard. Not exactly easy, but not hard either. I don’t know chemistry or plant biology. I just use my eyes and this advice.

(I love this clip and will prolly post again)

It can be as easy or as hard as you make it.

 

[Pushrod Monkey]

I top the plants just above the first set of 5 bladed leaves. I top the resulting shoots as soon as there’s enough to pinch and then I do those resulting shoots the same. This leaves 8 main branches that have had supercrop started before the third set of shoots are growing out. I snap them into a wagon wheel shape and I snap everything if I don’t trim it off. I also twist snap some lower stems if it’s needed to maintain this flat round canopy.

I supercrop until they start to actually break which is about the start of the third week of flower. I’m almost OCD with this method. I can keep almost any strain chest high. All bets are off in stretch so I’ll tie them with butcher’s twine.

I use thin bamboo barbecue skewers and between waterings I rip the medium up by piercing it all the way to the bottom and especially under the plant. It makes your butt pucker the first time it gets stuck in a large root. Don’t sweat it and keep going.

Use just a drop or two of low sudsing liquid laundry detergent to water peat mediums that are hydrophobic. If it beads up at all it’s a sign you need a surfactant to break that surface tension and liquid soap of any sort is fine. I am well aware of yucca. I’m addressing people who have bought a peat medium and need it to take water up. You usually don’t have to do this more than a couple of times early. Once the peat fibers are damp they’ll take water.

 

[Oldchucky]

lol, same. I've also screwed a plant
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Yo PK. Did you notice any improvement by stressing It like that? I’ve talked to a few people who grow outdoors and put nails through the stalk.Thanks.

 

[Drock]

I cultivate the soil in my ten gal pot.turn it over just like my garden,get sur in them roots. Sprize them twice a day with poland springs.

 

[Deaner]

Main line update

 

[hillbil]

I’m running some 12/12 from seed, never done hat before. Interesting so far 2 months from planting cracked seeds. I also run perpetual.

 

[mancorn]

I’m running some 12/12 from seed, never done hat before. Interesting so far 2 months from planting cracked seeds. I also run perpetual.

I tried doing that. I started from seed at 12hr in early February, hoping I could move them outside the middle of March (when I would be at 12 hours). But they all were showing early flower before getting outside. Once they were out and planted they seemed kind of funky, so I ended up trashing em. Don’t have any good pics, but this was March 10th and you can seeing some flowering. Let us now if you have any luck.

 

[mancorn]

I’m running some 12/12 from seed, never done hat before. Interesting so far 2 months from planting cracked seeds. I also run perpetual.

I have seen plants that naturally seeded outside in November. One plant was 15’+ by early Spring but had all kinds of funky leaves and was so freaking bushy. (I never saw the harvest.) A couple years back another buddy was up in Alaska and a male got his crop and dumbed seeds everywhere by the time he got back home in the fall. The seedlings starting popping up over the winter (which was unusually mild). By early March they were 6’+ and all looked really good and normal throughout the grow.

 

[SlabHardcheese]

In about grade 9 I decided to try planting some columbian crapweed seeds up the hill behind our house (that is all I had). I got about 50 planted all on a hidden bank on the side of the hill (natural water spring nearby w bucket) all in a 5 foot square area (I had no idea what I was doing though). I was all excited when most sprouted and told a neighbor friend who also got excited and said he'd help and would bring over some of his dad's fish fertilizer. (you can see already where this is going) We killed all but one of the sprouts by putting concentrated fish fertilizer directly onto them when they were seedlings. But we missed one, and I was actually able to grow and harvest about an ounce of wanker bud (not enough light, bad soil, short growing season, etc), but I was proud of it!

In the 80s my college buds and I grew in our house basement for a couple seasons (right next to our 30gal beer brewing setup). My roommate decided he'd adopt one plant as his own and pamper it. That meant dumping onto it BBQ potato chips and beer almost every time he looked at it. Pretzels, soda, whatever. LOL, I got to watch it die over a few weeks. Then we had a funeral for it. We also had another plant that had no fiber or stem strength at all. Any stem would pop just with slight pressure, and it laid on the ground like ivy or something. It tried to flower a bit but was never very healthy. At the time I wondered about trying to breed that characteristic making cannabis ground cover, and what would be involved. We had lots of fun and managed to just pay our electric bills for a year selling what was left over to our neighbors (and eventual girlfriends LOL).

 

[Cashmeh]

My Hydro Systems break all norms

No enzymes
No water chiller
No res changes
No corrosive additives (peroxide,h202,bleach)
No top feeding
Able to leave unattended during late flower for up to 4 days.

 

[TSD]

I start my girls in a closet... no exhaust system or fancy tent... works for a couple months

 

[Tasty Buds]

I guess this might sound odd. I cut off all N by week 4, except what's in Botanicare Cal Mag. I cut that off a bit later. On a 9 week strain, I like the plant to use the sugars in the fan leaves until harvest. My plants are pretty ugly by harvest, but smoke clean. I want as much of the chlorophyll out by harvest.

Here are some other things I've been doing for a while
I swear by the Lucas Formula, plus. 4 ml House and Garden Drip Clean. I'll use H&G Roots (Silver) throughout the stretch. 1 ml cal mag in coco only.

I guess that's not too unusual, but for smaller grows 4x4, or 4x8 I don't check ph, ppms etc (Lucas Formula allows me to be lazy), but that's not real unique either. I don't defoliate, only cut sucker branches (ehh).

My clones are no larger than 3 inches, as long as 3 nodes.
I use T5 for Veg, and propagation, and HPS for flower.
Here are some examples of colas at harvest, and a couple at the point I stop using N.
The 1st pic is about the stage I cut off the N.
2nd pic is a typical clone. The rest are at harvest. Harvest ugly. These are all my own X's. Some of these pics are pretty old. Not the best cameras either
harvests

 

[Xebediah]

From now on I will only buy regular seeds instead of feminized. I like the idea of breeding more seeds and cross breeding. I also think better quality comes from regular seeds. Just my opinion, though. Unfortunately, I have too many feminized seeds that I have to grow through before I buy more seeds.

 

[E9noxis]

For the one gallon challenge, I have not been measuring any of my nutrients. I count drops if I have time. Otherwise I just give it a little squirt or so, but I dont measure.

I have my red light set to turn on for an hour and a half at sun up and sundown. It overlaps t lights on or of with a half hour of red in the dark cycle. The theory is red light at those time signals the plant to sleep or wake up. More efficient night cycle. Don't know if it works yet

I adjust my plants LST every day.

I dont have a clean grow space. There's soil on the floors of my tents. Leaves from prunings all over the place. I'll do a good scrub after harvest before the noobs get in.

 

[Johnlandy420]

Temps consistently in upper 80s

 

[Tasty Buds]

FWIW. The last pic, not the 1st is when I cut off the N. Drip Clean @ .4, not 4 ml. I'm sure I made some other goofs, but I guess shutting down the N, and using Drip Clean was the point.
I felt I should correct the 4 to .4, as the plants might not be real happy