Haha, I think we are jealous of each other right now! I wish I had made it up to Tahoe this year, it has been too long since I got to ride! Thanks for the enthusiasm Gr33n!
Good to see you around BigCheese! Haha, I hope I didn't scare you with all this FIRE!
Dang Mitch, Thanks so much bro!! The BHO has kept me in a zombie-like state for the last couple weeks, haha! I'm glad you like the pictures, I was so bored by the end of my Winter break that I was taking photos multiple times a day of the plants and what I was smoking. . . . had to stop myself from uploading all the hundreds of photos I took and sort through them for true quality that The Farm deserves!
Nice score JB!! This has definitely been one of the craziest packs from OGR I ever popped! There are actually two different plants (both WiFi Alien), that are leaning towards different parents. The first and last WiFiA picture are of the same plant, which is leaning towards the Fire OG almost 100%, but with a touch of Alien tech. for better stacking structure! The middle 4 photos are all of the other plant, which is very obviously leaning almost completely towards The White! Thanks for stopping by.
Yeah, you know how it is, some genetics looks great on camera, but OGR's stuff always has more trichomes than there are pixels on my screen/camera! Thanks for the kind words and good wishes Rival!
zoinks scoobs.. youre a fucking serial killer meeks. much respect bro
Thanks, the respect is mutual BC!
Thanks bro, they are. . . and I'm not even a big fan of tomatoes usually!
Gracias Amigo! I think there are more than a couple genotypes in here that will be flowered again in the future!
Thank you so much FM! I got to read your comment this morning before heading off to class and it made my day! There are no secrets here, ask away and I will tell you what I know :D The easy concept to understand how to keep your plants happy is that they like consistency (hopefully in the ideal range), and you already know that. Let me know if there is anything I can tell you about my environment or cultural practices to help you understand how I get the results I do. Enjoy your weekend!
Hahahaha that's good shit GL! I have noticed that I can't get away with checking my grow log on my phone in public places anymore because too many heads turn when I scroll past my pictures! Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend.
Hahaha, so much frost in the garden right now it is crazy for sure! I have a hard time doing more than 2 density checks at a time because the second my fingers touch the buds they are practically dripping in grease and then I can't use that hand anymore :D My camera is so sticky right now it's funny! Thanks for taking a look through everything Ken, I surprise myself sometimes when I take a look back and see how much real information has accumulated in this thread! Plus a few pretty pictures ;)
I'm feeding 2.44g Cal-Nit, 1.6g Epsom, 1.33 MKP, 0.1g MOST, and 0.1g Chelated Fe 6% per gallon, which comes out to around 740ppm! The downward leaf curl is from the high K toxicity that lead me away from the standard Jack's recipe. OGR's strains were doing just fine with the higher K, only extremely minor visual symtoms, but the Alien Grapevines didn't like it one bit! The damage was already done, but the plants have seem much happier throughout the room since I made the switch, and the extra Fe was recommended by YS, who said he saw a full point increase in his brix readings when bumping up his Fe by 1-2%! Thanks for following along so closely HG!
No offense, but that was not your best move. Even in tomato plants when we have a dictated 17 leaves per plant, if you were to walk in and see 30 leaves on a plant, you would never strip 13 leaves off at one time! Not only does the plant get slightly stressed with leaf removal, but removing more than a few leaves per plant at a time will lead to high water stress inside the plant (the roots haven't slowed down their water intake) and in tomatoes that can lead to cracking of the fruit skin, and other problems in other plants. In your case, from the way you described it, you removed "a majority" of the fan leaves. . . .which is practically like ripping off a persons legs right before a marathon and hoping they grow back before the finish line! The fan leaves are a plants source of energy. The buds and bud leaves may do some photosynthesizing. . . but they will always be sinks (consuming more sugar than they can produce), where as your fan leaves will generally be sources (producing more sugar than they need), which is why it is crucial to have a full canopy of fan leaves at all times to be producing sugar to feed the growth of your flower sites! Weeks 1-4 of development are when the plant is producing all the cells for all your buds, after that it is just cell expansion for the most part. . . . so if you remove the "majority" of fan leaves in early flower, you are cutting off the source of energy when the plant is at its most crucial stage needing that energy! I grow under 1000w bulbs, and almost always have between 12-20 inches of fan leaf canopy thickness, and my solid colas turn out about 10-18" long at finish. I am just now removing the fan leaves at the base of those foot long colas (week 7). I hope this answer helps clear up my first post, which I think may have been misinterpreted.