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OK...I'll play the pessimistic smartassed asshole.
That shouldn't be to hard of a role for you to adapt to.. :giggle
just playing mang:joint:
That said...I have a few that last week were in week 6 and I had some tops getting WAY too close to the light and started foxtailing. I "crimped" them to get them out of the way. They took it very well and began to bend the tips back torward the light the next day. It was better than chopping them right off...but...I didn't see any difference in that plant compared to the others. Like that plant didnn't explode or produce any (more) massive lateral growth or anything.
It would be nice to see a sideXside to see if it's actually beneficial to do late in flower. I would guess that the (less than cutting) stress doesn't actually help the plant but rather will slow it down a bit??
where the buds stretch like a foxtail
it can be caused by stress, or it can be a genetic trait
String..frick..for some reason my wife talked me into not caging these biatches. I burned through the last bit of twine on a 200'roll last night. I counted 18 strings coming off one plant. 'm gonna start shopping for bulk deals on hooks and string. Frick!
just in the last couple days it become fairly obvious that this is a very good technique. the stuff i thought for sure i just busted off turned out to show the most obvious improvement. this is basically against all my instincts as a farmer but god dam
sorry pics are crap, just trying to give people a general jist. pics are of larry og. the blue dream seems to be loving it as well
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read somewhere that when you crimp the stem the plant sends all the help it can to that injury and inturn the cloa above the SC will get more nutes :hi
At week 3, not gonna work that way, they may still have some stretch left in them. Week 7 is a little late to apply the technique (that I've always called supercropping) if it's an 8 or 9 week strain. Better around weeks 4-5, IMO/IME. When applied during that time and beyond then the buds that are now exposed to the light AND are (or should be) closer to the height of what were the top buds will fatten up.OK well fuck it.
Like I said..I have 3 plants in week 3 of flower. I'll crimp the shit out of one of them (well..just the big tallest tops) and see what happens. At worst, I know it won't hurt too much. As I mentioned, I do do it..just not usually late in flower.
On the one from the batch that's in week 7 that keeps frickin foxtailing and blasting into the light, I'm gonna crimp the shit out of that one too. It CAN'T possibly hurt that one.
BUT...I hope that you guys mean that it'll make the lower buds fatter as opposed to make MORE lower growth. Man..these things are SO thick and full and loaded that I don't want..or can't have..ANY more lateral or lower growth. I want them to slow down
Maybe this isn't saying much (give it time) but so far I have not run any strain related to any Blueberry that hasn't shown serious stretch, especially in those first two weeks.This is my first run with these strains (I'm running 2) and I didn't expect them to stretch so much. By the time I found out...out was too late.
I was running a blueberry strain prior that stretched quite a bit and I had it dialed. I was certain that these strains were going to stretch less but man..was I mistaken.
Not just crimping/supercropping, but removing those bud sites that have the least potential, will really help improve where the plant spends its energies.I have the nutes and room dialed for these strains...and my next batch to go in will be much smaller plants so I'll be back in "hi-pro" mode again.
It's a great time to experiment a little since these things are so stupid anyway but yeah...I sure hope crimping them makes the actual plants fill out any more. There's simply NO room for that to happen.
I'll post the results though.
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