Grownsince95 said:

The big one is finally showing female parts and I bent over the little one again.

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Grownsince95 said:

The way my phone camera auto corrects the white balance in photos now is amazing.

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cpurola said:

I just recently read somewhere that air stones don't actually aerate the water, they break the surface tension to allow air to mix at the surface. Wasn't a scientific source so I don't know how actuate it is.

And I vote YES on keeping the little ones. But then, I have a problem with culling.

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GasPlease said:

is this due to a new phone or a settings change?

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Grownsince95 said:

So I'm doing a lot of defoliation to expose the side branching and encourage it to grow upwards. The big old fans on the outside stay to do the heavy lifting. Her nodes are so tight together it's a bit of a mess in the net but once she really stretches and starts to set flowers I'll have a better idea of how to handle it. She's as flat as I can get her right now and very clean under the scrog.

The little cheese volunteer is going to have a gigantic knuckle because I knocked her down again this morning.

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Crazyformes said:

That is always my problem with SCROG
....I set the trellis and then have a hell of a time defoliating the plants. See message via PM.

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gmonster714 said:

I used to think the same way. Now I can pull the entire plant out of the tent if I want to and still get the scrog effect.
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It also becomes priceless if the need to flush a plant arises or a breakout of PM or dem fucking bugs.

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cpurola said:

Just wanted to update on the Spinach plant. It's male. Do you want it? LOL
Had a hard time taking a pic of the male parts.

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Grownsince95 said:

These huge knuckles after super cropping grow the biggest, strongest buds. Best case scenario I would have avoided splitting it but oh well. Where I zoomed in you can see the "shoulders" developing on the node below. This is the stress response increasing the vascular network to support a big mass increase to those side branches. Im working my way around the tent as each one gets too tall until they've all set flowers.

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cpurola said:

It just looks so mean to do that. LOL
(cookies' kicking in. LOL)

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Grownsince95 said:

When the plants are in luxury consumption mode like this they really do benefit from the stress in the long run. They have everything they could possibly want in life, it would upset the balance if they didn't suffer some.
It's the Yin and Yang philosophy.

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Ninjadogma said:

So true... There's a top/bottom equilibrium the plant tries to maintain. When you strategically pluck a leaf it creates a deficit the plant is compelled to fill.

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Hossgrows said:

Then hitting them with a weed eater must be really beneficial.

I know a guy who swats his with a broom a bit. He says it makes the branches stronger

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Grownsince95 said:

All the secondary branches on the cheese have just about made it to the net. Big one is just starting to stretch. Looks like a beefy plant from above but not much under the hood really.

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