Please help a rookie grower out

[Magnumsmydog]

1 should be fairly good on vpd and if roots don't go down you should be good on that. I've never had thrips so might pay attention to the crazy clown @Captspaulding up above he knows his shit big time

 

[Oldchucky]

He may be right! Thrips are pretty easy to spot even with a naked eye! And the little blacks, tiny dots of their poop make it even easier! Make sure you check both sides of the leaf! I’ve had them! Good luck! And get a Loupe!

 

[Captspaulding]

So yeah man, it’s a very mild infection with him you know, and it could very well be that they were just stowaways in his soil. A lot of places your dirt merchants will leave bags outside. They get rained on critter seek refuge in them block the sun from cooking them all types of shit. Sometimes you end up with some in the bag enough to just be a nuisance for a little while, but not to make a giant colony which needs to a big ass Swarm of bullshit I see this out in an abundance of caution because leafhoppers can really be a pain in the balls, but they’re easy to deal with on all levels,
@GNick55 uses isopropyl alcohol mix and I generally go to Captain Jack’s dead bug or Dr. zymes but Captain Jack Steed bugging my experience is a one and done type of treatment in most cases even with bad infections. Yours is a walk in the park. It seems so like I said it’s either a very few of them came in with your soil or they’re just getting started in terms of procreating so it would be better to get ahead of the curve and ensure that you have the proper tools to be able to deal with any number of pests.

Hi guys my plants are definitely not shocked despite that defoliation they are still growing. I have one question though, some of the plants stems are really closely bunched. Should I just leave this be and wait for them to grow out or is there any lst that would be beneficial ?

Here’s my approach to defoliation on a plan any given moment OK
What you are trying to achieve with a defoliation is simple all right so if you look at a isometric view of your plant, all you’re only going to be taking any leaves that are reported inward towards center mass of the plant that is covering potential top sites later on down the road OK so you’re only wanting to get leaves that are in the middle section of the plant everything on the perimeter should stay on the plant unless there’s multiple leads overlapping each other and there’s just no sense in having all of them because they’re just covering themselves and veg what I’m trying to achieve by doing this is a improve overall light impact by presenting as much leaf area to your light as humanly possible
And this is important to achieve at least 10% of your medium beong covered by light penetration through the canopy of your plant
This coupled with your circulation and ventilation is part of the secret source of getting your plants onto a proper 3 to 4 day wet cycle the faster that your plant gets dry the more times you can feed it the more times you feed it the bigger it will be Picking up what I’m putting down so it’s always nice to try and do all the work that you intend to do all at once so you can allow the plant to harden off to the light while healing from a hefty prune.
My rule of thumb is to allow for at least 10 to 14 days from the last moment you pruned your plant before you have any plans on flipping your plant to another incredibly stressful point in its life, which is switching to flower it’s always my goal to avoid compounding any issues at stressful points in your plants pife cycle.
But always in the game of defoliation less is more be light handed because if you really do over strip your plants leaves all you’re doing is knee camping and snatching it ability to soak up more sun and or LED lighting which translates to a healthy transpiration rate at night Causing root growth in the medium all good Shit.

 

[Captspaulding]

He may be right! Thrips are pretty easy to spot even with a naked eye! And the little blacks, tiny dots of their poop make it even easier! Make sure you check both sides of the leaf! I’ve had them! Good luck! And get a Loupe!

I seent em! a couple of them orange little fuckers, all blurry and one of his pictures that he first posted. It’s not the end of the world because it’s very manageable situation if you have the tools to take care of it and you go above and beyond in terms of diligence, cleaning your grow area if they ain’t got no rent money, take them to the fucking curb dude or kill him with fire, whichever works easier for you

What is popping my friend.

 

[Captspaulding]

I see I will have to have a look but in your experience do you think this is a needed step or will letting the plants “grow out” of this issue suffice?

The clips are non-invasive and you can keep them on plant the entire grow to harvest sure your plant might grow around these clips, but that’s no big deal. Think about a tree that was planted next to a cyclone fence. You know chain-link you ever seen where the tree just grows through the chain-link and becomes part of the fucking tree all the sudden well no matter what cannabis will find a way just like any other plan and what’s the plant starts bursting out and around these clips there basically what it’s doing is it simulating a super cropping effect which has multiple good points in terms of boosting, your overall yield and improving uptake of essential nutrients out of the soil, so an even handed application of staking LST or clipping are all essential in my opinion to learning the fundamentals of the biological inherent traits of cannabis plants on a hole it’s crucial information for you to learn, and even if you fuck up through the right glasses, you’re just learning what not to do so going through the motions and doing things that might put you out of your comfort zone are all essential to stacking your toolbox with the tools needed to beat the piss out of fundamental and move onto novice
Also, your leaves are pretty light man so to me it looks like you’ve got yourself a little bit of magnesium deficiency that’s just starting due to light proximity and height or you’re in Cocoa right possibly I’m not sure if you are you should be supplementing Cal mag with every feed And I fear you’re slightly light on nitrogen as well all manageable things but here’s some pics of the clips. Every spot that you see a split in the stock that turns into two stocks that was a spot that I had taken a top pot size should be the defining factor on how many times you top a plant as to allow yourself the ability to pin the plant down out of the way of itself if you’re going to choose to do this kind of approach in a sea greenI use them myself along with every other training method because I’d really try to apply everything and be a jack of all trades because not every strain wants to be trained mainline manifold or any of that stuff in the same way as others so it’s good to have some versatility.
Clean what you can from these pictures if you have any other questions holler at me

 

[Oldchucky]

Not much brother! Cruising around, causing trouble! Gotta start getting after the summer’s grow! See if I can coax a few of these land race coconuts out of their shell! Still mourning John Kraman! Maybe I watch too much Mecum auctions! But Bill Stevens is a good man to take his place! there was a guy planning a grow outdoors about five or six threads down! I was throwing him some advice! He was planning on doing it in South Texas! I should have sent him over to you to ask what you thought of the idea! looks like I scared him out of it anyway! Lol! Take it easy!

 

[Captspaulding]

Not much brother! Cruising around, causing trouble! Gotta start getting after the summer’s grow! See if I can coax a few of these land race coconuts out of their shell! Still mourning John Kraman! Maybe I watch too much Mecum auctions! But Bill Stevens is a good man to take his place! there was a guy planning a grow outdoors about five or six threads down! I was throwing him some advice! He was planning on doing it in South Texas! I should have sent him over to you to ask what you thought of the idea! looks like I scared him out of it anyway! Lol! Take it easy!

bro he hit me up I talk to him and the funny thing is is I think I scared the shit out of a guy I didn’t mean to, but I was just he asked me like you know growing outdoors in Texas. It seems like nobody ever does that so you know me I go ahead and I start breaking them down on the fact that you might want to relax on that because one thing about Texas is man. It’s a big ass state and there’s more privately owned air strips that you could count and on top of that the state has a numerous amount of them as well and they have access to all the private ones to boot so you know prying eyes are an issue And also he wanted to plant in ground in Texas man you’re fucking insane if you think that’s gonna happen the water table in southeast Texas in general is really really really high and the water saturation levels as well so it’s almost a fools errand. If you just wanna go ahead and give your plants root rot knock your socks off because 100% humidity with 100° temp on top of oversaturated medium that never dries out due to the humidity. Well, my friend it’s talking about a whole Lotta dick in your hand tears in your beers and you trying to figure out how to nail Jell-O to a tree. It just ain’t happening Jack but you know I was like maybe you should just go ahead and swap it out and you roll or something like that if you got a shop You could move them in and out of that but then again you probably start getting yourself some climate control so you might as well just grow indoor anyway
I also explained that damn Lieutenant governor decided to sign into law unbeknown to literally everyone here the law banning CBD Delta products, which to every head shop in Texas sells that bullshit amd raids go all over the place and otherwise well meaning law, abiding tax paying business owners Are getting ram roded by their local government over some bullshit, cheap ploy for votes in the midterm, political fact, good people in jail for no fucking reason and he was very aware of the house bill that I was speaking of, color him spooked man I tried to tell him look at my shit bro so whatever it is, you’re doing you’re good
His next course maybe I should just delete my account and not do this here on the forum


Him leaving is like when the libyans shot doc.


“”NOOOOOOO BASTARDS “



I don’t know how else to put it to him. I was just like, bro I maximize my risk if I’m gonna be doing this shit what’s it matter if you’re doing one or 100 you might as well put the spurs to that shit and yank him that Texas tea out of the fucking soil Because ain’t none of these motherfuckers have any of our interest in mind?


Hoist that skull and crossbones and figuratively drag your nuts all over what they’re about and grow the biggest baddest bitches that you possibly can while you thumb your nose at the establishment of the state pieces of shit that they are whaaaaaaammmmmmmy

I will take your mom out to a nice three course dinner and never call her back
Dorothy Mantooth is a saint

 

[Oldchucky]

He’s much better off indoors! You did him a favor!

 

[Captspaulding]

He’s much better off indoors! You did him a favor!

I’m a glutton for punishment now,
But one would really have to hate themseves to belly up to that brewha.

 

[Grower420John]

I seent em! a couple of them orange little fuckers, all blurry and one of his pictures that he first posted. It’s not the end of the world because it’s very manageable situation if you have the tools to take care of it and you go above and beyond in terms of diligence, cleaning your grow area if they ain’t got no rent money, take them to the fucking curb dude or kill him with fire, whichever works easier for you

What is popping my friend.

I really think that orange thing you see was coco because I remember looking at the leaves and seeing that however it wasn’t moving I sat and stared at it stoned for like 5-10 minutes and it did not move a millimetre

 

[Grower420John]

However I do believe I may have them due to the bite marks in the leaves I am going to order some captain jacks big spray soon due to this being quiet mild I don’t need to rush about it do I? As I need to wait for delivery etc.

 

[Grower420John]

I have started them in the auto pots and they are definitely drinking a lot which is a good sign !
Below I have added a video of the plants now I am just wondering for my feed I have been using 0.3ec of calmag , 0.5ec of base nutes and them some additional nutrients.
Should I now up these ratios ie give more npk and calmag to support their increasing size ?

 

[Grownsince95]

I have started them in the auto pots and they are definitely drinking a lot which is a good sign !
Below I have added a video of the plants now I am just wondering for my feed I have been using 0.3ec of calmag , 0.5ec of base nutes and them some additional nutrients.
Should I now up these ratios ie give more npk and calmag to support their increasing size ?

Start slow and see how they respond. When you bottom feed it's better to keep it light but I think 1.0 EC is a good starting point if you're at .8 now

 

[Grower420John]

Start slow and see how they respond. When you bottom feed it's better to keep it light but I think 1.0 EC is a good starting point if you're at .8 now

I was at 1.0, 0.3 cal mag, 0.5 an and b and 0.2 b52 the other nutrients don’t increase ec. Today I upped very slightly to 1.1 ec

 

[Grower420John]

The growth in one day is crazy

 

[Grower420John]

Hi guys slots happened since I last posted I have switched to auto pots and heavily defoliated the unnecessary branches and Scrogged each plant.
The white widow (smallest plant) is a bit behind but over the past couple days I’m seeing it slowly catch up with the rest they are drinking lots of water a couple odd patches here and there on localised leaves but to me nothing concerning.
What do you guys think?

 

[Grownsince95]

Hi guys slots happened since I last posted I have switched to auto pots and heavily defoliated the unnecessary branches and Scrogged each plant.
The white widow (smallest plant) is a bit behind but over the past couple days I’m seeing it slowly catch up with the rest they are drinking lots of water a couple odd patches here and there on localised leaves but to me nothing concerning.
What do you guys think?

Everything looks good except you got the scrog net wrong. It's not doing anything for you down there.

There's 2 main reasons to use a net. Training and support. You can do one or the other or both. The way you have it set up doesn't accomplish either one.

I highly suggest going through @Magnumsmydog thread to see a proper scrog. He didn't intend it to be but it's like a tutorial

Start here if you like to skip ahead
Post in thread 'Magnumsmydogs 8 plant, dual root zone, perpetual grow, Bruce banner #3 and 1911' https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/m...w-bruce-banner-3-and-1911.167058/post-3255861

 

[Grower420John]

Everything looks good except you got the scrog net wrong. It's not doing anything for you down there.

There's 2 main reasons to use a net. Training and support. You can do one or the other or both. The way you have it set up doesn't accomplish either one.

I highly suggest going through @Magnumsmydog thread to see a proper scrog. He didn't intend it to be but it's like a tutorial

Start here if you like to skip ahead
Post in thread 'Magnumsmydogs 8 plant, dual root zone, perpetual grow, Bruce banner #3 and 1911' https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/m...w-bruce-banner-3-and-1911.167058/post-3255861
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Hi I know it doesn’t look like it but the net is pushing a few main stems on each plant out a bit because the stems were bunching and the foliage was tangling severely I have a second net I want to employ after another few inches of growth at least as I want to let about 2-3 secondary branches shoot off each main stem and then use the second scrog net to space each cola out evenly I am not intending to drastically affect the plants path of growth with the nets more so just to keep everything nice and even for a better yield.
I intend on filling this 5x5 with flowers on the top canopy and lollipop the bottom foliage.

 

[Grownsince95]

Hi I know it doesn’t look like it but the net is pushing a few main stems on each plant out a bit because the stems were bunching and the foliage was tangling severely I have a second net I want to employ after another few inches of growth at least as I want to let about 2-3 secondary branches shoot off each main stem and then use the second scrog net to space each cola out evenly I am not intending to drastically affect the plants path of growth with the nets more so just to keep everything nice and even for a better yield.
I intend on filling this 5x5 with flowers on the top canopy and lollipop the bottom foliage.

I can see exactly what you did in the video. You just wasted one net on what could have been accomplished with a few twist ties. You don't need a second unless you have donkey dicks that are heavier than the stem can support. Just do me a favor and look through what I linked if you really want to fill your 5×5 with flowers.

 

[Grower420John]

I can see exactly what you did in the video. You just wasted one net on what could have been accomplished with a few twist ties. You don't need a second unless you have donkey dicks that are heavier than the stem can support. Just do me a favor and look through what I linked if you really want to fill your 5×5 with flowers.

Sorry I have had a look I’m changing the trellis now haha