It's been about a week since I looked at her-Damn, she's been busy!
those colas are going to get soooo fat!
And the little gal is looking great!
those colas are going to get soooo fat!
And the little gal is looking great!
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Oh yeah! Didn’t we say she was going to look right? She’s very photogenic.Buuuds! Froooost!
One thought on top lighting since yea you have little room as an inch isn't much. They do sell led strip lights that you can cut into lengths. They have an adhesive back and are sold under grow lights. I saw them when I purchased the clamp stick style led light. I am certain they don't put out a ton of light but maybe enough to add some fattness to the top sites. I don't think they were pricey either and some even came with built in timer. I saw em on that major site starts with A ends with zon lol. I got deleted for mentioning a similar site so not risking it. Being you are in NZ unless u get a more local seller may not come in time. Still maybe check em out u know more about lighting then me so if you thing they are crap be good to know. Then I know stay away. Just looked cool when I saw them as way to add 2ndary lightHey Carl!
Glad to hear your plant's growth and bud development haven't been affected too badly. And your neighbours sound like absolute dickheads, lol. Hope you don't have any drama with them.
As for my girl, I'm working through one variable at a time. First one was N def and I upped her feed quite significantly. Second was actually light stress rather than deficiency - she was really getting blasted at close range, and without the appropriate CO2 and nutes that would be unsustainable.
I'm curious now about the possibility that it's the lack of light coming from the top, as you and @Amy Gardner suggest. But I won't change anything for a week perhaps, so as not to mess up the current experiment with the reduced lighting and increased feed. But in the meantime I will think if there is a way to fit a panel above the plant, again, somehow.
I might also go have a look at @gr865 's vertical light grow again to see if the lack of top lighting was ever a problem for him. (Thanks for that reference all that time ago, @Stunger !)
It's been about a week since I looked at her-Damn, she's been busy!
those colas are going to get soooo fat!
And the little gal is looking great!
Stunning photograph! Grub looks happy too .
Glad the week is over for you and the seas are calm ahead.
She's looking horny and pleased to see me bruv hahaha Grub's looking healthier too
Oh yeah! Didn’t we say she was going to look right? She’s very photogenic.
She’s a beauty! Welcome to the weekend
Looking good and still some way to go so those colas will only be getting heavier, and the little 'un looks in peak health too. Good stuff syenite!
She is swelling up fast. Not much longer now. Looking good on the back stretch.
One thought on top lighting since yea you have little room as an inch isn't much. They do sell led strip lights that you can cut into lengths. They have an adhesive back and are sold under grow lights. I saw them when I purchased the clamp stick style led light. I am certain they don't put out a ton of light but maybe enough to add some fattness to the top sites. I don't think they were pricey either and some even came with built in timer. I saw em on that major site starts with A ends with zon lol. I got deleted for mentioning a similar site so not risking it. Being you are in NZ unless u get a more local seller may not come in time. Still maybe check em out u know more about lighting then me so if you thing they are crap be good to know. Then I know stay away. Just looked cool when I saw them as way to add 2ndary light
Yes welcome weekend setting up Christmas at work wtf. Tips remind me of nute burn. Now that I looked a pics before reading next page lol. It's similar to the start of mine early on and way b4 I got retarded sorry if not pc but I jumped nutes up more overly concerned with ph. Best bet is really good flush let it rain from the drain holes. Wait then feed. How long before you feed again not sure up to your feelings. But your baby looks pretty damn good otherwise. As far as light stress yes and can be delayed as I learned. As you cut back lights but shows more issue little later. Still thinking nute burn which tricky just lite deficiency almost
I can look back at the many times my stash has run out, and the resulting drive to seek out scraps of overlooked bud, or re-using ABV in an attempt to glean a wee buzz from. So I can understand people putting yield as one of their priorities. But I feel as long as I have a sufficient reserve of stored buds then what I would most want is quality of the bud, quality of the potency, and not yield.Apropos of nothing, some half-digested lines of thought
On greed
While doing the chores this weekend, I was listening to another discussion on that Future Cannabis YT channel. Something that Kevin Jodrey said struck me. There is an unspoken convention (within the community, industry) that maximising yield is simply the best (if not the only) strategy, and that therefore many grow tactics involve trying to find the upper limits of inputs. Give the plant as much light as it can take; give the plant as much nutes as it can take; give the plant as much CO2 as it can take, etc. etc.
He talked about how he'd rather have less weight if he could feel like the plant was happy and in happy equilibrium with its inputs and the environment. He hypothesised that many pest, fungus and disease issues were related to an imbalance of inputs, specifically nutes and light. This goes back to my earlier critique about maximising yield via maxing-out inputs. The irony, of course, being that the very attempt to max-out inputs is what could cost one in yield in the long term.
I continued to chew on this.
Implicit in the "maximal" tendency is the philosophy that the plants are simply resources that are to be increasingly mapped/modelled, manipulated, exploited and then exhausted, based on said mapping/modelling.
Is this efficiency, or is this greed?
And if we are not to aim for efficiency as a metric of progress/success, then what should we aim for?
I have in mind, instead of maximum yield, something like "maximum expression". The fullest expression of phenotype as the metric of success.
Look, I don't know what happiness is. But the fullest possible expression of one's potential seems like a good thing, and a good indicator of one's health and individual autonomy.
Am I still talking about plants? Who knows.
On sentimentality
So I was playing a game with Grub. One day I was very baked and looking at Grub's seed pod. Her space helmet. Her escape pod. I thought to myself, I'm sure she would like it if I kept her helmet close. I mean, that's the only (external) artifact that testified to wherever it is she came from. And so with a finger I gently rolled her helmet close to the base of her stem.
Some days I struggled to spot her helmet, mistaking bits of perlite for it until I could finally recognise the striped and speckled shell.
But every time I took her out I made sure I could spot her helmet, and that it was still there.
One day it was gone. I scoured the surface of the mix in panic. Nadda.
Then I remembered that I'd taken her outside, and popped her out of her pot to check on her roots. Her helmet must have fallen away then, and begun its own separate journey into the unknown.
And Grub now, alone, her traces just whatever she carries within or as her body, her leaps and spirals across this alien landscape...
against the view of the plant being happy
I have in mind, instead of maximum yield, something like "maximum expression". The fullest expression of phenotype as the metric of success.
You were pretty stoned then ay?Then I remembered that I'd taken her outside, and popped her out of her pot to check on her roots. Her helmet must have fallen away then, and begun its own separate journey into the unknown.
And Grub now, alone, her traces just whatever she carries within or as her body, her leaps and spirals across this alien landscape...
You were pretty stoned then ay?
Yeah, nah. Don’t anthropomorphise plants. They hate that!This is also why I don't want to overextend the very human concept of "happiness", which, in and of itself, has its own philosophical and ethical problems.
It’s partly just that bag appeal vs medicine chestnut. Commercial and craft cultivation seem hardly to meet. Not around here anyway.Very good points about "productive" stressors!
I think all of us go through the..killing with kindness stage. We want them to thrive but get caught up in the more is better thing. Not always the right solution to our goals..lol.Funnily enough, from what I can see, what we call "high stress training" pales in comparison to the kind of stress brought on by overfeeding or "overlighting".
I’m lucky enough to have the space to grow buds surplus to my needs. I just want happy plants (that don’t herm out) with pretty flowers
Yeah, nah. Don’t anthropomorphise plants. They hate that!
Yield matters, but it isn’telvisKing.
We want them to thrive but get caught up in the more is better thing. Not always the right solution to our goals..lol.