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Can't get pics to upload
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Can't upload pics, Is it just me ? or is it site wide
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OK, so i can't get pics to upload. it was really cold over night and my oil tank is too low to run the heat an with home heating fuel over 5$a gallon my plant will have endure a few more cold nights. She looked really droopy this morning, hopefully some real sun will warm her up
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OK...So I have to do it differently now
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She's really unhappy with the cold
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She's been 12/12 for 17 days. Her buds seem a bit small, the bio thrive I've been feeding her is a bit on the week side 2-4-4. I've been wanting keep it all organic newts this grow. But I can't afford to get the terp tea bloom I've been wanting. My only other option is some F F open sesame/ beastie bloom and cha-ching. She's going to need water and nutes by the end of the week. Can I add the open sesame to the bio-thrive mix ? or should I mix a 1/2gal of each separately and feed her that way. I was also top dressing terp tea grow dry 7-1-1 and kelp powder1-0-13 is the terp tea too much nitrogen at this point in the grow? also I've stopped declorinating my tap water, my water comes from the quabin resivuare in western Massachusetts and it's treated with chlorimein with a PH of 6.9. My last 2 grows I was adding vitamin D to neutralize the chlorimein and ran into problems around week 2 flowering, they started to yellow. I never had issues with my water before and I'm not sure why I decided to declorinate my water. But this grow is going much better than my last couple have. Just trying to stay on trac
A lot of outdoor plants spend the nights in temperatures that go down into the 30s. Not much to worry about.
Lower temperatures night and day usually means the plant will grow slower.
Think positive. Think spring with warmer temperatures on the way.
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Trying to stay positive about this, but she's not looking good... she's been closed up in the grow box since 11 this morning at 80 degrees in the box but she hasn't bounced back like she usually does. If she didn't feel so heavy I'd consider watering her
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She needs help... her leaves are shrinking, she's perked up a bit overnight but the new growth is shrinking.
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She's been in the sun for 30 minutes. her container temp was 62 degrees, hopefully the sun will raise her temps a bit. still feels a bit to heavy to water.i can lift her but it's not that easy, by tomorrow she should be light enough. Buds are getting hairy. I'd like to keep her all organic newts but I think a swig of some open sesame will fatten up those tiny buds
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an hour and a half in the sun and she's warmed up to 63.9
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I have developed a bad habit of defoliating, I just trimmed off a big pile of leaves an small branches 10 days ago. and I'm getting itchy scissor fingers already. does opening up the interior of the plant to let in more light to the smaller branches make up for the effort she will make growing back what I cut off ? are those smaller branches worth trying get them to grow bigger or should I just cut off the lower small branches and let her put all her effort into the top third of the big branches... I've been growing cannabis since 1985 you would think I'd have this all figured out by now
Hey Chris great garden my friend.I have developed a bad habit of defoliating, I just trimmed off a big pile of leaves an small branches 10 days ago. and I'm getting itchy scissor fingers already. does opening up the interior of the plant to let in more light to the smaller branches make up for the effort she will make growing back what I cut off ? are those smaller branches worth trying get them to grow bigger or should I just cut off the lower small branches and let her put all her effort into the top third of the big branches... I've been growing cannabis since 1985 you would think I'd have this all figured out by now
If you clean out under her skirt imo that's all you need.
Let her leaves be.
They absorb energy through those fans.
That energy goes to the nearest bud , regardless if the bud gets light or not.
Buds don't absorb light fans do.
Let the fans do there job and put away your clippers away
Keep up the good work.
Stay safe
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She seem to have bounced back from the cold, her leaves have perked up. She looks much happier than she did at 5:30 this morn
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Thanks Bill, I made a point not cut off all her big fans this go around just the ones that were growing to InteriorHey Chris great garden my friend.
If you clean out under her skirt imo that's all you need.
Let her leaves be.
They absorb energy through those fans.
That energy goes to the nearest bud , regardless if the bud gets sun or not.
Buds don't absorb light fans do.
Let the fans do there job and put away your clippers and leave the outdoor girls to do their thing.
Keep up the good work.
Stay safe
Bill
This is the basics.
The way I see it, the plant switches over to the flowering stage because of the hormones. Once that stage starts the plants slows down and eventually stops producing more leaves so it will not replace the ones that we, as the growers, have cut off.
If the plants go through the stage where the remaining leaves start to turn yellow and fall off. This is a sort of natural defoliation but we have to remember that there will be no more new fan leaves to replace those. No more even though our plants might have 2 or 3 or 4 more weeks to go.
I tried defol years ago and found it forced her to grow more leaves thus defeating the purpose of removing them in the first place.
Then they reach a point like you say once that hormone is in them it's bud time.
Then if you have defoled her you are feked.
I trim under her skirt and that's it.
Let those big fans do their job.
Stay safe
Bill
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She looks much better today, it was warm over night
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Just tried lifting her an she still a bit heavy so I'm thinking she can go another day before I water her
Almost like there are two different plants with their own needs and requirements.
Yes, before flowering anything that gets cut off will be replaced quickly. Once flowering starts cutting those leaves off can create problems.
I do have a theory on extreme defoliation at the 21st to 28th day into flowering and how the effect on bud size and quantity but I am still kicking it around in my head.
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