My feeling is that the longer you veg the higher you can top. Topping above the 8th or 9th node gives me a lot more lower branches to be tops, but you have to have the time to wait for all those lowers to catch up.
Thanks Crazy! Is that the first additional chemical that came to mind? I thought small doses of arsenic would be more your style.
Growing plants and members, here is the Monday update!
Let's start off with pistils on the @Weedseedsexpress plants for the summer grow. These are both on flip day 9.
Power Plant:
Chocolope is getting stretchy as predicted by @DobeWan :
No pics of Carnival lately, so here are some from the Oval of Brightness® before I took it out this morning. Flip day 35:
You may notice that the plant has an overall pale color and fading lower leaves. Because of this I have recently been adding nitrogen with 4ml/gal of cal-mag+ along with 4ml/gal of Armor Si (should help with both PM and to balance the N:K ratio) to the 6g/gallon of MC.
Here's a bud:
This is what happens to a leaf after you kill the PM with citric acid:
Interesting!
And here is the flipped Candida that was sprayed with GA3 that seems to be showing something vaguely sex-related:
Time will tell.
Keep your family members safe and secure along with your plants.
Thanks for sharing the results after citric spray. Power Plant must have great genetics. I've grown Pure Power Plant(Power Plant x White Widow) four times and it produced very fat and dense colas. I don't know how the original Power Plant performs but I can say that PPP was very different than WW and my friends who smoked the original PP in Amsterdam told me that PPP had very similar effects but slightly better in potency. I am sure you'll enjoy these nugs.
Amazing plants Shed
I've seen and joined some other discussions about this topic recently. I've started a plant training journal to share the method I've been using for awhile. This method includes topping your plant from a relatively higher point, maybe at 10th node or even higher. After that, I just mainline the plant like LightAddict did in his fluxing central journal but sometimes I go for quadlines, hexalines or even octalines depending on the planned veg. time and genetics.
My confusion is about the primary or secondary colas. Some of our great fellow growers here are saying that anything above the 4th node can be considered as a secondary cola, which are smaller and fluffier than primary ones. Considering this, I haven't been growing a lot of primary colas for years because I mostly go for lots of tops. I am also happy with my cola/nug size and on my last grow, I've harvested above 340g of dried smokable material, using just 230W from the wall, despite the thrip infestation.
I can understand why the primary colas should be bigger but what you said on the second quote was actually what I've been thinking. Longer veg. makes up for a lot of things and I think sometimes secondary colas on a huge plant is more desirable than primary colas on a regular plant.
Just wanted to jump in here. Cheers
I got lost in your journal. You were trying things for PW and mentioned for flower. I've used Defguard in early flower. It worked and the smoke was delish. I don't know if it's something you'd be interested in or knew about. It's bio-warfare. I forget what baccili...is in there.
@Scottylikesbud , you don’t need a lot. About 1tbsp per gallon is lots. When making my organic soils, I use about 1/ 2 quart in what becomes about 130 gallons of soil.Finally caught up that was like reading a couple chapters from a book. Good thing Sunday mornings are good for reading.
So my question is I’ve got this mega crop soil conditioner. I guess it’s de. How should I go about applying it.
Like it says to work into soil if possible.
so I’m going to wait till my bag of missing promix arrives to to try mixing some of it in. I dk really how much to add. I will grow in 5g of promix.
And Mc as nutes.
As I recall previously you were exploring DE in the past and was wondering if you found anything?
