If at first you don't succeed

Getting close to flip. I believe I finally have some control over the environment with temps that hover between 68-75 and RH 51. That’s been for the whole week.

Here is my ghetto extractor setup:

I had to jam a plastic lid in the hose to further reduce air flow.

Also did some defoliation though it went against my grain but have noticed wet spots where leaves would remain in contact. Should be flipping once they have gone over the stress.

Looking bushy

I keep looking back and feel it may need more defol. What do you think?

21 days after flip you can take all the large and med-large fan leaves

@Sedrik777, why not make your own?

It’s easier for me at home. Yes, and I want this line of fertilizers out of curiosity to try Mineral fertilizers from them I tried, I liked it. Of course, I can make my own food for plants from cheap minerals from the store using the nutrition calculator. But ready-made fertilizers specially balanced for cannabis are easier, though more expensive. The final result is important to me, there is no inspiration for experiments yet.

I’ve read of the defol at 20 and 40 day period but often wondered the significance of it. Another local grower I know did that as well.

I can think of some advantages.

1. By lollipoping a bushed plant you are allowing for more light to flowering sites.
2. By lollipoping a bushed plant you are encouraging the plant to focus its energy to the tops.
3. A plant that is not topped such as the ones I am growing now will have more budding sites, therefore, better light penetration is achieved by thinning.
4. Despite thinning at day 21, the plant will replace some of that foliage regardless.
   The first two weeks of flowering is a transition period. By week three the plant is now focused on flowers and not on vegetation. So, I guess this is a good time to remove the larger fan leaves so the nutrients can be sent to the flowering sites instead of being wasted on vegetation that is not necessary. However, I am now contemplating a somewhat different theory based on House & Gardens claim that their product BudXL forces the plant to transport existing sugars from leaves into the flowers. Therefore, I am theorizing that perhaps it might be good to leave more of those leaves on, since there is a great deal of sugar in those fan leaves. That is IF BudXL actually does what it claims.

You have seen my plants and the light penetration I’m getting there. On one plant some of the lower flowers are bending the branches down and twisting. I’ve had to tie them up. They’re getting big

It seems that no matter how much I clip off, that GDP still looks bushy though there is good circulation underneath the canopy.

I flipped them on Dec. 27 and removed the restraints to let them finish with minimal stress. I hope I have enough headroom.

Pistils are starting to increase so I should see some budlets coming along. No issues so far with environment or media. They take 2L per day now which I alternate with added molasses.

Should be interesting to see how badly the light will affect final output.

Cheers all.

GDP:

PP:

GDP:

Looking pretty awesome

Beautiful they have you, the eye rejoices! What a light you have?

Thanks. I am using a TS1000 in the tent and a 10W LED flood lamp in the closet for vegging. It’ll probably get switched around again once I upgrade my lights. I am impressed with that 10W flood I keep about 12" over the young GDP. I am thinking maybe a gang of 3-4 would be good for a small veg area. Cheap too!

Once again, I made sure that the LEDs are now good. I want to switch to LED bulbs. I have a 400-watt Sylvania Grolux high-pressure sodium lamp in my tent. I think two 120 watt LED panels will be enough for a tent of 100 by 100 centimeters.

I’d love to set up my HID again if only I can figure out a way to control temps without resorting to air conditioning.

I also love this light, it’s like a living warm. It is not difficult for me to control the temperature in winter, there is a specific minus outside. Now it is warmer -18 Celsius. And in the summer it is up to +40 sometimes it is hot in the tent. I try to grow in the open air in the summer. One problem with humidity is that the room is very dry.

Week 3 flowering update:

GDP:

PP:

Budlets starting to form up. Environment has been steady at 70-77F lights on with ~50% RH. Lights off does not vary much temp wise but RH drops to ~30%.

Been raising lights too as the plants average a 1cm growth overnight. Should stop stretch soon I hope as I am fast running out of room. But if I do, I will have to resort to supercropping.

Tent shot:

The youngest GDP still puttering along in the closet with a 10w flood lamp:

Cheers all.

Oh here it comes…oh here it comes. Beautiful

Starting week 4 flower:

GDP:

Punch Pie:

Pollinated buds:

GDP:

I guess I’ve been lucky with the environment so far. It looks small compared to what I used to get with HID but…oh well. I have another light planned for the following grow.

Cheers.

Next two in the roster:

Unknown gender GDP that has been idling in the closet under a 10w LED lamp:

And the GDP clone that was left in the fridge for 2 weeks prior to transplant:

She still droops when I removed the inner dome though it did take a couple of hours to do so. I suppose by next week she would have rooted. This one I plan on using my 15G pot using the same soil from the HID grow. The worms have pretty much taken care of any roots.