@_@ week 8 flowering

[Lady Vapor]

It appears my 12 ladies are going to yield about 4 lbs. of some great herb. 2 plants will be ready in a week or so. The other 10 will need about 3 weeks to finish. The first pic show my best cola - 16"X 2 1/2." I learned a new technic of getting the leaves out of the way to get light on lower flowers from Winks. Thanks Winks! The second pic shows how I did it. The third pic. is of a plant that is Ruderalis. The flowers on it are just now beginning to look good. The fourth pic is a close up of one of the good colas.

[The Grim Reefer]

Wow. Looking FANTASTIC!
What technique would this be? Share!

[busteruk7]

lookingnice lady maybe once they are done ill come round and help ya blaze it all lol
good job anyway
cheers all :)

[Lady Vapor]

Thanks guys! Grim Reefer asks:
What technique would this be? Share!

Winks came up with the idea. She does it well before flowering. I didn't have a choice as they're already flowering. I took my time and was very careful to not touch the flowers. I do it a little different than Winks.

I twist my leaves around and weave it in and around other leaves. The plants look different and the lower flowers are now getting a lot more light. The pic in the middle shows them woven back into the plant. Sometimes I keep wrapping the leaves to keep them from blocking light.

busteruk7 said:
lookingnice lady maybe once they are done ill come round and help ya blaze it all lol good job anyway
cheers all

Why busteruk7, you should know any lover of herb is welcome in my house. Come on over, I live in a white house with a silver Nissan Murano in the driveway - You can't miss it :rolleyes:

[HARDDON]

While tieing or otherwise repositioning fan leaves is great in veg state, its a break even proposition on flowering, at best.

Each flower pod has a primary fan leaf. This fan leaf does two things.

1. It regulates internal temps of the plant.
2. It is the power plant for that particular flower.

By moving them in such a manner you are literally shutting down or minimizing the power plant for the flower it is designed to power.

So, you may get more light to the flower heads below, but you stunt growth of the flower with the fan you just turned.

Pinning and tieing down the fans is great in veg, as I said. The light gets the secondaries going and it helps develop more branches from which flowers can emerge.

However, the flowers themselves...the individual flower pods, which have the most resin, don't need the brilliant light to continue to bloom. As long as those fans are there in the flower bud, the bud will swell and get fatter and fatter.

Its those fans that power the flower pods to open and reproduce.

Moving the fans so they cannot get light properly, will tend to make them longer buds, but less fat and less hard.

The plant needs it fans and the plant knows where it needs them.

Just some food for thought.

[Jdog7000]

I agree hardon. I think you need to harvest the top first. And let the lower buds finish up befoore harvesting them.

[Lady Vapor]

HARDDON said
While tieing or otherwise repositioning fan leaves is great in veg state, its a break even proposition on flowering, at best.

Each flower pod has a primary fan leaf. This fan leaf does two things.

1. It regulates internal temps of the plant.
2. It is the power plant for that particular flower.

By moving them in such a manner you are literally shutting down or minimizing the power plant for the flower it is designed to power.

Thanks for the information HARDDON! I knew it was bad timing to it this late in the game... I gently put all the leaves back into place. I'm sure it freaked the plants a little, but I don't think it will be too much of a setback. Waiting, Waiting, Waiting :upsidedow