Hi just looking at your log through your link in another post and i will surely be lurking in here from time to time, first grow is the hardest and i reckon you are coping well.
All the best of luck to you.:hippy::jointsmile:
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Hi just looking at your log through your link in another post and i will surely be lurking in here from time to time, first grow is the hardest and i reckon you are coping well.
All the best of luck to you.:hippy::jointsmile:
thanks for stopping by, hope to see you back soon.
I have not slept at all since saturday night. not one bit. today i started hallucinating, i've been seeing rainbow glitter on everything, and i keep seeing bugs crawling on everything even though they arent there. i have to leave here at 3 am tomorrow morning, but if i go to bed i might not wake up lol. by the way, it's because i had exams this week and i've been studying in the absolute worst way possible, by staying up lol. in other news, this morning both of my moms* seem to have been overwatered but some idiot...oh, i'm the only one that waters those...right. the water went right through one pot down into the catcher thing, filled 'er up all the way. i took the thing off, poured the water out of it, and let the plant drain into the tub. the same thing is happening to both, and just this morning too. no i'm worried about them getting water over the 10 break i'm taking. i cant water them now since it seems that they aren't even drinking it, and i dont have a great plan for the auto water deal while im away. damn huh? oh and also, the water that came out of the plants was yellowish and smelled bad. does that mean they have root rot? augh...
don't worry if a lot of people dont respond sometimes people like to see the results then respond. I like the whole setup and grow. I do have one question, what is the purpose of cutting the tips? makes it bushier or you use that toward clons? i though you needed the whole leaf if you did that...
well, everyone, i did indeed miss my flight this morning. somehow i turned off two alarms without waking up. called in and they said ok, pay us 350 bucks and we'lll get you another one! great. GrowinGreen, thanks for coming by. Not too worried about anyone coming here to comment. If not many people came when i updated before i dont suppose a whole mess of updates will bring anyone now lol. but it's not a big deal. the answer to your question, i've answered twice. look a few posts from the bottom of page three, it's somewhere around there. again, thanks for coming.
Some growers that don't have the hight to grow tall plants nip tips out of the main stems to keep the plant short but then that makes the plant bush out which what i do to a plant if i am keeping it for a mother because it creates more cutings for clones.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrowinGreen23
I think thats what you are asking.
man i'm sorry to hear that...i almost missed my first exam this morning...well 1 down for today 2 more to go...anyways...if you are looking for advice just keep going thru the grow logs and see what works and what doesnt for ppl...but hey man good luck with the rest of the grow...i hope your females* turn out to be females
had my 3 exams yesterday, calculus killed me. yeah, the plant i trimmed stays in a space with only like 10" for growth, so i keep it short.
Just looking at the last posts is confusing the hell out of me. I asked why you were trimming leaves in half on your plants, and somehow it turned into a dialogue about topping plants.
You should not trim any healthy leaves on your vegging plant. You can remove some of the bottom growth completely if it is not recieving light, but you want to leave anything healthy alone. Leaves are the carbohydrate and photosynthesis factories that will produce your prized buds. There is a direct correlation between the amount of healthy leaf material and amount of bud created on the plant. You need leaves to catch light and create sugars to create more new material, if you are removing half of each leaf you are taking half the capcity for growth away from that leaf
Many people do this practice when they root new clones. There is a specific reason for it though. When you take the leaf tips off and "half" your leaves, you cut the transpiration rate and take away the possibility of molding. In other words, you take the huge leaf tips off a big leaf, it won't sag and stick to your humidity dome. And lowering traspiration rates means it takes less fresh air to feed the clones, allowing you to keep them in a dome for longer with less adverse affects.
Topping a plant, or cutting off growing tips, changes the hormonal balance in the plant. The growth hormone is most concentrated in the highest top of the plant. When you remove this top, it diffuses the hormones back down the plant to the next nodes nearest the top. These 2 nodes will then replace the first giving you a plant with 2 main colas. This practice is repeated to get the "bushy" plants that most desire as mothers. In my experience it also increases overall yield of the plant.
If anyone on here is looking for help, and you need a conversation in real time, hit me up on yahoo messenger. My name on there is Irydyum also, i'd be happy to help, and if I don't have an answer for you I will find one. I also can share pictures to demonstrate different methods. My grow log on here is outdated, many more pics to share and not enough patience to post em. :)
BTW, I'm going to go read your post about your watering system, but it looks like you won't need it. You missed your flight right?
i had a quite large post ready to go in response to that, but it was deleted somehow...to sum it up, it was pretty much saying that i'm experimenting, trying things to see the results. there is no better knowledge than what you get from your own experiences. thanks for the info, i've been wondering why we trim clones for a few weeks now, just haven't got around to asking yet lol.