Mand's low tech set up...........

[mand]

Max a strong light to iron out the wrinkles and a bit of lippy works wonders love, you haven't seen me when I drag myself out of bed in the morning
I know what you mean about heat, I really hate hot weather, give me a frosty crisp winters day anytime. Mind you where you are isn't it hot all year round, must be ok for outdoor growing, I have done one crop outdoors here, my first but we have a very short season and limited on what varities will grow with decentish results, much better indoors


Rasta I'm having a dry spell here at the moment, my own fault though the last crop just failed and died on me. Anyway I tried everything and I put a thread on here asking how often bulbs should be replaced. The guys said quite regularly 3-4 crops or 2 years at the most, you know I'd been using the same bulbs for getting on for 6 years
Problems solved now though and everything is back to normal
I'm pleased with how their coming along, they don't match up to some of the pics I've seen on here though but I'm still happy with them




love mand xxx

[Rezinator]

Hey Mand,

Beguiling in all ways.

Meanwhile in my quest now to find info on how stumblebum newbs go about squeezin a mom and her clones into small spaces....

I recalled your other thread pics where your plant looked close to flowering and that they looked less than 3' (91cm) tall.

If true was wondering if you had - beyond noted claims of simplicity, done much in the way of pruning or screening with them to keep them that compact and adorable, excuse me, sexy, wait, I mean delicious lookin'? Yeah okay. Delicious works.

Rez

[mand]

Hello DaBuh I really don't know the soonest, I like to go for plants that end up about a metre high, I find that any taller doesnt really yeild me anymore buds in my set up. So I tend to pinch my plants when they look right at about less than half a mete high and then start inducing around 4-5 days later.
Thats my soonest, I have grown taller ones but like I said the yeild wasn't really anymore.

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Hello Rezinator I posted the above yesterday on another thread so I've copied and pasted it here. I think it basically answers you're question
Thats the way I've always done it...........However the next grow I'm going to try a little experiment
I'm going to be growing Skunk#1 (sensi seeds), instead of using a whole pack of sixteen I'm going to gernimate 10, out of that I should get between 5-7 females (hopefully) which will give me more room.
I'm planning on pinching at around the 5th node and then letting the two main branches grow on in vegitive growing.
When the two main branches get to their 3rd or 4th node I'm going to pinch again, leave for about 5 days and then start inducing.
In theory this should give each plant 4 main stems and increase the yeild with the main heads

Thats the theory, I have no idea what will happen, and to be honest my plans uaually go "arse over tit" and fall flat on there face anyway but I'm going to give it a bash


Oh by the way "Delicious" works fine, this old gal is always gratefull of any complements


love mand xxx

[HighTillIDie]

have you tried SCROG? it might help......

order yourself a little hollands hope, or big bud... see if you can get them to yeild

[mand]

Hello High I've considered Big Bud before, to be honest I was actually thinking of that for a summer grow, my growroom gets a little cool in winter so I have gone for Skunk #1 because I know that will be ok in there, grown it quite a few times before with decent results


I am quite pleased with this one so far, I don't really keep track of when induced and that sort of thing I just go by how they look, I'll guess the present ones have another 4-5 weeks to go............if I can wait that long I think it's looking at some of the grows on this site that make me realise mine are a bit small, but to be honest there ok for me and my methods are within my capabilities, anything more technical and I'm sure I'd make a mess of it.

If it's ok I'll just add a couple more pics taken today.............last one's for a while ................promise
Oh and again exscuse the close up's, the camera just blurs them.

love mand xxx

[Marc Benson]

Hi Mand!

Your plants are lookin' 10-8 sweet! But it's gotta be getting late for you. You need a bit of sooty no doubt! (My attempt as some cockney there) But seriously, they do look great. Have you ever thought of putting some reflective materials up to help direct some of that light back to the plants that those bricks are absorbing?

Marc

[mand]

Hello marc .......sooty? totally lost me there love............but it's the thought that counts

Well I was going to move them a while ago and got one of my sons to paint out a new bigger growroom for me, he was at it for hours painting it all white so as to reflect the light and then we found out that the electrics didn't work
So untill thats re wired they've got to stay put.

I wish I could take some better photo's but the camera just not do close up's at all they just go blurry..................never mind


nice to hear from you marc.........love mand xxx

[Marc Benson]

Sooty is 'sleep'. I said that because you're like 12 hours or something later than us there in merry ol' England. Thought it was your bedtime!

[mand]

Sooty is 'sleep'. I said that because you're like 12 hours or something later than us there in merry ol' England. Thought it was your bedtime!

Thats a new one on me marc .............it's only just gone Tea time at the moment...............now I've talked with a few from the US so let me see if I've got this right....................you're East coast is 5 hours behind us and you're West coast is 8 hours behind us, I think it was that anyway

You see I'm also a wealth of useless imformation

I don't know about "merry" it's getting a really miserable place and the weathers been horrible all day, never stopped raining


love mand xxx

[ganjamania]

Looking good - plants & yourself mand

How long are your girls into flowering?

Really nice to see UK growers as I haven't seen many on here - esp ladies. Whereabouts are you in the UK? I'd guess somewhere above London from the way you said tea time - think that's quite a Northern thing but I may be wrong

Keep posting pics & keep growing well