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[Growtogrow]

Strong work friend! Those are looking properly happy. That PVC watering system, my back and shoulders hurt just thinking about the time it took to set that thing up. I'm sure it's a blessing to have now that it's up and running.

Just out of curiosity, would the squared off "halos" in the pots work better if it was soaker hose? I suspect you've simply drilled a bunch of holes in the underside of the piping.

Thanks DCLXVI

The PVC was pretty easy to install I didn't glue anything yet. It's just hanging there on wire hangers.
I had to wire up all of the downspouts. Didn't cost a lot I had most of the material but I did have to buy some valves and other things that I had left up north at my trailer I got a whole 5 gallon bucket full of that stuff up there.
I haven't tried to soke hose yet, but is on my mind. The one reason is is this things like a giant manifold and it's not pressurized it's gravity fed so by using the drilled holes I can see how much water each plant gets. if that makes sense. I can see how much water is coming out and I can adjust the valves.
I think I'm going to have to pressurize it to do that to use a soke hose. But I'm afraid of pressurizing it because again it's not glued. But it's still a lot easier than lugging 5 gallon buckets of water to 12 different plants. I can water the plants pretty quickly Now by just turning on the main valve at the IBC Tote and then going through and turning each individual valve on one at a time all the way down the line to the end and then hurry back to the first value and turn them all off again till I get to the end of the line again and then go back to the top and start all over again. If I do it 3 times they get plenty of water and I don't have to Lug a bucket no where

One of the things that's probably doesn't help is cuz the manifold is fed from one end. So each individual plant really needs a solenoid or garden timer and a timer for how much water it will get. Because it's one ended manifold.
I priced Garden timers for a single is around 13 bucks that runs on AA batteries. So that's not in the budget right now but next year if I buy a couple of them a month I'll have enough for next year to do all 12 plants. Another thing I have to consider also with leaving water in the PVC pipe is that the sun beams on it and it gets pretty hot. so I thought about buying those pool noodles to insulate it. they're pretty cheap at the local store.

 

[Growtogrow]

I captured the trimming pretty good, you can see the thinning in these pics better than you can the last pics.

The silver haze has something going on that's not normal for this strain. Seems to have pre-flower going on it started early last week I noticed it . A couple weeks ago I also noticed that the leaves don't look normal for this strain either . It is a seed S1 from 2016 . And it may be exhibiting mixed traits another trait more the mother more of the father I don't know who knows ? I just hope it comes out to be decent weed and I don't have to chop it and waste my time . Ugh

@jean-Owhen he sent me the seeds he sent me these little yellow plant bending gizmos.

I like them a lot. they work really well. And have gave me some good ideas of how I can use them. So I ordered a hundred of them yesterday they'll be here tomorrow. I actually can't wait to use them. It'll take a lot of the tedious out of what I like to do. And that's manipulate my plants. Possibly maybe I might be able to get some artistic plants yet this year.. as this year I intend not to grow any huge plants.

Aaaaa sorry....

I'm over that. Now I'm leaning towards creating the best plants possible that I think I can grow organically with manipulation techniques to make them better is my goal...

 

[Growtogrow]

Pruning trimming and manipulating

Fire og kush before trimming..

After

Industrial plant before

After

Purple wookie before

After

More to do...

 

[Growtogrow]

Less than 13 hours after trimming and all the girls have sprung back who got their leaves cut. I cut off all the small stems as well just everything that was insignificant. Stuff that would never amount to anything when it come to harvest time.

Still working on the girls in the cage. Got a lot of work to do.
I go out to the farmer's house in the morning tomorrow and work on his crop it's going to be 93° the weatherman says? Whatever. so I'll be going to be out there at 6 in the morning to 10. And then come back again on Friday and do another four hours hopefully I can get it all done in 8. I don't know though he's got a lot going on out there. His plants are probably twice the size of most of mine. Like I said in a earlier post I'm not growing for yield this year I'm going for quality AAA Bud.

 

[DCLXVI]

Solid work there. Stay safe in that heat. If I can ask a question, how do you focus on AAA bud as you put it? Are you simply limiting the plant to the best or largest colas around the top?

 

[trailanimal]

Thanks DCLXVI

The PVC was pretty easy to install I didn't glue anything yet. It's just hanging there on wire hangers.
I had to wire up all of the downspouts. Didn't cost a lot I had most of the material but I did have to buy some valves and other things that I had left up north at my trailer I got a whole 5 gallon bucket full of that stuff up there.
I haven't tried to soke hose yet, but is on my mind. The one reason is is this things like a giant manifold and it's not pressurized it's gravity fed so by using the drilled holes I can see how much water each plant gets. if that makes sense. I can see how much water is coming out and I can adjust the valves.
I think I'm going to have to pressurize it to do that to use a soke hose. But I'm afraid of pressurizing it because again it's not glued. But it's still a lot easier than lugging 5 gallon buckets of water to 12 different plants. I can water the plants pretty quickly Now by just turning on the main valve at the IBC Tote and then going through and turning each individual valve on one at a time all the way down the line to the end and then hurry back to the first value and turn them all off again till I get to the end of the line again and then go back to the top and start all over again. If I do it 3 times they get plenty of water and I don't have to Lug a bucket no where

One of the things that's probably doesn't help is cuz the manifold is fed from one end. So each individual plant really needs a solenoid or garden timer and a timer for how much water it will get. Because it's one ended manifold.
I priced Garden timers for a single is around 13 bucks that runs on AA batteries. So that's not in the budget right now but next year if I buy a couple of them a month I'll have enough for next year to do all 12 plants. Another thing I have to consider also with leaving water in the PVC pipe is that the sun beams on it and it gets pretty hot. so I thought about buying those pool noodles to insulate it. they're pretty cheap at the local store.

Less lugging

 

[trailanimal]

Great green display of grower talent. better keep the clippers handy, lots of green coming

 

[Growtogrow]

Solid work there. Stay safe in that heat. If I can ask a question, how do you focus on AAA bud as you put it? Are you simply limiting the plant to the best or largest colas around the top?

Thanks friend.. good question.

I would probably say that's a good analogy probably. I'm eliminating all the small insignificant stems and Bud sights that will not produce anything but larf.
By Taking all the sucker leaves off or big hand leaves and directing all energy to the stems and Bud sites that I think will be the best ones to produce the best bud or Triple-A flower.
I've been doing it for a few years now and my success is pretty good I believe. It's just this year Im really focusing on it. As last year I focused more on the farmer's garden and my up at the northern land Garden. And not my own Garden here in the yard.
I ended up losing a couple of plants that were probably good plants. I ended up losing them to the powdery mildew. Ugh.. and that would be because I wasn't able to open them up I didn't focus on clearing the center's out. The proper wording would be lollipopping to the extreme. I suppose. The guy I work for the commercial farmer he does it more extreme than I do but that's on the inside. Where he can control everything. He grows organically outside for the most part. I could call him 90% organic outside. But he does tend to like to use a little synthetics left over from his inside growth that he pours on when he drains his carts after feeding water in the indoor crop.
I grow organically 100% outside and inside and so I leave a little more leaves on because it does take a little more time for the organic plants to recover.
I'll do this (strip plant's) one more time possibly two more times but the second time if I do it won't be as extreme as the next time I do it. If that makes sense? I'll do it again about mid-august. Where this will help me to get to my goal of the best bud possible these plants can put out.
I don't make concentrates I'm not into hash or vaping. I only smoke flower and everybody that comes to me for their meds also only smoke flower.

 

[Growtogrow]

Great green display of grower talent. better keep the clippers handy, lots of green coming

Thanks Trail animal yeah there's a lot of work involved in this sometimes. Yeah I'm sweating my ass off right now I don't know what the temp is but it's damn hot I can tell you that. I got my little umbrella up trying to shade myself best I can I got two plants left to go I just started on the 2nd to the last one. Hopefully I'll get done here in the next couple of hours and I can sit back and drink iced tea and get baked for the rest of the day. LOL

 

[trailanimal]

Thanks friend.. good question.

I would probably say that's a good analogy probably. I'm eliminating all the small insignificant stems and Bud sights that will not produce anything but larf.
By Taking all the sucker leaves off or big hand leaves and directing all energy to the stems and Bud sites that I think will be the best ones to produce the best bud or Triple-A flower.
I've been doing it for a few years now and my success is pretty good I believe. It's just this year Im really focusing on it. As last year I focused more on the farmer's garden and my up at the northern land Garden. And not my own Garden here in the yard.
I ended up losing a couple of plants that were probably good plants. I ended up losing them to the powdery mildew. Ugh.. and that would be because I wasn't able to open them up I didn't focus on clearing the center's out. The proper wording would be lollipopping to the extreme. I suppose. The guy I work for the commercial farmer he does it more extreme than I do but that's on the inside. Where he can control everything. He grows organically outside for the most part. I could call him 90% organic outside. But he does tend to like to use a little synthetics left over from his inside growth that he pours on when he drains his carts after feeding water in the indoor crop.
I grow organically 100% outside and inside and so I leave a little more leaves on because it does take a little more time for the organic plants to recover.
I'll do this (strip plant's) one more time possibly two more times but the second time if I do it won't be as extreme as the next time I do it. If that makes sense? I'll do it again about mid-august. Where this will help me to get to my goal of the best bud possible these plants can put out.
I don't make concentrates I'm not into hash or vaping. I only smoke flower and everybody that comes to me for their meds also only smoke flower.
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I'm 100% organic. Greenhouse and outdoor always need lots of defoling. When actively vegging i never see any signs of slow down. Seems to stimulate leaf growth during veg. At a certain stage I defolf some every day, never a huge amount any one time on any one plant. Keeping my focus on mold patrol.......