I use the skewer method, plus sometimes I make little pipecleaner hooks on the skewers if I'm trying to push a branch down and out
Indoor Nirvana Blue Mystic-ShortRyder
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Good idea. An important thing is to keep out of the immediate root ball by flaring the base of the skewers outward from the stem. Your hooks allow the skewers to be used as stand off posts with the hooks reaching in to pull back the desired leaves. I like it.
Chester
Honey Hugger ...
Looks like skewers work pretty good .... I drill a series of holes around the rim of my pot and then I use light weight florist wire from Wal Mart to open the plants up ... I make a hook in the top of the wire ... poke it thru the pot ... tighten and bend and cut ... having a problem w/ my current grow because one plant is a little tall (36") and the main cola is fixin' to flop over ... I may stake it tomorrow ...
Agreed, that's the nice thing about this method. Most of my skewers are around the periphery of the pot pulling as close the growth as I can get them.
I popped the cap on the 5 grams that The Dwarf put out. The calyxes were dropping off the loosely formed flowers and I didn't expect much.
I think I'll change the name to Mighty Mouse. :Woozy..?:
There are no seeds so the idea that she might of brought pollen in from outside just doesn't hold up.
I think I'll change the name to Mighty Mouse. :Woozy..?:
There are no seeds so the idea that she might of brought pollen in from outside just doesn't hold up.
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Day 35
The Blue Mystic is small as expected and had little stretch so far. She has reacted nicely to LST and should show nice healthy bud sites. The yellow is reflection from the lights.
She's been on a !/2 dose, 1 teaspoon of Tiger bloom for 5 days and got a Flowertab last night.
All watering includes 1/2 doses of Rhizatonic and SuperThrive and are foliar fed every other day with same diluted by 1/2 again.
Lights have been at 23/1 which will change to 24/0 when buds show and foliar feeding stops..
The Mutant ShortRyder developing well as expected. Shown under LST to try to even up a second top. The original top and it's sprouts are now ground cover being too delicately joined at the base of the stem to try to manipulate. She received another 1/4 soiltab 1 day before she showed her sex so I'm watering heavily with Rhiz/SThrive ph6.8 water for a few days waiting for stretch before a week of Tiger Bloom then a 1/2 Flowertab. At 2 weeks post preflower both will start on 1/2 doses of Big Bud
The Blue Mystic is small as expected and had little stretch so far. She has reacted nicely to LST and should show nice healthy bud sites. The yellow is reflection from the lights.
She's been on a !/2 dose, 1 teaspoon of Tiger bloom for 5 days and got a Flowertab last night.
All watering includes 1/2 doses of Rhizatonic and SuperThrive and are foliar fed every other day with same diluted by 1/2 again.
Lights have been at 23/1 which will change to 24/0 when buds show and foliar feeding stops..
The Mutant ShortRyder developing well as expected. Shown under LST to try to even up a second top. The original top and it's sprouts are now ground cover being too delicately joined at the base of the stem to try to manipulate. She received another 1/4 soiltab 1 day before she showed her sex so I'm watering heavily with Rhiz/SThrive ph6.8 water for a few days waiting for stretch before a week of Tiger Bloom then a 1/2 Flowertab. At 2 weeks post preflower both will start on 1/2 doses of Big Bud
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Finally, after a year and a half of , "Out of stock", "Won't ship there", "Can't take that payment", " Don't ship there", ya da ya da on and on from every dealer . I finally got the DP Auto Blueberry that I wanted to run last year. The dealer threw in an Auto Grapefruit Punch, Delivered on time, Was expensive only because I placed a minimal order to try them out and the shipping is fixed. The Beans were at a good price. But they will have to wait.
Day 40
Both the BLue Mystic Ethel and the ditzy mutant Lucy, which is finally learning which way is up, are starting to show off, in miniature. Oh, if I could have had Ethel under those big top hat cfl's. She was thin and spindly with narrow leaves so everywhere got light and the branches just snaked out with little coaxing. Now she is filling in and stretching. I noticed a slight mutation in her too. One node only grew a fan on one side of the stem.
Today she recieved two liters of ph 6.8 water containing : 1 teaspoon Tiger Bloom, 3 ml of big Bud, 2 teaspoons of Blackstrap Molasses, with two table spoons of Epsom salts spread on the soil and watered in with the mixture for its switch to flower re-enforcing after a 1 gallon flush,
Lucy may have started out a little mixed up and has no real branch action as yet except one., but she is showing a lot of heart in her comeback. The second of the new tops has almost caught the first with a little help while a third thinner branch is playing catch up. If it does, I may end up with three reasonable colas.
She is on a little different regimen because she got a 1/4 soil tab 1 day before starting to Flower, she has been getting a few liters water flush a day all week and just got 1/3 flower tab and the same treatment as Ethel for transition.
Both girls are holding their color with no burn but Lucy started showing a slight cupping of the serrations. A little spritz with the
solution and it stopped but has yet to smooth out on just one blade.:Sharing One:
I really liked that they offered the option to select the type of freebee. Photo, Plain, fem, or Auto.
I didn't forget to name the dealer, I just won't name them in relation to shipments. They are well known and if anyone wants it just ask and I'll send it to your box.
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Day 47
Ethel has developed the same rust spots as previous runs only at first sign I had dosed with Epsom, Bone meal, and baking soda again to raise ph. Every reading has been around 6.8 but suddenly the run off was reading 4.8. The deficiency is a lot less pronounced this time. Next run I will add these a week sooner.
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Lucy is mean and green. No sign of deficiency so the preventative dosing of the soil may have worked on her.
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Ethel has developed the same rust spots as previous runs only at first sign I had dosed with Epsom, Bone meal, and baking soda again to raise ph. Every reading has been around 6.8 but suddenly the run off was reading 4.8. The deficiency is a lot less pronounced this time. Next run I will add these a week sooner.
. Lucy is mean and green. No sign of deficiency so the preventative dosing of the soil may have worked on her.
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Day 51
I forgot to mention that back at first flower I had changed the cycle to 20/4
First frost on Ethel today. Will start 6 hours of 15w UVB daily.
The cal def has slowed with an additional 2 Tbl spoons of bone meal watered in. Seems to have stopped spreading and the effected fans are still rising to attention, That is a total of 4 since transition. That is what I will automatically dose in future grows only at day 25. A little before traditional flowering at 28 day average.
She is building flowers nicely. There is a little clawfoot from over water from flushing salts.
Lucy is encouraging me that the bone meal works and fast. She showed 2 rust spots on one leaf and 3 on another a week ago and the cal stopped her flat. Not another sign so far. Her two tops stretched 1 1/2 inches beyond Ethel in the last 2 days and the main cola has buds the entire length.
I forgot to mention that back at first flower I had changed the cycle to 20/4
First frost on Ethel today. Will start 6 hours of 15w UVB daily.
The cal def has slowed with an additional 2 Tbl spoons of bone meal watered in. Seems to have stopped spreading and the effected fans are still rising to attention, That is a total of 4 since transition. That is what I will automatically dose in future grows only at day 25. A little before traditional flowering at 28 day average.
She is building flowers nicely. There is a little clawfoot from over water from flushing salts.
Lucy is encouraging me that the bone meal works and fast. She showed 2 rust spots on one leaf and 3 on another a week ago and the cal stopped her flat. Not another sign so far. Her two tops stretched 1 1/2 inches beyond Ethel in the last 2 days and the main cola has buds the entire length.
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