Indoor Sweet Skunk Auto & Tangelo Rapido Auto - Kush's Low Budget Grow

[bad dragon bzzz]

growth wise they both looking great.nice lil dusting of frost.
fingers crossed.

 

[Kush]

The Tangelo Rapido is a weird one.
They said it was going to autoflower. It didn't.
They said it was a Sativa domiant. It isn't.
I mean, look at it - it is squat, branchy and bushy like a true Indica. Those fan leaves are humongous and I was wondering: should I defoliate this girl a little bit? Remove the largest fans, especially those on the lower side that are just above the brim of the pot?
Would the plant benefit from such a procedure, or would defoliation stunt it?

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

a few defoilate,and a few do it quite a lot.some tuck the fans under any new budsites.
as this plant isnt playing ball with us,i say plucking half a dozen leaves off wont hurt it much at all.
good luck.

 

[Kush]

Alright, I just defoliated both plants.

Went heavy on the Tangelo Rapido since it is still vegging and will soon shoot new leaves. I think it will be a bush again in one week or so.

I was much more careful with the Sweet Skunk, which is currently flowering and this means it will no longer grow new leaves. I only removed the leaves that were throwing a shadow on the lower nugs of the Sweet Skunk.

Photo right before defoliation:

Photo right after defoliation:

 

[Kush]

I just LST-ed the Tangelo Rapido. Tied the side branches down to the brim of the pot.

Also gave both plants a dose of brown Kristalon - third time I am feeding the Sweet Skunk flowering nutes and first time for the Tangelo Rapido (which is still not flowering).

I don't know if flowering nutes can trigger the flowering process, but I sure hope they can, because that Tangelo plant is very stubborn and just would not show pistils even under 12/12.

Before LST:

And after I tied her down:

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

100% autoflower isnt strictly true its more like 99.8% every now and again it happens an auto wont auto.sometimes if an auto is stressed in some way there is a 1% chance it will hermi and a 1% chance it will change to a photo.
that may make no sense to you,thats just the way i see it.
nice bit of bending and no breakages

 

[Kush]

Looks like the Tangelo Rapido has changed to a photoperiod plant. The big question is when will it flower.
I am now using it for all sorts of experiments - already tried defoliation, LST, tested flowering nutes on it.... have nothing to lose. I may even top it or FIM it just to see what happens.

 

[Kush]

Five days after the first round of LST and the Tangelo Rapido looked like this. It had recovered from the defoliation as well and was turning into a leafy bush again.

I then decided to torture the Tangelo Rapido to the max and trimmed off all of its tops - all the side tops, the main top, everything!
I brutalized the poor plant, just to see what will happen.
Here is the pile of trimmed tops. I think I can see preflowers on some these, but I am not quite sure about that, because the new leaves look thin and white - a lot like pistils.

And finally, I did a second round of LST on the Tangelo Rapido - bent the main top and tied it down to the brim of the pot.
If this thing ever flowers, it will have at least 20 main colas, lol.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

result thems tops and its now gona have twice as many,slowly but surely getting there.

 

[Tommy boy]

I just took them out of the old soil. Their roots were barely showing through the Jiffy membrane and 95% of them were contained inside of the Jiffy. I will never use Jiffy pellets again.

I transplanted the ill babies in new soil, an expensive one that had lots of promises written on its label.
Let's see if they will recover in their new environment. I am fucking determined to save them.

I had that happen before sucks. Now I cut the mesh of whatever it is off I haven't had any problems since