My mom is growing an indica (Mazar), and it looks great. I mixed up some LOS, dug a hole, planted it, and it’s thriving with no additional nutes besides liquid silica and a kelp foliar. The only thing is that I wasn’t able to find time to prune / lollipop it the way I should have. I cut off the lowest 8 branches but I never expected it to reach this size and there are lots of low branches with popcorn nugs. Has anyone tried harvesting the top half of a plant, then letting the bottom half / popcorn nugs get a lot more light and keep growing / ripening for another week or two? It’s just one plant outdoors, so it’s not like it’s eating up electricity or grow room space. Thinking about it in theory, it seems like it could have benefits, and the only potential downside is it could stress the plant, but it doesn’t seem like that could negatively affect the popcorn bud in any tangible way, right? Thanks!
First of all. Very respectable plant there @Gandalf_the_Green. It certainly won't hurt anything to try it. Indoors, I didn't see a huge gain in trying a staggered harvest.
ever picked apples of a tree? do the apples on the south top side first then a week later the lower down a week later around the back and when red all the rest it's sensible to sequent your harvest's to get the best trics ever, I prefer just 2 harvests top and bottom a week apart as I rotate my plants daily for this very reason good luck
Thank you very much! This is certainly a soil recipe I’ll be reusing. I think the high amount of alfalfa meal resulted in the high levels of branching and bud sites… LD talked about the effects of triacontanol many times. I will give the staggered harvest a try! Lol
Thank you! I have picked apples lol, but I thought maybe picking a fruit and cutting a stem are different orders of stress. One thread I saw suggested cutting each bud from the main stem without cutting the main stem… to reduce stress. Not sure that’s worth it or effective at all, but who knows.
I grow mostly mainlined plants indoors. If the plant is healthy and in vegetative growth. I can top it and it will grow 3 new nodes in 6-7 days. As far as topping during our flowering cycle. I think that is a totally different story. The plant is nearing the end of its life cycle. Expending energy to heal a wound while in flower doesn't seem like it would increase our yield. This is why I don't believe we will see a notable difference in our yield when harvesting in stages. At least that's what I found when I tried it indoors.
once a tree is damages it releases a chem called JA jasmonic acid, very similar to our antibodies, its this the lst guys inadvertently seek when lst-ing their plants that very JA response, a boost tho in my garden I think its just a theory ...lol its when we can fem our plants with JA thats what I seek
that may be the healthiest outdoor plant I have seen on here Kudos to you sir on how green she is My advice just let her ripen it is way to early to chop anything off her yet but when the time comes you can chop the colas and let the rest catch up but WAIT FOR HER TO FINISH like another 4 weeks
Increasing Jasmonic acid during late flower will increase trichome production. Meaning newly formed immature trichomes. It would have a similar effect as adding Malted barley powder in the last few weeks of flower. It can extend out flowering time and outdoors this is not the best idea in my opinion.
Lol I was bound to resurface eventually! Finally got a LOS soil mix that seems really dialed in. Good seein ya RD!
For 2 cubic feet of soil, this is what I’ll do next year: ~ 0.6 cf Sphagnum Peat Moss ~0.4 cf Worm Castings ~0.2 cf Mushroom Compost ~0.6 cf Lava Rock / Rice Hulls ~0.2 cf BAS Bio-Char 3 cups BAS Mineral Mix (Basalt Rock Dust, Gypsum, Oyster Shell Flour) 1/4 cup Mycorrhizae 1 cup Kelp Meal 1 cup Alfalfa Meal 3/4 cup Ahimsa Neem Cake 3/4 cup Espoma Organic Plant-Tone 1/4 cup Soft Rock Phosphate 1 tsp Cyto-Plus Humic Acid Concentrate with Seaweed BAS means Build-A-Soil. Great company with a great website and owner, but there are other places to get bio-char and rock dust. The last two, Soft Rock Phosphate and Humic Acid, are probably totally unnecessary but I have them already, so I might as well use them lol. I mix it all up, wet it down, then let it sit for 5-8 weeks in the dark before using. Any good compost will do, mushroom compost is just what I have access to from a local nursery / garden supply place. Like I said, the plant has gone from seedling to harvest with nothing else other than liquid silica in its water and one kelp meal foliar. No nutes.