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Grump's Dip-N-Stix Grow 🌱

I took off the lower crooked and wavy fans. 6 in total. 4th node still looking great. New growth coming in fast. I'm pleased.

I almost forgot how exciting it is watching these things take off. My last plant was such a dud.

Here's Eileen.. standing up straight these days
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GoodShit97 said:
She is doing so much better bro 👊🏼
Id have to agree shes getting herself into high gear.
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There's one fan that will be sticking out oriented vertically every night. It slowly rotates throughout the day. Maybe too much light. Maybe she's still got some of those weird growth characteristics like the ones I snipped. Either way it makes me kinda giggle when I peek in and see all the leaves laying perfectly flat and then there's this one oddball.

I've been bumping up the light 1% per day this last week and we're at 16% today. Leaf temps have been 78 every time I've checked. Water's at 71-72 with 350ppm. No tip burn yet so I'm thinking she might be a hungry one.

I may or may not flip the res this weekend. Weekly res changes seem like a smart way to keep the ratios in check but biweekly should be fine. First grow, I ran the same res for a month or so at a time. I have no problem burning through nutes at this point. I might make the switch to dry nutes next grow and I've barely touched these gallon jugs. I guess we'll find out.
 
6 weeks from sprouting she's looking good. I did end up changing the res last weekend and bumped her up to 430ppm. I think she's loving it and may do another change this weekend. She might wanna see 480+. A little epsom dose with a bump in the nutes could bring us to 500. I think she'll handle that fine. To be continued.

I've been folding over her main tops and decided I'll drop the table on her today. She's been growing fast! I set the screen at 7 inches and will weave the 4 main stems towards the corners. Not quite a CG trademarked SCROG but this is the route I've chosen.

Light is 24 inches above the screen at 18%
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You thinking of working the light up to higher power?
How much longer do you think you will veg for?
I like the net and how you built it to be added to. :cool:(y)
 
steamroller said:
You thinking of working the light up to higher power?
How much longer do you think you will veg for?
I like the net and how you built it to be added to. :cool:(y)
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Thanks steam. I had it up to 20% and got some pretty bad tacoing going on. Brought it down to 17, 18 now, and she's looking better. Will continue 1% per day.

We have plenty of bud so I'll veg until she fills the screen. I'm thinking that's another month or so. 2 and a half from sprout.
 
Hell yea Grump~!
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Nice dude Im glad to see she is picking up and throwing some roots...any ideas as to what was goin on?

Me and g$ been talking about cloning woes maybe it's just that time of year shit gets a little tougher....hell yea tho ready to see how she does!
 
steamroller said:
Hell yea Grump~!
:rock:
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Stoneyluv said:
looks great man!!! wow those roots!!!! i think the last time i saw them there was just one root.. now look at them!!!

great work Grump!!!
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Thanks guys. I've been really pleased this last couple weeks. Just been to busy to post.
MDK said:
Nice dude Im glad to see she is picking up and throwing some roots...any ideas as to what was goin on?

Me and g$ been talking about cloning woes maybe it's just that time of year shit gets a little tougher....hell yea tho ready to see how she does!
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Thanks bro. I couldn't guess what took her so long. I think I've been planting my plugs too high in the net pot or top-dressing too much. Like they've either had trouble making it through all the hydroton or they just been hanging out up there thinking there's plenty of water. First plant took a while also. I won't use the second plant as evidence cuz it was a dud.
 
Gave her a little trim/training session. Next time I think I'll stick with just the two main stalks instead of the four. The runners off of the two mains are just as vigorous as the two secondary stalks. All in all she's doing good. Steadily chugging down her 530ppm cocktail.
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MDK said:
I like your clips on the lid of your tote to hold your scrog down... nice idea
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Mad Max said:
Glad to see you have her growing well Grumps.I’m happy for ya mate..she looks healthy.💪😎
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SweetLeafGrow said:
Nice work Grump, impressive recovery bro 👊
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Thanks fellas.

I'm thinking FIM in a week and flip in 2. It's been 9 weeks from sprout. A long road but we're nearing the end of veg. I'm excited to see Eileen stretch 😍

My largest fan leaves so far
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Went in tonight and gave her a final trim/train before I flip. I'll be going to bed a little defeated and disappointed. Everything was looking good until I cleared some leaves covering the center of the plant. She's completely grown herself apart. I'm unable to pull it back together because of the knotting in the trellis. This had to have happened in the last couple days because I was recently admiring that knuckle. Am I totally fucked?
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Nah man if anything she gonna fuckin hulk smash now, your good homie put a little electrical tape over her ...I think @CannaGranny uses honey or molasses maybe?

They like this in flower (maybe not always in flower) or prior to flower...I watched a dud plant snap the main un-topped cola behind a chicken coup due to wind, checked it a month later and it was outta control like 4 times the size and ended up dropping like 2 lbs of bud...not my plant but a good friends
 
MDK said:
Nah man if anything she gonna fuckin hulk smash now, your good homie put a little electrical tape over her ...I think @CannaGranny uses honey or molasses maybe?

They like this in flower or prior to flower...I watched a dud plant snap the main unstopped cola behind a chicken coup due to wind, checked it a month later and it was outta control like 4 times the size and ended up dropping like 2 lbs of bud...not my plant but a good friends
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Fuck I hope that's the case. I saw it and nearly yeeted the whole plant off the back porch.
 
Don't do that....doctor that wound watch it and man if the leaves tell ya she is happy letter rip....I'd tape or wrap that spot with garden wire just to make sure it doesn't give out when she gets really heavy....but yea man...rock n roll

Lmfao at yeeted...my stepson I always tell him he's a yeeter
 
My buddy is on this unk shit...were old so he is always telling me about the young yeeters calling him unk...

I'm like unnnn....just unnnn
 
I'll show you a split stem when I get in the room for pics.
The plant loves abuse and you are loving it~! :D
Don't do anything different.
No tape, honey or anything. Your plant will be fine~!
Don't worry you and the plant will be fine.
 
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Thanks everyone. I knew they liked stress but I wouldn't have imagined this much to be a good thing. I just can't believe she did it to herself. Crazy plants.

Should I give it a week or so before I flip or will flipping encourage her to heal that up quicker? I was gonna give her a few days to recover from the trim, but if I need to, I can wait an extra little bit.
 
GrumpAzz said:
Thanks everyone. I knew they liked stress but I wouldn't have imagined this much to be a good thing. I just can't believe she did it to herself. Crazy plants.

Should I give it a week or so before I flip or will flipping encourage her to heal that up quicker? I was gonna give her a few days to recover from the trim, but if I need to, I can wait an extra little bit.
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I personally would give it a few days to recover, because my thoughts are if you flip now it'll put energy into healing that wound that it could've put into stretch.
 
GoodShit97 said:
I personally would give it a few days to recover, because my thoughts are if you flip now it'll put energy into healing that wound that it could've put into stretch.
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She's lucky I'm patient, then. I'll keep a close eye on it but I'm running out of screen. She may start going vertical before I flip.
 
I would just give her enough time to be sure she is OK.
Happening on the 11th I would think you could flip anytime after today if you are in a hurry. I think the days since have showed her to be all good with the stress.
Otherwise during the week or next weekend should cause no issue IMO.
 
steamroller said:
I would just give her enough time to be sure she is OK.
Happening on the 11th I would think you could flip anytime after today if you are in a hurry. I think the days since have showed her to be all good with the stress.
Otherwise during the week or next weekend should cause no issue IMO.
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Sweet. I can wait an extra week. This happened 4-5 days ago and I've still witnessed some great growth since and have been tying her down every other day. The split doesn't seem to have slowed her down.
 
GrumpAzz said:
Went in tonight and gave her a final trim/train before I flip. I'll be going to bed a little defeated and disappointed. Everything was looking good until I cleared some leaves covering the center of the plant. She's completely grown herself apart. I'm unable to pull it back together because of the knotting in the trellis. This had to have happened in the last couple days because I was recently admiring that knuckle. Am I totally fucked?
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My hydro Ghost Train Haze did the same thing. I yeeted her off the back porch :ROFLMAO:but I also had other plants in the stable and I was tired of her being so high maintenance.
The good thing is stalks are hollow so it looks bad but the vascular system still looks intact. I'd be tempted into doing some type of splint not to repair but prevent further splitting
Good luck with that ornery bitch Grump!🤞🤞🤞
 
Bandit420 said:
I'd be tempted into doing some type of splint not to repair but prevent further splitting
Good luck with that ornery bitch Grump!🤞🤞🤞
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^^ I agree with this^^
You can see in my pic that I tied the splitting with pipe cleaners to keep her from spreading more.
I did not split it. I tied her apart and the next day like yours she was split/ splitting.
I didn't want to negate the effort to spread her especially after damage but did not want to chance more damage.
 
When this happens to me outdoors I just put a stake each side away from the stem to hold up those 2 branches and to take the weight.lift up the branches so they are closer together .tape or tie the branch to the stake..ive even used clamps lol to close them right up.it never heald up though.mine were splitting down past a couple nodes..I was using these 😃
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