Afgooey in the Winter, a Bubble Hash Dream...

[dyren]

BC, great job with the Afgooey.. it looks real tasty. I can't believe this was your first run with her, as someone already mentioned this grow looks dialed in!

I just had a few questions about your training techniques -- you said the plant was topped once and supercropped. (I can't believe this but I've never had an explanation of what supercropping is.. ) So could you elaborate a little bit on the training required to end up with a beautiful plant like yours?

Thanks a lot.



Take it easy,
dyren

 

[beancounter]

BC, great job with the Afgooey.. it looks real tasty. I can't believe this was your first run with her, as someone already mentioned this grow looks dialed in!

Thank you very much.. she's an easy plant to grow, so I'm sure that makes it alot easier to get a beautiful plant outa her.

I just had a few questions about your training techniques -- you said the plant was topped once and supercropped. (I can't believe this but I've never had an explanation of what supercropping is.. ) So could you elaborate a little bit on the training required to end up with a beautiful plant like yours?

Well, i'ts actualy quite simple.. i don't really use 'traditional' supercropping..

SCing usualy involves more intrusive and agressive bending and crushing of the 'hurd'. It works, but i find it takes too long to recover from, and gives u strange branch shapes, and can really screw up some plants..

A better form of SCing involves simply twisting the stems (pinching/grabbing corrosponding nodes with each hand[pointer finger/thumb]) until u hear a 'pop'.. THat pop is the hurd collapsing/snapping.. this way keeps the plants natural structure, and while it slows the plant down some, it's far less than from bending..

Now the way I do it is much more simple.. I simply pinch the stem/branch in between the nodes until it colapses (crushes) slightly.. I do this from the very begining usualy, on almost eavy single part of the plant. I also use this technique (u can use the other methods too) to shape plants the way I would like them.. I use it to get the plants to grow in a specific shape depending on whether I flower under a normal mounted light or a verticle light.. For verticle lighting I get the plant to grow in a tiered shape, like bleachers.. so that i don't need to rotate the plant at all, which saves tons of time/hassle.. I simply 'crush' the front branches and don't do anything to the back ones..

It's simple and effective.. You can see the results on the ECSD, BullRider, and a few others..

The afgooey in this thread was shaped for horizontal light.. I used 'hurd crushing/pinching' to get all the tops and canopy even, essentialy creating a SCROG plant without the screen.



Here's an example of an Afgooey shaped/trained for vert lighting.. this was just a tiny extra clone i flowered out in a 1 qt yogurt container..

 

[Brother_Monk]

Wow bean, I really love them colors. Your night time temps must be purdy low?

BM

 

[teddybud]

looks great!