Its great to see another person growing some Gypsy Thai Stick. I think you'll enjoy them as long as your patient, and willing to grow out each lady repeatedly..You can't treat them as a one and done deal and throw her out if you dont like the results right away. So stick with em.
Ive never had droopiness caused by a light schedule. My ladies in veg are under 16/8, and do very well with turgid happy green leaves, but only if I keep them fed(fertigation w/ osmocote in the media), and watered evenly and slowly via pulse watering. Got any pics you want to share of your ladies you're having issues with? I may be able to help.
You'll want to either top these ladies multiple times or start tying them down. Especially if you use HPS, which I highly recommend against. They'll respond by branching out a lot, but we want a wide even canopy with these ladies if you're using over head lighting like I am.
Sometimes Ill just tie branches downwards instead of topping. The upside is, after letting it stay tied down after a few weeks, itll usually retain that shape after being untied. Topping is more crude, but Ill do it in a heart beat if they get too tall for their own good.
those thai plants look fantastic dave!
much respect
VG
wow! they're looking great!
Hey Dave, good to hear back from you. I'll probably switch out my HPS for the halide tonight, then eventually go HPS/CMH at 500w/335w respectively. I just transplanted the two thai girls after gradually topping them, as to avoid stress.
To those ends, I am forewarned and forearmed (sorry for the flowery language, I'm high and have been watching Penny Dreadful all week). I've researched landrace and pure sativas, pretty extensively, so I've battened down the hatches for half a year flowering, possibly keeping them in the corners, light but steady watering. Jeez, it feels like I got a damn puppy
I am basically under-doing everything, as I'm led to believe the GN Thai are light feeders, esp. with Nitrogen.
Now I put those two in TLO amended soil, cooked for a couple months. I hope it's not too rich. I want to blame the deficiencies on lax CalMag application, lax ferts, and the damn FFOF. I've seen the light and Fox Farm has been shunned from my garden! Shunned! I'm trying ProMix for the rest.
As for the rest of my grow, here's a quick rundown: Ace/CBG Panama, Eskobar Oaxacan IBL, Nirvana El Dorado (they swear up and down its a pure Oaxacan, it looks kinda Dutch-xacan to me.), Colombian Gold (WOS strain, pretty weak, nanners at 8 weeks, AVOID). Anyway, here are the few pics I had around, you can kinda see, sorta. Thanks for any help and input!
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This round looks pretty epic! You seem to be dialing them in pretty nicely! Good job with the sativas brother! Well worth the wait IMO!
Hey Dave, talking with you got me going so I started my own journal!
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=327177
And thank you so much for the detailed advice and info about my Thai babies. Go ahead and ramble, cause I want to make sure I get these right. The goal is to avoid stressing them into herming out on me. So any tips or notions you offer are gold!
I'm guessing the basic tenets of growing Thai land races apply to other fragile pure sativas. Such as my Guatemala, or either the Punto Rojo, or USC Colombian Gold '72. I have many green wild beasts to tame!
Gorgeous plants! I bet that's going to be some tasty smoke
Hi Dave I cant believe how fast its filling out, a real diamond that plant.
Tangwena