Colorado Growers Thread

[Rednick]

Too much wind to smoke a joint?

You mean you just couldn't get it lit?
I'll have to teach you some old skier tricks. How do you think we smoke on a chair lift?

I dig your buddies set up. Real clean.

 

[aceofspades]

Heres an update on the black berry kush in my garden...It has over grown the 4x4 net and I need to add more net around the plant to train it down some more. I just started seeing white hairs so hopefully it does not stretch too much more, but we will see. Hope to get a decent amount off of this plant. Maybe next year I will just grow my 3 outdoors!







Ace

 

[Greenmopho]

Oh and by the way, what the hell is with the fungus gnats coming in Roots Organic soil this time of year! What a pain in the ass.

I just crush up a Mosquito Dunk and layer it across the top of my soil. When you top feed or water, the bti will work into the soil. This won't harm any of the microbes in the soil. Also, a 1" top layer of perlite will disturb the feeding and breeding of the gnats. I usually do one or the other (sometimes both) with my soil plants.

Looking good hemp, I had a shit ton of gnats in FF, so I switched to roots... Can't win. One thing that was pointed out to me is that the screen needs to be able to support the weight late into flower, so just make sure it's nice and tight, or have some bamboo handy. That netting is a bitch to untangle outta the bag.

You might want to use more than one screen or trellis net. Lower your current screen right up to the plants (although they have probably grown up to it by now). And put another screen maybe 4" above the canopy and the last screen, again, and allow the plants to stretch into that screen also. Train your plants into the top screen, and the bottom screen will help support your plants when they get heavy.

Too much wind to smoke a joint?

You mean you just couldn't get it lit?
I'll have to teach you some old skier tricks. How do you think we smoke on a chair lift?

Hahaha, I know most of the tricks. I grew up in Florida, you have to keep a joint lit in a hurricane down there. But this was easily windy enough to blow a joint out of your hand-type-shit up there. Better to just park and puff in the car with the sunroof open over looking the view...hehe. Not to mention, if ya can manage to keep it lit and hold on to it, it will burn 3x as fast in the wind...

 

[Greenmopho]

Thanks! Do I want to let the plants grow maybe 6" above and then bend down into next hole and start weaving it like that? What is a good goal for a heitght above the screen? Try for 6" above screen? A foot?

I would say it depends on the strain and the amount of stretch you expect. You said these were OG Kush? I don't recall now. I think 8-12 inches for OG is reasonable expectation for stretch, however, if you are doing more indica dominant stuff, like Bubba, probably better to keep the two screens closer, around 4 inches.

If you are just gonna rock the one screen, I twist 'em and bend up as soon as they even protrude a little above the screen. You twist em and turn em in there, and I guarantee when you come back the next day, there are more shoots hovering above the screen. You'll be surprised how fast they recover and try to keep growing. To me, it seems the more I weave them into the net, the more they try to "escape" and even more you weave back in... Still give yourself a few inches of clearance, because once the buds start building, they will fill in all the netting to the point where you will won't barely see the netting itself anymore.

 

[SELFHEMPLOYED]

I'm just using one screen, and no OG in the screen, average stretchers, and one ecsd and sage that will stretch. So you're saying essentially I should super crop the branches that are above the screen into an adjacent square or do anything I can to keep everything even wit the screen?

 

[funkfingers]

I'm just using one screen, and no OG in the screen, average stretchers, and one ecsd and sage that will stretch. So you're saying essentially I should super crop the branches that are above the screen into an adjacent square or do anything I can to keep everything even wit the screen?

exactly...good luck

 

[Greenmopho]

I'm just using one screen, and no OG in the screen, average stretchers, and one ecsd and sage that will stretch. So you're saying essentially I should super crop the branches that are above the screen into an adjacent square or do anything I can to keep everything even wit the screen?

Yes, keep it even, and be mindful of any "holes" in the canopy. When you bend the stalks, bend them in such a direction so you fill those holes in, essentially maximizing your horizontal space.

 

[SELFHEMPLOYED]

Word. Thanks guys. I feel like a noob, but this method may prove to be my best yet! I really am focusing on not taking ANY shortcuts and doing everything methodically this round it's paying off!

Check out the growth between july 24th and tonight. I clicked over on that night so most of it is do to the stretch, but I've never had faster growth in the first three and a half days of flower.

Last Saturday night (24th)

Tonight

After I violated her... On the right track funk and mopho?

Just about dead even with the screen now boys.


Sorry for taking up so much of the thread with this but this scrog is KICKIN!

 

[funkfingers]

After the stretch, make sure to trim that under growth that doesn't reach the top of the net.. weave them branches son..

keep crushin

 

[Greenmopho]

Looks like your getting it, bro! As they get bigger, I like to weave them up and over, then back under. IMHO, you are helping the plant yield more by supporting it, allowing it to put more energy into bud production rather than holding itself up....

 

[JoeManixx]

Got a 4 am flight that I think I'm gonna skip and do the stand-by thing tomorrow...I gotta say, I love SF, although Cali is slackin' and getting lazy on their genetics lately...finally went up to Twin Peaks for the first time in my life. Never made it up there when I lived out here....kinda like most New Yorkers haven't even been to the Statue of Liberty...lol. We had a romanticized fantasy of smoking a joint up there, but the wind is seriously kicking up there.
They are going old school with the hugo/pargro blocks and slabs, not my style, way too much waste...but a clean setup none-the-less....

Love The City. I always wanted to go to Coit Tower, but never did.

Your friend must have been a Lego kid, right? Thanks for sharing. -Joe

 

[JoeManixx]

Looks like your getting it, bro! As they get bigger, I like to weave them up and over, then back under. IMHO, you are helping the plant yield more by supporting it, allowing it to put more energy into bud production rather than holding itself up....

Kind of like a boneless chicken? haha!

So once these plants are woven into the grid, so to speak, do you ever move them? If they're popsicled nicely I guess you can see pretty well down low and can move air down there too.

I've really never paid any attention to scrogs. Very interested. Thanks. -Joe

 

[Kelly.]

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[Greenmopho]

Love The City. I always wanted to go to Coit Tower, but never did.

Your friend must have been a Lego kid, right? Thanks for sharing. -Joe

Yea, Coit tower is another good one that I haven't ever made it to. One day, hopefully! My pop's always said the 3 most beautiful cities in the world are San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, and Cape Town. Since I've been living in Colorado, I'm not much of a city guy anymore. But if I could afford it, I would live in San Fran in a heartbeat. Don't think I would ever live in another major US city other than SF.

As for Legos, the guys that built all that are probably older than legos themselves! Hahaha!

Kind of like a boneless chicken? haha!

So once these plants are woven into the grid, so to speak, do you ever move them? If they're popsicled nicely I guess you can see pretty well down low and can move air down there too.

I've really never paid any attention to scrogs. Very interested. Thanks. -Joe

Once they are woven into the screen, you pretty much can't move them without cutting the screen away, at which point the plant will plop over. You're pretty much stuck till harvest...

 

[iSMOKE.KUSH]

supz?
my co medical garden..week 6. wish i could take pics of the whole room..

 

[aceofspades]

Damn IsmokeKush your cannibis plants over ran your tomatoe cages like my tomatillos did! I would much rather have big kush plants (or whatever strain they are) rather than my tom plants!

Good work, clean room!

Ace

 

[Balazar]

There are some nice garden pics in here. It makes me jealous! I'm working on a new setup myself. Pics soon! Mopho and cannagirl that garden looks spotless. Very clean! You get the Virgo's approval

 

[thirdeye]

iSMOKE.KUSH,

What size pots do those tomato cages fit and where did ya get em? thx

 

[Greenmopho]

Colorado Growers Thread

iSMOKE.KUSH,

What size pots do those tomato cages fit and where did ya get em? thx

You can get those at the Homer dePot, I'm sure of it!

 

[Paco]

damn....