I do a 15 min decrease in time every week. But making sure never to drop below 9 hours of day light.
Some plants I’ve run have flowered sixteen weeks. A really short cycle can help or hurt it’s a tough call.
Mainly I stay around 11/13
I only ever offer my findings through practice. Never trying to tell anyone how to grow. We all see you know what’s up
With the calmag diff in the leaves you can still just spray the under sides. After about two or three day it’s gone. Never fails. No need to pH or anything. The leaves like the pH a little higher
Yes, the ones with the most purple stems are also a ones that were hit hardest by a calcium deficiency. I’ve just been playing catch up since then, but this test has been compromised. I’m taking notes on what to try differently if I choose to run these anywhere else.
I like to keep all leaves throughout veg, then defoliate as a hard transition to set the plant up for flower. Once I see the structure I can decide how far down to strip the plant, usually down to 6 nodes or fewer. Just enough so no light hits the floor without hitting a leaf first. I’m not growing floors.
Yeah pretty spot on you know what going on. I want to defol early. Try to expose the nodes early. Encourage secondary and tertiary growth quickly. Then let her recover and fill out. By this point. I should be around sixty days and close to flip. Anything that needs to be tucked gets tucked. I try to not remove anything close to flip. To much stress is never good for transition.
I’m probably more of a lollipoper. Scroging is just to tough on my back and neck. I have had five spinal fusions. So I try to stay upright lol 
Mind over body friend! The mind thinks the body will follow! Age is just a number and Injuries are just just obstacles
Yeah. Somewhat. I spent years recovering. Felt worse then when I push myself like I do these days. But I will tell you climbing under a net a few time a week is no fun
I really appreciate your take on things. I like to hear from those who know, especially about what techniques and methods can work best with a crop. It gives me some different tools to work with to fix a problem or find a better way to do things.
Right now I’m running a test to see how the plants might run when treated at a larger scale. I’ve already identified my heavy feeders, haha. I’ll adjust accordingly next time, and I’ve learned what their early warning signs look like.
My trellis is actually up just high enough that I can sit comfortably on a mechanic’s stool with casters. I’m still young, but believe me when I say I’m learning from my elders. Always ear protection and proper joint care.
I get it brotha!! 
You are so far ahead of the game. I can probably get a lesson from you soon enough. I’m picking up the same CMH you have and going to run a soil journal. Probably start around the end of the month. Maybe the alien opus. Maybe something else. Should I start a poll?
Show us what you’re most excited about. That’ll bring on the best grow.
Dude that list is a mile long. But I did start 4 alien og x Magnum opus F11. Today. Mainly for preservation. But if ratios come right maybe we will have a girl to spare for this. We will see I need to look over my stock.
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First available as a clone in California’s Bay Area and now in seed form from Cali Connection, Alien OG is a cross of Tahoe OG and Alien Kush. Alien OG has the typical lemon and pine OG smell and flavor, and its intense high combines heavy body effects and a psychedelic cerebral buzz. Beginners and novices, be sure to take it slow with this heavy-hitter
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So yeah it’s kinda a clear choice right. I had the pack for sale at 350 no one wanted it so I’m going to preserve it. And put it back on the market. At 500
Its like a diamond in the rough not to many people know how rare of a strain it is… Honestly I wouldn’t do that strain justice if I grew her in my settings… I’m not equipped to clone “yet”… One thing people forget is picking the right strain… It’s not just getting high it’s choosing the right high!
Well I’ve been collecting top notch stuff and old stuff for preservation for a while now. I barely grow flower anymore. It’s all about saving those gems. The ones people actually put work into. Not like the current market of untested unstable f1 releases. Of mashed up non complimentary groupings. Back in the day. I’m taking the late 70s to 80s we didn’t have many choices. But the ones we did have. We worked over. Perfected. Crossed. And crossed back. We enjoyed these for many years to come. Then the late 80s and 90s started a new wave of genes. The strains came faster. But we still had classics. Still had work being done. Enter the 2000s. The legal age. A strain comes out. It goes to a cup. Same day it wins. Five other variety of it are released. A week later ten other strains are better. A month after that. No one is talking about any of those anymore. Classics are gone. It’s all about cash. What’s hot. And who says it’s hot.
So I continue to work the classics. And some of the better forgotten gems. I just feel we have more then enough to work with already
It’s great to have these legacy genetics preserved. Over the upcoming years I’ll be stocking my seed bank up with all of the best things I can get my hands on.
I will say a great thing about the new wave of breeders and pollen chuckers is that they are able to look for really special characteristics that didn’t have much value decades ago. We’ve now got the tools and knowledge to hone in on things like CBD, THC-xyz and any other compounds or minor canabanoids that could have some value to someone. So many things have been lost over the years because they fell out of fashion, were too difficult to grow and turn a profit with in an underground operation (smell, yield, size, flowering time, etc) and are now coming back into the market as people start to have a little bit of fun with weed.
Genetic stability is so important for repeatable results, but now being able to test for and identify all of the small characteristics can make for a really exciting breeding program. With people throwing together all of these plants we’re seeing a diversity like we’ve never seen. Now the trick is to make sure we’ve got people who can use this newfound diversity to make things that are really special.
With that said, I strongly prefer to get my seeds from reputable breeders that have done the work to make a quality product. Soon I hope to have the tools, space, time and money to be able to breed for what I find valuable. But I’m not there yet, so I’ll ride the coat tails of others’ hard work for now.
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