The Hemp Goddess said:
I find 14 ozs dry a little hard to believe unless it was grown outside. This cola weighed less than an oz dry:
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=101886&d=1235674715
I find it damn hard to believe, too. That one of yours sure is a beauty.
This is a C&P of some good directions
Single Cola growing for SOG or just for kicks
Alrighty, I've had a couple people as exactly how I go about growing out my plants in a single "baseball bat" style so here's a quick
"How To" for anyone interested.
I guess this is the most logical section for me to put this into as there isn't really and FAQ submision section on the forum right now, maybe if one does get made (wink wink, nudge nugde ThC
) a helpful Mod would be kind enough to move this there.
There are a couple reasons for using this trimming method, 1: it keeps your plants overall footprint no larger than a few inches across, 2: it makes trimming when harvesting a lot easier with few buds to trim down and 3 for all those cash croppers out there it will eliminate the small and airy "trash nugs" which most customers dislike buying due to their lack of bag appeal.
Though I am sure that like topping there are strains out there that may actually get an improved yield from this type of trimming I do want to state for the record that this is in no way guaranteed to increase your harvest per plant (though you may be able to harvest more total weight by fitting more plants into your flowering space by more effectively filling your overall square footage).
Here we go;
Picture #1 the plant I'm starting with (Clone of my Purple Rhino about 8" tall or so) with some sidebranching)
http://www.freecannabis.com/forum/at...1&d=1161315722
Basically what you want to do is start your plant flowering like you normally would without anything in the way of modifications and let it do it's thing for about 2 weeks or so. After the plant has been flowering for 2 weeks it should have got a good amount of it's stretching over and done with (if it's an indica dominant strain), this means that now is a good time for us to start our trimming.
NOTE: In this pictorial I did not wait for 2 weeks of 12/12 to go by before trimming as my Rhino does not branch out very much at all rendering this step unnecessary (You may find that this is the same for whatever strain you are growing).
Picture #2 shows some of the sidebranching that we want to do away with.
http://www.freecannabis.com/forum/at...7&d=1161314533
When trimming we want to chop off any side branching that has occured leaving on only the first 1 or two internodes with growthtips at the base of the branch.
Picture #3 shows the branch stump after the chop, notice that I have left 2 internodes right next to the main stalk.
http://www.freecannabis.com/forum/at...8&d=1161314545
I also skipped this step for this pictorial but I would also recommend that you totally remove the lower 1 or 2 nodes from your plant before flowering begins
because even trimmed back these usually only produce trash nugs anyway (the number of nodes removed will depend on how tall your plant
is and how many nodes it has in total).
Picture #4 shows or clone all trimmed up and ready to go back into the flowering room.
http://www.freecannabis.com/forum/at...9&d=1161314558
Picture #5 would be the same trimmed lady at the end of her flowering cycle.
http://www.freecannabis.com/forum/at...0&d=1161314567
A note on Sea Of Green style growing;
It is my firm belief that SOG stlye growing is the most effective way of getting the best yield you can out of your grow space per week, the downsides to most SOG grows are A: high plant numbers = bad news if you get busted, 2 if you're growing in a soil/soiless medium in single containers watering by hand will be an absolute nightmare as you will most likely have to water many, MANY pots at a minimum of every second day. To be honest the best ways to so a SOG grow are 1: Aeroponic/Hydro, 2: Large beds (IE 3x3 ft box) fed by Dripper (prefered) or watered by hand using a "rain shower" type spraying wand. Single containers are ok if you have an awful lot of time and a fairly small space to deal with. OF course it is also recommended that you do SOG using clones as part of the beauty of this method is the need for only a very short veg period after rooting has taken place.
One could do a SOG from seed but even the most indica dominant of plants will not start flowering until about 3 weeks old even when grown under 12/12 straight from seed, not to mention the fact that after 3 weeks you would lose half of your plant count due to male plants needing to be pulled.
I know most of this is fairly basic but hopefuly one or two of you out there will find at least one or two useful tidbits of information in here.
Stay safe and grow hard,
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Last edited by Dr.LOAD : 10-20-2006 at 04:07 AM.