Bubba Nub
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So I have a mom that I flowered over the summer, reveged over the fall to be a mom again for my current run. While looking at her, trying to decide what I was going to with her, I came up with the most brilliant idea of seeing how much abuse she could take. I do more than a fair amount of HST in my regular grow, so I figured it might be a worthy topic for me and interesting to others.
The plant. This ladies background is a bit of a genetic mystery that came out of my circle of farmers. Based on her characteristics and the room the seed came out of, we believe she is a widow strain that crossed with an AK or another indica heavy. Normally I would never had bothered with a hermie seed because of all the inherent issues they have, but for some reason I planted her, loved her, put her in my vegetable garden, and she turned out to be something unbelievable.
After harvesting this fall, I left left 2 or 3 bud sites that were low and attached to the main stem. She was repotted into a 5 gal container and put under a T5 for 6 weeks, being fed hi N nutes to force the reveg. Once new growth was getting big, I put her under a 1khps for 10 days and then took 72 clones from her new growth. Once the rest of my run was planted, I decided to go ahead and commit to keeping her 1 more run, but she would have to be broken heavily and repeatedly to fit. After 3 weeks of veg, she was transplanted to this massive container. What you're seeing here is 31 days of veg + 11 days of flower in which every budding branch has been crushed 4-5 times along with copious amounts of chopping, due to my height restriction. The scale is a little off. She's in a 54 qrt tub.
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You can get a good idea the abuse she's been thru looking at the trunk.
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I got a little carried away and the main stem split pretty bad early on. She didn't mind....
This is where I've been breaking the main budding stems repeatedly. I use a pair of needle nose pliers the crush the stems so the flop the direction I want. Within 4-6hrs, they are already curling back up on the branch ends.
Flowers are just barely starting to set. I think when I counted there are 15 or so main stems of similar size and then a hodgepodge of secondaries.
Some things to keep in mind. This strain takes HST very well, not all strains do. I have a diesel that hates it... This is an experiment for some specific needs I have and is limited by height severely. This is by no means scientific. I just like playing around when I have space.
The plant. This ladies background is a bit of a genetic mystery that came out of my circle of farmers. Based on her characteristics and the room the seed came out of, we believe she is a widow strain that crossed with an AK or another indica heavy. Normally I would never had bothered with a hermie seed because of all the inherent issues they have, but for some reason I planted her, loved her, put her in my vegetable garden, and she turned out to be something unbelievable.
After harvesting this fall, I left left 2 or 3 bud sites that were low and attached to the main stem. She was repotted into a 5 gal container and put under a T5 for 6 weeks, being fed hi N nutes to force the reveg. Once new growth was getting big, I put her under a 1khps for 10 days and then took 72 clones from her new growth. Once the rest of my run was planted, I decided to go ahead and commit to keeping her 1 more run, but she would have to be broken heavily and repeatedly to fit. After 3 weeks of veg, she was transplanted to this massive container. What you're seeing here is 31 days of veg + 11 days of flower in which every budding branch has been crushed 4-5 times along with copious amounts of chopping, due to my height restriction. The scale is a little off. She's in a 54 qrt tub.
View attachment 2991289
You can get a good idea the abuse she's been thru looking at the trunk.
View attachment 2991295
I got a little carried away and the main stem split pretty bad early on. She didn't mind....
This is where I've been breaking the main budding stems repeatedly. I use a pair of needle nose pliers the crush the stems so the flop the direction I want. Within 4-6hrs, they are already curling back up on the branch ends.
Flowers are just barely starting to set. I think when I counted there are 15 or so main stems of similar size and then a hodgepodge of secondaries.
Some things to keep in mind. This strain takes HST very well, not all strains do. I have a diesel that hates it... This is an experiment for some specific needs I have and is limited by height severely. This is by no means scientific. I just like playing around when I have space.
