The Leprechaun's Pot O Gold

The plant on the left is the one I girdled, you can see the after top harvest lower buds on the right
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The girdling,
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Lights out flash pic, one week after girdle,
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lower buds bulkin up,
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a pic showing plant vigor,
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The baby seedling, good internode space thus far and is over 3 feet from the lights
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Will post updates as they happen

this is 8 days after the girdle,
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a bud shot,
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internode spacing on the baby,
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The lower buds finishing,
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and now for the fun part

recently flipped plants are startin to bud and they are comin out with trics ,,,,,

click to enlarge and check the stem on this one
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Even the baby seedling is makin trics,
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Dude RM what the fuck man.

I just had @Enigmatic Ways tell me Advanced Nutrients is the only way to get good buds LOL, I'm just going to point him over here where you're doing EVERYTHING different and pulling off better results then I've ever seen with 2000ws

taGyo said:

Dude RM what the fuck man.

I just had @Enigmatic Ways tell me Advanced Nutrients is the only way to get good buds LOL, I'm just going to point him over here where you're doing EVERYTHING different and pulling off better results then I've ever seen with 2000ws

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Jack's all the way baby

taGyo said:

Dude RM what the fuck man.

I just had @Enigmatic Ways tell me Advanced Nutrients is the only way to get good buds LOL, I'm just going to point him over here where you're doing EVERYTHING different and pulling off better results then I've ever seen with 2000ws

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There's a lot of us using dry nutrient salts with good results.

RM3 said:

girdling of stem to see time lapse for proper fade (gold bud)
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What?! Can you explain this in a little more detail? I've read your philosophies on fermentation in the root zone via boiling water. But what do you achieve by girdling the stem, and why?

Thanks for the updates and discussion...

elkamino said:

What?! Can you explain this in a little more detail? I've read your philosophies on fermentation in the root zone via boiling water. But what do you achieve by girdling the stem, and why?

Thanks for the updates and discussion...

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Tis an old school trick, here is what someone posted in my forum ,,,,,,,

Clark talked about it in MJ Botany. It restricts the flow of nutrients to the plant through the phloem, but leaves the xylem intact to transport water. This forces the plant to use up its sugar reserves, reducing chlorophyl. Some say yield is improved (I've seen the opposite in threads, test plant smaller than control plant).. Some say smell and taste is improved (starving the plant does, so I wouldn't doubt it).. Some say to use the technique on the "Gold" varieties to get them to gold/use up all chlorophyll.

I saw a few tests with non-gold varieties.. Girdled 2 and 3 wks before harvest.. neither turned gold. I'm really interested to see how this experiment turns out. If the technique works to turn buds gold, Riddle should pull it off. I've never seen anyone pull it off, haven't really looked much either though.

I think the "gold" herb is a result of curing.. curing closer to how riddle does than how most do it. In piles, with heat.

rm3,hey brother been a while,those are awesome lights,just bought me t5ho 16 bulb,how exactly or you using them,i mean are you using the pink and blue for veg or you going all the way,checked out that site looks interesting indeed,i noticed 4 or5 diffrent type,just curious of the method because proof is in the pudding of them working

old shol4evr said:

rm3,hey brother been a while,those are awesome lights,just bought me t5ho 16 bulb,how exactly or you using them,i mean are you using the pink and blue for veg or you going all the way,checked out that site looks interesting indeed,i noticed 4 or5 diffrent type,just curious of the method because proof is in the pudding of them working

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I flower with em, have been for years now