my 3 stages of flower

420circuit

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OLD DUDE said:
Had em, they suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not convinced that the no pest strips do anything to prevent spider mites but it can't hurt! The only other preventative things you can do is take a shower and put on freshly washed clothes every time you go into the grow room and do a preventative spray or fogging! Do try to remember not to go into your rooms after working in the yard!! There is one thing I would suggest for gnats, cut the sticky strips and tape them to the front end caps! I went for a couple years and never had them, now I have them and can't get rid of the little fuckers!!!!!!!
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I wonder if the sticky strips have an attractant on them, if they do it might bring the pests? I'll plan to fog the room outside the grow, it is a store room that I sprayed around the perimeter baseboard a couple times so far with spider killer spray. I have not seen a single bug in the grow, but did find a quarter size spider in the store room a few months ago. I soaked him with spray and waited 2 days before I could remove the corpse, with a shovel and gloves.:shock: I check on the plants 2-3 times a day, so showers are not going to happen, and I have started using a special shirt and jeans for that work as the smell that gets on my clothes could cause a problem. Maybe add something to the nutes to make the plants more repellent to bugs? I don't want to poison the buds, just discourage the bugs. The Botanicare nutes have done well so far and I think they are pretty much organic and I am reluctant to spray/fog plants that don't have any problems, so prevention is my goal at this stage.
 
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No, spiders are not good in my grow room because then I won't be able to tend to the plants. Nope, no spiders. So now I find out there are microscopic spiders that kill/eat weed. I need to ensure that these little fuckers die before they get within 50 feet of my plants. Got a suggestion for a fogger, or is any household bug fogger OK? I am not going to detonate in the grow room, but the adjacent room will be getting nuked.:fire:
 
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BleedsGreen said:
Anyone ever experience this before? I have one plant that has 2 main colas, at about week 6 into flower they started to stretch and almost reveg. I have phot's and explanation here.
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/636634-new-veg-growth-6-week.html
anyone have any ideas? Just looking to educate myself here, Thanks for any replies.
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Rosenthal's book describes how the dark period is what sets into motion the cycle of the plant, so any interruption of the 12 hours of darkness can screw with the plants and send them to veg mode. Darkness means you can't see your hand in front of your face. The chemicals that cause this shift will switch back to veg if you have even a small light leak or an inadvertent door open, maybe some security cams with the infrared LEDs, an LED on a power strip... The chemistry of these plants is kind of amazing. And about the fogger, I'll draw grow room intake air from somewhere else when I fog because the chemicals in bug killer scare the crap out of me and I would never risk smoking any. Currently the air comes from around the door seal and along the top of the wall that hasn't gotten caulked yet. My theory here is that the CO2 from the house falls to the lowest level of the building, where the grow is located, and the exhaust fan pulls it thru the room and across the plants, so the residents contribute to the grow just by breathing. I can easily install an intake from a different room, been considering it anyway, so I can install a mushroom filter to better control the air quality and caulk up the grow room wall and add another seal to the grow room door. Good thing for me to consider before pulling the trigger on the fog-bomb, thanks for the reminder.
 
Sa11ySt0ner

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I love this thread. Thank you SS1, OD and everyone else who contributes their knowledge.
I have learned so much by starting from the beginnng of this. I think if a crisis occured
and Bleeds couldn't make it down to the basement that I could keep the system running
by what I have learned by reading the "Havest a lb every 3 weeks"thread and this thread.
I still couldn't build one myself (I have no mechanical abilities)
but I'm sure I could keep everything maintained and all the girls happy.
You guys are great! Thank you all so much for taking the time to answer questions.
It has really helped me understand how the system works.
 
420circuit

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Sa11ySt0ner said:
I love this thread. Thank you SS1, OD and everyone else who contributes their knowledge.
I have learned so much by starting from the beginnng of this. I think if a crisis occured
and Bleeds couldn't make it down to the basement that I could keep the system running
by what I have learned by reading the "Havest a lb every 3 weeks"thread and this thread.
I still couldn't build one myself (I have no mechanical abilities)
but I'm sure I could keep everything maintained and all the girls happy.
You guys are great! Thank you all so much for taking the time to answer questions.
It has really helped me understand how the system works.
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You COULD build one. If I can do it anyone can. If you are in CO, send me a PM, otherwise re-read the harvest a lb first few pages where SB describes how to do it, then modify it to what SS and this thread describes and there you go, a magic weed machine. You and Bleeds will enjoy the work in making this thing produce, it has been a joy for me since first deciding to put it together.
 
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superstoner1 said:
What i meant on the runts is to just use the whole top of the plant and re root it then toss rest of plant. I have seen some take off by doing that and really surprised me.[/

I have also seen the bottom of runt plants in veg take off after they have been topped. I would keep them. doesn't always happen but is worth a shot. You can always trash it later if it doesn't start to take off.
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Sa11ySt0ner

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420circuit said:
You COULD build one. If I can do it anyone can. If you are in CO, send me a PM, otherwise re-read the harvest a lb first few pages where SB describes how to do it, then modify it to what SS and this thread describes and there you go, a magic weed machine. You and Bleeds will enjoy the work in making this thing produce, it has been a joy for me since first deciding to put it together.
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i don't need to build anything, that is Bleeds dept. and he has done a fantastic job. Everything is going great! I COULD build it if I had to ( I am woman hear me roar) but I hope to never need to do it. I'm happy getting away with only doing 30% of the work while still enjoying 50% of the results.:weed:
 
OLD DUDE

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BleedsGreen said:
Anyone ever experience this before? I have one plant that has 2 main colas, at about week 6 into flower they started to stretch and almost reveg. I have phot's and explanation here.
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/636634-new-veg-growth-6-week.html
anyone have any ideas? Just looking to educate myself here, Thanks for any replies.
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Go in the room after lights out and make sure you see no light. It could be something in the pheno too, I'm not sure! Now that I think about it, I have had that happen, but on a much lesser scale!!
 
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Opinions please!! I have 2sh feet on two sides, 4 feet on one side, and 6 feet on the last side of my plants to the walls! Wonder if it would make any difference with light to put up the roll up solid blinds???
 
boafmabalzich

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Just finished reading this thread from post #1. SS I would like to get a couple hundred of your collars in 4 sets of 50. Can you send me a price to my box?
 
superstoner1

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I say yes. I would just do blinders on the edges of the reflectors using a pliable metal so it could be adjusted slightly for tuning pattern.
 
OLD DUDE

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So 8 weeks ago I put in to flower a plant and left some spots empty tring to replicate the space the plants would have when I backed the numbers down. Best looking plant I have ever grown from top to bottom!!! I have had others that will weigh more but it should be no problem to have all plants end up like this one which never happens when they are crowded!!!!! Oh yeah, one of the easiest plants I've ever trimmed too!!!!!
 
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Oh, I thought it was the other way around:( yeah but, eventually my goal is to have a test room, so I don't really care:)
 
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Glad to see alot of you guys still together. Just thought i'd tell everyone the 27 gallon boxes with the yellow lids are at costco for 9 bucks:)
 
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