revengefor2008
Active Member
Ok, I'm not a noob, but I've only done 1 grow in the past 8 years. Prior to that I had about 5 years' experience that was cut short by several sheriff's deputards who kicked in my front door and dragged me into my yard at gunpoint after getting a bogus search warrant.
Anyhoo...I'm in a new environment that's friendly to growers so I decided to try it again!
Here's my setup:
Aeroponic multi-site unit, GH 3 part nutes with several of their supplements, all of which are also from GH.
1x1000w HPS
I have 4 plants:
1 Sour OG from clone
1 Purple Elephant from clone
1 Ice from Nirvana seeds
1 White Rhino from Nirvana seeds
I've been battling spider mites I picked up from the clones. I've used a combo of Azamax (3 applications spaced a week apart) and low suction from a small shop vac to remove them mechanically. I caught them early before they had much chance to fester. So far I've been pretty successful at stopping them.
I'm about 5 1/2 weeks into flowering. The buds on both the Sour and Elephant are dense as all get-out, and looking beautiful. The trichs on them are still 90% clear. Both of them are smaller than the other 2 plants.
The buds on the Ice are starting to gain density, and I'm hoping that the calyxes will begin to swell in the next week or 2 and give me the density I'm looking for.
The White Rhino is very branchy with lots of long 6 inch+ kolas. I've trimmed the bottom sucker buds from all of the branches, hoping the plant would focus on growing fat, dense donkey d1ck kolas. I've tied the Rhino kolas using LST to encourage the kolas to fatten up but it doesn't seem to have had much effect. Unfortunately, I think I've allowed too many branches on it and should have pruned more of them prior to going 12/12. The rhino took a week longer to show first flowers, so technically it's probably only 4 weeks into flowering. Trichs on the rhino are still clear and are just starting to 'capitate' so I know I've got at least 4 weeks left before harvesting them, if not longer.
My question is this: Is it too late to worry about pruning some of the less dense buds and branches from the plant in hopes of getting the remaining white rhino's kola calyxes to swell and get compact? Since I'm only growing for personal use, I'm more interested in quality over quantity. At this point in the game should I just finish out what I have, smoke the best and hash the rest? I don't want to stress the plant too much by doing anything drastic this late in the game. In the pic of my cabinet, the Rhino is the large plant on the left.
Anyhoo...I'm in a new environment that's friendly to growers so I decided to try it again!
Here's my setup:
Aeroponic multi-site unit, GH 3 part nutes with several of their supplements, all of which are also from GH.
1x1000w HPS
I have 4 plants:
1 Sour OG from clone
1 Purple Elephant from clone
1 Ice from Nirvana seeds
1 White Rhino from Nirvana seeds
I've been battling spider mites I picked up from the clones. I've used a combo of Azamax (3 applications spaced a week apart) and low suction from a small shop vac to remove them mechanically. I caught them early before they had much chance to fester. So far I've been pretty successful at stopping them.
I'm about 5 1/2 weeks into flowering. The buds on both the Sour and Elephant are dense as all get-out, and looking beautiful. The trichs on them are still 90% clear. Both of them are smaller than the other 2 plants.
The buds on the Ice are starting to gain density, and I'm hoping that the calyxes will begin to swell in the next week or 2 and give me the density I'm looking for.
The White Rhino is very branchy with lots of long 6 inch+ kolas. I've trimmed the bottom sucker buds from all of the branches, hoping the plant would focus on growing fat, dense donkey d1ck kolas. I've tied the Rhino kolas using LST to encourage the kolas to fatten up but it doesn't seem to have had much effect. Unfortunately, I think I've allowed too many branches on it and should have pruned more of them prior to going 12/12. The rhino took a week longer to show first flowers, so technically it's probably only 4 weeks into flowering. Trichs on the rhino are still clear and are just starting to 'capitate' so I know I've got at least 4 weeks left before harvesting them, if not longer.
My question is this: Is it too late to worry about pruning some of the less dense buds and branches from the plant in hopes of getting the remaining white rhino's kola calyxes to swell and get compact? Since I'm only growing for personal use, I'm more interested in quality over quantity. At this point in the game should I just finish out what I have, smoke the best and hash the rest? I don't want to stress the plant too much by doing anything drastic this late in the game. In the pic of my cabinet, the Rhino is the large plant on the left.
