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The Home Grower's Thread

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It needed a serious haircut and I think I could even have been more agressive. Cleared out all the pre-flower flowers from the inside that were turning brown or not growing and all tiny branches and such.

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A lot of tash

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Will grab those stray fan leaves later.

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HappyHighwayman said:
It needed a serious haircut and I think I could even have been more aggressive. Cleared out all the pre-flower flowers from the inside that were turning brown or not growing and all tiny branches and such.
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Looks good, and I wouldn't go any farther. Now just let her grow. She will slow down for a day or two while it reprograms, and then she will take back off. The leaves will get bigger again and you'll be tempted to pull them off, don't. Just keep the yellowing older leaves cleared out till a week before harvest when you do the final.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Sweet. I'm learning so much. Thank you.

The next technique I want to learn is ScroG.

Do you have any opinion of "mainlining" as they discuss at Grow Weed Easy? http://www.growweedeasy.com/mainlining-nugbuckets
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I have several friends that do it quite successfully, but they have much smaller grows than I do. We manage this with simple topping of the plant several times through the veg, but if you can get proficient at it, you'll see much better yields mainlining with the size of your grow.
 
Thanks! As you can see from the photos I can only do one plant at a time so I think mainlining might be the way to go to keep it neat.
 
I have a little bit of pm do you have any good suggestions on ways to get rid of it. I increased my air circulation more. I had my fans on low to keep temps up but 2 corner plants have about 8-10 leaves each with pm on them. I ripped them all off but read that once you have pm you can only manage it. What's the best practice and safest to manage it?
 
ABC said:
I have a little bit of pm do you have any good suggestions on ways to get rid of it. I increased my air circulation more. I had my fans on low to keep temps up but 2 corner plants have about 8-10 leaves each with pm on them. I ripped them all off but read that once you have pm you can only manage it. What's the best practice and safest to manage it?
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The best way is to lower the PH of the surfaces of the plant making it impossible for the PM to grow. Most people 'burn' sulfur in hot pots to keep PM at bay. The sulfur moves around the room attaching small particles to the plant. You can also buy a PM wash. It's water with a few inert stabilizers that do what the sulfur does. You can get all that at any good grow shop. Do not ever use products like eagle 20 to prevent PM. You don't want that shit on your plant, and it won't pass tests should you ever want to sell it.

The key to preventing is air movement and humidity. The pm will show up where the latest amount of air movement is. It's important to keep leaves cleaned up on the bottom for air flow, and I would toss an extra fan or to into your grow after you do a wash. You'll also want to keep the humidity below 75% in the space. You can buy a small digital dehu at Lowes for a reasonable price. This also prevents late stage botrytis too. Nothing can devastate a grow like botrytis.
 
shouldnthave said:
Powdery mildew.
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I have used this for PM.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0120V0CE...t=&hvlocphy=9032156&hvtargid=pla-310709348130

I dont use it during flower but a few preventative doses during veg seems to help quite a bit. It is really mild, not much different than baking soda, and it does work. A dilute solution of milk is also supposed to help with PM but I have never tried it. Eagle 20 is crushingly effective but I don't want to consume it, I don't even sell and I still avoid it.
 
Yeah fuck eagle 20 I can't do that. I have friends that grow with that shit and I refuse to smoke it. Not into pesticides. I want something as natural as possible but effective. I turned up the fans more but humidity is around 60ish temps at 78-80. I think the problem is that it's a little over crowded in there. But I want something I can try and neutralize it. I'm in week 5 flower
 
ABC said:
Yeah fuck eagle 20 I can't do that. I have friends that grow with that shit and I refuse to smoke it. Not into pesticides. I want something as natural as possible but effective. I turned up the fans more but humidity is around 60ish temps at 78-80. I think the problem is that it's a little over crowded in there. But I want something I can try and neutralize it. I'm in week 5 flower
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Clean up the excess leaves and do a PM wash, and you'll be fine.
 
Looks good. Continue doing whatever he is doing.
 
Awesome. I coincidentally used the same words when I spoke with him. His soil must be good, and I know his sun is great.

So I'm thinking when the autoflowers are done I'm going to do a continuous harvest with the 2 buckets. I'll do the veg in one until it's ready and then move it to the flower in the other one....and then get a new one going in the original. They'll be smaller for sure but will be fun to see what I can get out of one really well-tended plant.


They take up very little space:
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I took out the LED main bulb and put back the CFL they get more coverage.

3 days after haircut:

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