HFH in uk

[Guyute54]

Great looking plants Mj grower. It's been awhile since I had the Leb. She was always the earliest to finish in my gardens early september. Best wishes with harvest hope the sun comes out and you have no more mold.

 

[Maryjane grower]

Mouldy bud

 

[Maryjane grower]

WS07 just b4 the chop

 

[Maryjane grower]

My Leb 27v2

 

[Maryjane grower]

Thanks Guyute54

 

[gunnaknow]

MJ, if your hashplant isn't looking like it's close to being done by mid Oct, then you can try stressing the plant to get it to finish before the heavy frosts arrive. One way to do this is through root pruning:

- Cut the plant's root system. The experts at Washington State University Extension say: “A stressed plant will hurry to produce offspring before it dies. One way to stress a plant is to cut it's root system. Push a shovel into the soil halfway around the plant, about 8 to 12 inches from the base.”

From a gardening forum:

Hi. I've done the root-pruning method and it worked very well for me. I'd never heard of it until I read Dick Raymond's book, Joy of Gardening. If I recall correctly, this is what he suggested, and what I did:

1) Wait until the tomato plants have set fruit and the fruit are a good healthy size, that "they've been big and green for a week but they're still not getting ripe!!" look.

2) Take an ordinary garden shovel or spade, and using the width of the shovel/spade blade -- usually about eight inches at the digging end -- measure off about eight inches from the stem at soil level.

3) Eight inches away from where the plant stem goes into the soil, push the shovel/spade straight down into the soil on three sides of the plant. Not four; three. (The goal is to prune the roots back around most of the plant, not to kill it.)

4) Water the tomato plant right away after you prune it. Might be a good idea to do the root-pruning and watering in the early evening, so the plant has time overnight to recover.

Raymond said the damage to the plant would cause it to immediately start to ripen fruit, and I found it worked. Within a day or two, green tomatoes started turning red. My plants kept producing new flowers and fruit after the pruning, and they stayed productive into the first hard frost.

The main caution I would advise is to wait until the green tomatoes are looking full-sized for the plant. I've never tried root-pruning with immature fruit; just plants which had full-size fruit that were in that long, slow, waiting-to-ripen stage.

FWIW, I did this in a backyard garden in Toronto where the owner and another tenant also had gardens, and both prided themselves on the quality and size of their tomato plants. Felt kinda good to have the first ripe ones of the season.

 

[Maryjane grower]

Thanks gunnaknow.

 

[Nunsacred]

On a similar tip,
you could try ringing the main stem.

Basically hack off a 1cm high strip of bark/cambium around the stem, the plant dies over the next week or two.
Severe tactics when there's nothing to lose and harsh frosts are coming.

 

[gunnaknow]

Nun, I think they used to use that method to make the buds turn yellow, cutting off the nutrient supply but not the water supply. Whether or not it helps speed up ripening I don't know though. It would be fun to experment on a couple of plants.

 

[Maryjane grower]

My security

 

[Maryjane grower]

My Leb 8.5 weeks in

 

[Maryjane grower]

Sorry that was monk the close up was Leb

 

[dill786]

in my experience the LEB can handle cold conditions up to a certain extent and only slight mould on her in november when i chopped her down... the fans leaves didnt start purpling till early October, but yours looks good,

looks like another few sunny days ahead according to the weather report..

 

[Maryjane grower]

Hope your right about the weather dill786 , they should be done in a couple of weeks there almost 9 wks flower

 

[Maryjane grower]

My Hashplants are 2 weeks in now

 

[mr.brunch]

Nice grow! Good to see some of these grown, as I am looking at the hfh range.
Did the hashplant finish ok?

 

[Maryjane grower]

The hashplant had 8 weeks, I harvested her mid nov but her buds are small.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

The hashplant had 8 weeks, I harvested her mid nov but her buds are small.

hey Mj great looking plants..i have been thinking about doing a HFH at 38 lat usa..its humid as hell here so im sure it would do good..i got a few good strains that i already grow but some the descriptions of these plants harvesting end of sug would be awesome for me to get some early smoke in as most mine havent been done till around sept 30th or 1st week of oct..i wont do autos bc im a guerilla grower and i want to more bang for my buck for a extra month or 2 of work..i went to UDG and looked at seeds the GG#3 looks awesome but i want fem seeds as i have did the regular thing many years before the fems and i had to plant double and that means double work for me so i wont do them anymore..gonna keep my eye on that fem section and soon as i see them i will get a few packs

 

[Dream Universe]

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[Maryjane grower]

HFH don't do female seeds , I wish they did