Mr.Bill
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Thanks for the kind words penguin, to answer your questionsPenguin59 said:
1. That came from the c99 in the main flower room which produces quite a bit more, it's just seived and pressed.
2. Well I'm not a huge fan leaf remover myself but when it's cramped like this then it's a gotta happen type of thing. Anyway the way you should do it is at about week 4 start removing fans here and there where the most good will be done, not all at once you don't want to risk shocking and stalling the plants production, I don't think it would but you never know. Anyway the rule of thumb when you choose to defoliate is "if the stem is long then its gone". Other than that the only real thoughts that I have on defoliating is the right situations to use this technique is in smaller grows that are tightly packed, sog's where you are basically lollipopping, and scrogs. It's not really practical or beneficial in larger grows with multiple light sources with deeper penetration levels.
It's not that I'm not impressed with it, it's just I'm not impressed with how it produced, you have to understand that this plant had been in this 5 gallon bucket nearly 4 months before even flowering it, it had multiple occasions of deficiency including one in mid flower it never fully recovered from, I didn't trim up the fluff at all or defoliate it until late 5th week to mid 6th week and even then I did not trim it up high enough, the combination of these things really hurt how it produced weight wise, the nodes stacked nice but other than the headbuds which are maybe a gram apiece it's all little tiny pieces, stuff I would normally turn into hash oil or butter. And I've had these buds, they should be purple all the way through, not speckled throughout and all purple on the tops, not sure why it didn't purple all the way throughout, only thing I can think is maybe the proper nutrients and hormones could make it through the plant due to it's size in relation with it's root mass.static shock said:
I totally agree the structure and the buds themselves on the gdp x bb are gdp dominant, and honestly almost all aspects of the plant lean toward the gdp. The buds, the smell, the taste, the smoke mostly come through as gdp, the only real traits that I've seen from this girl are the speed that they veg at, it's very slow much like blueberry in veg, and in the bag you get a solid hint of blueberry smell to the buds, it needs a good few weeks curing before the blueberry smell comes out in the buds.
The last headband shots were from day 57 of flower, she should finish 7 to 10 days from the time of pictures, I'll take her as soon as she does her final plump which should occur somewhere around day 65 as she does the almost standard diesel week, week and a half stall before her final push
medmaker420 said:
thanks man, I've been enjoying your thread and look forward to further reviews of other panels, I've been thinking of going this route with my cloning and veg rooms. Have been for a while honestly.
And yeah I've got this round in order now, will be focusing mainly on the gdp x bb(until I can find another purple that has punch that can veg faster, thinking about getting the grandaddy white and the purple cheddar, both are gdp crosses that are supposed to veg much faster) and the headband. Going to see how the critical does in the big flower room but it's just not quite what I'm looking for, it's chronic and produces well but it just kinda lacks something, can't quite put my finger on it, I dunno though, I only got a small couple bud early sample, so we'll see, not going to do too much with it I don't think.
I'll be popping some more seeds here as soon as the cloner is done running maybe a week, gonna go with violator kush from barney's farm and most likely toss the rest of the caramelo seeds as the two I tossed last time were fail, one seed didn't pop at all and one broke ground lived for about a week stalled and died. I dunno about the caramelo I might throw something else.
Nice images !!
