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[MEGA]Community Growing advice, tips, tricks, & experiences Part 4

Posted it on another site and they answered!! They are called "Thrips" - I'm researching now how to get rid of them.
 
Yeah that would make sense, but a closer photo would be good so we can confirm. I would hate to make a diagnosis just based on such a grainy photo. Does it look like the bug in the photo?

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SB Plant Invigorator, Westands Bug Attack, horticultural soap and others are good to treat thrips.
 
Funnily enough there are parts of the male flower that are just as potent as any female. In fact I'm planning on smoking some of my males to test potency so I can select the best father phenotype.

The problem is you would have to grow out the male (and not just pre-flowers) which would release pollen. Unless you've got a separate, sealed off area or one of those clear plastic totes with fans inside (male pollen chamber) you could seed your sinsemilla crop. That is unless you've got no females like Clean Cut did.

Interestingly there is a way to reverse male plants so they produce female flowers as well. Sam the Skunkman has tried this with success iirc. It would be a great way of easily testing your males for potency without going at the flowers with the tweezers, although I'm not sure how safe the hormone used is for human consumption.
 
Got a question about the 2nd Harvest Procedure. The tops and middle of our plants have huge buds but the lower buds are undeveloped and clearly not ready so I want to 2nd harvest. Do I cut the stem right above the smaller buds? Also - Do I feed during the time of 2nd harvest or should I just use water? I've searched all different sites and some places say to feed, others say water. Give me another perspective please. Thanks.
 
PsychicBuBBLe said:
Got a question about the 2nd Harvest Procedure. The tops and middle of our plants have huge buds but the lower buds are undeveloped and clearly not ready so I want to 2nd harvest. Do I cut the stem right above the smaller buds? Also - Do I feed during the time of 2nd harvest or should I just use water? I've searched all different sites and some places say to feed, others say water. Give me another perspective please. Thanks.
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I'm not sure where exactly you mean by above the smaller buds. Do you mean the main stem?

As for feeding, yes feed them small amounts of an organic fertilizer and then when they are just about ready, start watering them with plain tap water until they really are completely ready and finally cut them down. It depends on how long you want to leave them though. Play it by ear.
 
Not necessarily the MAIN stem... but whatever stems they are on. For instance, Say 1 of the stems have a large bud on the very top and underdeveloped buds below it going down the stem. Is there a certain place to cut the stem to remove the top, large bud? Or does it not matter where I cut...?
 
i think he's talking about regeneration...some strains lend themselves to regeneration more than others...you'll know if it's working soon enough. Yes, take the main colas and leave lots of smaller buds on the lower portion of the branches and then turn the lights back to 18/6 or whatever your veg schedule is...if they are going to make it, you'll see new growth at the tops of the branches.. if not, they will just die..
 
it will never revert back to vegetative state... you want it to revert back and then bloom it again...
 
Oh, ok. After I change it to 18/6 and if it successfully reverts... how long do I have it veg before I switch back to 12/12? As soon as I see new growth?
 
yes....that's why you leave some flowers on it...as soon as you see new growth, it's time to switch back to 12/12 for the next bloom..good luck, I've only tried to regenerate once because of the time involved and my space restrictions. I'm my experience, the secound bloom is only about 1/3 of the first.. I couldn't afford to devote the space to that yield..:\
 
PsychicBuBBLe said:
Also - Is it necessary to go to 18/6? Others have said I can stay on 12/12.
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you have to switch to a veg light schedule to veg.. otherwise, all you will be doing in building the remaining buds up a little. Not much. if you revert to veg by going 18/6, you can grow new colas..
 
How long does the revert/bloom phase take? The whole thing, from revert all the way to 2nd harvest.
 
I believe he's talking about a tiered harvest. i.e. removing the tops and letting the popcorn develop more until it is eventually harvested as well. If this is in fact, what you're asking I don't think it matters too much as long as the underdeveloped buds are still attached to the stalk that is attached to the root system. Just recently I had a plant that I was going to kill. 1/2 way though, I had a change of heart and wanted to see what it would do. I put it back in my flower room after having cut many branches off, including some "main" branches that had been created via topping in veg. The plant seem to actually be doing better now, putting all it's energy into the remaining branches.

Regenereation or reveging is where you leave the smaller buds on the plants and put it back under 24/0 or 18/6 (or whatever vegging light schedule you use) and the plant will actually go back to vegging from those small buds. The plant will stop flowering and start to go back into veg throwing off single finger and/or strange looking leaves at first. But if left under this light schedule vegetative growth will continue until you see that the plant is fit to flower once more. If you do this the plant is to remain for a full flowering cycle just like a normally vegged plant as opposed to letting the popcorn go a couple more weeks.

Regarding feeding or watering it's probably strain dependent and certainly medium dependent. If you're in soil I'd just give it water. If you have a couple of different plants you might want to just experiment. This is why people train their plants though, so they can avoid those small buds.

Also, I've always understood:

Bloom = flowering = 12/12

Vegging = 18/6 - 24/0
 
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