SisterMaryElephant wrote:I'm so disappointed in the naming conventions of plants now days. Back in the 90s, everyone on the street was calling their potent plants "Chronic" even if it was just Mexican bagseed grown well. In the early-mid 2000's it was all called "Kush" (which is really a indica strain) even it it was a sativa (like the Mexican ditchweed strains) or they called it a "Haze." Those "OG Kush" plants may have been crossed with a real Kush plant at one time but those leaves and the stretch say mostly sativa. Lately, it's the same with "diesel" strains.

I know breeders and I ran my own breeding program so I know how it goes but you really can't go by the names much anymore. I'd like to get some landrace hindu or afghani kush (because I like the short bushy traits) and some landrace thai (because I like the high) if I ever start up my breeding program again but I won't call my "creations" anything with kush or thai in the name. The last thing I bred; I called Silly Putty.

Powerwiz wrote:Put a "i" in front of it like Apple does.

Powerwiz wrote:Do you trim your buds before you put them in water? I imagine that is not necessary as water curing flushes everything out.

SisterMaryElephant wrote:

Powerwiz wrote:Sister any way of getting my tall plant to stop friggin growing lol. Its a freak keeps growing up. Want it to stop!

The only way to stop a live plant from growing is to kill it or wait for it to die on it's own, after flowering, but you could bend and tie it down a little so it's not as tall as it wants to be. I wouldn't suggest cutting it at this point. Remember these plants will grow 2-3 times taller than when it went into flower by time it finishes, assuming there's enough light and the stretch isn't due to searching for light. Sometimes it's genetics sometimes it's not enough light....sometimes it's both. Sativa and sativa dominate plants will stretch more than indica and indica dominate strains. There are nutrient supplements that claim to reduce the flowering stretch but I'm not sure that I'd believe that.

For me, I'd either choose different genetics next time or flower earlier. Since you flowered those pretty small, you're probably looking at finding genetics that are better suited to growing indoors or increasing the amount of w/sqft to try to combat the stretch. If I remember correctly, you have a decent w/sqft ratio but all of my growing experience is either outdoors (decades ago) or indoors with HID so perhaps the LED isn't giving the plant what it wants, spectrum wise. There are other methods that some growers suggest to reduce the flowering stretch but I like to keep it simple so I won't go into that here. I'd definitely be concerned at the space between internodes, it looks like you're growing stems, which is not what you want. Great for hemp fiber not so good for meds.

YMMV...

dwcled wrote:Those look pretty good to me.

Good grow!