-that vermicrop was a bit lighter then 1/4" layer, it shunk to 1/8 or an inch after watering and seems to conserve water somewhat. i wont know if it traps air movement but im gunna transplant the TGU dad tomorrow. i toped one of them more then a week ago so it healed up then i had to cut of some nuts growing at the pre-flower internodes where the new hormones where diverted. i also tried out supercroping a few plants (one romulan a week or more inot flower, i dont recomend supercroping when flowering plants just tieing them down does much less damage creating less stress on the plant.
i supercroped that TGU dad i toped and then desided to top the other tgu dady clone to see the diferance between toping and supercropeing related to stress and quicker recovery so the hormones are diverted but the injury wasnt as tramatic.
this is the male TGU that i supercroped
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the other male tgu i toped wich was smaller to start i only clip the smallest top node.
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theas are more plants i super croped begining with the romulan a week or so into flower, i figured what the hell its best to do in vegg but oh well. thoes where ok bend/kink action but i orginally used my uni grow suport ties, the others i used sturdy twists on and they stayed still the romulan ended up breaking cause the streachy suport tied wher too bulky for the small stems. they do need suport though, for a speedy turn around.
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big bud
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TGU
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master kush
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GDP
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theas where all taken the day after supercroping so the turn around is apparent, far less stess or stunting of plant growth yet auxins or hormones should now be encuraged at the lateral nodes.
i looked at tutural vidios of supercroping and a few are scary but snaping their neck (not really snaping or breaking more of a controled bend and kink really) isnt as violant as cuting their head off. i would say that i havent tried supercroping seed starts, i top thoes at 3,4,5 nodes then they turn bushy a month later and are much shorter in their streach. they could just get very bushy and stay short if super croped i cant say.
i trim a little to get the non-sugar leaf off then again to help it dry on the lines alos drying the trim on my screen, the yscreen by the way is way too small -i had some hash from premature nugs brken down and sifted in my spacecase polinator and it was exilent, i put this ontop of my screen for the hell of it and their was a good amount left that i hand-pressed with my thumb roling the hash by twisting the other palm i put the keif onto. that hash was also exilent, so i figure the huge ass trichombs of the tgu outdoors doesnt fit through a 140 mesh pre-streached screen. i dont know what size space case uses for their grinders and polinator but im interested in that, i had a 220 mesh screen befor that got alot of debris comeing through but also beter potency in the first sift i think i cant say for sure.
this finger hash only comes from the dry trim where the buds are allready cliped from the stem and im jsut geting off some leaf, i leav some sugar leaf on but use most for hash and cookies.
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this is master kush
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GDP after cliping lots of leafs from the mid canopy and lower canopy bringing a majority of bud sites into the light and increasing air flow, a majority of leafs i cut where directed inward toward the middle of the plant thus flocking other foliage and bud production from hps light. i was tired of the amount of buds too small to trim going to the hash pile but this last harvest is allright, id like to improve GDP's yeald for sure. im glad i chose tgu and not kush to polinate soon as this crops is finished.
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this big bud is very small, smells like orange cream popsicles now in mid-flower. i dunno if ill seed it even, the trighombs look huge to the naked eye compared to some other flavors i have.
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