"GROW WITH WISDOM #6"

 

 

 

 

The strains that I used to make the female seeds for this crop were Somango, White Light, Somativa, and N.Y.C.Diesel. On some of the N.Y.C. Diesel plants I had yields of 100 grams of dry bud weight, on one indoor plant, a record for me. I had to stake and tie these plants a 100 different ways to keep them from falling over, I thought the branches would snap. I came out with Somango’s that filled my arms with one plant. The Somativa’s made such long top buds that almost all of them were horizontal at the end, and the White Lights smelled like someone had a wad of bublegum in there mouth. The seeds formed more on the bottom flowers than on the top ones so I ended up with a combination of seeds and smoke, smoke the tops, get seeds from the bottom buds.

One of my favorite foods to use in growing is Guano. It comes from Bats and Seabirds, and comes in different NPK’s. In the fifth week of flowering, I gave the plants a tea made from bat guano with an NPK of 6-15-3, for the 2 or 3 times that I watered that week. It gives the plants an exquisite taste that can’t be duplicated by other foods. I also use much seaweed in growing the plants. Black, brown, and kelp seaweed are the ones I use although, they are not very powerful, they help keep the plants turgor in very fine shape, assisting healthy roots to form. Another one of my tricks is stem bending, a technique where you roll the stem inbetween your fingers while squeezing fairly hard, but not hard enough to break the stem, then slowly bend the stem over. The stem forms a hard elbow where it was bent and the top straightens itself out so that it can continue pointing at the Sun (grow light ). The result is what is called Supercropping. The secondary buds underneath the tops, build up with a survival hormone because of the stress factor and become at least twice as large as normal, increasing the yield and potentcy. I do this technique to each plant quite a few times as they are growing to achieve an even canopy as I look at the plants from the top. I grow the cannabis in beds, so I can’t move the plants around, I move the tops instead. In the last two weeks, I slowly start turning the lights back 15 minutes, every 2 days to simulate the onset of Winter, while slowly taking the temperature of the room down, also simulating Winter. This method is especially good when you are making seeds as it speeds up the process a little.

I also keep track of the Moon cycles and try to harvest after the Full Moon when the Moon is waning. If the Moon can affect the tides of the oceans of Earth I know it affects a plant that is 68% water.

 

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Last updated: July 30, 2005