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Post by Kate on Jul 19, 2018 12:53:00 GMT -5
I feel better now. I was feeling like a murdering monster. Of course, after I cut a bunch of new, long branches that hadn't topped with a cluster, a whole bunch of clusters appeared everywhere else. As it's grown by adding new tiers, it sheds lower, old, non-producing branches, one level at a time. It's like a snake producing it's new, shiny skin.
I just can't kill it yet.
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Post by MaryL on Jul 19, 2018 13:30:13 GMT -5
Maybe you should keep going just until these new flowers produce fruit, then terminate. Because this is an amazingly prolific garden. As you’ve said, it may be due to your tailored nutes, but it also may be a very rarely extra vigorous seed. And your next kit may not produce like this, great nutes or no. Who knows.  It’s a tough call, I know. |
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Post by Kate on Jul 20, 2018 7:57:55 GMT -5
I know how it's going to be. Every time one crops ends, another will start. Pretty soon it will need it's own house.
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Post by Shawn on Jul 20, 2018 9:59:27 GMT -5
I know how it's going to be. Every time one crops ends, another will start. Pretty soon it will need it's own house.
HA, I need another house to house all my machines LOL
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Post by Kate on Jul 20, 2018 20:00:48 GMT -5
They're covered with tiny new bud clusters, as well as tomatoes in different stages of growth.  |
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Post by Shawn on Jul 21, 2018 3:46:21 GMT -5
Sooo, whatcha gonna do? BTW looks good.
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Post by Kate on Jul 21, 2018 8:29:53 GMT -5
I'm going to let it do one more setting, with the buds that have formed. Some already have flowers. It was really fast, this last crop. From budding to ripe went much faster than with the first crop. I think General Hydroponics products are what really gets the credit.
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Post by Kate on Aug 11, 2018 8:39:26 GMT -5
Third and likely final set of fruit. Once again, it's covered with tomatoes and flowers. From flowering to setting of fruit to ripe, really accelerates in these subsequent rounds. I think it's the food.  |
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Post by Shawn on Aug 11, 2018 11:41:53 GMT -5
Well you are doing something right
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 13:15:56 GMT -5
and still going since february?!! Have you had much browning of the leaves considering the age? It appears to be all verdant! What and how much are you feeding this crop at this stage?
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Post by Kate on Aug 11, 2018 13:59:08 GMT -5
I just refill all of the machines with the premixed GH Flora and CALiMAGic. They shed some leaves and small branches at the bottom, but honestly not that much, considering their age.
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Post by MaryL on Aug 11, 2018 21:35:30 GMT -5
I agree, I think it’s what you’re feeding them. This is what inspired me to give the Flora a try. Just starting out, but hopeful I can replicate.
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Post by Kate on Aug 12, 2018 7:08:52 GMT -5
You've got miles more experience with AG's than I do, so I'm sure tweaking your feeding with be a snap.
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Post by drbanks on Aug 12, 2018 18:27:23 GMT -5
Wonderful!
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Post by Shawn on Aug 19, 2018 18:28:22 GMT -5
Are these still producing?
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Post by Kate on Aug 20, 2018 10:38:24 GMT -5
Oh yes. They're covered with new baby tomatoes and have started several more bud clusters on the newest growth. I think they got wind of my plans to terminate, even though I was pretty careful to not say it out loud, within leaf-shot. I'll take a pic again tomorrow when I take the final of the Fairy Garden. As I'd said, I'll wait until this last set is harvested before I do terminate. It will likely be 9+ to 10 months old by then. They turned 8 months on the 16th.
I'd follow through today, but I have to go out this morning, and I have a feeling I'll be in rough shape by the time I get home. I'm still pretty sick, and my moderate insomnia has been ramping up since ragged breathing and hacking up a lung takes up most of my otherwise normal sleeping time. I'm exhausted.
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Post by Kate on Aug 21, 2018 10:41:44 GMT -5
It's so dense, you really can't see the new tomatoes, green on green, but here's an updated image.  |
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Post by MaryL on Aug 27, 2018 18:31:37 GMT -5
It’s a winner  |
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Post by Kate on Sept 4, 2018 17:14:13 GMT -5
If you zoom in, you can see dozens of tomatoes and flowers. I think this angle shows most of it.  |
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Post by Shawn on Sept 4, 2018 17:55:20 GMT -5
Very nice! You are doing well with this.
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It’s a tough call, I know.
