LUI Day 35

This “grow along” of LUI actually dates from 4 years ago! Our sincere and heartfelt gratitude is due to the efforts of knowledgequest . . back from CW days. . . it is directly because of his and other’s diligence of saving our posts and reposting them that we were able to salvage and repost for our visitors.

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LUI Day 35

Our LUI’s at Day 35 continue to show strong growth . . . they were watered again (more lightly) with plain water for a second consecutive night . . .

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here’s a peak at one of our LUI clones . . . looks as though they are rooting fine

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it’s interesting that someone mentioned sparse undergrowth . . . actually it’s very good timing since we did a little pruning last night and the exact purpose was to avoid similar problems . . . let us explain . . . when we top cloned these babes we left 3 pairs of branches on each plant . . . some plants have responded to the topping/pruning by growing 6 strong arms . . . but some others have only grown 4 significant branches with two branches that are smaller and are more than just undergrowth . . . our experience is that smaller lower “sucker” branches contribute little . . . the do not receive enough light to be significant resources for photosynthesis . . . and they do not generally produce any significant yield after harvest either . . . in fact all the stem growth that goes into these “sucker” branches can actually sap plant resources . . . this lowers final total yield . . . adding insult to injury is the fact that the buds that are produced on these lower branches tend to be of a lower quality as well . . . in the first pruning pic we see a plant with a couple of weak arms that are only going to detract from her final production . . . so we take corrective action with our pruning shears in pictures 2,3 and 4 . . . the final pruning shot better illustrates what was removed.090 LUI-Undergrowth-1

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there certainly is some difference between plants grown from seed and those propagated from clones in terms of their structure and growth patterns . . . we’ve found that trimming of undergrowth is even more necessary with our cloned babes . . . but your mileage may vary . . . our timing for this pruning is deliberate . . . we normally do this ritual removal of “sucker” branches about a week before a plant is rotated into bloom . . . these babes are growing fast . . . so it won’t be long before they are forced to flower . . . the LUI’s were originally “on the calendar” in our minds for a move to bloom about this time next week . . . our garden is in constant motion with a few plants going into the bloom room and other’s being harvested on a pretty regular rotation . . . with the LUI’s growing so fast it’ll be interesting to see how we manage this “problem” . . . undergrowth can be pruned at any time . . . there are a couple of times it seems to make particular sense to us . . . we generally will prune about a week before moving our babes into flowering and then do some “touch up” again a week or two later . . . throughout bloom we’ll keep an eye on this lower stem area and keep pruning “suckers” . . . the pruning we did is small enough that it is not very visible except from those lower branch shots of the undergrowth . . . from above those branches were completely shaded by the other branch’s aggressive growth . . . to illustrate the difference between individual plants the developed 4 strong branches and those that formed 6 strong limbs we’re including a comparison pic . . . the plant on the left had 4 strong arms and had some undergrowth pruned . . . the plant on the right developed 6 good limbs and didn’t require any pruning at this time . . .

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Quick question: those branches you’ve just cut off, can they be cloned, and get new plants out of them, or are only “suckers” to be used, for clones? . . . DD . . .

they sure could be used for clones . . . absolutely! that’s a great point and we’re glad you brought it up . . . since these babes haven’t been sexed yet and it appears we have a rooted “back-up” clone for each . . . so there was no need to take any more clones here at this time . . . using these smaller sucker branches for clones is a great method to propagate more of a particular plant ready to move to bloom without much effecting it’s final yield . . . we’d be looking to do exactly that if any of our numbered back-up clones had failed to root . . . our trimmings from this stage will get composted back into our soil re-mixes . . . our general rule of thumb is to compost all old fan leaves and all veg trimmings . . . this way no garden trash ever exits the grow area and it’s also an effective way to recycle the nutrients contained in the plant refuse sometimes it pains us to “throw away” perfectly good cuttings . . . but we do have limit our plant numbers.

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Table of contents for Growing LUI /the3LB

  1. Growing LUI W/ the 3LB - Intro
  2. Growing LUI W/ the 3LB - Soil & Seed
  3. LUI Day 2
  4. Growing LUI W/ the 3LB - Day 1
  5. Growing LUI W/ the 3lb - Planting/germination
  6. LUI Day 3
  7. LUI Day 4
  8. LUI Day 5
  9. LUI Day 6, Day 7
  10. LUI-Day-8
  11. LUI-Day-9
  12. LUI Day 10
  13. LUI Day 11
  14. LUI Day 12
  15. LUI Day 13
  16. LUI Day 14
  17. LUI Day 15
  18. LUI Day 16
  19. LUI Day 17
  20. LUI Day 18
  21. LUI Day 19
  22. LUI Day 20
  23. LUI Day 21
  24. LUI Day 22 And A Lesson in Cloning
  25. LUI Day 23
  26. LUI Day 24
  27. LUI Day 25
  28. LUI Day 26
  29. LUI DAY 27 And Day 28
  30. LUI Day 29
  31. LUI Day 30
  32. LUI Day 31
  33. LUI Day 32
  34. LUI Day 33
  35. LUI Day 34
  36. LUI Day 35
  37. LUI Day 36 And Friends
  38. LUI Day 37
  39. LUI Day 39 - the Backup Clones
  40. LUI Day 40 - Day 1 Flowering
  41. LUI Day 41
  42. LUI Day 42
  43. LUI Day 43
  44. LUI Day 44
  45. LUI Day 45
  46. LUI Day 46
  47. LUI Day 47
  48. LUI Day 48
  49. LUI Day 50
  50. LUI Day 51
  51. LUI - Day 52
  52. LUI Day 53
  53. LUI Day 54
  54. LUI Day 55
  55. LUI Day 56
  56. LUI Day 57
  57. LUI Day 58
  58. LUI Day 59
  59. LUI Day 60
  60. LUI Day 61,62
  61. Legend’s Ultimate Indica
  62. LUI Day 63
  63. LUI Day 64
  64. LUI Day 65
  65. LUI Day 66
  66. LUI Day 67 And Clones
  67. LUI Day 68
  68. LUI Day 69
  69. LUI Day 70
  70. LUI Day 72 - Day 33 of Bloom
  71. LUI Day 73
  72. LUI Day 74
  73. LUI Day 71
  74. LUI Day 75
  75. LUI Day 76
  76. LUI-Day-77
  77. LUI Day 80
  78. LUI Day 78
  79. LUI Day 79
  80. LUI Day 81
  81. LUI Day 82
  82. LUI Day 83
  83. LUI Day 84
  84. LUI Day 85
  85. LUI Day 86
  86. LUI Day 87
  87. LUI Day 88
  88. LUI Day 89
  89. LUI Day 90
  90. From the 3LB Archives - Canopy of LUI
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