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Issue #478 - Sunday, June 13, 2021
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- Why would a grower want to learn to utilize "monstercropping"? Isn't it obvious? It's because the technique has a really cool name! What, you need another reason? Well, monstercropping can also increase your yields, give you the ability to harvest a plant twice, and preserve your favorite genetics. If you're even a bit curious now, check out today's article and learn a new technique!
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- Check out the latest update on the Spider Farmer vs Mars Hydro grow journal and learn a quick tip about giving the right amount of nutrients during the second half of the flowering stage.
- I have to be honest; it's tough looking at these trophy pics. My baby hydroponic plants (who else loves hydro?) are many weeks away from having buds and seeing all these near-harvest buds is making me a bit jealous. I'll get there eventually, but in the meantime, let's all enjoy looking at
buds that are much closer to harvest than mine. ~Sirius
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
~Thomas Huxley
Complete Guide to "Monstercropping" Cannabis Plants!
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Why "Monstercrop" a Marijuana Plant?
Be scareful how you use this powerful cannabis growing technique... Just kidding, there's no "monster" in monstercropping. The term was coined by a grower who noticed that cannabis plants produce odd growth patterns when they revert from the flowering (budding) back into the vegetative/leafy stage. They discovered they could use this "monstrous" growth to their advantage by cloning flowering marijuana plants to quickly produce plants with a lot of buds at the
top.
This marijuana monstercrop plant by John Henry shows the classic growth pattern of a monstercropped clone. His result was similar to the manifold training technique with less effort.
What is monstercropping? Monstercropping is a term for cloning a flowering cannabis plant to produce bushy clones. The results vary greatly between plants so this should be considered more a fun experiment than a serious growing technique. The idea is to use the fact that cannabis clones respond to re-vegging (reverting from the flowering stage to the vegetative stage) with odd growth patterns that may produce a plant with an above-average
number of branches. “Monstercropping” is also occasionally used as a synonym for re-vegging.
Why monstercrop a plant? Monstercropping is one of many cannabis growing techniques that aim to create a wide “tabletop” shape while plants are forming. A wide flat plant allows each bud to develop at the optimal distance from the grow light. Although the results with monstercropping are unpredictable compared to other techniques, the idea is to
increase yields and bud density by giving buds the perfect amount of light while they develop.
Let’s watch a monstercrop in action. (A huge thank you to Don B for sharing these pictures)
This clone was taken from a flowering cannabis plant several weeks before. It often takes longer for a flowering clone to make roots compared to a clone taken from a vegetative plant. This one just started growing again. You can see it’s not a normal cannabis clone because the buds weren’t removed and it has strange rounded leaves (1-point or round leaves are key symptoms of re-vegging).
Here’s the same plant 2 days later. It continues to grow new leaves with round edges and long stems while the plant is reverting back to the vegetative stage.
Here’s that plant about a week later – at this point it’s growing (mostly) normal leaves. Some plants may take long longer. One downside to monstercropping is each cannabis plant/strain responds a little differently.
This is about 1 month after the first picture. Although it took extra time to get started, the plant grew big, fast, and wide with little influence by the grower. There are many ways to achieve this plant shape, but all the others involve a lot of bending and/or tying
down stems.
Here is that plant at harvest! The grower Don B said that they were extremely happy with the results of the monstercrop process and would do it again.
Yields and bud density improve when all buds are the perfect distance from the light. Monstercropping is one of many methods to change a plant’s shape.
Benefits...
- pros and cons of monstercropping
- choosing the right strain
- how to re-veg a flowering clone
- how to re-harvest the same plant twice
- how to produce multiple harvests outdoors if you live in a warm climate
- ...and more!
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Spider Farmer vs Mars Hydro LED grow journal update
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Spider Farmer on top (white labels), Mars Hydro on bottom (with red labels to help remember that’s the “Mars” tent) - Day 43 of Flowering
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Cannabis plants tend to need less nutrients as they progress through the flowering stage, especially after they stop growing new leaves. I noticed the tiniest bit of nutrient burn on a couple of leaves today so I decided it’s time to start backing off the nutrients as we enter into the second half of the flowering stage. I was using Dyna-Gro Bloom at 1 1/4
tsp per gallon, and I’m going to taper down to 1 tsp/gallon from here until we start getting closer to harvest.
The smells are pungent now. If I open the tent the smells pour into the room. The two Pacific Punch plants (bud pictured is one) have a delightful sweet fruity smell. Normally I’m very reluctant to use the term “fruity” to describe the smell of buds because frankly most strains smell pretty stank. However, hats off to Square One Genetics because these buds truly smell delightful.
Not much else to say yet. The buds look a bit bigger but otherwise the appearance hasn’t changed significantly. I’d guess the plant on the left (the Pacific Punch) has 3 weeks to go, the middle (Amnesia Lemon) has 4 weeks, and the right (Zweet Inzanity) still has all-white pistils so it has at least a month to go. It’s packing on the weight though so I don’t mind but I’m surprised because it’s never run this long in the past. Who knows, it might surprise
me.
Stay tuned for next week!
Love,
Nebula
P.S. Check out the grow journal on our website to learn more about this grow.
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Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics).
"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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