Old Fo Freak Show Grow

[oldfogey8]

I must be giving mine too much light. Yours have nice spacing between all the branches. The branches on mine are mostly bunched together, even knotted in places like it's having a bad hair day.

I am giving mine 24/7 light. They are outside during the day and in my furnace room under a T5 light at night. I wasn’t happy with how close the nodes were so I raised my T5 up higher than I normally have it(probably a few inches above the tops as opposed to about an inch). I measured them this morning and will measure again tonight after what is supposed to be a sunny cloudless day. They look like they are ‘taking off’ and growing quickly. I don’t know if it was the rain all day yesterday with no sun or if they like the larger containers with fresh soil and perlite(the soil I am using says it is a soil builder with mychorizae-oops - I should read labels) or if they just have established themselves and are growing faster now.

 

[oldfogey8]

I will be topping the 2 that didn’t self-top tonight. I like how the self-topped plant is looking better than the ones that are growing more like normal plants.

 

[WeedHopper]

I must be giving mine too much light. Yours have nice spacing between all the branches. The branches on mine are mostly bunched together, even knotted in places like it's having a bad hair day.

Thats why its called Freakshow. I always liked a bushy plant.

 

[CrashMagnet]

Thats why its called Freakshow. I always liked a bushy plant.

It's freaky alright. This was the two week transition. It looks even weirder this morning.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I must be giving mine too much light. Yours have nice spacing between all the branches. The branches on mine are mostly bunched together, even knotted in places like it's having a bad hair day.

I’m betting that your plants will be the freakiest crash…

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I will be topping the 2 that didn’t self-top tonight. I like how the self-topped plant is looking better than the ones that are growing more like normal plants.

My two didn’t self top like that. It’s like it’s taking care of itself.

 

[oldfogey8]

My two didn’t self top like that. It’s like it’s taking care of itself.

I’ve read that self topping is a rarity but more common in sativa dominant plants. It is interesting how the bottom nodes have become so vigorous. I am guessing that my tallest plant, which was the last to sprout, is going to be a male. The other 2 I am hoping are female. I know I read somewhere that Freaks are more difficult to sex but a grow journal I saw on another site seems like it develops normally. We will see how it goes.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I’ve read that self topping is a rarity but more common in sativa dominant plants. It is interesting how the bottom nodes have become so vigorous. I am guessing that my tallest plant, which was the last to sprout, is going to be a male. The other 2 I am hoping are female. I know I read somewhere that Freaks are more difficult to sex but a grow journal I saw on another site seems like it develops normally. We will see how it goes.

I topped mine a couple days ago at the fifth node but haven’t seen any lower node growth yet. Perhaps mine will catch up to y’all’s soon.

 

[oldfogey8]

All 3 grew about 3/4” today. I topped the 2 that needed it and gave them a dose of bokashi bran. Going to give them a dose of EM-1 tomorrow before hitting the beach…

 

[Hippie420]

 

[Kindbud]

Well stopped by the freak show and I guess since I'm hoping for a male to pollinate the females I'll put in my guess of what they are....

 

[Kindbud]

Just a educated guess knowing males are usually the taller, stretchier and thin plants of the group

 

[oldfogey8]

Well stopped by the freak show and I guess since I'm hoping for a male to pollinate the females I'll put in my guess of what they are....
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That is my thought too. I think I posted that I thought the tall one is going to be a male earlier in this thread. Glad you agree. The one on the left is a weird-o though. It is the shortest(and the first one to sprout) because it self topped. The meristem just stopped putting out leaves. The one on the right that we are thinking is male was the last seed to sprout by a couple of days.

Edited because spelling ‘weird-o’ without the dash gets turned into all asterisks….

 

[oldfogey8]

I haven’t had to LST a plant in a long time. One is pretty unruly. They grew between 2 and 3 inches in 24 hours.

 

[CrashMagnet]

Wow, might have to start using some of that em-1. I cut the lights down to half and finally got some vertical growth, but nothing like that. The two autos in the room did the same.

 

[oldfogey8]

Never bring a pipe cleaner to a gun fight. 8 hours later…

 

[oldfogey8]

Wow, might have to start using some of that em-1. I cut the lights down to half and finally got some vertical growth, but nothing like that. The two autos in the room did the same.

I am not willing to chalk it up to just the EM-1. I have been throwing the kitchen sink at these. @SubmarineGirl got me thinking about mychorizae. My potting soil(some off brand ‘soil builder’ is what the bag says) has some in it. I have been feeding them Extreme Blend that has humic and fulvic acids as well as enzymes in it(been doing a foliar feed of the stuff too). I also added a new player to my bench. Bokashi bran is supposed to have beneficial microbes in it and the literature says it can be used as a top dressing. I also top dressed the plants probably 36 hours ago. My brain is mush the last few years and I forgot about some stuff I used maybe 7 years ago called 3P(I think) that was like Jobe sticks but made of beneficial microorganisms. I can’t find the company anymore but loved what it did to my plants. Rock hard buds and beautiful colors(Buckeye Purple grow). I think those sticks of 3P may have been compressed bokashi bran. All I know is you got me into this and if Mrs Fogey finds my arm sticking out of an Old Fogey shaped Freak bush, she will know who to thank…

Edit:I hate autocorrect… And proof reading. Edited because I sound like my brain is mush…

 

[user 60570]

if it ain’t one thing it’s another

sometimes my plant attitude goes to he ll when the problems start piling up

it is no fun tearing a grow down and starting over

but if one grows long enough , there will be some setbacks and some start all over days

it is part of the price we pay to grow our own medicine

 

[WeedHopper]

Looks like a freak Show Sativa to me.

 

[oldfogey8]

if it ain’t one thing it’s another

sometimes my plant attitude goes to he ll when the problems start piling up

it is no fun tearing a grow down and starting over

but if one grows long enough , there will be some setbacks and some start all over days

it is part of the price we pay to grow our own medicine

I like having this problem. Fast growth I will take any day of the week for sure. I am not ready to tear this grow down yet.