hi again hi again today we want to talk about bloom stage and our top five tips top five tips
top five tips for blue
because you've already seen the top five tips for veg and seedling so here we are so
audio my first tip for bloom would be at your first sign of bloom you start feeding it now
personally i don't give my plants anything until bloom so this is actually a really important
step for me in my organic grow so that's when i actually start tap dressing it and giving it feed
for its bloom stage is the very first signs of bloom in yeah what was that what were we
saying earlier the first what does it look like when it's in bloom looks like my head
the dandelion stage it looks like neil's head when the pistol hair is popping that's
how you know you're about to start to head into bloom so we usually watch for when you
see the pistol here start to really condense and they start to look kind of like dandelions
that's how you know your auto is it's well on its way into flower yes so that's usually when
that's my first time to feed yeah that's when heaven will do her first top dress and that can
depend completely on what kind of soil you're using what kind of nutrients you're feeding you
know if your plants make it all the way that far without having to do anything but water
entirely depends on what your soil mix is and how all of that stuff is going so so feed those babies
because they're going to get hungry and this is the time dandelion stage that little babes
that's the time to feed them number two removing larp and pruning the bottom of your plant
so usually bottom third and i usually start doing this even in veg is just removing stuff
at the bottom that you know is not getting light and it's never going to develop to anything
start chopping that stuff out as early as possible and once you start going into flower and you see
the dandelions uh be aggressive with lower stuff that's just gonna end up being larv like get it
out of there cut it out you know the sooner you cut it out the more the plant can focus on energy
and that's key your top buds and your main bud sites be diligent on taking out those little
flowers that it just aren't going to amount to much or even get much light yeah just remove as
much as you can because it's just going to help the rest of your plant grow better yeah you want
you want all the energy to go to the to the big juicy buds big juices not those bottom mickey
mouse get those ones out of here let's trim up the larvae nobody out of there you want the good stuff
yup so trim all your bottom buds and usually for me just kind of rule of thumb like bottom third
of the plant i don't want anything except just branches no no bug no bud size i have a hard time
doing this myself cut it cut it out there and you know you'll see as the plant starts to develop and
starts to go into flour what are probably the best ones to chop out but it's going to be this
stuff way down at the bottom here's your best judgment way less pistol hairs you know it's just
going to be a little knobby ones just get them out of there it's not really going to benefit
i don't know and then that same token um our third is defoliating leaves now personally i like
to keep as many leaves as i can yup um in in bloom stage but there are those times you do have to try
to tuck them or get rid of them completely yeah definitely leaf tucking is really great especially
when your plants are getting into flower and you don't want big leaves covering bud sites or you
know preventing light from hitting them because that's just going to slow down their production
and growth uh so generally we just try and leave tuck as much as possible to get stuff out of the
way because the plant can still draw nutrients it can still gather light with the leaf even though
it's you know tucked down uh it's still gonna be beneficial to the plant we find it's better
to leave it on there and tuck it um but definitely if you have big leaves that are blocking bud sites
and there is no good way to tuck it yeah um definitely just cut it out of there yeah cause
if you know i mean you've got to use your best judgment again um if you know that that leaf is
gonna hinder your grow over help your grow you like i said you just gotta use your best judgment
as far as that goes and that's something that we do throughout the whole stage of the plant
growth like we really have shied away from a lot of actual defoliation and cutting leaves
and moved more towards leaf tucking and only cutting when you really have to
or it's just so overgrown that you know it's in some plants hindering the plant's performance some
plants do just have a lot of leaves some are just really it is just the genetics as well so um again
just use your best judgment as far as that goes but we tend to scale it back as far as defoliation
um unless they're covering bedsides and then number four is a very very very important tip
your target environment in flower phase so really for us or at least me with autos um everything in
the same town that means we have seedlings we have plants and flour we have plants and veg
uh for me as a general rule i just try and keep my tent maintain around a 50 humidity the entire grow
um just because everything is in the same tent i'm just aiming for like a ballpark uh middle ground
that's gonna make everything happy and then also not get uh issues with bud rot in your flowering
plants in the past yeah heaven has had bud raw in the five by five um because of auto control temps
and humidity uh and definitely suffered in lost plants because of that um so you want to keep an
eye on that and if you're doing everything in the same tank kind of like we are 50 is a good
middle ground um for your humidity and you're not going to see really issues with bud rot if you're
keeping it around there and then temperature wise i like to keep my tent around a target of 75
which can be hard to do in the summer um just depending on where you are but trying to keep your
temp in a reasonable range with a humidity around 50 should prevent issues with bud rot and you also
in the same token you want good air circulation you want good air flow through your canopy through
underneath your plant canopy so where you have everything trimmed up that bottom third
you want air flow through there below and above your plants um to prevent bud rot or anything
like that within your buds um right you know if they're if you are having some kind of an issue
with humidity and it's just something that it's you know sometimes you can't get away from it i
i had a heck of a time with it believe me um i definitely struggled with it myself so
if you if you can't do anything at least try to get that air movement if nothing if you can't
completely get your humidity to a good level where it's ideal at least try to get that air movement
yeah and just keep an eye on your plants you know watch for leaves turning like yellow like your
sugar leaves if they start turning like a golden bronze and they're dead chances are you might be
having some bud rots you might want to inspect your buds really good um and just keep an eye on
that but really just try and keep your humidity in 50 or lower 50 to 55 should be fine um just keep
an eye on it but definitely make sure your airflow is right get as much circulation as you can
that's just going to help prevent and make sure you have any issues with your plants and flower
and your seedlings and your veg plants should be completely fine with that so that's how we
do it and run everything in the same tent um and and have had good results uh but obviously if it
does get away you're gonna run into issues so it's always something you want to monitor
that's where things like the ac infinity fans help with the you know ramping of the speed and stuff
to pull out more air and things like that it's definitely going to help it's been helping me
um i've i just have such a hard humidity and uh temperature in my time i don't i've struggled with
it oh it's definitely something i struggle with so you're not alone if you are yeah definitely
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pretty pretty awesome uh but the last thing is is when are they done we get so many questions aren't
they done when are they done yep that's that's the number one tip how do you know it's time to chop
that baby chop that baby so we you guys have heard us say before 84 out the door and that's a good
general rule of thumb and what we've seen with autos is around that time what you're looking for
on your plants um is how do the trichomes look get a jeweler's loop look at your trichomes don't
just look at your very top buds look all over the plant and when you look through the loop
and you're looking at your trichomes what you want to see is all cloudy definitely cloudy but you're
looking for around 15 to 25 amber so when you look at a given spot uh under the loop at the trichomes
you want about 15 to 25 of them in any area you look to be amber color so that means it's going
to be probably the perfect time to chop if you go all cloudy tends to give you a more energetic high
um if you're chopping it when it's clear you're probably going to get more of a jittery effect
that we found so that's usually a little too soon for us we don't like usually don't chop
that clear i mean it is completely dependent on how you want the effect of your preference um
but as far as us i prefer again the 20 percent-ish amber and the later you let it go the more amber
it gets the more couch lock effect it's going to have so it's really up to your preference
but generally best rule of thumb is around you know 15 to 25 amber in any given spot and
definitely all the rest are cloudy uh and you just want to watch for that and when it's ready then
it's that it's time to chop so we found that most autos get to that stage in around 84 days that's
why we say 84 out the door but definitely that's not the go-to every time because you'll see plants
that take longer certain genetics will take longer or maybe mistakes you made over the grow might
have stunted the plant and make it take longer so that's why really the definitive answer is look at
your trichomes what are your trichomes telling you exactly watch your trichomes trichomes are what's
actually going to tell you know you could go say 84 out the door you know like we said that's
it's a a basic rule of thumb that we use just to kind of keep a good guideline for our plants but
we don't pull them until they're that amber i mean sometimes they do take longer and
sometimes they're done way before um it's really dependent on the trichome yup and it's on the
plant so just watch the trichomes when they're ready that's when you chop them sometimes we do
24 hours of darkness oh yeah bro science maybe who knows but i think it helps something what do
you guys think what are your guys questions top five tips for flying what are your top five tips
for bloom and um i also want to know if people do the the darkness yeah and how guys thanks so much
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