Mephisto Genetics Deep Blue C for first grow

[Vorkosigan]

I just did some LST on my DBC Illuminauto. She had amazing lower branches with loads of bud sites, perfect for pulling away from the main for development. It is a denser strain with loads of fans so I recommend defoliating to open her up for air flow and light.

 

[mephisto]

I just did some LST on my DBC Illuminauto. She had amazing lower branches with loads of bud sites, perfect for pulling away from the main for development. It is a denser strain with loads of fans so I recommend defoliating to open her up for air flow and light.

Nice! For us under hps it definitely alleviates the denseness, some stretch helps and our dbc's get to around 2-3 feet with relative ease.

 

[lets_grow_right_meow]

I just did some LST on my DBC Illuminauto. She had amazing lower branches with loads of bud sites, perfect for pulling away from the main for development. It is a denser strain with loads of fans so I recommend defoliating to open her up for air flow and light.

When do you normally start defoliating? I was under the impression it wasn't a good idea with autos?

 

[Vorkosigan]

I used to wait until I had a dense bush on my hands then start slow with taking the oldest fans and then only removing anything over a bud site.
I just started following the way Hashmaster does it - take fully formed fans as long as the next node has a set of fully formed fans to take on the photosynthetic load. It's a bit aggressive, I took the cotyledons and first finger leaves at 14 days then continuing with Hashmasters way. I tend to stop around having 3 fat fans at the top of each cola. The stress put on the plant causes the lower/side branches to increase in size and yield in an attempt to carry the plants photosynthetic load.
Defoliating isn't good for all plants, some produce less fans than others. I will also only defoliate healthy plants and allow the plant to recover after each plucking.

 

[Evil-Mobo]

Has anyone done LST with DBC?

I just finished growing three out LOL and I NEVER leave a plant untrained regardless of whether or not it's an auto.......
I popped three beans and would say I got two different phenos, two finished fast like 53 days and were the smaller ones but with purps on the tops. The third not as much purpling, took longer, but easily twice as big as the other two.

Shot of the big girl:

And her little sister:

 

[Evil-Mobo]

I just did some LST on my DBC Illuminauto. She had amazing lower branches with loads of bud sites, perfect for pulling away from the main for development. It is a denser strain with loads of fans so I recommend defoliating to open her up for air flow and light.

And to prevent mold :smoking:

 

[lets_grow_right_meow]

I ordered Deep Blue C and Sour Livers today! Thanks to all, I can't wait!