Mixed Bouquet: A Little of Everything!

Week 5 is underway and all the plants are doing great. They were all becoming big bushes, I took them out for one last LST / Defoliation session. I defoliate as needed throughout the grow but usually only get them out for LST around week 3 and week 6. So I took these out one by one and took everything from half way down off the plant, buds, leaves, etc pretty much lollipopping them. Then I defoliated in the center of each some to help with airflow in this over packed tent. More on that later :p I then installed plant bends to separate the branches some and try to get them growing away from each other but to be honest, I got more real estate up than I do out so I will not be doing anything else this grow to stop them from stretching. I made the mistake of doing this LST with some of them dry and in need of watering. So a couple branches, already pretty thick broke when installing clips. I have faith as early in as it is and as health that this wouldn't be a problem. They are all still attached, just gave way I guess. My first grow I had branches taped up, had to super crop late in flower, etc.. and quality and yields were great. So I am not too worried about this go but I will not be doing any more LST from this point forward. They all got beat cut and beat up, I put them back in tent and gave them all their first full feeding. I say full but I go half amount on nutes. I actually did this with 4 of the 6 that needed it but the Skunk and Double Grape were still damp so I have to feed those two today. Giving them all same treatment and watering/feeding times would be a mistake IMO even though convenient. So I will take the extra effort on these ones. The 5 day forecast in my area is all in 90s and the space where the tent is as of time of writing this (1 pm Thursday) its 102 degrees in there. So insulation install needs to happen. But I am not too keen on going into 102 deg space to do all this physical work lol. In the words of Orphan Annie, Tomorrow, Tomorrow lol Some side notes. The stock on the Creme de la Chem is impressively thick, The Fruit Punch is already starting to smell of citrus. I am calling this week 1 of flower week 5 of grow but the Strawberry Cough is exploding with bud growth. The Skunk #1 is first rerun I've done as far as growing a strain again. I did a bonsai with it and it was only a 11 gram haul but favorite bud I have smoked in a long time. So it was no brainier to do a bigger one asap. When I had out all 6 plants on floor, my dog when straight to #1 Skunk and wouldn't stop smelling and burying her face in plant lol That it for this week! Thanks for checking us out!