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Week 2 Flower
This week I changed her base nutrients very slightly towards bloom, but not too much as she's still well into her stretch. She was supercropped later in the week as I'm expecting her to get pretty tall. For those who've never attempted, to do this I simply pinched gently around 2 thumb widths at the points I wanted to bend. Then kept pinching them gently, going up and down and twisting slightly too. It doesn't take much to do and soon flops over as you can see. This will keep an even canopy whilst slowing her stretch and spreading her out a bit. (The branch that's taped was half supercropped by mistake. I didn't want to bend her so I kept her up to give help her recover quicker).
At the end of the week she was given another lollipop and defoliation to further slow her down and also give better light penetration. I've found this to be a must with the 315w CMH.
She's looking happy and healthy and soon bounced back after the supercrop. She's starting to shoot out plenty of pistils but I think she'll carry on stretching for another week. Her side branching has been crazy, even considering the supercrop they've shot out and kept growing. I'll definitely be keeping her smaller next time she comes through to the flower tent.
Thanks for following and happy growing! 🐺
I was looking at another GG diary and she stretched from 8.6 to 23.9. I’m with you I was going to let her go to 18” veg expecting 2x for a 36” Plant. I’ll eagerly be awaiting your update!
I guess living across the big pond is an advantage because it takes me longer to get the drops I can reference @growdiaries !!!!!
@Tazard, 100% mate. I expected her to get a little bigger than average, which she has but the side branching is too much. Next time I'll be giving her a higher lollipop. That's very true mate lol definitely gives you a lil advantage 👌 cheers man 👊✌️🐺
Odd to not get a temperature drop. Unless you were already efficient at removing excess heat. Was it running close to ambient temperature during the day?
@Tazard, beautiful mate 👌👏 I've not got an a.c. myself, so it'll be a challenge once I've got a bigger light, but I still expected a drop in temps in their day period at least. Regardless of the light. Cheers mate 👊✌️🐺
@TheFoxFarmer, great consideration. Hadn’t even thought about that. I don’t know about 315’s but 1000hps is about 6700 btu’s. I use a 14k btu portable ac. And have 5 135w old blurple LED’s and 2 3000K LED’s for added spectrum and to fill in for the hps in the 4x6’ grow area. About 1900w. It runs 82-92 (92 sealed) 82F vented. I use 1500ppm CO2. I should also mention the cold air from the ac enters into an insulated tunnel on the floor and cools 3 5 gal hydroponic tanks before cooling the tent.
@Tazard, my thoughts are when they were on in the Day and off at night, the colder night temps kept it lower from the start of the day/lights on, and it took much longer to warm up throughout the day. Whereas now, the heat of the day is warming up their night cycle, so before the light comes on they're already hotter to start with. So once the light comes on it gradually heats up and becomes hotter than it would previously. My initial thought was that it would be easier to keep cooler when running lights at night, but I may have to actually upgrade a couple things just to get it down a bit! I'm still well within tolerance, but once I double the light power that can change. Cheers for dropping in by the way mate ✌️👊🐺
@biggreens420, thanks man. Yeah I always make sure I put the same effort into each week and get them completed. Can't be having no half hearted, unfinished diaries lol 👊🦊
@TheFoxFarmer,no need to apologise man I understand things are more important than a diary lol I go through them patches when I'm super busy at least it's there in the end that's what counts 👊👊
@biggreens420, I know bro I apologise to everyone who's been waiting on my updates. I'll be uploading more often now. And cheers Big G 👊 I appreciate your support bro ✌️🦊
@Tazard, hahaha I was recommended for an interview with GD by a previous grower that's had one but not heard anything since 👀 I think I need to catch up on my current diaries first! Haha cheers mate 👊✌️🦊
@Magnetous, I wouldn't say she's a huge stretcher as she was a pretty big girl when she was thrown in there. She at least doubled her height but it was her crazy sidebranching that was more the problem. Had I known this before I would have gave her a later lollipop and a bit higher up too ✌️🐺
Great diary! Congrats on dotm. ✌️ Do you like using that mammoth microbes? I recently picked up some myco product (endo, ecto, trichoderma) from my garden store ladies...think those sort of things are important to use every time? Microbes and what not.
@Experimentgreen, cheers! All microbial products/brands are different, using different species and concentrations too, so simply follow what the bottle/pack says and you should be just fine 👌👍🦊
Nice job there!!! Those nuggets look 👀 beautiful. Very excited to see your results as I have these genetics waiting in my on deck circle for my garden.
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