Sensi Seeds Early Skunk Fem - Indoors.

@DopeLeaves, Thanks a lot! :)

@BigDaddyK, Thanks man!

@CANNASIM, Thank you man! what a journey! :D

@goarilla, I actually tasted it and it's a real bomb :) The readiness I check from the trichomes under a microscope.

@Toothless, You haven't sacrificed some small buds yet for tasting and readiness testing ? :D

@Toothless,Hahahaha 😂

@OldCoolSativa, I hope you share it with us on this website so we can read it and learn :)

@Toothless, that was a lesson I learned in my first grow, to trim the stuff away under the main canopy. My plants wasted a lot of energy in larf that should have gone into buds. Next grow I'm going to veg long enough to mainline into 4 colas then leave them alone in flower.

@OldCoolSativa, Thanks man! Yeah I think the plant knows what it's doing, so I tend to just leave it alone. The lower parts I trim because the important part is the canopy which is exposed to light, but once the canopy is even and full - that's all we can ask for :) I think the problem of most beginners is over doing. Over watering, over feeding, over training, over lighting. It's so exciting to start growing that most people forget that the best thing for the plant is to just leave it alone and let it grow :D

@Bstoner, Thank you, I will take a look!

@Toothless,there's an article proving that removing the biggest leafs is beneficial since those biggest leafs compete with your buds. http://www.rollitup.org/t/scientific-evidence-that-selective-defoliation-is-beneficial.825108/

@Bstoner, Hey Bstoner, thank you! Yes I have considered it. There are mixed opinions about defoliation even among experts, and I tried really hard to find some conclusive evidence to sway me either way - I couldn't find any. So I decided to leave it like this because my own logic says the leaves are after all quite important, and the top canopy is quite uniform and that's the most important part of the grow. I don't think light penetration to the lower parts of the plant is that important and sacrificing top leaves to help bottom leaves grow doesn't make sense to me, but what do I know? :D I will however harvest the plant in 3 stages from top to bottom to let middle and lower buds a chance to mature. As you can see I'm not in any hurry with this grow :)

@Doudou, No worries man we are all here to share and to learn! :) I will follow your grow too, I hope it goes well!

@Toothless, Thanks a lot i looked thru the diary before ( which helped me well for the start of my topping) so thanks dude and thanks again for these answers 😀😀 Wishing you the best 💪💪💪💪

@Doudou, Thank you Doudou. If you browse through the journal I wrote down the toppings: Day 21: 1 topping, Day 23: 2 toppings, Day 25: 2 toppings, Day 26: 2 toppings, Day 29: 4 toppings, Day 34: 7 toppings, overall 18 times. I read online people recommend to wait 1 week minimum before each topping, but to be honest at least this strain didn't seem to care at all for the topping. About the super-cropping I don't remember the number in the first time, but I estimate 7-8 shoots at a time. I just found the shortest thick branch in the canopy, and bent all the branches that were higher so that they are all in the same height. and I did it every few days, no matter how many branches I needed to bend.

@ClubRiot, Thank you man! greatly appreciated! :)

@GreenDogLV, She was! :P

@nicogm, Thanks man! :)

@Mar22, Thanks for the kind words man. Every new strain is still a learning experience, but the basic principles remain the same always.

@bosgrower, at some point I would like to make a graph of veg time to yield to find the most efficient veg time of the strains I'm growing :) Also for me plant count is an issue, so in order to keep it down, I prefer to have fewer plants and veg longer. I really liked your journals too!

@BigDaddyK, Thank you man! I can't wait to bring this lady down already :D

@@shadowman, You are very correct, it can be both. However it came quite suddenly and it's very hard to give too much Magnesium, so I added just in case! Thanks a lot for your nice comment! :)

@babyburn76, As far as I know, CO2 in flower adds about 25% in yield. There is no data if CO2 in veg does anything, but I believe it does. From what I know and what I have seen in my grow so far, with CO2 the plant can be happy also in 40 degrees. My plants were 2 weeks in 36-42 degree and nothing happened, at least in veg. A real solution would be to control the temperature better, which is going to be harder in the summer. Hopefully I will have enough money to upgrade my setup before summer.