2) Barney's / Wedding Cake Auto / Micro

Yeah. That's the only picture. Remember that I said I might not even finish this grow in my last diary. Life got stressful around here. I was struggling to give a shit in general - wasn't thinking much about the plant. The plant went 27 hours without a feeding on Day 35 to 36. (When I did feed her late on Day 36, however, I gave her the amount I would have given regularly at the time which was 900 ml, and she gave me back 190 mil in runoff, so I don't think there was much if any root damage by the lapse in feeding.) So I wasn't taking many pictures either this week. But part of the reason why I didn't take pictures was also that there just wasn't really that much going on visually with the plant. This Day 38 picture looks exactly like the Day 35 picture almost. I had noticed asymmetrical nodes on Day 33, so we were firmly into flower by Day 38 - but she just wasn't stretching much. As I explained in my discussion of Week 5, she was still under the blue spectrum veg lamps on Day 38 and I believe this is the primary reason for the stunted stretch. It was so boring in there for so long that you're gonna see in my discussion of Week 7 that I don't bother taking another picture until Day 44 - three days after installing the red spectrum flower lamp on Day 41. Again, though this may have led to disappointing results for THIS grow, I'm tickled giddy about gaining this knowledge about how to stunt a stretch with your choice in lamp. This was something I was explicitly testing with this grow as I discussed in Week 1. Other possible reasons for the stunted stretch? She was being defoliated constantly since the first one I did on Week 2. This being my second grow. it was just that I knew at this point when leaves on the bottom/under the canopy were not going to get any light, so I got rid of them. So almost all of the early defoliation was the lollipop kind. But there may have been enough of it to stunt the plant? That just doesn't seem likely to me, though. Another reason? The strain/pheno variation problem with autos? No way to prove that one, yet. Would have to try to grow her again someday. Several times. I did clearly do one thing wrong here, though. This week should have been when I started lowering humidity in the tent. I didn't. So she was hanging around 70% humidity here, which is too high for week 6. This could have stunted the girl though low transpiration rates. But my first grow grew like a monster in Week 6 with 65% humidity, so I don't think being mere percentage points wrong about humidity could have had THIS MUCH of an effect. The lamp is the more likely cause. Then again, did I accidentally discover another way to control the stretch of the plant? Maybe this mistake will prove useful someday. Have a great grow day!