Stella’s Duo - DarkStar

7/4/22 Happy Independence Day to all of you in the USA 🇺🇸! The 4th of July is a thing here in case my international friends didn’t know. I ran out of time to feed the Duo last night, but I got to it today. Both plants have grown more in the past few days. #1 has grown 9 inches since 6/29/22, and is now 27 inches tall. #2 grew 9 inches as well, and is now 29 inches tall. I have no idea how big they are going to get, but after adjusting my lights to as high as they will go in my small tent, they have 12 and 10 inches of space under the lights respectively. I mixed a new gallon of solution using the early bloom nutrient levels. Each plant received 1/2 gallon of solution and loved it! They received: CALiMAGic - 2 ml FloraMicro - 5.7 ml FloraGro - 6.6 ml FloraBloom - 6.6 ml Floralicious Plus - 2 ml Liquid KoolBloom - 1 ml The pH of the solution after mixing was 6.4. Each plant has a sufficient amount of runoff, and the pH levels were: #1 - 6.1 #2 - 6.0 The tent was 84F, and the humidity was 46%. Each plant was defoliated of all their larger leaves today, and they look rather skinny with all of their small, skinny branches. They look healthy, and strong so that’s all that really matters. Have a great day everyone, and happy growing! 7/6/22 I meant to feed all of my plants yesterday, but didn’t get to the Duo until today. I guess keeping their feed days staggered does make it easier on me to some degree. My youngest ladies are stretching, and getting their nodes ready to produce some bud. They have started developing some small pistil sites which I took a pic of from each plant to show. I hope I flipped them early enough to keep them at a reasonable height. They are the youngest of Stella’s (Stella - DarkStar #2 diary) offspring, and I flipped them to flower when they were shorter, and younger than any other DarkStar cultivar that I’ve grown so far. Their mother’s branches have been bent over multiple times, and she’s still 47.5 inches tall. Their older sisters (Stella’s Cuatro diary) are already between 49, and 55 inches tall, with the other two plants at 51.5 inches and 54 inches tall. I note all of this because I flipped the Duo when they were 18 & 20 inches tall. That was on 6/29/22. Today, just 8 days later, #1 is 30.5 inches tall, and #2 is 33 inches tall. They are housed in my smaller tent, which today, I had to remove the adjustable straps that help raise and lower the lights because they were already raised as far as they could go. I ended up clipping the light directly to top support bars on the roof of the tent. I just hope I flipped them early enough to keep them from stretching much more. They look healthy, and vibrant, and should produce some nice bud (eventually). Today they each received a half gallon of water mixed with the following solution using the early bloom step 2 nutrients. The pH of the solution was 6.4, and wasn’t adjusted. Each plant gave back a nice amount of runoff with the following pH: #1 - 6.0 #2 - 5.8 Their tent was 84F, with humidity at 54%. If anyone out there is planning on growing this cultivar, I strongly recommend taking the stretch into account in planning your grow space. DarkStar is an awesome strain, with awesome effects, and is totally worth the headache! Happy growing everyone! 7/8/22 Today is the last day of week 4, and my Duo are doing well. They both are very green, and healthy. They are at the end of their 2nd week of flower, and the stretch is still very real. I didn’t bother to measure them again today just to save myself the frustration. I got some more LST poles to rearrange their branches without having to put the plants under undue stress. I used them on both plants to reposition the branches more centrally so that they don’t grow out of their tent as far as width. They were both spreading out their branches to the sides, so now they are more compact, which should help with the space. They are still shorter than their mother and older siblings, and I hope that by flipping them earlier will prevent them from becoming giants. Today they are still using the early bloom nutrients, and will be for another week. I mixed a gallon of water with the following nutrients, of which each plant received half a gallon. CALiMAGic - 2 ml FloraMicro - 5.7 ml FloraGro - 6.6 ml FloraBloom - 6.6 ml Floralicious Plus - 2 ml Liquid KoolBloom - 1 ml The pH was 6.4, and not adjusted. Each plant gave back plenty of runoff with the following pH levels: #1 - 5.9 #2 - 5.8 The tent temperature was 84F, with humidity at 51%. I needed to take some of their larger leaves away after repositioning the branches so that light gets through everything. Both plants have begun their pistil development as well, so bloom is in season! Happy growing everyone!