Week 4 of the devils marriage. She's grown a bit and started preflowing with pistils growing around day 22/23. Now at day 28 she is in full flowering as seen with the node sites filling with pistils. Over the first few days of this week during preflower she has developed a very pungent smell, so much so that it reeked up my entire growing space. The carbon filter is in there now but the smell grows by the day.
As you can see she has filled out just slightly. On day 25 I tied the main branch down to the side of the pot and on day 27 I hung up the SCROG net to train her branches. I think she will fill the net nicely over the next few weeks but I have to admit I don't think she's going to be able to fill as much as I would like. I chalk this up to genetics, but also my own error. I should have kept the light way farther away from her canopy to promote longer branch growth and I should have trained the main branch down like a week before I did. You can tell that she is a stout girl and she's going to need some serious SCROG work to open her up a little bit more. Regardless she still looks good. Good growth, nice green leaves, no deficiencies or abnormalities. She is on track and hopefully she stays that way.
On day 28 I fed her some nutes. 1 TBSP/G of All Purpose, 1 TBSP/G of Seabird Guano, 1 TBSP/G of Kelp Meal, a little bit of Azomite, and 1 Cup of generic Earth Worm Castings. She isn't showing any signs of deficiency but since dry amendments aren't nutrient available to the plant immediately (and its hard to burn your plants with) I thought I would give her a preliminary feeding going right into flower. I plan on feeding every two-three weeks and also compost tea two or three times.
@Civicgrows, Thanks its been a blast growing her so far. Definitely the most colorful plant I've grown and I'm hoping she tastes/feels as good as she looks!
@Civicgrows, Thanks man! If the Barney's Wedding is anything like the Mephisto's Wedding (looks great btw) then you wont be disappointed. Good luck with the final weeks of your grow homie!
Beautiful job (with the grow and the notes)! I’m in day 16 of my Mephisto’s Wedding run. On your advice I went with a lighter soil (straight Happy Frog rather than mixing in Ocean Forest). No signs of N toxicity and everything running smoothly. Good lookin’ out!
I’m in the first few days of my Mephisto’s Wedding grow. (Just put the seed/radicles into soil about 6 hrs ago). Awesome journaling and photos. I got a feeling your dairy’s going to prove invaluable over the next ten weeks. Judging from your diary, looks like I have some amazing plants to look forward to!! Super excited. Thanks for the guidance.
@Professor_Shaman, Thanks I appreciate it :D. One of the reasons I've started diaries is to help other growers navigate different genetics and growing practices, even if it means showing people my mistakes! As long as you can learn one thing from my diary I would say my job is done but its my true hope that I can give you everything you need to absolutely nail it.
After she's dry I'll post the harvest. In it I'm going to detail what I did wrong, what I did right, and how I would grow the Mephisto's Wedding next time. I hope you're looking forward to it as much as me because I can already tell she's going to knock it out of the park 😀.
Hey, thanks for your journal. Was looking for some information on other Wedding grows, because mine is so stocky but yours confirmed that I am doing the right thing with the heavy early LST. Can you take a look and let me know what you think?
Thanks!!
@WulfBlud, Nice progress on your wedding :D. Most of the bottom nugs were actually pretty frosty. Not as dense as the top but dense enough that I kept a good 80% of them. I personally would not lollypop especially since it looks like you've got good light exposure to the whole plant from your LST and defoliation work.
Looking forward to seeing her bulk up 😀.
@Gold1, Thanks for the feedback, this is the first plant I went staright to the autopot instead of starting the seed in a solo cup so I definitely think that helped get it on track early.
LST was really difficult but I just trained it very lightly every day and it is stretching a bit but I am a little worried the LST may have slowed the stretch and the light penetration is so good that it doesn't want to reach at all. I havent really had such a short plant but we shall see how it does.
@gold1 Do you think lollypopping the plant at all, or even partially for the top two bud sites per branch? How were your yields on the lower nodes and did you trim that away?
I really appreciate your response! I'll be uploading some new pictures today!
@WulfBlud, No problem friend. Glad my diary was of some use to you 😀.
Looking at your Wedding on days 39-41 and you are absolutely killing it! Great LST with what looks like good light penetration to the nodes. It also seems like your plant was able to get in an extra week or two of veg growth before flowering compared to mine. It looks much larger and you should expect a larger yield than I got, especially since you've done a good amount of training on the plant. As for the health of the plant, it looks very good and I don't see any issues with it.
Looking really good so far and you should be good for the rest of your grow 👍. Can't wait to see harvest and I promise you that you will absolutely love the result. Good luck and happy growing my friend.
@Bastardchild, Thanks! You won't be disappointed, the Meph Wedding is incredible and I find myself wanting to grow another one now that I'm down to my last few nugs. Good luck with your grow my friend!