Welcome to the start of week six for Karen.
Quite frankly I am shocked at this point in her progress last week. She has responded quite vigorously to the LST. Considering where we were a few weeks ago, I am quite a bit more optimistic now. Her main stem is now thick and bulbous, and she is starting to reinforce the nodes with swellings at each. Whenever I have seen this in grows I've followed it is a precursor to impressive yields. I'm actually starting to think Karen might end up being a stunner.
Day 36: Day 1 of drought. Humidity 64%
Day 37: Day 2 of drought. Humidity 55%
Day 38: Day 3 of drought. Humidity 34%. LST performed.
Day 39: Karen had breakdrought at lights on and was fertigated with approx 5l.
Day 39.5: Karen is really coming along. Since I ended her drought she seems to have perked up and stretched out. I am increasingly optimistic for her.
Day 41: Karen continues impressive growth and vigour. She has responded to the flush and drought by piling on vegetation. My instincts about her a couple of weeks ago were bang on. This excessively yellow new growth is normal for her, I am sure of it; whenever she grows really fast it always comes in yellow and then greens up after a few days.
Day 42: Weekly Summary: Karen has responded well to multiple LST. Just looking at her now it is hard to believe what she looked like at the start of week 4. What an absolute transformation. I am very happy with her response to my flush and drought, I will use this strategy again.
Update 7/2/23: As I re-read through these weeks from the perspective of Karen at week 8, I find myself still surprised by her progress over these last three weeks. You can see from my comments at the time that I grew in hope for Karen this week, and my optimism was well founded. It is still too early to tell, as I write this in week 8, but I am now really thinking that Karen will be a stunner, I think she has more surprises in store for us.
So I have been spending some time looking for other King's Kush Auto grows, and I have looked at, well all of them on here. Karen is, at least in my opinion anyway, already way more frosty looking than any of the other grows I have found. Hard to quantify but I have developed a theory, which in a future grow I will test.
@@@Sinsemii, sure okay, well. I think there are two primary factors that can be variable that I think have made this difference, one is stress and the other is the companion plants. I suspect that both have combined good effect. It is just a theory but I think at least part of my next grow will be running comparison experiments. To test this I propose something like:
Uniform single strain seeds - the F1's would be good for this I think.
Identical containers
Identical substrate
Identical nutrition
Identical environment
The idea here is to plant the following combinations:
For my space I'd probably choose 20l pots.
2 x no companions
2 x One companion only
2 x Other companion only
2 x both companions
Then from this group one half would be trained with regular LST and defoliation, the other not trained.
This way I get to see the following combinations:
No training:
1 x no companions
1 x One companion only
1 x Other companion only
1 x both companions
Full training:
1 x no companions
1 x One companion only
1 x Other companion only
1 x both companions
This way I can really compare and see what is making the difference. I may use smaller pots and more numerous plants due to space but it is one for the future. Who knows perhaps someone will beat me to it. I do not know if my diaries have had any influence at all, I rather doubt it, but I seem to have started to notice a few more diaries with companion plants lately.
@Z4Z0Z, The tent smells mostly of Basil and Chamomile - especially when I brush against it. Karen is the strongest smelling cannabis plant in the tent and you can certainly smell her above everything else, but the overall smells is a combination of basil chamomile lemons and weed. lol
@UnorthadoxDude, Looks great to me! I understand, it is hard to get good photos that can really show the details and capture all the magic that is happening.
@MedicineMaker, Thanks! They're still not really where I want them to be. I need to get a better photography setup - better camera, better lighting, etc. It is nice to see that the level of frost is clear with the different photos.
@SmokieMcPot, no, joking I was not! Hah! Look at the state of her in week 2 and 3, I am not sure how she even survived my "care and attention". Then in week 4 she starts growing and, well just doesn't bloody stop! Week 4 by the way, is when I stopped pissing about and started taking it a bit more seriously.
Karen making such a nice recovery! Wishing ya the best of luck. I had to look a few timesโฆI thought ya were growing dill herb in the same pot, and maybe some basil? When I did my outdoor grow, I surround her in dill and basil, they seemed to love each other as company, but just not the same pot. Lol.
Love your grow though! ๐
@NorthEquinoix, haha that's awesome thank you. Yeah give them a try, or wait and see how it pans out for me! I love watching them grow I should have done diaries for the herbs. Basil increases terpene profile and improves flavour, chamomile stimulates the production of essential oils in most nearby plants... together they should amplify each other's effects. That is my theory. I'm just having a look at your grows now... in the middle of a big reorganisation and I have stopped for a smoke. ๐
@UnorthadoxDude, no worries at all! I loved seeing it actually. And German chamomile! Thanks for letting me know what that was,lol. I love herbs of any kind but have been a little Leary of adding them to my indoor tents, hopefully I get more courage on the next run. Lol Iโll be sending ya good grow vibes for Karen and the other girls! Woot woot!๐
@NorthEquinoix, thanks man! Hah it's basil and german chamomile! They have to be connected via the roots for the effects that I want to happen so they have to be in the same pot!
Don't worry though there is plenty of nutes for all.