Zombie Kush / Ripper Seeds - micro SCROG

alvaroGraciaL All good. Transplanted to its 3L pot where it will live until just before flowering. The pot is an Air pot of my own design printed on my 3D printer. It has brought me a lot of joy so far. This week I will remove the humidity dome, and it will have to adapt to the 50% ambient humidity in my house.

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alvaroGraciaL What a wonderful vegetative growth, impressive. It doesn't require any nutrients at the moment or anything. I'm practicing apical pruning and removing all the secondary branches except for 2. In this grow, I'm going to try to arrange the SCROG in a more orderly fashion and see if the process is faster or slower than filling it randomly like the current grow of Runtz X Baby Grogu (F1 Bellota Seeds). Overall very happy, let's see how it reacts to such a drastic apical pruning at 3 weeks old.

alvaroGraciaL Another week without issues The plant is healthy and still has nutrients in the substrate, so there's no need to fertilize until next week. The first ties are starting, for now they're pretty messy, but they'll get better.

alvaroGraciaL Another week of growth with not too many updates. The plant has a phenotype leaning towards sativa, with elongated leaves. The texture of the leaves is very interesting, they're like velvet, they stick to your fingers when you touch them. The pot is going to become too small sooner than expected, and I'll have to transplant. I will also need to find a better way to support it until I move it to the lower cabinet with the net. The cutting rooted perfectly, as always 100% success in jiffy inside a tupper without rooting hormones.

alvaroGraciaL Very neglected week for this vegetative monster. I’m really surprised by the vigor this little one is showing. I don’t know what to do with her; she’s going much faster than I expected, and she still has at least 5 more weeks of vegetative growth until the cabinet is available. The roots are already escaping from the bottom of the pot uncontrollably. The cutting rooted very quickly without rooting hormone and looks healthy. She’s starting to show nitrogen deficiencies since she’s been in the same 3-liter pot for over a month with hardly any fertilizer. For now, as soon as I have time this week, I’ll do some apical pruning on the two tips and stake her to stimulate the growth of the lateral branches for now.

alvaroGraciaL Another week in their little 3L pots. Unfortunately, the big cabinet still has 4 weeks left to finish flowering before I can rotate this "old lady." Sadly, I germinated her too early because the one I have now in the big cabinet got delayed, and I had already started germinating this one. She'll probably stay in this pot for 2 more weeks with flowering nutrients, and then I'll transfer her to the final pot, let's see how she fits in the little cabinet. That being said, this Zombie Kush from Ripper is behaving like a champion.

alvaroGraciaL Intense week I'm having a hard time managing this plant; it’s screaming for a transplant that I can't give it at the moment. The plant has a lot of vigor and the internodes are very short, so it's been really difficult for me to spread it out across the surface without it gaining height (my cabinet is 65cm tall). I've prepared some horizontal supports with wooden sticks and the plastic support I already had. It’s been a long process, but the plant is now well distributed. It would be perfect to transplant and switch to flowering in a week, but the one in the cabinet has about 3-4 weeks left, so I’ll have to improvise to keep it in the upper cabinet. I'm doing moderate defoliation, removing almost all the axillary leaves from the secondary branching. Root pruning that was wildly escaping from the pot below.

alvaroGraciaL Transplant week to a final 20-liter pot. A bit premature. Enriched substrate with homemade worm humus, bat guano, homemade citrus peel meal (potassium), perlite, and micro vita from top crop. In 2 weeks, it will go into the flowering cabinet and the party will begin.

alvaroGraciaL The plant is recovering some health after the transplant. Luckily, it only has one week left until the switch to 12-12. I've done some apical pruning on the tips that interested me the most and defoliated quite a bit to uncover the nodes I want to grow with the change in photoperiod. The branches are currently very thin, lacking the strength for the buds they will have to support, but they will become more rigid.

alvaroGraciaL Finally, the flowering cabinet has been emptied, and I can move this little monster to its permanent cabinet. The first thing I did was redo the net, as the previous plant couldn't be removed without breaking the old net. It was a lot of work to take off the stakes and sticks I had on it, properly stake the plant in the new net, and defoliate to expose the nodes I want to grow. I also pruned all the nodes and shoots I don't want to grow, since the plant had such a long vegetative stage that it allowed too many lateral nodes to develop. I gave a foliar and root watering with Big One on the same day I switched to 12-12; it should have been done 10 days ago, but I planned poorly. Normally, I do selective defoliation during the first 4 weeks of flowering, but this time I’m going to try doing a single defoliation at 3 weeks after switching to 12-12. The day of the switch was today, Sunday, February 5, 2023, after 20 hours of continuous darkness.

alvaroGraciaL First week of full flowering. The plant is gaining vigor, although I have the feeling that I've overdone it with the branching due to too much time in the vegetative stage. Many branches are too thin, and I'm having to remove shoots and leaves all over the place. I'll try to avoid constant defoliation and let it grow well for a few days.

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alvaroGraciaL From the progress, it looks like it's going to be a 9-week plant at least. Good growth, a lot of vigor. It has already finished the stretching and is now starting the fattening phase. In the next 2 weeks, I will increase its feeding, and depending on how it reacts, I will either increase or decrease.

alvaroGraciaL Bad week. The temperature went up and the humidity dropped sharply on the days I wasn't home. The red spider showed up, and as soon as I got back, I had to apply Spruzit quickly. Probably it won't get worse, but all the pistils have turned brown. It seems to be going well, but it doesn't look as healthy as before. I've lowered the fertilization a bit after seeing that the tips of the leaves showed a slight burn. The water draining from the pot has an EC of 2.6. A bit high, but nothing excessive.

alvaroGraciaL It seems that after applying Spruzit to deal with the red spider mite, the plant suffered quite a bit and the pistils got burned. For a few days, growth slowed down a lot, but after a few days, it has recovered and looks better. This week, being the last one I'm going to fertilize, I gave it an extra dose of PK and also increased the base flowering fertilizer (I'm using Top Auto from Stop Crop because it's what I have and I need to use it up). I left too many tops (36 in 0.2 m2) and now it seems that most of the buds aren't gaining the weight they should. For future grows, I will reduce the number of tops. I will get some great marijuana for making extractions.

alvaroGraciaL This week it was root washing time! Last week I only gave a little bit of PK. I did a light defoliation all over the plant. The root washing was done with 18 liters of water with corrected pH. With such a large pot indoors and 100w of LEDs that I have now on for 11 hours, it took 4 days for the substrate to dry completely. The first two days after the wash, the humidity rose to 65%. For the next grow, I will buy some kind of flush product. Next week it's harvest time!

alvaroGraciaL Good strain. Once I've tried it, I'll be able to share better results. For now, I've really liked the vigor in the vegetative stage and the smell that the strain has. I haven't liked the shape of the buds. I've only planted one seed, so it would be good to see different phenotypes.