March 13, 2023, at 1:30 PM
-I hit the plants with their first treated water on the 11th and lowered the light to 18 inches above the canopy. Today’s the 13th and it’s obvious that the plants are responding. The forum Stomper has really taken off and the blood orange haze number one appears to be lagging. Week one ends on 16 March. Later today I’ll water them with some treated water, hopefully. I’ll take a short video and a couple pictures.
Reasons for the Forum Stomper’s vigor.
~ it’s in a different pot
~ it has less soil
~ it may be possible that my dogs pissed on the other three plants. 😡
March 14, 2023 at 3:30 PM
-So far every day I’ve noticed the difference in the plants. They are definitely growing and developing quickly. The forum Stomper is still outgrowing the other plants. The blood orange haze number one is growing but slower than the rest. I’ll post some more pictures and a video from yesterday and today.
March 15, 2023 at 1:33 PM
~ someone left the heater, near the plants, and expose them to 90° temperatures for about 12 hours. Thank goodness the plants aren’t that big because they seem to have actually liked it. I’ll throw up a couple pictures tomorrow. The plants technically are 14 days old on the 16th.
March 16, 2023 at 3:27 PM
~Today’s the last day of week one. Watering them with treated water later today.
I was tieing all my autos down just like you are and let me tell you it was really hard not to do it but if you remove all the tie downs and let it grow she will take off and get way bigger. I stunt all my autos and really hurt my yield when doing this so I tried to training just leaf tucking and my plants have never been bigger. my strawberry crinkle is the best looking and massive and I did nothing to any of them except Girl Scout monkeys, I bent the main stem for maybe 5 days and then removed it. I probably won't go back to tieing down my autos because compared to the ones I have tied down are just so small and bushy compared to the ones I just least tucked. also I've move your like up way higher and let them stretch. move it to the top of tent and put it as 100%. let the plants decide how much ppfd they want by growing into it. They will adjust themselves. I did all of this on this last run and I've never seen better results!
@Capulin, it allows light to reach lower nodes that normally wouldn’t get to much light. Weed comes from the nodes and if it doesn’t receive enough light the weed it makes is small, leafy, and not as potent as a node completely covered in light. If a plant isn’t trained properly the yield will not reach its full potential.