Grilla’s Meph

April 6, 2023 at 12:28 PM -I’m going to consider today day one a flower. Both of the blood oranges are popping calyxes all over. The stamper is also showing signs, but not as advanced. The strawberry crinkle shows a few calyxes, but is definitely the furthest behind. -one of the blood oranges is definitely showing signs of stress. I am pretty sure it’s because I’ve been bending the shit out of it and maybe the light was too close. I’m taking Padrino’s advice. He said to raise the light to let them stretch out. He also said to let go of the ties, I think this is to relieve the stress. I haven’t done this, but will try it out. -The light that I’m using is Hella powerful. I’ve never had it where the plant doesn’t stretch out at all. When all of these guys were seedlings, they barely went above the dirt. this is great if you’re growing a photoperiod but could be detrimental when you need a little bit of stretch in order to tie them down and bring them over. When I first started training them, the nodes were super close. This is the first time I’m using this light and consider it a good problem. now that I know I’ll definitely raise the light a little bit more to allow them to get a little more stretch at the beginning of their lives -I also recommend everyone get an electronic watering wand. It’s made hand watering so much easier. April 8, 2023 at 11:40 AM -I’m going to put some photos up of how they looked before I take them down. April 10, 2023 at 12:24 PM -Day 40. All the plants are showing signs of flowering, but one of the orange haze’s is definitely a head of the others. So I’m pretty sure I have two different phenotypes. The forum is the next one with buds then the next Blood Orange finally followed by the strawberry crinkle. The strawberry crinkle has been the most sensitive plant to train. We’ve cracked a couple branches while trying to be careful. April 14, 2023 at 12:15 PM day 44 -I did my math wrong. It was off by a week but everything is fine. I keep forgetting that I use the germination week as week one. As you are supposed to when working with auto flowers. I just got a little bit confused. It’s actually good news because it means I get an extra week of flour and bigger yields. [ -I had to defoliate the shit out of the strawberry crinkle. In like two days it got completely covered and super fat leaves. There was no light penetration at all. Next time I grow it I’m just gonna let it do its thang. Besides that both blood oranges are looking nice, so is the form Stomper. They need to get water desperately. I believe after this watering, the plants should really take off. -Plants got 4L each of treated water. April 16, 2023 at 2:11 PM day, 46 -All the plants except for one of the blood oranges have been defoliated and bent a bit more to open up lower nodes. This is the first time that I’ve never removed a node on purpose and I’ve been growing for over 10 years. The strawberry crinkle once again looks like, no defoliation was done. Its leaves are big and fat and quickly cover up lower nodes. I’ll hopefully give each plant 20 cups of water each.