The weather has been pretty cold, you'd really want to flower these atleast a month ago with light deprivation but thats how it is in this climate. There are alot of inventions that are used in this climate like it or not, it seems were always trying to move beyond what is considered the normal for safety, if something doesn't work exactly the way they'd like it, its probably replaced. The amount of pruning I do is alot but id have to clean all of it up after harvest anyways, if it was alot they might leave it to the frost and move on with harvesting, its not necessarily possible to do anymore than the main tops without pruning any of the smaller sizes, in history they used the smaller sizes because there wasn't alot of it but now theres so many people that work that they get pruned in any large amount. I used to never prune at all and I don't think it effects the cola size at all, ive seen the hugest colas on plants grown that were unpruned (I didn't grow them), im not sure on that one. It might of been the PK booster or the breathable containers that had something to do with it or the RDWC systems (im not using those systems, no real experience on phythium).
Day 129 I looked at the pistils and I can see that the growing tips have two sets of pistils and theres a few days left in August, so there really close to flowering now.
Day 130 If you look at the growing tip theres two nodes really close together and im counting 5 sets of pistils, these are looking like there starting to flower at Less than 14 hours of light but closer to 14 hours than 13 hours.
There is one Alien OG male plant that because there flowering so late and it takes 4-6 weeks for seeds to form and finish after being pollinated im thinking it best to remove it at some point, you would need a heated greenhouse to finish the seed in my climate, it could freeze the middle of October and your probably not seeing developed male flowers until to late into September. Its about 4 weeks into flower that the male pollen is released so that isn't enough time for these plants to finish seed production. I'll probably keep watering it until later, ive already cloned it.
Id also like to say that I like large open spaces, I enjoy being able to move around while gardening but the heating costs of doing so is to high and if you buy a grow tent your probably going to think that the larger tent is better. It seems to be what is a fact about plants and lights.
(Also if you do this make sure to use a stronger material than the twist rolls because they snap when the wind gusts are to strong but that year they didn't)