Rockstar Clones from Bonsai to Outdoors.

Ive had some cloudy and rainy weather so this isn't the most that they could of grown and its probably faster with more hours of sunlight but these plants can get massive when they veg through August but the climate here doesn't really work for this strain, so you do need a November growing season or a greenhouse. These plants could freeze the middle of October and not finish. I think there very visually stimulating to look at and thats probably one the biggest complications because it is somewhat difficult to stop working when its better. They do look better grown outdoors than in a greenhouse, the surroundings do affect how you feel about the work environment, your probably not going to like working in a greenhouse as much but for commercial use a greenhouse can be essential for preventing mold on some of the strains and cola sizes that are encountered in growing this plant, small branches on this strain will mold in the rainy weather while other sizes that may be larger may remain unaffected, the problem is hand trimming and looking through when you can't see the mold, so it does become a plant that is flowered with dehumidifiers and especially if there not hand trimming. You can move them into a greenhouse after 30 days of flowering and that can prevent the mold. The day after that I took these photos there is forest fire smoke in the air and that lowers the PPFD down from 1600 to 480-500-560 µmol/m²/s with a max reading of 590-600 but mostly reading 480-560 PPFD and it isn't so smokey that you can't see but its quite thick but not enough that you can smell it in the air like when theres huge amounts of smoke moving through the air. That reading isn't as high as an indoor light can be or considered to be the max ideal PPFD reading for flowering cannabis but it is enough and it is good for vegging. It is a smart invention to use an indoor light but if you want to keep the system free from strain and keep the grid open for people that need to use the electricity you can grow outdoors in July, the batteries are only that big. If there isn't a battery they can't be done, then there is the discussion about sour diesel because that is the only other option if there isn't battery storage. Indoor sour diesel is marked higher than some of what was grown outdoors, these lemons are pretty sour. If 4 plants takes 7 weeks to veg and fill a screen under 18 hours of light and 1 plant takes 12 weeks with sub optimal hours of intense sunlight to fill a screen does that mean that we need a scientific explanation, its obvious to me that these plants grow bigger and fill out fast after so many weeks of vegetative growth. They intensely multiply there growth rate as they get larger. I did find some pistils today during veg and im not sure if that is because of the pot size being smaller and they might flower sooner or if that is normal for this strain during July and some of the branches are becoming to stiff to put under the net and currently you need a higher ceiling than a grow tent to finish them for flowering because they stretch atleast 2 ft. with the most being in geopots and outperforming in stretch. If you don't supercrop or scrog these plants in large geopots they need 9 ft.+ poles and you might need to use string to the keep pole from leaning in either direction and thats why they use cages for these plants but there not as visually appealing to look at but if your growing many large plants that size they usually use cages and or netting and support poles because they only fall over at that size. Geopots and Smartpots grow the largest fan leaves that ive seen but they use alot of water, I didn't need more frequent watering but they work a little bit better, if your using plastic pots it isn't going to change alot other than these plants stretched enough at 14 days that stretching to 21 days is to many days and they also seem to veg at different growth rates. The argument with plastic pots is that they didn't need to flower a plant sooner or more often if the stretch was slightly more in geopots, if you fill out the net sooner it doesn't really matter. There is alot of downtime with this plant, so your not always doing alot with it. On 86 days of veg I removed the netting and bamboo stakes from these plants and it was very time consuming to do but they look better to walk around and the reason I did that was because I moved the containers to straighten out the stalks and in doing so it pushed the net upwards and inwards on the sides pulling at the bamboo and it didn't look like a very good scrog because of the flexibility of the bamboo that I was using. There also to tall to flower in a tent horizontally. The density of the leaves receiving less than 6 hours of direct sunlight and probably something at the 4-5 hour mark is no difference in density compared to 18 hours of indoor light. With the scrog netting not there anymore they grow regrow straight up without bends or twists in the branches and that is kind of an artistic way of growing the plant and you can see a top view of all the branches unfolding, but it is better not looking at the netting all of the time. I can see how it is to fill out a net with a large plant but usually using 4-9 plants is what is recommended. The LST needs to be started at a shorter height or the scrog needs to be in place when there shorter and that takes more hours of work than super cropping. The wave effect of setting up a scrog does cause a mental effect, whereas super cropping can be really negative. Im enjoying not using the net but id also kind of like to LST and see the canopy more and thats the reason why scrogging is kind of neat, its visually mind bending. With a scrog your constantly looking for branches to pull under the net and opening up the canopy but when growing these normally it becomes a very dense plant with lots of fan leaves and that feels like im not seeing the entire plant, where are they, why am I not seeing them, its what I was thinking, im wanting to see more detail of the plant material. I think that is what causes some people to scrog mentally. When they get really tall you need a ladder to see the top canopy colas and thats kind of annoying because it looks cooler. I wanted to see the branches grow wavy across the netting instead of straight up vertically but now there pointed straight and there stiff. LIfe isn't always open to opportunities, sometimes those doors are closed. You could of reached the farthest point in the Milky Way Galaxy and seen all of the destinations but your suddenly not able to plot your course. I purchased this star map and I can longer read it the way I wanted to read it. Why didn't I move the pots back normally and unstraightened them so the net wasn't pulling at the bamboo, one of the plants only had 1 row of squares left and it would of been growing straight up anyways but the others had alot of open squares. Scrogs are a cool thing to work on, I actually liked working on the scrog.