Aaaaand week 7 is a wrap!
Boy is things shaping up nicely or what, the plant is thriving very well.
I gave it a PK 13/14 and NPK from supermarket boost yesterday, just a capsul of each, I dont measure it.
Just put it into the tent for the night, it's been on the balcony all day, bit cloudy but it was nice :)
Will get light and ventilated cool air all night, still going strong on 24 hours light, been on 24 light psycle since birth, and it looks like it likes it a lot.
As I have noted on the first image, there are currently now around 86 top shots with direct access to the light source, Either Sun or the LED bulps at night time.
I gave it a very mild Defoliage yesterday, basically just a leaf here and there that could not be tucked away but covered a but site, so I kept it mild, and still have some work to do, to tuck and remove a leaf here and there over the next weeks. But the main defoliage is done now.
I took like 30-40 leafs out of 1000s so it's fine, it will not get stunned, it will move on nicely.
Water wise? I still prefer to keep the 12 liter pot rather dry, When I put it in the tent here just a bit ago, it felt light, I want it to stand in the tent and lick the bottom of the bucket for the last drops in the deep before I give it 2 liters when I wake up in the morning.
I will give it clean water in the morning, and do the same next time, then it will get a new PK booster, and I drop the NPK from now on, now I just focus on PK until week 9 is over or so ~ so in 2-3 weeks or something.
This week 7 the vegitation really stalled as I thought it would, and now the nodes just keeps on stacking bud sites on top of the 86 node sites until that also stalls within a week or 2.
Then comes the fun part, the reward show. They beef up :D
So far I like working with this seed from Royal Queen Seeds, it looks like it's a fast grower and the yeild wont be low provided the flowers beef up like a normal plant, there is a crap ton of bud sites exposed directly to the sun, and there is quite some weeks to go before it gets chopped, so I can see it perform very well.
We will see!
Otherwise, I just tuck a leaf here and there each day, try expose bud sites daily and make the number climb, I have only done 1 branch LST in week 7, one in the middle I layed down to expose the bud sites directly to the light source and fill out some empty space.
I dont like tall candy floss sticks, I prefer to lay them down so the bud sites grow next to eachother, I cant prevent it completely in this tent since space is fixed, but normally, I LST right into cutting plants, there are no sticks pointing to the sky when I got room to plan, I do that because I like many large flowers, I dont like long skinny popcorn christmas tree bushes.
Have a nice one until week 8 is in the books!
See you around <3
@Hou_Stone, We will see! Going as planned so far :)
This is my first ever Auto, I have normally only grown my own hybrid for many years, regulars, sativa dominant, black and purple flowers, extra ordinarily resistant to mold, and flowers early on the season.
BUT! this year, I thought I wanted to try my Veg method on a single Auto, see how much I can squeeze out of the plant this way