Granddaddy Purple Bag Seed

10/21- Looking stronger and stronger everyday! Today when I checked on them they looked droopy and when I picked them up they were extremely light so I gave them a healthy watering with a good dose of FF Grow Big to pump up growth for this last week before flower. Pulled a couple more fan leaves to allow more light penetration but I think that will be the last defoliation I do for a while so that they still have enough leaves to get energy for bud production. Checked on them later in the day and they had perked right up and look happy and healthy except for a little yellowing on #3's newer growth. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10/22- WOW yesterday it snowed a little bit here in VT, nothing on the ground but a few flurries. Today when I checked on the girls the humidity was at 53%!!!! All summer long I have been fighting with the humidity in my basement and these girls have put up with 3 months of 65%- 80% humidity and have continued to grow great, maybe a little slow but still they grew. Knowing I was putting them into flower next week Ive been stressing about PM and Bud rot since the humidity was so high and I cant really afford a dehumidifier for my tent but now Im stress free! Fingers crossed it stays like this!! Since feeding them yesterday they look really happy, I noticed that #1 is starting to really grow out its lower branches much more rapidly than it has been previously, Im pumped because she seems to be growing really nicely and Ive been struggling with her growing a lot slower than the other one. Interested to see if this lower humidity has anything to do with it and how they respond in the coming weeks. 10/27 we go into a 12/12 light cycle. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10/24- The clone is still alive and its day 3 since planting it so hopefully that is a sign that Im doing something right. To promote rooting I made sure at least 2 nodes were cut and exposed and then soaked them for a couple days in water making sure to change water every day. Then I filled a paper cup with left over soil, wet the soil, coated the stalk in fresh aloe (harvested from my own plant; I was told by a friend that it might work in place of rooting hormone) and then planted in the soil and covered with a plastic bag to hold in humidity; I mist lightly with a sprayer bottle 1-2 times per day. I will monitor its progress over the next couple days to see if it stays alive and thrives, Im hoping that this will take so i can give it to a friend and they can hold on to the genetics so that if I like it I can run it again for my next grow. The girls are looking amazing, #3 is now 27in tall and is 100% ready to go into flower she is massive and super bushy! If I had a separate tent for flower I would have put it in there already. #1 is now 22in tall and is bushing out really rapidly, I think that with another week of veg she would get to the same size as her sister but since the other one is really ready Im going to flip them Friday night as planned. They seemed to really respond to the added N so I am going to feed them one more time today or tomorrow with FFGrowBig but this will be the last feeding with this nute and then I will be moving to FFBigBloom for a while. Very excited to see what happens when I put these girls into flower and since this is my first experience growing and I have never seen the plant make the transition to growing buds before. Mostly interested in how the physiology of the plant is going to change as it pumps energy into growing buds, and how much it will stretch when it first goes into flower. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10/25- Looking good as of this morning! The girls are really starting to drink some water so this morning I gave them another feeding with FFGrowBig, this is the first time that I fed them back to back without just plain water in between. They look like they can take it and since Im putting them into flower Friday (10/26) night this will be the last time I feed them with a high N fertilizer. Next time I water I am going to give them just straight water and then after that I will be feeding them with bloom nutrients specifically FFBigBloom. Hopefully this feeding doesn't burn them too much. The clone is starting to look a little droopy. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10/26- The girls look strong and seem to be taking the added nutrient blast well, no burning yet. Excited that today is the last day of Veg. they have really taken off this week and have just gotten massive! I am having some second thoughts about waiting as long as I did in veg but you live and you learn. Going to try to find another crossbar for the tent so that I can put my light on an angle and maximize the amount of space the plants have by putting them in the tent from corner to corner instead of wall to wall. Ill have to see how much they stretch in flower. The clone is looking even droopier this morning, i think it might be too far away from the light so tonight I am going to rig up some way to get it closer to the light.