1/2/24: Day 22, week 4:
So far week 4 is off to a great start! She's looking really healthy and vibrant from above, and none of the large leaves are showing any discoloration.
My only concern is one of the lower nodes is growing large on one side, but has a super ugly yellow weird growth on the other side.
After writing this diary entry and examining the pictures, I have decided to pinch this shrimpy growth off, as it seems weak and not worth saving. Better safe than perfectly symmetrical branch growth!
Day 25, week 4:
She looks lush and full with strong bushy habit.
She currently has 7 side branches with at least 1 node. That's 8 fat bud tips and counting from a good harvest.
Day 26, week 4:
My outdoor cat snuck inside and helped herself to my grow room. She knocked over the lights and gave this lady an uninvited defoliation of one of her middle nodes.
It's hard to tell how extensive the damage is, as the knocked over light caused her leaves to turn all wonky searching for it.
Hopefully by tomorrow she'll be back to normal with 2 fewer leaves.
She also released quite a stank from her broken leaf stems. This may be the last no smell week.
Day 28, week 4:
She seems to be fully recovered from the cat incident, except for the permanent leaf damage.
She is growing in a nice Christmas tree shape, with her bottom fan leaves stretching out massive 6+ inch stems to optimize light absorption.
Out of all my grow room plants so far, she is the second most vigorous, with tight side shoots forming all the way to the base of the plant. She's definitely capable of growing into a very bushy plant.
Interestingly, the side branches where the leaves were feline-defoliated are growing much faster than the ones above or below that node. After observing the phenomenon, I think I will probably defoliate the other large fan leaves over the course of the next week to keep her bushy.
As of today, January 8th 2024, she has 114 until she's scheduled to start her outdoor transition. That's 4x as long as her current veg π.
I'm really starting to understand how truly massive this lady is going to be when she goes outside.
In other news my Royal Moby from RQS will be ready for mainlining next week, so check out that diary as well.
My cat knocked over my grow light onto my plant, since then, she has developed discoloration on almost all the outer edges of her leaves. Is this stress? Will it go away or get worse?
It's been about 12 hours since I righted the light. There was no discoloration 24hrs ago.
Basically "scar tissue" from physical damage. It won't go away and it won't effect growth rates, yields or potency or anything else. Nothing to worry about, your plant will be just fine.
I'm doing a super long grow, starting indoors and planting out in May.
My lady is now over a foot tall, and her side branches are not very strong. The main stem is very thick and firm.
My question is what support can I start inside and then transplant outdoors with the plant?
i would do week with pot, you take out to sun daily for 4 hours first day, and add an hour each time, let her get use to outdoors, then transplant, straight could be huge shock if sun strong or air cold...
Get the other growth in the pot out of there. Cultivate the top layer of the soil and uproot that shit. They only compete for nutrients with your girl and serve no other purpose.
I wouldn't trellis. I would just let her go naturally and when you bring her outside then you can re-pot into a large 7 gallon pot and start to train by tieing her branches down using the edge of the pot as your tie down point.
@Hempface86, I'll look into it! I'm trying to do an all natural veg so I'm not adding any nutrients just topping with compost, but I think silica is a natural mineral so I'll check it out and see if it's right for me!
@Sachimira, yes any hydroponic store will have it and it's in Amazon..I'm using Bloom city Silica boost and my girls are strong πͺ..just always remember to try to use it only when watering..if you have to use it with other nutrients make sure Silica is the very first nutrient you add to your water, mix, and I wait 30 seconds before adding in any other nutrients..I won't grow without Silica.. atleast during veg
Potassium silicate as a foliar spray will toughen up the floppy stems. You have lots of time still so you can manifold it into a nice 16 cola outdoor plant no problem. Tomato cage is good too but Iβve found just manifolding them is usually good enough.
@Northern_Ent, thank you! I'm definitely looking into this! I was trying to do a natural shape, but if she doesn't toughen up I think you're right that training is the way to go.
Thanks for the info!
Luckily I am not a novice smoker.
Interesting concept on the indoor outdoor thing. I'll consider keeping a clone indoors for comparison!
@Sachimira, If i remember right it mostly had some sweet and pungent skunk smell and taste. Potency was more relaxing and body stone and not maybe for novice smokers. All what i can remember but it was that good i still remember smoking and enjoying that strain. All photoperiods here are indoor so maybe it acts different outdoors and phenotype difference etc little things. π
@HippyHemulen, that's actually really good to hear because I couldn't find much about the smoke report!
I am definitely into growing for the trying and learning of things π