Okay-- I got a little lost on which day was which week, but I think everything is straightened out now.
Day 45:
45 day check in. She looks pretty good. Thick central stem, and I've been super cropping the side branches. After healing they feel woody and strong. Every node, except for the second to lowest that got pruned, has a juicy side shoot, all the way to the top of the plant. No shoots look underdeveloped.
Overall she's a pretty solid plant. Assuming the next 6 months go well, currently I'd say I'd grow her again. Some of my plants have displayed really undesirable qualities like slow growth and snapping easily, she suffers from neither of these.
I popped the clone in dirt with rooting hormone and it's still very much alive at least a week later. It didn't bounce back like some other clones have, but alive is a definite positive.
I am planning to continue popping off the largest fan leaves, but now only as they start to get shaded out by the next set.
Vertical growth has slowed. This is unsurprising because she exceeds the width and height of her pot, so her roots are most definitely circling. Side branches are now the primary growth sites.
Currently I don't plan to transplant her up a bigger pot, as that seems like a pain in the booty and she's still got ninety some days inside before she goes in the ground. I'd say if she hits 4ft (she's currently 15.5 inches) then I'll put her in a bigger pot.
Dat 49:
All is 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