Montezuma's Grin

La Sonrisa de Moctezuma: Cannabonsai final entry Hey y'all, this was a friggin blast and a half!!! This was my 2nd autoflower run, 1st with Mephisto, and like most in the comp my first attempt at bonsai. I chose Marley's Grin as my strain, used a Spider Farmer SF1000 in a 2'x2.5'x4' cubby, no tent. I used about a gallon of grow medium, a little less after revealing the root stretch, composed of 40% Mother Earth groundswell, 20% perlite, 20% vermiculite, and 20% HP Promix. I chose a simple plain terracotta pot as a tribute to the Southwest, and I went with a pre Columbian America's motif with the ancient Aztec totem for the root stretch, and Lord Piqual's sarcophagus lid. I propped the lid with toothpicks and used lego men and little bones from a dinosaur kit to give it a proper feel. I hand painted the pot with Mephisto themed imagery; Piggletta and Marley flank either side of the Illuminauto pyramid, which I changed to a step pyramid to reflect the region, and then I did a local adaptation of Mt Mephisto which I merged with the mountain located on the Texas/New Mexico/Mexico border Mt Cristo Rey which I call Mount Mephisto Rey!!! Ok, back to the plant. It is at day 81 today. I had issues almost immediately with the root stretch prep, but luckily that was overcome with Mephisto's vigorous genetics! After that it was ooth sailing, until it started stretching beyond what I had planned and trained for. Then the heat just kept beating down, and so I turned up the fans to help with the heat. This lead to wind burn! I was able to get a couple indirectly to work it adequately enough to allow the flowers to plump up nice enough. I bent down some of the overstretched arms to attempt to create a windswept look. The root stretch is at about 6.5"; the statue was about 8" total so I buried a couple of inches. Whew! Here we go!