Bruce Banner (Hempire Seeds), 9x8=72(-1)

Week 1, concluding first week of vegetating: The first week of 2019 turned out to be a very busy week! Not only did I start this new Bruce Banner round, but also my OG Kush from 3 different seed houses needed harvesting. Please feel free to check out my harvest-report on them later, it is due to come after this report. I hope to finish it today (Sunday) or else tomorrow. The O.G. wil be drying for the upcoming 2 weeks so please come back after to check on the final results. I wil be signing-up for the newbie of the month January, i just really hope you like my grow diary! First week is already a fact! Many to go, but let’s not dwell on that fact. In fact, i have a deadline this breeding season. Experience learns that the months June, July and August are a no-go in terms of flowering at my place. But I had a false start when my season started September 2018, because off home-improvement I had to wait until end of the month. So ideally i would start germinating and pre-grow somewhere in august (in the pop-up tent downstairs, much cooler there), so that the first round of the season can go 12/12 in my tent beginning September. So that means my season this time is at least 1,5 month shorter, which means that i will be finishing flowering the next round in June 2019! Not ideal, I hope I can manage to keep temperature below 28 then. This also learned me that it’s not going to be easy to reach my second objective, that is harvesting 4 rounds in the breeding season of 9 months. But I will keep improving the best i can, so we’ll see! I effectively need 672 grams each year, and if i can produce that amount with my setup in just 3 rounds i’m cool with it. So, the Bruce Banners come up nice! I have another 2 weeks on 24Hrs for pre-growth starting tomorrow. My plan is to transfer them into the 11 liter pots and in my tent on 21th of January. I hope by then the tops will be far enough to be able to FIM them properly. FIMming stresses plants a lot less than Topping. In fact, within the same day after FIMming they will be good to go again. So my plan is to do this on the same day, before transplanting. This way i can use the fact that plants tend to go into a grow-spurt after being planted into bigger pots as leverage to reach the desired height when they really start flowering. Also this same 21th of January they will be put on 12/12. This will all result in a total grow period of just 5 weeks before flowering starts. If this all works out, and the yield is ok, this will be a method to use more often. Again, time will tell and so we’ll see about it! You can also see in the pictures that i came up with what I will call henceforth the mainline-adapter. I always look for the most efficient, least expensive, easy method’s to establish my goals. I guess this is also a product of that thought. Only thing is that i maybe was a little bit early to install them, because i won’t be using them until after the 21th. But maybe at least i don’t risk to destroy anything vital by installing them afterwards? The idea is to be able to mainline after FIMming into 4 branches. The little piece off straw can slide along with the growing plant while keeping the branches in line. I can also replace the short prickers with longer ones when needed (and the plant can carry the extra weight). Again, time will learn wether or not this is the way to go. I hope everyone following me will enjoy this diary as much as I do growing the Bruce Banners. If you do please don’t forget to like! And hopefully we’ll meet next week again for another update? Thank you and happy growing! Budcrack. *Older comments starting this round here below:* Almost new year, new round, new chance to reach the 1 gram per watt led-light. Well, you gotta pursuit your dreams! Last round i'd use 16 plants inside 6 liter pots to form a SoG. Last year, before my adventures on Growdiaries started, i also used this method on 16 C-Banana's and 10 Gorilla Glue #4 and 16 Girl Scout Cookies (see pictures). All of wich delivered nice harvests, but nowhere near that 1gr/watt. I hope my efforts with the OG Kush and this same approach wil get me closer, it looks promising. We'll see! This round i want to create a nice SoB (sea of buds), by topping or fimming the plants early as possible, and use main-lining to spread the stems even over the surface. HighTV advised me to use a minimum of 2 main stems per plant, i decided to use 4 because it will reduce the stretching even more, and fill's more efficient. I will trim every branch back to the main-stem, so the light can spread nice and even between the stems to also create some nice popcorn-buds underneath the main tops. I hope this will all in the end lead to a bigger yield. Before i had 16 main buds + popcorn buds, now that will increase to 9 plants x 4 main buds/plant = 36 buds. The volume of soil will be approx. the same as 16 x 6 liter pots. Using less volume, like 9 x 6 liter pots, instead of 9 x 11 liter pots contradicts my goal to reach a larger yield, because plants need the same ammount of root below the surface to support the plantvolume above. The size of the yield is not the only objective, because i want to use the 9 months in wich i'm able to grow inside my tent optimal, and try to reach 4 harvests in that period. I know you can use 6 pots, 4 pots or even 1 pot to fill that space, but the pre-grow time will be longer so that's not an option. I have to find the sweetspot wich hopefully get's me close to 1 gram/watt and 4 harvests in 9 months time. Only this way i'll be able to stay medicated and cover the 3 months in wich i can't grow inside my tent. Ok, enough strategy, on saturday 29th of December i'd started germinating 10 selected Bruce Banner seeds, using the 100% foolproof coffeefilter/ziplockbag-method. I don't know if the appearance of the seed mathers anything, but i tried to select the most uniform looking seeds. They'll be pre-growing inside my pop-up tent (see pictures) because the OG Kush is flushing for a while longer and they also need to dry inside the tent. I bought 4 LED fixtures, each delivering 1600 lumens at 20 watt, color is 6000k. Together with the previous 45 watt grow-LED's they will hopefully grow my plants with short internode space and firm stems who can support their own weight later in the cyclus. Let's hope this works out! Let's see after this weekend how germinating those little sprouts goes!