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!

Week 2, concluding second week of vegetating: Ok, there is that, even after four years i'd make a decision that almost kills my seedlings. I was even warned that this would happen. I freaked out seeing that the color was fading quick within the bottles on friday, saturdaymorning i gave them a spraynutrients solution and they started to schrivel-up. I'd immediately started spraying acidulated water over them to hopefully wash the nutrients away, but the damage is already done. Later on saturday i turned off the lights and kept spraying them with water. I keep them in the dark for a few days and hopefully they wil recover from this. I have to admit that i was out of my league with the advise i've got last weekend. That made me remember that i have to keep to my own method, and don't make to rigorous changes to quickly. Keep my calm and keep thinking for myself. So what's my plan B? See this out, keep them in the dark and keep them moist. Watch if they bounce back a bit the comming days. If this goes further south, i will start germinating the other B.B.'s i have left, cry hard and start over! I'll be keeping u guys up speed! Thanks! *Older comments earlier this week:* Hi(gh) Guys! I thought it maybe a good idea to make short update this week: today I’d opened one container to take a good look and a few pictures of course. 10/10 look pretty nice, only one still has a bit of a flimsy stem, but that’s no problem since I only need 9 to flower. As you can see in the pictures, I find them not green enough, though they look healthy. I’d used an light mix as soil which only contains 2 weeks of nutrients, and it is almost end of the second week, so I thought it maybe a good idea to give a very conservative amount of grow nutes? Anybody’s maybe sees something else? You’d think they'd be ready to FIM in another week (remember, I’m on a tight schedule!)?

Week 3, concluding third week of vegetating: Hi(gh) Guys! Last weekend was ‘Honey I Shrunk the Kids’ the sequel! Only this time it was about my little plant-kids! In a nutshell explained: The second vegetating week I’d started on Sunday by putting the seedlings under bottomless plastic water bottles to improve the VPD and kickstart their metabolism, that worked fine, only after a few days I started noticing the green color was fading. On Saturday I’d popped the bottles off and noticed color’s way to light green. Only I forgot that after almost a full week under the bottles the leaves are vulnerable, but I sprayed them with a mix of 1ml grow nutrients on 1 liter of water anyway. And soon after the leaves started shriveling up. I’d started spraying them with plain water on Ph 6 right away to hopefully stop them from becoming even more damaged, and not long after that I turned off the light. This was a stressful enough event, for which they need some downtime to recover. I kept spraying normal water until humidity was 100% inside the tent and kept the lights off for the entire night and day. Next Sunday evening I turned only the weaker ledstrips on again, so they have enough time to slowly start again, and on Monday I’d see they were going to be ok! On Tuesday I removed all the damaged leave, and that brought me back to basically the first week, with only a stem and some tiny leaves. On Wednesday I’d turned on the stronger light again. Also I’d added some more light-mix to the pots. They needed some time underneath the bottles again, and left them on this time until Friday. By that time they were growing strong again. By losing their largest leaves and by the following downtime, and the time they need to grow back to the same size when things went wrong, I think they are at least a week behind now, but maybe that’s not so bad after all. For now I will wait until the right time to FIM them, and then they can go 12/12 until flowering starts. So maybe next week I’m able to show some progress again? I hope to see you then! Thanks and don’t forget to like! Greetings Budcrack ;-)

Week 4, concluding fourth week of vegetating: Hi(gh) Guys! There is definitely some progress, although there’s also some definite delay. Take a look at MarkXL’s Hulkberry’s, who didn’t lose all the leave after two weeks, that’s where I could have been! Also remember that my B.B.#3’s stretched too much in the first week, because I was to careful with the new grow lights. After adjusting the height to 12” after the first week, and again to 10” end of the fourth week, I’d see that growing approximately results as MarkXL’s must be possible. Next time I will put the seedlings direct under bottles to kick start growth and place lamp much closer. This time I’d missed that boat which ended up my plants now look like little palm trees! Which brings me to the internode-space which actually is pretty good after adjusting the lights after first week. So we’ll be getting there this time or the next. This week I’d have to wait until the little plants where far enough to FIM. On Wednesday they got their first nutrients, following Mills schedule. Also the first five plants where ready to FIM. Now there all FIM’med. Also I’d remove the lowest growth this weekend as you can see in last picture. I have 10 little plants, and only need 9. Looking at the weakest 3 plants in the center on the photo, the left one’s probably the weakest. She is showing hardy any beginning of branching. The other two are behind, but expected to be ok when they have more leaves to provide energy. I’m going to take at least another week to decide if and when I’m going to place them inside bigger pots inside the tent. Until then please like and feel free to leave comments, stay nice and high! Greetz Budcrack

Week 5, concluding fifth week of vegetating: Hi(gh) Guys! I want to use this opportunity marking time, because I’m going to add another week of vegetating. And to reflect on every decision I made in way people maybe can learn something along the way. a. I’m ever content about my manner of popping the seeds, called the coffeefilter/ziplockbag-method, so no room for improvement there. b. During first week my LED was hanging to high, so the seedlings stretched, causing the stems to look lollypopped already. After adjusting this before second week arrived the internode space became perfect, and stretching stopped. c. End of second week I’d made the mistake causing to lose the lobe-leaves, first set of single serrated leaves, and the set of triple serrated leaves, which after deliberating with HighTV made me realize the mistake made there was not checking Ph. again after adding spray-nutes to already Ph-down water. This left me with an more lollypopped look and an growth retardation. Luckily they didn’t get stunted. d. Third week of veg is considered lost in terms of progress, oh dear! e. Fourth week, waiting for right moment to FIM. But considering downtime last week, actually third week. FIMmed first 5 plants on Wednesday, but realize better to wait next time until maybe even fifth week, and they are further developed. f. End of fourth week I’d also remove the lowest branches on the 8 biggest plants, causing another little grow retardation, but in the end helps to redirect energy to the remaining branches. g. FIMmed another couple of plants, but can already see only one FIM of the first five succeeded. h. End of fifth week, had to top almost all FIMmed plants, because only 2 attempt’s actually payed off. Initial idea of FIM was less stress, but I actually caused more stress-moments this way, further retarding grow. i. On the pictures you see I’d place little flags earlier, with 6 or 8 on them? Right now three of the ‘6’ flags lay flat because they probably end up with 8 branches next week. j. They now all have 8 branches except one 6. From these branches only the four best will remain. HighTV advised me to lose them around the time right before they show signs of flowering. k. When 4 branches are left, i will start defoliating to improve airflow and light penetration. And further remove side branching/ lollypopping until i have the desired canopy. I will take all of these experiences into consideration next time I’m going to apply this technique, and I do want to give it another try to figure out how long it takes when I don’t make all these little mistakes. The most important lesson to learn is if SoG can improve the yield in such way that only 3 grows will suffice to last me year? If after two attempts it shows me this doesn’t work, I’ll be returning to my previous method with 16 plants in 6 liter pots. Only then I’m going to try and buy a different LED for next indoor season. But 4 grows that way are possible with some planning, advanced training doesn't. Time will tell eventually, please bear with me. Don’t forgot to like if you do (…or like anyway!) ;-) Grtz, Budcrack

Week 6, concluding sixth week of vegetating: Hi(gh) Guys! This again was a busy week! But definitely some progress made, the plants finally became big enough to apply the mainline-adapters. Some adjustments were made, because last attempt nutrient solution caused the wooden sticks to mold. I couldn’t find any non-wood replacement, so wrapped the sticks plastic foil. Also, the small pickers from last time are replaced by large ones to support the branches. Please refer to the pictures to see how I made and applied them, please come back to learn if they actually work as good as I hope! Again, next time by the end of week 6, it should be possible to have them showing signs of flowering and tied to a mainline adapter. In that sense I think the total delay became two weeks. I think then I’m going to let them be until there ready to top, and left with 8 side branches. Only next grow will be an R.Q.S. strain that I’d read maybe takes a longer veg time, so we’ll see about that to! This week the little 80x80x160cm tent got some T.L.C. Big cleaning, replacing the filters on both inlet and outlet. The Hortilight Scroggmaster 450 (V1) finally is properly fixed. One transformer was replaced earlier, only by the wrong one, causing one set of beams to malfunction. It took some sending the transformer back and forth, but I hope I can finally profit from the investment. So, this round I have 450 + 90 (side-fill) = 540 Watts available. Also, this is the first time where I’m going to use 9 x 11liter pots inside the 80x80cm in a real SoG. I’m very hopeful to finally make a better yield pushing the 1 gram/watt/plant. Next two weeks I’m looking forward to see allot of growing, doing some serious defoliation and selecting the 4 branches per plant good enough to move into flowering. Also not all branches where long enough to tie down now, and the two smallest plants need some growing before receiving the mainline-adapter. Thanks for your interest in my grow, please don’t forget to like and hope to see you next time! Grtz, Budcrack

Week 7, concluding seventh week of vegetating: Hi(gh) Guys! Things are turning out better than I hoped, for now! My experimenting with the mainline-adapters is paying off now, it’s working great. I was thinking if this technique doesn’t already exist what I should call it. And in old-Dutch you would call this ‘Houtje-Touwtje’, but since most of you would have trouble pronouncing that, I would call this technique ‘MikaStraw’. What I found out to be very handy about this method is that, when all 8 branches are attached properly, you can twist the upper part 1/8 turn opposed from the lower part, and that way all 8 branches receive light. I used an additional ½ picker together with a couple off Loom-bands from the kids to fix their position. The last two years I didn’t do much training to my plants, apart from removing the lowest growth. I pretty much let nature take its course. Now I’m using a fair number of mixed techniques to try and up my yield. I must say that this takes some extra time on a daily base, especially in this phase. But I’m glad that it’s turning out this way. I’d photographed the individual plants on the first three photo’s as they were on this moment, and the fourth photo you can see them being tied down again (I must see to this every day) and I’d ponytailed the top 4 branches to give the lower branches the chance to grow passed them this week. Let’s see how that turns out. I’m going to see how each branch develops, and the lesser ones are going to be removed. I added ‘9x4=36’ in the title, but i decided to select the best branches per plant, and if this means that a plant keeps more branches so be it. I’m not planning on removing good branches. Also, plant G is the other plant that suffered from stress, and I’d remove it temporarily from the tent. The 10th plant (still residing in the pop-up tent downstairs) is turning out better than this plant, so I’m planning on changing them out. Another pro about that swap is that it was the only plant with 6 branches, so changing them out means all of the plants then got 8 branches. Steady as it goes, next week more of this. I already notice a faint smell developing. If you enjoy my post, and the ‘MikaStraw’-technique, please like my post!!

Week 8, concluding eight week of vegetating: Timing is everything, that must be the bottom-line lesson to be learned for me this grow. Every time my timing was off. Starting with installing those mainline-adapters, next time when those plants move to bigger pots is early enough for that. Then I waited too long to move the light closer to the seedlings, causing them to stretch a bit. With a little help from you guys I managed to properly kick start the metabolism with help of some plastic bottles, only to be removed to late causing the seedlings to lose too much color (and what I did after that ;-) Then I’d try to FIM to early, causing only two to succeed properly, and the rest to be topped later anyway. Did I mention that when you use 1 liter Airpots, you should give a little bit of water every day? I skipped one day before transplanting them into 11 liter pots, almost killed two plant along the way. Then I tried to ponytail the top branches, only next time I’d better try that before there almost started flowering. All things considered I think you got the point, timing really is everything. So these are all valuable experiences improving most of all the upcoming grows, I hope! Maybe not all is lost this grow, all depending on how much the now defoliated branch tips are going to grow during flowering. This time again a lot of pictures, the first set shows how the plants looked after 5 days of pony tailing, and how they looked after the strings where removed. Much too light to my opinion, so I’d gave them two days and some foliar spray to catch up (again!) Then how they turned out after, right before the big defoliation. Then how every individual plant came out of defoliation, and the trim removed per plant. And finally how they now sit inside my little tent, waiting what more torment awaits… Thanks for stopping by, and please don't forget to like (if you do). Next weekend wil conclude the first week of flowering, can't wait!! ;-)

Week 9, concluding first week of flowering: Hi(gh) guys! Finally some time to sit back and wait for what’s coming. So this is going to be a lazy report, and certainly not 50+ pics this time. There really isn’t much to see, except for anticipation of what’s coming next. Is this turning out into my first hallelujah moment, or a bust? (I think the former ;-) I think I already have all the answers I need: my journey up until now was a lot of trial and error but I know now that I’m reaching the point where I need to be. There is a four part article on a website where I learned a lot of the basics. This article is about the perfect canopy, and how to reach it. Since they released it in four parts, I saved it for later. And last week I’d read it. And, it made me smile! Because most of the things I figured out for myself already, and some things I learned from the article actually will make my life easier next grows. For instance they talked about Topping methods to reach the perfect canopy like; the Chandelier, the V8 and the Plateau. Next time I think I’m going to use the V8. This grow i’d came already close to it myself, but I think this technique only is going to make life easier. last week I was summing up all off the timing mistakes I made, and surely I’d made a few more since then. I also took the liberty to change the titel, because this has not become a real SoG. And maybe I’m going to remove some branches but I’m going to stick with what I have for now. Let’s hope they will grow a little bit this upcoming week. Last report’s foliage removal caused them to retard last week, but I think the tent will grow full anyway before stretching stops. Since last week the canopy already did grow, so I think I’m good. If the buds all grow into, maybe a little bit smaller than normal main buds, then I will be happy. The perfect canopy method is about getting only top-shelf product, and no B-quality lower buds. The idea is to get every bud inside the sweet spot. My Scroggmaster lamp actually makes that easier for me, because I can use it as close as only 5 centimeters from the canopy. Currently my canopy is between 10 and 15 centimeters from the lamp, and it’s the first time I was able to do this. Next grow I will surely have an even better result, in two weeks shorter grow time, good times! See you next week, thanks!

Week 10, concluding second week of flowering: Hi(g)h Guys! Back again, with an lazy report. Not much to do except giving nutrient-solutions, showers and I’d spend some time using Nico-Rolls (Jojo’s) to LST the branches to the same height. This works great, I have them to support during the end of flowering, back when I had long and thin stems. But since the’re spring loaded you can let them pull on a branch for 24 hours and then it will remain that way, and you can switch. Well, you can see what it did to the canopy. Only two plants, that where behind from the start, are a little bit lower. Oh, and 10 weeks ago I’d started with 10 seedlings? The remaining plant found it’s place, well see for yourself! ;-) Hope to see you next week! ;-)

Hi(gh) Guys! Week 11, concluding third week of flowering. w'sup? Not much here, only wait and TLC. Next weekend i'm starting the new round with the R.Q.S. Honey Cream 🙌 That way they can go into the tent allready flowering. That would be somewhere starting May, and then i hope to finish half June with that round. They take at least the time of flowering to pre-grow, so i'd start next weekend. Hope to see you next week! Thank's for your support.

Hi(gh) Guys! Week 12, concluding fourth week of flowering. w'sup? Yadiyadiyadi, Blablabla, Cool info??! Hope to see you next week! Thank's for your support.

Week 13, concluding fifth week of flowering: Hi(gh) guys, last two weeks I’d not have any news worth mentioning, except maybe that last week I’d start a new round. I’ll update on that after this week’s report, so please check on that later to see what’s up! Before the current round, I’d also bought a new Ph-meter. Only forgot about the calibration fluid. Before the new round, I’d bought some and calibrated the meter. I found out it was 1,5 point to high, so happy to have corrected it now. As for the Bruce Banners, I know I’d made quite a few mistakes that make this round not flawless. But I’m trying how this method works. They have five full weeks ahead in which I expect them to fatten-up nicely! With that in mind I’m very excited to see how this turns out in the end. Please bear with me! ;-) Hope to see you next week! ;-)

Week 14, concluding sixth week of flowering: Hi(gh) Guys, I’d perform a little flushing last week with down Ph’d water and added enzyme-concentrate. Heard they break down build-up salt and that way conditioning the soil quality. I wander what happens if I also do this at the end, would the soil be already better conditioned to be re-used? (DNA/Mills soil is not exactly cheap, so would be nice!) Also, a little setback: one off the two light bars from the side fill lighting broke down! Aargh! These things keep happening with this fixtures. Going to email my contact again, see if it can be fixed again soon. After the flushing I’d started with a little PK, for the finish is close now. Let see if they get a little bit fatter by next week? Hope to see you again! ;-) Grtz, Budcrack ;-)

Week 15, concluding seventh week of flowering: Hi(gh) Guys, Finally this round is coming to an conclusion. I can’t wait to see the end result, but I will see this through the right way. The plants have slightly burned tips because I took them to the limit of what nutes they can handle. The DNA/Mills soil contains enough to flower a round, and only use a finishing product in the end. But I’d chose to stick to the Mills schedule, and tune back if it would turn out not. Luckily it all turns out just fine, and there is some serious bud to behold! ;-) I would like to re-use the soil for my strawberries, so I’m planning on taking my time to properly flush them. Is it true that adding enzymes to the water helps breaking down salts and improve soil quality? Harvest is planned on fifth of May, so I have enough time left. ;-) Grtz, Budcrack ;-)

Week 16, concluding eight week of flowering: Hi(gh) Guys, It’s really great! I’m excited to learn how much I’m going to yield from this grow. Friday I’d harvested the Non-focus tenth plant, it yielded a real cool 199 gram’s wet. I’m not even counting the 4 buds I’d already harvested last week, which I’d already vaped last Eastern weekend and are gone! Really great buds, and great taste and effect! Even though they didn’t even get any curing time, you can taste this is great stuff. So, I was thinking: last 4 grows before this I’d had 16 plants where I didn’t apply any training on. I was happy to yield 10 grams per plant dry, and most times the lower buds where not useable because they were outside of the sweet spot. The main-buds where yielding 8 grams average dry weight. Lets say right now they are a bit smaller, like 5 grams dry? My yield must be somewhere around 9x8x5=360 grams dry, and that is great news! I think it could be even more by the look of it, but let’s not get ahead. Anyway I’m happy. The biggest bud must have a little light burn, but the lamp is a little bit further away now so it is ok for now. Harvest is planned on fifth of May, but I’m having slight timing decisions to make; the plants don’t show any signs of Autumn yet. That 10th plant was a bit further, I think because I’d let it underneath blue lights during flowering a few weeks longer. I’m going to experiment with that some more in the future. ;-) By next weekend, if they don’t show signs of Autumn yet, I think I’m going to wait a week longer. That gives me some air with the upcoming grow, because I want to wait to switch to 12/12 a little bit longer. If there are no issues to count in, waiting a bit longer is always better because they can gain a lot of weight during these last days. So harvesting early can cost you some cool grams, and that’s not really cool, is it??! ;-) Grtz, Budcrack ;-)

Week 17, concluding ninth week of flowering: Hi(gh) Guys, I’ve been a little confusing maybe last post, the Bruce typically needs between 63 and 70 days from first signs of flowering to mature. And I’d planned harvest on day 70, because growing underneath LED’s learned me they need a little longer usually. Day 70 would be on 5th off May. I’m still aiming to harvest, well, 4 may, and unless the trichomes show something different I hope to harvest then. Those high pressure lamps deliver fair amounts of radiated heath to the plants, what helps them kick in gear metabolism and finish their cycle a few weeks quicker. I’ve been contemplating on why the ‘Upperdecker’ (read: plant 10 ;-) finished 2 weeks earlier by the look of it? I thought last week that plant 10 started flowering underneath the blue growing LED’s for two weeks and then moved to the tent. But I now realize that the temperature must play the part to! Off course I hope to pull it off again, the upperdeckers that is! We will see… Not much info this week, just going steady as it goes. I’ll try and make some nice budporn next week before harvest. Get your towels ready… ;-) Grtz, Budcrack ;-)

Week 18, concluding tenth week of flowering: Hi(gh) Guys, Last update on the last week! Not much up this week for the Bruce Banners, they got there last 0,5 liter water last Sunday, this week they were drying out before harvest. Trichomes are all milky and 10% is already amber. Tried to make some nice photos from the buds and the trichs, hope you guys enjoy! Please come back for the harvest report, and hope to see you back on my new diaries. Thanks for your support, and feel free to ask if you have questions. Bye, bye!! ;-) Grtz, Budcrack ;-)

This was the first grow i went heavy on training and that doesn't disappoint, although there is much more to gain when i manage to improve the techniques. And let's not forget that the endresult depends heavy on the drying and curing proces. I think i'd maybe overdried the buds a little. The Boveda-packs wil add moisture again what hopefully corrects this. The downside is the somewhat underwhelming endweight, that must improve also. It started almost at 52% and is currently risen to 56%. The average buds are between 3 and 4 gram, lower than the 5 grams i hoped for. Maybe next grow i must remove these underdeveloped branches to give the others more energy to grow big, and hopefully up these results next time.