Day 57 - She's... growing again and looks great. So weird but so nice.
Day 58 - Compare photos from the last two days. I'm thinking of just renaming her Mandy Freak Show and being done with it.She just wants 16 inch tall buds I guess?
Day 59 - So now she has a less mature main cola. Will the be the first plant who has her sides harvested a few days before her main?
Day 57 - She's... growing again and looks great. So weird but so nice.
Day 58 - Compare photos from the last two days. I'm thinking of just renaming her Mandy Freak Show and being done with it.She just wants 16 inch tall buds I guess?
Day 59 - So now she has a less mature main cola. Will the be the first plant who has her sides harvested a few days before her main?
Day 57 - Week nine! Her weird additional stretch, post flower stretch, sent up a big top for some reason. She's weird but she's putting on flowers and the flowers are putting on mass so I'll just smile and nod at her. She smells like Smarties (American kind, not the M&M UK thing) candy or Pixie Sticks. I like her, and she seems to like me, so we're a happy family.
Day 59 - Looks like that new top has stopped growing up and started growing sideways.
Day 61 - Is it weird to get sentimental about a particular plant? Mandy Capable had such a rough start, looking like a dead plant walking, that nurturing her back into the relative monster she's turned into has been kind of bittersweet. No I have so much heart invested into her that giving her the chop is going to be a sad day. She'll probably be the one I remember most from my first grow.
@SCAR17s, I know right!?! This was a plant that was born half blackened and missing a cotyledon leaf, too! Classic underdog story! :-D so proud of her. She'll be the one I remember most of my first grow.
What ever your doing keep it up she looks great. Keep an eye on the leaves/buds. The highest leaves are showing signs of the beginning of light burn. Could be those parts are more directly centered under the light where it is most intense. I dealt with a simular issue on my grow. I was a bit faked out thought it was a deficiency. If shes close to her chop day you could cut down to 20hrs of light it might help.
@Philindicus, Yeah she's a weird plant, actually. She was heavily LSTed and had a flat canopy. I mean super flat, and at day 56, out of the blue, maybe five days after her flower stretch ended, she just decided to shoot a dominant cola out of the center of her mass. I mean she was DONE going up for days and all of the sudden BLOOP, a top, sticking six inches up. Was so weird. And then of course her main canopy, which is made up of eleven or twelve 12 inch colas is at a perfect height.
So I'm kind of stuck in a dilemma at this point. Let her other colas get the right amount of light and risk damage to that dominant or let the unanticipated dominant get all the glory at the possible expense of a whole lot of yield.
So I decided to let her get a bit bleached. We're at day 62 of a strain whose parents are a 55-65 day grower (Sour Crack) and a 70-75 day grower, (Samsquanch OG.) so I'm guessing that she's got maybe a week or two at the outside? I'm not sure. I guess you never know with gen 1 crossbreeds. If it looks like that top will get irreparable damage before the end of her life cycle I may take some action.
Does that make any sense?