Day 56. Temps are finally under control as of about 3 days ago, and these lovely ladies have another ~3 weeks of veg left before they flip to stay on schedule with the rest of the garden.
Both plants were topped fairly heavy last week, and have responded beautifully. They are taking a gallon of water and nutes per plant every other day. RO water takes Cal-Mag Plus every time, and the BioThrive/FoxFarm/AgeOld are on a full cycle rotation. Planning to use these same nute lines into flower.
With three weeks left to go before flower and these girls being as hearty as they are, training will begin in the next few days. This garden isn't scrog-net capable, so the Gold Leafs will get trained to tomato cages after some sucker-stripping.
I've been really impressed by these plants' ability to thrive under such chaotic conditions. It's been over 90 degrees in the nursery on several occasions in the last few weeks, whole rooms have gotten fully reconfigured and shifted around, lights have moved, plants have moved, the water system has broken down and plants have gone without water when they were clearly very thirsty. Some slight asymmetric reaching and growing is present, but I'm sure it's a result of the chaos, and nothing a few weeks in the training room can't fix now that conditions have stabilized. This strain is impressively hearty. Stalks and branches are dense and strong.