Grape Balls of Fire!

I repaired the topped part with a mix of bicarbonate/graphite and superglue, and I have braced the branches to each other. I sure do hope the buds swell up enough to worry about them!, I've seen some that look a bit scrawny, but there are some fat resin covered single pistils on each branch so that's a good early sign. I was a bit annoyed that I lost the smallest one, but in hindsight better now than later, and as you say these are getting large. I'll be dropping 3 Redball in three days, and then basically three more Night Owls every seven weeks. I would not recommend Fast Buds, they are hit and miss. My Mango Isle have cured and are very tasty, most flavourful buds for a while.

howdy, the two on the right are the Blue Power, one's the runt and one is just very small, frosting up well, their poor performance is why I ran these three Grapes, I got spooked by the BP and wanted something with proven reliability. Yeah, I'm not really worried about spindly stems because I'd rather see that they like to grow, because I know they'll support themselves eventually. They have come along fast in the past two days, d17 is when autos really take off. Also the very reason I do same strain grows now is to be able to see how much variation you get that you can blame on something else. The very tallest one is also the fastest grower over all, I pay particular attention to internode spacing as a clue to later development. But I'm happy all three are good, because I had a dud in my three Mangos, it was like it had cancer, then with the BP, one was a male. But all three of these are good. I've heard this is a big plant and I can copy with anything. But the tall Grapes, just go to prove that the BP have big problems and I'm not the only one. I'm going to run another BP in a mini pyramid and also another unknown quantity Redball, in a mini pyramid as well to see what it does before I run it in a big pyramid.

Howdy, all my NO's have been very delicate and spindly only one of these can stand up on its own, at the moment, but they are developing at the right pace, so they should be OK in a week. Blue Powers are very stumpy, which is a pity as they look like they'll have good flower. You're right about the ppm going in that is what I pay attention to. Lately I've cut my concentrations down.

@sanibelisl, I was going to do something more exotic but I got spooked by my stunted Blue Powers and decided to go for a classic instead. Might do a Bruce Banner next!

cheers, you really do need a fair bit of luck with autos, as it's always a gene lottery.