Grape Balls of Fire!

These came up fast, one in under two days and two in under three days. Like all my Night Owls these are very slender and delicate, and one has the longest stem I've seen on a normally grown bean at four inches, the others are more normal but all three are very very thin and require help to stay up. They should be able to hold themselves up in a few more days. This is the first time that I have soaked and squeezed the plugs, normally I just soak them, but I expelled the waste down the drain and re soaked and I repeated this till I was getting a run off of about 250ppm.

These have grown at a good pace and are now standing up on their own with good inter nodal spacing.

The two tall beans are powering on both topped at d19 two days ago and already growing fast at the top. Ironically the shortest plant is the one having the most trouble standing up now, it has a kind of weirdness at the base, I've seen this type of thing before and it will eventually thicken up. However its growth, while looking healthy is obviously in the short direction. Both the tall plants were topped at 5th node with 1st node removed due to being weak. I have left the first node on the small plant at the moment waiting to see what she is going to do, I considered not topping this one but decided against it. I thought for a minute to trash it and reuse the pot but it feels like the two big plants are going to take a lot of room and I want to get my tent back in line, where I grow in sets of three. So glad I decided to stick to three of the same strain, you learn a lot more about a breeder and what to expect.

Week four and it's getting spicy in the tent, lots of action. Two of the taller grapes deebo are showing phenomenal growth as they are known for, one of them though, the shortest one, had a very unstable base for a while and it's first two pairs of branches had plenty of tore up twisted leaves and bad growth, I thought it was going the way of the Blue Powers, however the twisting wasn't so bad that it couldn't recover and is now doing quite well at a smaller size, which is probably a good thing because these girls are going to be a handful, they are so willowing and bendy, going to make whipping them out of the tent onto my watering station a bit of a chore but that's the price I'm willing to pay to have a nice clean set up where I can just throw everything away and start fresh every grow. Update on the triangle covering for the Eazyplugs, it works better than I imagined possible. Zero algae plus normal root die off, watering is much easier especially if the plugs get fairly dry.

Big growth from all three which just started to go into flowering at the end of last week and all three are in the early stages. There is one small plant one medium and one large. The medium and large only difference is in their internode length, development is the same. The branches are weakly attached and one split off on it's own, I used some graphite and bicarbonate power mixed with superglue to make a bridge across the top where the plants were topped. I have also installed wire bracing. So once again we see three different growth structures that are *all* genetic. Which is why it's impossible to try and work out what parameters have caused what behaviour. Save your testing for clones! They were getting a ratio of 2 part Micro 3 parts Grow and 1 part Bloom for weeks 2 to 4, this week they got a ratio of 1 part of each for a total ppm of 650ppm. Only very light defoliation necessary, just a few leaves here and there.. Plants are 19in, 21in and 29in tall at the end of wk 5.