Grape Balls of Fire!

You can't really make much of a judgement about what you might have done to influence height because of the natural various as you can see in the current run. man tying up the branches was a matter of necessity being the mother of invention. I knew from my previous Mango Isle, that the long thin slender stems on Night Owl, is indicator of a tall willowing bean which is the kind I like. I know that they have no choice but the hold themselves up by week two, after that it makes no difference. My current new batch of Redball are even more slender so I had to get inventive and come up with a better solution because iI didn't want to use wire to hold them up because it's a annoying and gets in the way. So an inverted eazyplug starter cup does the trick. I lost the smallest Grape Deebo due to a below soil defect in the stem which I didn't notice and the whole stem snapped but it worked out well because I don't really have room. So I was very nervous the plant has a thin stem and thin branches and it hasn't built much stabilising nodules where the branch enters the stem, but by tying them to each other down below they can flap about up top without putting stress on the attachment point. It's particularly dangerous because I have to hoick the plant up and off the table to my watering station.

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!

This is why I time the next three for day zero when these are at 7 weeks, three Redball, they'll get their own thread next week. This is because I like to have something ready to begin flowering when these come down. And I can watch the flowers during the first few 'boring' weeks!

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.

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