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True leaves showing stronger deformation. Let's hope it's only a mild problem and doesn't persist. Also, the triploids are showing some red hue. Not sure what causes this, some excess nutrient or pH issue? I'll monitor and hope it doesn't get worse.
The plant has settled in now, and it's beginning to grow faster now. The stem isn't as thick as that from the Banana Kush Auto I grow parallel, but thanks to the added silica, super solid and rigid. LST doesn't seem like a great option, will probably try FIMing, or maybe Topping. I'll add photos later, that'll show the result of this decision process.
UPDATE: I decided to FIM the Fat Monkey, to increase side branch production.
ANOTHER UPDATE: I might've taken off a little too much when FIMing, which turns it into topping, I guess.
The FIMing seems to be more like Topping, I seem to have taken off a little too much. Oh well...
She seems to recover from the HST alright, though, taking her time, but a little faster than Banana Kush Auto that I grow in parallel.
Some fresh leaves show clawing, maybe from too much watering after the FIMing? Or wind? I've adjusted both and will wait and see, how she reacts. For now, I'm waiting with removing any leaves until recovery is clearly over.
UPDATE: She seems to recover fantastically from the stress of FIMing, or Topping - whichever one I ended up doing, still a bit unclear to me.
She's growing very tall, with lots of internodal space - Trying to direct her more to the outside with some 3D printed LST hooks.
Not much to say about her really, she's just doing her thing, not demanding a lot of attention.
She's starting to flower and to stretch. She's looking pretty good to me, really healthy with good internodal spacing.
The FIMin wasn't successful, like I suspected, I took off too much and basically topped her, a little higher than I would've liked to, But at least she's responding well to the 3D printed LST clips.
She's growing and stretching very fast now. And she doesn't seem to need a lot of help from me.
I gave her some homemade aerobic compost tea last week, which she seems to like quite a bit.
The leafs are somewhat jagged, which probably is caused by the relatively low humidity. I'm trying to up that value somehow, any tips, beyond buying a humidifier, are very welcome!
The stretch has slowed down, she looks fantastic overall. Lots of bud sites, dark green leaves, long internodes - only thing, I'm not sure if I should worry about, is the jagged leafs.
The stretch came to an end, she's a great size, with super healthy leaves and lots and lots of buds.
Applied some Schachtelhalmextrakt as a foliar spray for some silica, to give the leaves some nutrients, strength and more resistance against pests. Applied the spray during last week, before she focussed her energy into flower and trichome production.
Holy smokes, Fat Monkey Auto has gone through quite some transformation. The leafs have changed structure, turned much darker green with these really cool light green veins, which look pretty trippy, the sugar leaves have grown in size and width. Trichome production is gaining steam and the light smell is already very promising. She has bud sites everywhere - She's gorgeous! 😍
Only thing I'm not sure about:
Her buds look relatively thin. I'm hoping that they'll gain some weight soon.
Also, not sure if that's normal or not, they seem thin compared to Banana Kush Auto right next to her.
This lady doesn't cease to impress me.
Her sugar leaves got even bigger, and she's growing more and more of them. Her Buds, after staying relatively small and thin, are finally getting bigger and fatter. And she's producing heaps of trichomes now, and a really nice smell too!
Her Leaf structure and overall appearence in some way reminds me of an insect.
She seems very healthy, with pretty dark green leafs, actually. Growin in living soil and I only feed CalMag every other watering and Silica only a few times in total. I also fed her ACT twice. Her buds grew tall, but stayed very thin, and more than half sugar leafs are clawing.
Hey there don’t worry most of the bid structure is genetics your plant has very old school genetics
The curling of the tips of the leaves is most likely some root damage or possible heat stress also durring flower to much nitrogen can do that
I assure you the buds will fatten up they prob won’t get to the size your imaging it take awhile to get it down where you have some massive buds but I promise the buds will fill it they normally fill in a lot after week 6 and 7 of flower so don’t chop them early the last week or 2 they put on a lot of weight and then buds tighten up
I think your donning well so far
She looks good, but I'm slightly worried about her thin buds. She also has a lot of sugar leaves that show clawing, and her green color is very dark green.
Her trichomes are still mostly clear, with some milky ones, but barely any amber trichomes in sight. At this point, I'm guessing 1-2 more weeks before harvest.
She's getting really close now, harvest will probably happen in the next 1-2 days, according to the amount of amber trichomes and my goal to have a more psychoactive effect.
Her buds didn't fatten up as much as I would've liked them to. This could be due to genetics, watering issues, nitrogen excess at beginning of flower, even my decision to do only minimal defoliation/lollipopping over her grow cycle could be a reason, and it probably isn't just one, but a combination of all/or many of them.
However, I'm super happy with her, she smells delicious (not super strong, but nice and noticeable), looks super healthy for the stage of her grow cycle. I'm pretty excited to harvest her tomorrow or the day after.
I do love her, she's such a nice strain, grows pretty easy, but with her own character. It was lots of fun growing her, she responded pretty well to Topping.
Next time, I'd watch out for nitrogen excess in my living soil system and do some more defoliation/lollipopping, to hopefully fatten up the buds a little, but that's my main issue anyway - thin buds and low yields (please leave your tips on how to improve these in living soil).
Will update when it's time to trim and after curing.
That's it, she's done. The buds didn't really fatten up towards the end, but the trichomes show enough amber heads to call it a grow. There's a lot of possible reasons for that, so I guess for the next grow I'll have to experiment a little to find out, what caused it.
@Irati_Anesia, I'm curious to see how the Fat Monkey likes the soil as well.
I've been "tuning" my soil over a few grows - last iteration is enjoying the flowering phase right now and seemingly liking it quite a bit (one of your genetics as well, btw, Yuhbary Auto).
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