9 Fast Flowerers

Nickeluring The girls survived the first week. Red Mandarine looks terrible, but the leaves are growing well, so I think it´ll ok soon. Black Muffin has some damaged leaves but is ok. All others develop normally.

Nickeluring It´s been pretty cold and all the plants have been growing slowly. None has been topped yet. But they all seem healthy. Red Mandarine has weird leaves on nodes 1 and 2, but look fine from node 3. Black Muffin has recovered and is growing well. I´ll top them all shortly. I am considering quad-lining them and then do a second topping to get 8 main branches.

Nickeluring The plants are doing their grow thing and not much is happening other than they get a little bit bigger each day. I am waiting to top them. I want them a little bit bigger, and then I´ll top them all. I plan to keep nodes 3 and 4 only.

Nickeluring I´ve done the first topping. All the plants have been topped above node 4. Nodes 1 and 2 have been removed. I will do a second topping shortly. All branches will be topped above nodes 3. Nodes 1 and 2 will be removed.

Nickeluring Training has started. The girls are getting the second topping to start growing their 8 branches. Nodes 1 and 2 are removed from each branch before they are topped above the 3rd. Some of the plants are all done, and some need to grow a bit more before being cut. I have also started to tie the branches down

Nickeluring All of them have now had their final toppings, and they started growing their 8 branches. Some has grown way taller than others and I had to shuffle them around a bit. I also hung the light on an angle.

Nickeluring The girls are doing well. They all now have 8 branches that grow at different speeds. I keep reshuffling the plants according to size. The shortest at the back and the light at an angle. Black Muffin and Papaya Zoap are the largest plants. Red Mandarine and Jack Herer are the smallest. The dimmer on my light is useless and I set the light to 100% and put it quite high above the canopy.

Nickeluring The last week of veg. I have started the switch with a 36 hour period of darkness. I have defoliated down below, but nothing at the top yet. It is pretty crowded in the tent, and it will get packed with buds!!

Nickeluring The ladies have had their first week of flower. We kickstarted it with a 36 hour dark period. I have only removed some leaves at the top this week. They have stretched a bit. They differ up to 30 cm in height. Here are their heights: Black Muffin 86 cm Gorilla Zkittlez 84 cm Gorilla Kush 79 cm Papaya Zoap 79 cm Strawberry Banana 78 cm Jack Herer 76 cm Purple Tangie 58 cm Red Mandarine 54 cm Gorilla Girl 54 cm

Nickeluring At week 2 of flowering we have seen a lot of stretching. Some girls are very tall now, whilst a few are short. There´s a height difference of almost 0.5m now. Black Muffin 105 cm Gorilla Zkittlez 107 cm Gorilla Kush 95 cm Papaya Zoap 95 cm Strawberry Banana 96 cm Jack Herer 89 cm Purple Tangie 70 cm Red Mandarine 61 cm Gorilla Girl 60 cm I have done a lot of defoliation this week - a lot! With this many plants in the tent there´s a lot of sharing of the light, and unfortunately the ladies can´t keep all their leaves.

Nickeluring The girls have been growing like crazy this week. I have picked kilos of leaves, both at the top and at the bottom. I have to clean the canopy every other day. Stretching should be over by now, and that´s good. I don´t want them any taller. Starting week 4 now, I want to see the buds growing. They are already starting to show some frost. Current heights, that I expect to stay about like this: Black Muffin 108 cm Gorilla Zkittlez 114 cm Gorilla Kush 95 cm Papaya Zoap 98 cm Strawberry Banana 103 cm Jack Herer 95 cm Purple Tangie 76 cm Red Mandarine 65 cm Gorilla Girl 69 cm

Nickeluring The autos have finally been removed from the tent so the girls have got the space they were supposed to have from the beginning. They are doing very well and all of them are starting to get sparkly leaves. The tent is looking impressive already, and soon all those canopy buds will be fat. We see some nice, long colas taking shape... I keep defoliating the plants from tops to bottoms.