My Bikini girl is not doing much better, and I really wish I had a place to put her to keep her in veg while she is healing, but I don’t. And unfortuanlty the tent needs to be flipped to flower so….. Here We Go!. First week of flowering if we want it of not.
The main trunk T has gotten worse, so I’ve now added support pins to either side to try and hold her up and closed better. I should have done this last week, but I’ve never had to deal with a split like this and I’m learning as I go. Added some more cloning agent to the split and hopefully she will recover.
Moving the sides up to close the split and wrecked a lot of the mainlining I’ve done. Instead of being flat she now is in a U shape and the inside nodes are much lower then the outside nodes and will suffer from some light deprivation due to this. It’s too bad but it’ll be better then loosing the plant all together.
The North and South side 4 split T’s are doing better, they still look nasty but they have closed up and the nodes down their sides are doing about as well as the nodes on the other sides that aren’t dealing with the splits.
Just got to roll with the punches and do the best job that I can to try and repair the damage to give her the best shot at production and quality that I can.
I gave her a heavy prune to help bush up the tips of the nodes and get the light down to the nodes that are now in sub-optimal positions down low.
@NomNom, I was planning at the beginning to veg for 6 week which would have been mid April, but the way she’s growing I may have to switch at the end of next week, I have to be careful, I only have a 7’ tent and my brand new “Ceramic HPS” from hortilux recommends 3’ from the canopy. 😲😳🤯 , so I have to be careful. This was my first grow enriching my tent with co2 and man does it seem to speed thing up.
‘Twas doing research recently and got sidetracked reading about Bikini Atoll. At the time I couldn’t recall why it was so familiar ... I was thinking of your amazing plant diary. Subconscious brain buds. All hail NomNom.
@@BeanswithPork, Awesome!!! Fun fact not many people know. The bikini bathing suit was named after the place Bikini Atoll where the nuclear tests were conducted.
I'm sorry for the difficult thing you are having with your plant but just wanted to comment about your stress training in your plans that is very impressive even this grow looks very impressive nobody could tell that had such severe damage to it I hope you good luck with your grow.
I used paper tape for paint masking, just i glued it in certain way, for expanding branch to have space :
You do one layer only and leave a bit glued to each other. Basicly tape goes into spermataziod shape ;)))
0 around branch
- glued to each other
0- worked perfectly to me. In veg you made maybe a favour yourself. Extra pump capacity....
You can take it off after a month.