First Golden Girl-Blanche

heis0070 Transplanted seedling into 5 gallon pot. Using Coast of Maine’s Stonington blend coco/perlite medium. Using a heavier dose of grow dots, as all of my plants have gotten hungry one way or another in flower, plus Real Growers has bumped up their recommended dosing on their website. Will water weekly with Recharge, and will supplement with Cal Mag the first two weeks, per the manufacturer’s recommendation when running coco.

heis0070 Growth took off after transplanting to a 5 gallon pot and moving to the tent from the nursery space. The tent is a much more controlled environment, warmer and more humid, so this does not surprise me. One thing I want to try this run is topping multiple times, so with that in mind I topped her during the week after she had passed the fourth node. I’ll let her recover for a week or two or three, depending on how she grows, and then top the lateral branches again. The goal for this training is to yield more consistent branch and top development; the way I’ve been scrogging has worked pretty well but I think it can be improved further with another topping.

heis0070 She’s growing tall and skinnier, so to even out the developing nodes and to control the height better I used low stress training (LST) and tied the plant down at a 90 degree angle. As shown in the newest pic, the nodes are much more level now and will develop more consistent tops, etc. I’m still planning on topping again, and will likely end up removing the lowest node branches as they are pretty heavily shaded.

heis0070 She continues to grow well using LST. I decided to top all six mains early in the week. Plant responded well, and new tops only paused a few days before they began growing faster. I also removed the branches from the lowest node, as they were getting swallowed up and had no chance to reach the top of the canopy. I should now have twelve main tops for this grow. I’m planning to keep things happy for the next week and flipping to flower then. I won’t begin flower with a net up this time since I’m doing a much more aggressive LsT instead.

heis0070 Finished the last week of veg and have officially adjusted the lights and settings to flip to flower today. I kept up LST by tying down taller plants this week, and the canopy looks great without using a net! I’m really pleased with how level the canopy has ended up and am really looking forward to seeing how big all these tops will grow!

heis0070 First week of flower saw Blanche stretch pretty hard. She put on 6” after I added a net on day 7. I moved my upper oscillating fan to a different corner of the tent after a few days to try to even out any effect of the fan on the canopy height. I decided to add the trellis net to flatten down a few tops that were outgrowing the rest of the canopy as well as to help support the borderline tops that need some help to reach the canopy line. I won’t do a full scrog this run, and only tucked a few tops today that didn’t get under the net well initially yesterday. My plan is to let these tops grow taller l than last grow. She’s gotten super thirsty along with the stretch and flip to flower, and I’ve been watering a gallon+ each day. I’ve been supplementing cal mag each watering and will continue to do so for another week to help overcome any calcium deficiencies this grow before they start. Still adding Recharge once a week to boost growth and support the soil microbiome. I’ve been increasing my light intensity 30 minutes a day to start hardening the plant up to increasing the light permanently without completely blowing up the expected DLI. She seems to be responding well to the light (or at least isn’t getting mad).

heis0070 Starting week three of flower. Supplemented with extra cal mag through the end of week two, and will let her ride with the grow dots unless I see a deficiency crop up. Blanche has had a pretty strong stretch so far. I’m hoping she’s slowing down. She’s over 2.5 feet tall, which is way taller than either of my last two grows. Flowers are starting to develop across the tops, which is always a good sign. I’ve been upping my light intensity a bit every day, timing it so that I’ll up my light to 75% permanently around weeks 3-4. I’ll let that ride for a week or two and then ramp it back down as flower ends.