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Finally have time to upload images from Sam's Crack #3. She was a straightforward grow, planted about three weeks after the first four plants I'd grown, along wit the LST/Natural grow.
This girl was one of the first to receive my new feeding method. Soil is Great Lakes Water Only, which carries the girls all the way through veg for primary nutrients. Myco Blast in the first watering, GH Bio Roots to supplement the Myco Blast and push root growth until around day 20. Then just PHed water for the next few days until pistils start showing. From that point it is Maxibloom and around day 35 I add Mammoth P to the mix.
It's always fun to see this specific time frame for me. This is that week where the plants seem to explode with growth. Usually, around day 21 or 22, I've been starting LST in earnest.
Started LST on day 22 here. On day 28 was the first feed with Maxibloom. This girl didn't have as much access to night as I would have liked, due to my relative ignorance and first grow mistake of putting nine plants into a 2.5x4 foot grow tent. As it was a staggered harvest, they light deprived girls were able to recover and thrive as the older girls were harvested.
A minor mistake was made here, or at least an inefficient lack of scrutiny. During LST I actually ultimately failed to break apical dominance. Her original main cola ended up being #1, so her canopy was fairly flat but that one cola got a whole lot of boss cola juice. I don't know if that reduced her yield in the end, but it is something I need to be more thorough about.
Added Mammoth P to the feed schedule this week.
This is the week where being crowded in with other girls started to impede this gal's growth. She was still able to bulk up her vegetation and her flower stretch helped a lot, but under ideal conditions, she would have had almost twice as much space to grow.
She finally got some much needed room this week. On day 56, I did a dirty hack and jammed a bunch of 3d Printed LST trellises into her bulck to spread her out and get more light to her lower branches. It paid off gloriously in the end. It wasn't the ideal situation but it fixed her space problem and let her bulk up quite a bit more.
This week was a long one. The grow was moved to a different location and all the girls had to get toted all over hill and dale. They are MUCH happier outside of a tent and breathing more freely. I continued to wrestle with this girl as gently as I could to get more light into her lower mass and it continued to pay off.
Due to being busy and prior commitments I was unable to take photos on day 69 and 70, so I put day 71 here, which was her last day before harvesting. As can be seen, I was really able to cram wedges into her mass and get light deep down into her belly, which helped her final yield quite a bit. :-D
While she had a bit of a struggle for space, in the end she gave me 2.7oz. A fair yield that was consistent with the other two Sam's Crack's I've grown, which pleases daddy, and other creepy implications.
Hexus
