Ryu & Ken - Training Partners

ohcibi These are the timelapses, I made in the beginning.

ohcibi Replanted Ryu on Day 12. Ken will show that direct to pot germination is the better choice.

ohcibi Preparation for Christmas where I will be away for a week. Topping both plants multiple times. Increasing light to full intensity and prolonged on times. Plants tank everything like the champs they are. Ryu suffered both an injury from replanting where he got his leaves inside the fan. I clean cut the damaged leaves eventually. Likewise my shivering hands damaged his young shoots when topping and they came out with broken fingers. He recovered without blinking an eye and said „you must defeat my dragon punch, to stand a chance“. I said „yeah, yeah, whatever“. With Ken I was much more careful. Along with his direct to pot planting and synchronized feeding strength with Ryu he’ll soon turn out to be the spoiled brat he is. Fat. But strong.💪 I had a short visit of what turned out to be a single fungus gnat. I immediately shifted to true veggie watering and kept the top 2-3 cm of soil dry. Creating a larvae cemetery in worst case. Apparently it became a Crypt for a single gnat instead. And yes, eventually I understood to train the branches, not the leaves.

ohcibi I don’t have no pictures of this week obviously. I prepared by taking off all the training wires just to make sure the plants don’t hurt themselves. I put 1.5 liters of fertilized waters each. I’m using a fine spray pump which sprays that amount over several minutes so it wets the soil very evenly. I set the light schedule to 18/6 to reduce water intake. I came back on them hanging for a bit but with explosive growth. 9 finger leaves pushing everywhere. The strain is pushing fingers like crazy with one extra finger (making an even number of fingers) on many leaves, so I guess I’ll see a ten finger leaf soon.

ohcibi After coming back from Christmas the leaves where hanging a little bit but have recovered mostly since. They feel watery and velvety again and most yellow spots have vanished. Week has only started yet. I guess I’ll top some more today or tomorrow. Flower is planned in a week or so. After recovery from next and final topping. I’m done importing (mostly) and will post daily(-ish) updates from now on.

ohcibi Flower starts in this week. Ima start off 1 day later, so the first night is still on 22/2 because I want the topped shoots to develop properly. Also I have done some more defoliation and just want to give everything another day of recovery. I pushed training hard in the final veggie week because I had two squeeze everything into one week. Additionally I did the mistake of watering the leaves with fertilized water which caused some heavy burn marks. Fortunately as this happened to fan leaves mostly I had to defoliate them anyway. With no hanging leaves and all shoots developing properly ima switch to flower on January 2nd.

ohcibi So entering week 7 after a suspiciously long week 6. Well I guess I am synced now. This week is already the second time I applied the Phosphor Boost that comes with my 5 in 1 fert. The growth is magnificent. After week 6 started somewhat troublesome because them plants were still on recovery they quickly filled out the entire scrog net in its width and are scratching full height as well. I’m very satisfied with my training results although I’m still defoliating too much and sometimes the wrong leaves. Need to focus on keeping more strong leaves and picking out the useless ones better. The Phosphor Boost btw is 3 grams per plant per week, spilled evenly over the soil.