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.

ohcibi After a week of super stretch to today 52 centimeters which crashes the 100% growth mark finally bud sites became clearly visible. Now for the final phase. Water intake is massive. When I upped to 2.5l per plant per 2 days from before 1.5l I saw zero difference in how fast the soil went dry etc. The plants stopped transpiring as much such that my humidity came a bit down. I was up to 60% at some times during the day. But it’s down to 50-55 again. Depends a bit on how often I vent the room. Gotta have to have a final stress point which is that I might have too move. Will share some pictures of how I’ll pull it off. Stay tuned.

ohcibi Approaching the finish line. Fertilizer is now at its final dose. Both plants stopped growing now and started to build thick buds. Ken in fact is way ahead in terms of buds but it might be because he Hase a little bit less in number. It’s possible that I trained Ryu too much for his pot size 😆😆. But let’s see. Both looking very good and a lot more powerful than in my first grow. Water intake is still massive. The top soil is rock solid while draining water super fast which must mean the pots are filled with massive roots. The erected teeth came down a bit but they were never that severe in the first place so I’m still not worried about that. I skipped one day of watering to account for possible slight overfeeding but I mean, today’s watering then was with the increased dose of fert 😆😆. I know I’m pushing it a little bit but that’s deliberate. I have high demands both in mass and quality so my approach is riding the edge as good as possible from the beginning 😆

ohcibi 10. week. Hopefully less than 4 to go. Grow continues to run smoothly as before. The only point that is stressful is the humidity some times but mostly only after watering and since I’m watching them plants every 2 hours anyway the build isn’t that large. I just needed to understand that these plants will increase their transpiration towards midday and then decline again. So when I see 60% at lunch I don’t have to panic as much. Ryu started to smell strongly when touching him but the smell when opening the tent is still moderate. However I’m looking forward to a very nice and efficient harvest.

ohcibi Due to issues with my ISP, I can't upload photos or videos right now. Like, I could upload slowly but then I always get errors from th website. Grow is continueing to thrive. Both Ryu and Ken now have proper Buds growing at their tops and internodes are closing up as well. Kens biggest top bud is 3x4 centimeters. So I'm really looking forward to harvest within the next two weeks. I might be forced to harvest but more on that, when time arrives. Update: I managed to upload my photos by some public WiFi. Enjoy friends!

ohcibi Still growing strong actively. In particular Ryu developed lots of newly freshly white pistils but also the lower bud sites started to grow significantly. Fingers crossed that this will grow smoothly towards the end. The emergency harvested branches were ok but way to soon of course. At the same time they haven’t been very big either so I guess the impact on final harvest won’t be as big/maybe even beneficial as for air flow, nutrient supply etc for the rest of the branches. Also those I harvested have been excluded by my counting so far as I haven’t seen them since they were too low. There’s another one such candidate who might have to be emergency harvested as well but he’ll have a full more week and also he is heavily coated in sugar already. Let me know in the comments how well you can see the sugar coating, especially the lower bud sites sometimes have an excessive coating. Would be interesting to know whether this has anything to do with lower bud sites doing something that it makes them sugar up more. Or maybe it’s the light that is different in these darker areas The image quality in the video for some reason is much better often than in the photos. I don’t get why the iPhone isn’t just doing what it does in video mode in photo mode as well. Update: The overall coloring is slowly transitioning from white to Orange on those Buds. I can now see the end of the tunnel. Buds are also swelling nicely. And oh the chomes! 🥦🍆

ohcibi Final week now. I watered with clear water today and it’ll be the last time. Harvest will be on the weekend probably. Was a nice ride with some hurdles but it should turn out alright. Excited for the next grow already. Will most probably be Dynamite Diesel. Stay tuned for more. Update: All the branches are hanging at half past eight, as we say in German. None of them can hold its weight properly anymore. Only one or two days left. I’m excited to see the roots. The ones in my first grow have been kinda crippled for various reasons mostly my fault. But this time the roots at day 12 when I repotted already looked stronger and even almost bigger than those of my first grow after the harvest. So I’m expecting the entire pots to be filled with strong roots justifying this so far magnificent result.

ohcibi I did it! Finally! I had zero pests (well in fact I saw three bugs total but those were blind passengers and died/fled before I could see them a second time. I also had no mold despite having problematic humidity reads sometimes. The key is to move the air constantly. Use many small fans - pc fans even (watch out for water spray however. Pc fans and their wiring are NOT made for humid environments, so place them carefully) instead of one big fan and create deliberate turbulences and tornados to make the entire air in the tent move. But also have a strong enough exhaust. Mine is made for 60x60x160 tents however I have a 70x70x200 which sounds similar but I do need a 120mm exhaust for this instead of the 100mm one. Lessons learned but it’s still borderline ok. In the pictures you can see the different roots for direct to big pot vs small pot first and then replanting. Both roots outgrew the available height by far. But the one that wasn’t replanted has slightly fatter main roots. The replanted one is a bit more dense but the roots are thinner. This in fact mirrors the growth above soil as well. Ken always had fatter stems, fatter leaves, fatter everything. So my winner for this comparison is to NOT replant but go into big pot right away. That being said my „big“ pots are still relatively small. Only ten liters. So this might differ when using bigger pots. I’m planning to do so in my next grow in fact. If I can afford it I want to use 25l pots and then two tents. But that’s future music as we say in German. Was a nice ride on this platform. Thanks to everybody who helped and good luck for your own grows.