Barney's Farm - Insane OG (indoor)

RemoveYourChains Week 1. Both seem to develop identically. Only gave them ph adjusted water in the 6.5-6.7 range (lately I've been using water conditioner used by aquarists, seachem with great success). By the end of week 1 both reached 6cm height with 3 nodes. I plan to top them at node 6 or 7. (no pun intended)

RemoveYourChains Week 2: By the end of week 2 they reached the height of 12 cm with the 6th node developing. Speed of growth feels rapid, at least compared to what I've grown so far. Plants are stocky, despite the distance of the light (still 75-85cm on 75% intensity) I've watered 3 times so far, with minimal calmag and plagron terra grow nutrients during the last watering. I now plan to top at the 6th node when it gets a little bit more developed and start adding silica with the next watering (which will be made from melted snow for as long as its available).

RemoveYourChains Week 3: I've watered 2 times this week. At the beginning of the week, 2l/plant with 1.25ml/l calmag and 2ml/l Rihno skin silica added. In the second watering 3 days later I mixed in 6 aloe leaves with 2ml/liter calmag and 4ml/l silica (2l/plant) The plants progressed from the last week's measurement (~12cm) to 23cm for the smaller plant and 26cm for the bigger one. Topped both plants at node 6 and removed the uppermost fan leaves at day 6 of the week to prevent them shadowing the side branches, 1 day after watering. Plants seemingly weren't stressing visibly, side branches have grown significantly by the next day. 1 plant (specimen #2) is visibly bigger and stronger now (not sure if's due to genetics or environmental factors, I plan to take some clones of this). Kept the light about at arms length for the whole week at 100% (250W).

RemoveYourChains Week 4: lots of progress this week, plants gained a lot of width (both have great structure, strong branches and an almost even canopy after a about a week from topping, only done crop steering techniques like lst and bending some of the top branches. Water uptake is consistent, outflow ph is getting low a bit (~6.2) on both plants. I plant to use ~6.8 for the next waterings. Nutrient wise I phased out raw aloe for now and started shifting to bloom nutrients. supplementary calmag/silica have been added. Moved the light further and the tip burn issue that started to develop on the weaker plant went away. I like that the colour is not too dark (I often had N overfeeding in the past). I plan to continue mild defoliation as the bud sites develop. Will be reaching 12/12 in a day or 2.

RemoveYourChains WEEK 5: By the middle of the week I have adjusted for a 12/12 light cycle. Plants gained mostly girth with a height of about 47cm. (~40cm for the smaller plant). I can't rotate them anymore as they are too bulky. The branches are heavily staging, but no sign of gender so far. The smell became quite significant so the carbon filter must run constantly from now on. Did only defoliation all through the week (mostly light blocking fan leaves and the lowest bud site beginnings). During one night I had the dehumidifier stop in the breathing room, so they spent the whole night around 90% relative humidity. hopefully it won't cause any lasting damage. :( I went light on the nutes (1ml/l or less) for this week, but I'll plan to elevate dosage to about 1.5ml/l bloom nutes by the end of next week. Managed to take about 15 clones to be given away to friends just from the defoliation cuttings.