My Secret Garden 2 - GSC & GDP

CyberOtter420 Week 6! Had a little more free time this week and got stuck into AutoCAD for an hour or so. Smashed out the MKII mainline frame. I could just use ties like everyone else does but this is me OTT and quite frankly barking mad hahaha The design is a lot better, with a rear expansion socket, and loads of anchoring’s... its also anchored to the basket, this will allow for a simple lift and shift from one Water Culture to the next. More resins on the way to print another 3x of these off. Plenty of new growth this week, GDP now at the end of week 2 has had her first feed, also transplanted into a staging SWC, the root structure looks good and it was definitely ready for a small feed. Slightly stunted it actually. TDS of 120 & She should start to bounce back in a few days. Been looking at that cloner also , needed slimming down to accommodate my new mainline size. Back on the 3D printer mish, made some collars to fit some plastic jars I bought, personally I love how they turned out I just need some black spray paint to blackout the bottoms. Made 4x which is enough for my cloning needs, 2x of each ensures a backup and to make sure I will also run the backup 4x pot giving me 4x of each but I have a near 100% clone rate using aeroponics and clonex. In time i will retire it. I have an actual full size 24port cloner from the old setups (works slightly different) but the same principle... There's no one way too grow, we pick up things on the way and change things to suit our needs. Looking ahead at future space issues, with 5 to 6 potential weeks to go I still have several tops to do which should stall it with the recovery period(s), but the growth in the last week alone is... well its concerning lol. Will see how she goes! I have another option but I need to think about the light and ventilation. I may ditch the Jardin tent and make something custom, there’s more space outside that tent. Anyway, all good so far, seems to be handling my bastardized approach, more to follow.

CyberOtter420 Week 7 Veg! “I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat captain!” Easing off the photos this week as there not much to see in a vegging plant.. all the actions in the flowering. That said lets start with it having gone native ! 😂 The apex colas outgrew the mainline, the mother was vigorous, and it comes as no surprise that the clone is. In a swift move she was topped across the whole thing a couple of days ago. Above node 3 on the branch nodes have been chopped in addition to the mainline apex’s. Like the mother its laughing at me and still growing.. Very little reaction but its still early, the mother had a brief spurt after then chilled for 4-5 days as auxin is redirected. A great sign of a healthy plant but I will need to do some mad Japanese LST shit in the next few weeks as the flowering area isn’t free until I reckon another 19 days. Thank whoever that it looks to be a quick flowering pheno, but i guess the two come in hand - resistance and speed. I have taken clones from the cuttings in anycase… but I may have to make more cuts yet if it doesn’t slow down. At least I will have options but clones this early worry me with timings later on! Whilst on cloning, I gave the new pods a hillbilly spray job with a rattle can, and I think turned out amazing! Covered in a mainline canopy they should root no problems… Turgor is being maintained and they look healthy not to mention aesthetically pleasing 😎 GDP at this point looks to have no chance in this grow to compete with GSC, but there’s a glimmer of hope. Timing was always off as I chucked the idea in, 3 weeks into mainlining the rooted clone… my hope now is to get clones off it (tie the grows together over time) and treat it as a “whatever I get” freebie grow to be left in its apical form (maybe some LST), will see what the canopy is like at the time orrrrr, Depending on rooting speed oof the clones takne or future clones maybe being taken I could just mainline it and the next clone to the grow after… Currently building node 3 (22 Days from seed), since it was moved into the new SWC its at the back of the veg area… looks ok if not a little scrawny. I have appliead a small circulation fan to assist in strengthening. From the move though its reacted well to full strength nutrients, a calculated risk, to shoot to 800ppm but a risk I had to take as I’ve almost ran out of boat lol. Its getting crazy, and a lot of wait and see what happens. – More to follow!