Gelato Auto FB

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Camrude Had to leave often during this grow. Generally never had big problems for it. Left some automatic dripping bags that often failed, but that was not critical. Usually I just do some clean up when I come back, remove some leaves, and this week I also started LST. I was pretty aggresive with it this grow and I tried going in a spiral.

Camrude Once again I was away for almost a week so not many photos, just from when I came back and after refreshing the training. Also she showed her first pistils.

Camrude Once again I was away for some days. When I come back the plant is looking a bit down looking back at the photo later, but at the moment it looked good to me so I went on with a pretty heavy defoliation. That probably stressed her even more. I also kept bending and plucking daily, not really letting her the time to recover. She still looked pretty food after some days.

Camrude Kept plucking leaves and bending stems to shape the canopy daily.

Camrude The canopy is filling up very nicely, and you can start noticing thricomes production on leaves. I kept the plant clean consistently plucking leaves where needed. On day 54 I did a very heavy defoliation. I did it both because I wanted to experiment with this kind of technique, and also because I was leaving for 10+ days and the canopy was already pretty full so I just cleaned up completely to let it recover while I was away.

Camrude I was away 10+ days, and when I came back I was surprised how well the plant recovered from the heavy defoliation. Looking at it now (writing this journal some weeks later after I finished the grow) I dont think I would do it again. I think it was uneccesary stress, and combined to a nutrient imbalance, probably due to the inconsistency caused by the failing automatic dripping system (my next grow will be with autopots), it led to pretty dark, 3 fingered leaves and purple stem, so definitely not ideal. Anyway everything could have been much worse since the plant is still going strong, and producing very nice and numerous bud sites. From now on I basically let it go without interfering. Just feeding and sligthly replacing bud sites when needed to get better lighting. Disclaimer that I probably should have done before: as I said my automatic dripping system kept failing (cheap dripping bags from aliexpress that work really good with clean water but is a mess with salt based nutrient solution). This obviously caused nutrient imbalances that luckily weren't critical during the whole growth, but I also had to fix it pretty often when coming back after being away for someday. I had to flush multiple times, resaturate the medium ecc. It was never an exact science, just winging it by giving big waterings and measuring runoff to find balance. I am not describing in deatil this process that I have done multiple times, but I had to do it. Just to clarify that I did not just ignore that the plant was having a bad feeding schedule even if she wasn't showing extremely clear signs. Obviously my recovering was far from ideal but still patched up a bit what could have been worse.

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Camrude Honestly I was hoping to cut at the end of this week at the latest

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