The Phantom Og the Opera

Day 16 Veg: An interesting week for the phantom this week. After all the willing her to her 5th node , she made it and i lopped it off !!!. All part of the quad training mind you. She has recovered from the stripping of nodes 1 and 2 well too. I am now waiting for the remaining 2 nodes to start heading ( with help) towards the pots edge while pushing new tips along their branches. These tips will then become more merristems to be huge buds. Once all of the growth has reached outward and found a vertical , well lit spot they can grow into , i will let them go vertical and use the flip to create the longer colas hopefully. To get the best result using this method. The growth is pinned lateral with approx 20° upward angle. This instructs the plant that the growth is still a merristem and needs full force energy and nutrition . This avoids over-stressing her and also avoids a longer recovery to start growing again than if held flat. The four main stems will supply nutrition from the rootball equally up them for the newer growing tips to catch up with the angled end ones I plan of doing a couple of major defoliations along the way to keep the stem and grow tips in light. By using the 4way mainline to break the apical growth she will be a wider squat version of the intended genetics with only main stems and no "popcorn/larfy" buds to waste energy on. Fingers crossed but she is performing brilliantly.