Acapulco Gold

Laezu Nothing crazy to note yet but I am happily surprised how healthy she looks. Strong start, strong finish :) Happy farmin!

Laezu Still growing strong. I've upped the light PPFD a little bit and increased the nutrients. Still off to a strong start :)

Laezu She's still going strong but I am starting to see some very early calmag deficiency, and I'm kicking myself because my last grow had similar issues. Totally forgot to go a little heavy on the calmag since I'm using RO water. No biggie, caught it early :) Some slight tip burning going on too. I've backed off all the other nutes this week but I'll keep an eye on her. I also decided to go ahead and transplant since the roots were already circling the temp pot pretty heavily. It's good to see such strong root growth though and it definitely took hold faster than my previous grow in soil. It'll still be a couple of weeks before I can turn the Autopot on but I like the direction things are going. I am holding off the topping until the next node. I feel like I went too early in my last one and ended up with stems heavily focused in the same areas. I was constantly fighting the stems trying to train and get even canopy space. Just going to wait another week and let her take hold :) Still planning on the 5-6 weeks of veg, I'm in no hurry :) pH: 6.2 PPFD: 400 Distance to canopy: 20in

Laezu Time for some training! I went ahead and cut the top node off today and started training the other nodes for their positioning. She really took off this week and I have about 8 main stems now and her main trunk is thickening up great. The damage from last week due to the calmag deficiency is already corrected and didn't progress anymore on the leaves it was showing up on initially. All new growth looks like that healthy lighter green too. I am expecting to turn my Autopot on this week, it's always a little bit of a guessing game if the roots have made it deep enough. As much as she has pepped up this week and her height before the top I'm betting I'm good. I'll keep an eye on her after the switch to make sure she's actually drinking. If this grow keeps going the way it has I think I'll be permanently switching to coco as my substrate. I've gone from DWC, to soil, to this hydro/perlite setup and it's fitting my style the best so far. I'm rambling, thanks for reading and happy farming :)

Laezu She's exploding with nodes! Cleared out the top canopy of fan leaves and did some more LST on the main branches. I know she looks beat up but she'll bounce back and I'm really happy with how her base is forming. She wants to be a bush I can feel it :) With how things are going right now I will probably give her 1-2 more weeks before I switch her to flower so that I can finish up the training and let her bounce back a bit. Autopot was switched on about 4 days ago and I'm not seeing any drooping or nutrient issues so now it's easy street. I did bump the lights up again with the increased feeding.

Laezu I'm really happy with how shes spreading out. One more week of veg and then I'm going to switch her to flower as long as she's still healthy. No big changes, just some readjustments of the LST and some defoliation in the middle of the canopy to let the nodes start reaching for the sky. Upped the light to 6/10 with a PPFD at around 530.

Laezu Alright, 3-5 more days of veg so she can recover from my abuse, and then I'll be flipping to flower. I'm also just doing RO water and calmag until the flip to just give her a soft flush to clear out some salt buildup. Turned on the autopot's air pump as well. I lollipopped the bottom of each stem and god rid of a few nodes that I knew wouldn't amount to much. I'll probably have to clean up a bit more from the bottom as the next few weeks progress, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum. I have a feeling the stretch phase is going to be wild, this girl went everywhere this week. She also went from having a pretty mild smell to just overpowering. I got yelled at during my defoliation for stinkin up the whole place :D Thanks for reading and happy farming!

Laezu Flipped her to flower half way through last week and she’s doing great. Also did some defoliation of fan leaves that were covering nodes. Pics are before and after. I’m ver happy with how spread out each stem is from one another, should make the stretch phase pretty clean. Just had one stem break free of it’s restraints so i pulled it back this week. Thanks for checking out the grow!