Fruit Punch

gr3g4l Growth control week.

gr3g4l Transplanted to an 11L fabric pot and a watering of around 1L. This time I used a reused substrate and another new one, so I will add PureZym to help the plants feed on the leftovers.

gr3g4l This week I did an apical pruning leaving four nodes, of which two will go outside. The idea is to leave two nodes and prune the apicals again and repeat one more time.

gr3g4l This week I start changing nutrients, from Plagroon to TopCrop. At 25 days, I emptied or pruned the lower parts of the plants, first node, cotyledons, and leaflets. At 27 days, I got rid of the apical ones again. At 28 days, I did another emptying and bent the branches. This week was stressful, so I will leave them alone for many days to help them de-stress before moving them to flowering.

gr3g4l Recovery week, no stress. The #3 did suffer a couple of accidents, one happened when I cut the apical and accidentally cut one of the little branches that were growing, and then one of the branches broke when I put the benders on; I didn't realize until two days later. I ended up cutting that branch and moving on.

gr3g4l This week I did a leaf trim and got rid of some branches that had grown in the middle of the nodes, kind of like the triploids, and honestly, I prefer to keep them diploid lol. I also got rid of the benders and put in some supports to keep the branches horizontal so they stay more open. After this last trim or defoliation, I decided to leave them alone for a few days to let them de-stress. At 40 days, I decided it was their last day of growth. They grew pretty well and filled up the space enough, so I decided to move them straight to Flowering.

gr3g4l At 41 days, it wouldn't quite be the seventh week, but it is the first day of flowering. The first few days I kept it under 220W. Then I bumped it up to 300W, but since it was getting really hot, I preferred to lower it to 150W. It was a crazy week, with outside temperatures reaching up to 40ºC and nights that didn't drop below 28-29ºC. A week where I finished with the Bloom and Silica from Plagroon and switched back to Bloom and Silica from TopCrop. Plagroon was fed with every watering, TopCrop was fed once a week.