GG4 & OG: Genetics Beats Expensive Gear

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Protocol_JHP Week 2: Burying the Evidence & Opening the Firehose Dates: July 2 – July 8 Substrate Top-Up: Topped both 7-gallon pots right up to the brim with fresh Light-Mix. Buried the tall, lanky lower stems so they can shoot adventitious roots and turn the extra depth into extra engine volume. Hydration (July 9–10): Gave each pot an absolute soaking—4.0L of plain tap water straight from the hose to settle the fresh soil. Lighting: Bumped the TS1000 from 50% to 75%. No messing about, time to work.

Protocol_JHP Week 3: The Engine Wakes Up & First Liquid Feed Dates: July 9 – July 15 First Feed (~July 15): Introduced liquid nutrients with 3.0L per pot at 1 ml/L BioBizz Bio-Grow in plain tap water. GG4 (38cm H x 47cm W): Stretching out into a vertical candelabra with a 5.0cm base stem already clocking in. OG Kush (29cm H x 58cm W): Staying absolute widebody. Squat, dense horizontal bush sitting on a chunky 7.5cm base trunk.

Protocol_JHP Week 4: The Untrained Bush & 50/50 Bloom Blend Dates: July 16 – July 21 Transition Feed (~July 18–19): Shifted to 3.0L per pot of a 50/50 split—1 ml/L Bio-Grow + 1 ml/L Bio-Bloom. Zero Training Done: No toppings, no early ties, zero LST. Pure phototropism doing all the heavy lifting to keep the canopy even. OG Kush: Main trunk hit 8.0cm base circumference, pumping 15 equal-height shoots on a flat plane. GG4: Decided it's an Olympic high-jumper; lateral branches racing the main top for the ceiling.

Protocol_JHP Week 5: The Reset Flush & Natural Praying Canopy Dates: July 22 – July 26 Substrate Reset: Gave them a 4.0L plain tap water displacement drench after a slight nutrient spike. Zero shock, zero leaf burn—both plants immediately threw their leaf serrations straight up at the diodes in a full praying posture. GG4 (76cm H x 55cm W): Turning into a vertical skyscraper with 9–11 dominant tops and early structural knuckles hardening at the stem joints. OG Kush (46cm H x 77cm W): Flat tabletop spread with 14–16 primary tops stacked on tight 1.5–2.5cm internodes.

Protocol_JHP Week 6: Crate Risers, Slanted Lights & The Floor Fan Chimney Dates: July 27 – August 2 The "Jig is Up" Canopy Fix: GG4 shot up to 114cm, so I had to tilt the Mars Hydro TS1000 on a diagonal angle and prop the squat OG Kush up on a solid crate riser to level the playing field. Defoliation & Airflow: Stripped the bottom 15–20cm of GG4's larf and shaded suckers. Opened up a clean air chimney right over the soil so the floor desk fan can blow unobstructed. Feed (July 31): 4.0L per pot drench of Bio-Grow + Bio-Bloom Plant Status: GG4 smelling like sour lemon fuel and throwing frost with 15cm diode clearance. OG Kush sitting pretty at 61cm on her riser, quiet and frosty.

Protocol_JHP Week 7: Squeezing Stems & Corseting the Alcove Dates: August 3 – August 9 GG4 Supercrop: Pinched and bent the runaway main spire 90 degrees to break apical dominance. Healed into a solid woody knuckle in days. OG Kush Surge: Started her own late vertical climb right behind GG, topping out at 100cm. The Cord Corset: Wove soft ties and black cord horizontally across lateral branches to cinch them inward and keep them off the bare walls, forcing every side top dead-center under the light beam. Feeding: Scaled to 5.0L per pot deep soaks (1 cap Bio-Grow : 2 caps Bio-Bloom). Consuming every single drop.

Protocol_JHP Week 8: 4-Day Absence, Stem Crushing & 35+ Frosty Tops Dates: August 10 – August 16 The Holiday Buffer: Soaked both pots with 6.0L on August 9th and left them alone for 4 days. Came home on the 13th to find bone-dry, featherlight pots, zero drought stress, and leaves still praying. The Emergency Supercrops: OG tried to fly too close to the sun and touched the TS1000 diodes. Brutally pinched, rolled, and bent her 30cm runaway top horizontally across the canopy. Re-pinched GG4’s contenders to keep them 10–15cm clear of the panel. Both took the violence on the chin. The Current State: Resumed 5.0L feeds (1 cap Grow : 2 caps Bloom) with zero runoff. GG4 has turned into a twin-apex giant (155cm) coated in sour fuel resin, and OG's knuckle is solidifying while her calyxes swell. 35+ clean, direct sunlit tops in a basic domestic alcove. Minimal gear, maximum yield.

Protocol_JHP The Bionic Knuckle, Wall Sweats & The Heavy Swell Dates: August 17 – August 23 The Bionic Hinge: The OG Kush supercrop from last week refused to stay down. Instead of staying flat, she built a massive, purple-striped lignified callous that acted like a biological hydraulic jack—physically propping the top spire back up into a rigid 60-degree diagonal straight under the diodes. Apical drive is relentless; that repaired knuckle is now thicker and stronger than the original stem. Transpiration Overdrive & Airflow Boost: The canopy is moving massive water volume. Heavy transpiration hit the cooler alcove walls, causing condensation to leach paint surfactants into sticky amber runs ("wall sweats"). Wiped the plaster down clean and bumped the circulation desk fan up from Setting 1 to Setting 2 to blast fresh air through the dense colas and eliminate microclimates. The 5L Oxygen Dry-Back: Let the 7-gallon fabric pots hit a genuine featherlight dry-back to vacuum fresh oxygen into the root core before hitting them with a slow, full 5.0L drench (1 cap Bio-Grow : 2 caps Bio-Bloom). Zero runoff drama, zero stall. Canopy State & Bulk: Internodal spacing has officially bridged into solid, continuous forearm-sized batons. Calyxes are noticeably inflating, swallowing mature copper pistils while fresh white bursts continue firing at the crowns. Sugar leaves are completely frosted to the serrated tips, and the whole stadium canopy is locking in for maximum weight.

Protocol_JHP The Final Flush, Day 76 Chop & The First Smoke Dates: August 24 – September 7 The Fade & Substrate Depletion: Cut all bottled feed down to pure, un-amended tap water to force complete nitrogen drawdown. The canopy cannibalized its lower fan leaves into brilliant autumn fades of amber, pale yellow, and purple-bronze, signaling that the Light-Mix substrate was fully spent. The 145cm Gorilla Glue pushed straight into the ceiling margin, taking cosmetic LED heat bleaches to the very top crown spires while the lower colas packed on dense, resin-swollen calyxes. Day 76 Harvest & Wet Yield: Pulled both plants at Day 76 after confirming an optimal cloud/amber trichome ratio under inspection. Total wet harvest came in at 1,118g of raw canopy mass (668g on the towering GG4, 450g on the compact, supercropped OG Kush). Executed the whole-plant hang method—leaving all frosty sugar leaves and structural stalks intact to insulate the inner bud cores against flash-drying. Hung both skeletons in the dark, cool alcove (16–18°C) with indirect bounce-airflow. Root-Zone Autopsy: Rolled down both 7-gallon fabric pots for a post-mortem: Air-Pruning Perfection: Zero circling or taproot binding. The breathable fabric forced aggressive lateral branching, producing a uniform, dense felt of creamy capillary feeder roots that colonized every cubic inch of soil. Substrate Health: Bottom zones were bone-clean—no sludge, no anaerobic funk, and no salt crusting, confirming dialed wet-dry intervals right to the end. The Drying Arc & Test Spark: By Day 3 of the whole hang, the alcove locked into a heavy, expected chlorophyll gas-off ("the hay phase") as green starches broke down into simple sugars. Pulled and quick-dried the heat-crisped canopy tip from the GG4 for an early combustion baseline. Ground down clean and rolled with a tobacco buffer: immediate thick resin ring boiled behind the cherry, burning down to a clean silver-grey ash. Delivered an instant, potent full-spectrum body melt—completely flattening acute trigeminal tooth pain and vascular temple tension within minutes. Homegrown top-shelf officially verified; waiting on the stem snap before hitting the trim tray and Kilner jars.