Breaking Teeth & Banging Heads 🤘⚗️

ChillSpace Week 1 — Straight Into the 4×4 A great first week for all three! Walter White BX1, Toof Decay × Walter White, and Headbanger’s Ball all got started together. At just one day old I moved them straight into the flowering 4×4 alongside the older plants lol Definitely not the gentlest introduction to life 😂 but all three handled the transition extremely well. They spent the week establishing themselves and steadily picking up speed. By the end of Week 1 they’re all showing healthy new growth, good color, tight structure, and noticeably more leaf mass compared with where they started. Headbanger’s Ball is looking great, just behind Toof Decay × Walter White who is developing a nice compact structure with strong new growth. Walter White BX1 is currently the smallest of the three, but she looks healthy and continues moving forward. I’m especially excited about this group because the original Walter White and Toof Decay × Walter White are already genetics I’ve really enjoyed growing, while Headbanger’s Ball is completely new territory. One week down. They survived being tossed into the deep end on Day 1 — now we get to see which one really starts running. 🌱

ChillSpace Week 2 and these three are officially starting to earn the name Breaking Teeth & Banging Heads. 🤘 Headbangers Ball, Walter White BX1, and Toof Decay × Walter White started the week as little seedlings tucked into the 4×4 flowering tent, almost forgotten underneath the big girls. Once they had some room, they took off. Training started as soon as they gave me something to work with, with small adjustments throughout the week rather than one big beatdown. TD×WW is especially acting like she was born for it, while Headbangers Ball and Walter White BX1 are coming along nicely in their own ways. They’ve got some big shoes to fill after the last run, but they’re already starting to fill them. I actually moved all the flowering ladies out into the 2x4’s and moved the Platinum Lantz project into the 4x4. Now they’ve got more room, a 20/4 schedule, and plenty of light from the EVO6. Week 2 was basically about getting them spread out, building structure, and setting the foundation for what comes next. Slowly but surely… then a little faster. 🤘⚗️

ChillSpace Week 3 and all three ladies are getting a final training session. I spread everyone out pretty aggressively and I’m basically training them in place now so they grow into the space I actually want them to fill. They definitely look a little beat up right after I mess with them lol, but they’ve been responding really well and I’m happy with how much structure I’m getting this early. I just bumped the lights from 30% to 40% now that they’re getting established and spreading out. These three are also sharing the 4x4 with my Platinum Lantz photoperiod project right now. They’ll eventually move into their own finishing space as the older autos ahead of them get harvested.

ChillSpace Week 4 was a pretty major cleanup and transition week for these three. Up until now I did one real session of LST and then mostly watched as they built out as many strong branches as possible. At this point the structure is there, and it was time to decide what was actually worth carrying through flower. I pulled each plant out individually, put them on a rotating base and gave them their final real lollipop. I removed a pretty ridiculous amount of lower and interior growth — weak shoots, buried bud sites and anything else that looked destined to become annoying little popcorn buds later. I wasn’t trying to strip the plants bare or remove productive branches. The goal was simply to remove all the bullshit now that I already know I won’t want to deal with at harvest. Headbangers Ball was easily the densest of the three and needed the cleanup the most. There was an incredible amount of growth hiding inside that plant. Once it was opened up, the structure underneath looked great, with a ton of strong branches already reaching the canopy. Walter White BX1 also cleaned up extremely well and has developed a really nice framework from that early training. Afterward, all three still have very full canopies and plenty of healthy leaf area, but underneath is completely different. There’s actual airflow through the plants now, and they can put their resources toward the established tops instead of maintaining a jungle of shaded lower growth. I also rearranged the 4×4 while I had everything out. The three autos now have the prime positions through the center of the tent, with four Platinum Lantz photoperiods arranged around the outside in a diamond. Since the autos are on a clock and the photos aren’t, I’m prioritizing the autos for space and light while they finish. Once they’re gone, all of that space becomes available to the Platinum Lantz project. Lighting was raised and redistributed now that the seedlings and clones have their own dedicated tent. The canopy is currently sitting around 600+ PPFD pretty much everywhere, which is exactly where I want it. I have more than enough lighting capacity, so I’m focusing on even coverage rather than blasting one part of the tent. At this point the hard training on these autos is basically finished. They’ve been spread, trained and cleaned up, and now I’m ready to mostly leave them alone and see what all that work turns into. Week 4 feels like the point where they stopped being plants I’m trying to build and became plants I’m trying to finish. Now it’s time to let them stretch, stack and do their thing.