Dynamite Deluxe Round Two

ohcibi Hard first week. Growth is very slow. I guess it’s because of me overwatering the plant in the beginning. I’m now letting it dry out a bit to see if it recovers. The leaves look healthy though. So fingers double-u'd for it to come back.

ohcibi After a tough start, the plant seems to have recovered. Several roots are peeking out the bottom of the pot, and the plant is getting bigger every day. Usually I'd have repotted by now, but this time I let it sit a bit longer due to the overwatering in the beginning. I will repot during the next week though. I'll go with a 25 liter pot since it's only one plant this time. Stay tuned.

ohcibi Did the repot this week and it looks like the plant took it well. I’m still not really satisfied with the growth rate but at least I can see daily progress by now. Also the water uptake seems to stabilize. I hope for some explosive growth within the next few weeks. Additionally to repotting I also topped the plant and defoliated the one finger nodes.

ohcibi I started to train the plant by using u-wire pieces and bending down the side branches. Looks like the plant responds well to it. I’m still not 100% happy about the size but the pace of progress feels alright. I noticed that the side branches differ a lot in size. I hope that this won’t matter too much. But again, progress wise it’s fine. I almost reached the walls of the pot which is a lot larger than those in my previous grows. So it feels ok. The water uptake in that pot seems to work properly. I increased the watering from 3 to 4.5 liters and I’ll try 6 liters next watering. Next week will be more training and hopefully some bigger leaves.

ohcibi Another week done. The plant is now touching the walls on 3 out of 4 sides. One side branch is still strangely short. The plant isn’t very symmetrical in general though. I will let it grow for another week and then start the flower. Size is still an issue, however I’m now at a point where the plant certainly covers a larger area than previous plants. So maybe my bad feeling about the size is just about how the plant looks like in its bigger pot. I still decided not to do any further toppings to keep the stress low. Let’s just hope for the best and stay tuned.

ohcibi The plant now covers the entire new pot. One side is still a bit short but it’ll touch walls soon. You can make out many individual colas now and I’m excited of how they will stretch now.

ohcibi Flippedy dippedy Flop! Flower started. The growth in this week was kinda good. It’s a bit concerning to me that the plant seemed to half its water uptake but I don’t see any stress signs or anything. I’m gone for a week now and I hope the plant will survive it. Fingers double-u'd. Stay tuned!

ohcibi Another week done. I was away for a week and since the soil was still wet when I left I didn’t water it when I left. I was really nervous as I didn’t knew whether the plant would survive a week without watering but it turned out that the 25 liter pot has enough buffer. The leaves were not hanging and there wasn’t any yellow ones either. I had to cut away some of the earlier side branches as they were not developing properly because of the later side branches. But you cannot even see it from above. So it looks pretty well actually. Stay tuned for more!

ohcibi Another week done. Stretch is running. Still dissatisfied about the pace of growth but I can see some main colas popping out pretty well. If nothing bad happens the result should be decent enough so as always: fingers double-u'd.