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keeping this journal to document the progress on my Mother plant that I'll be using for clones. She will be in her own 4x4 tent with a HLG QB 550 V2 3500k light. Germination began Friday evening 07/05 and then planted into a drilled out red solo cup on Saturday 07/06. Pictures are week ending 07/09. Surprising growth considering 4 days including germination! I plan to mainline this plant, then I am going to graft my favorite growing strains to each "line" so I can have one solid mother plant. I've done this in the past, and I feel this will be a solid guide for anyone looking to do the same thing. I've always used A Gold as the base for these grafted mother-plants, so I don't want to change any constants that have worked in the past.
Still no nutrients. Plant is growing along amazingly. Perfect color in the leaves, have only had to water it once this week, moreso to compensate for the drying out of the soil by the LED lights. LEDs are still dimmed, and there doesn't seem to be an excessive amount of stretching at this time.
Week Ending 07/23. Fair amount of growth this week. Needed to be propped up; dropped the lights down and added some nutes. This plant is loving the warmer weather! Growth has been steady, no signs of nutrient deficiencies, so went light. Will continue to monitor as needed, but so far she's loving it!
Week Ending 07/30. She's been flourishing! Plenty of new growth, going to move to a 3 Gallon pot next week most likely. I moved the drivers for my QBs to the exterior of my grow tent, which helped mitigate the high heat and lack of humidity. I also added an open 3 liter container of water to help. Lowered the light to about 25 inches. Nothing to note other than she's moving right along!
Week ending 08/06. Plant is growing along happily! Transplanted from the red solo cup to the 3 gallon pot, as the roots were starting to poke out of the bottom. The lower leaves are still drooping a bit since transplant, but I have no worry that she'll spring right back once she gets accustomed to her new home. Fed last with plain PH'd water only, as new soil will have more nutes in it. Will monitor accordingly.
Week ending 08/13. Decided to mainline the Alcupulco. It's growth was at about 6 nodes total, topped it back down to the 3rd node, and trimmed off everything below that. Then forced the remaining growth down with plant ties. Raised the light to prevent shocking the plant; she had a small amount of droop after doing this, but has made a full recovery and growing like crazy!
Week ending 08/20. She took very well to the topping and bending. had to add some nutrients now that she's sucked the 3 gallon dry. When bending the new growth, I accidentally broke the branch. Not completely broken, about half-way through, so I duct-taped it. Used a mixture of the staples and branch ties to help pin them down. Moving along quite nicely.
Week Ending 08/27. Started the week off by topping and pinning a 2nd and 3rd time. The half broken branch made a full recovery. Moving on to the 3rd portion of mainline. Before doing anymore high stress training, I'm giving it one week to rest due to transplant. Pulled the plant out of the smaller pot, and moved it to a 7 gallon pot. Pruned the lower roots to help with transplanting, and buried the majority of the exposed stem so it's easier to pin new growth. Moving right along!
Week ending 09/03. Topped and pinned down again this week. Growth has been incredible, and the stalks are starting to really fatten out.Cut all the lower growth and left only the 4 larger main fan leaves to help with absorbing light/growth. This girl has really taken to the abuse which I was afraid she wouldn't, just based on the strain. In a few more days, I may top her once more, and then separate the new growths to really fan the mainlines over the large pot!
Week Ending 09/10. Have been doing Ph'd water only until it uses up all the nutrients in the new pot. The exciting news is, when I did the last top to further mainline, I made two clones on 09/04, and they've rooted!! I'll add pictures of the actual mainline tomorrow, but was excite to post that I got these clones going. It was exciting to see such a finicky strain take so well to all this abuse she's been through, and even had no problems with her babies! She's coming along very nicely, and I'm excited to monitor these two clones in this diary as well!!
Week ending 09/17. So, amazing growth week despite the fact that I split two main branches hard while re-pinning growth correctly. Duct taped up the splits, and it seems to have healed properly, and given how particular this strain can be, shows no real signs from the stress of it all. Going to let all the new growth get a bit taller and top them once again so each of the new live sections will have two tops. At this point, I don't intend on expanding the Mainline any further as all growth reaches the edge of the pot. Just going to be watching the new growth and the stems thicken up, while clipping clones to continue growing!
Week Ending 09/24. Both snap points have fully recovered and growth is now substantial. I'm going to give it one more week, then I'm going to top each of the new growth points, and potentially clone those as well. Clone 1 and 2 were transplanted this week on 09/22, and the amount of Root growth in such a short time is incredible. They were root-bound, but I pruned the halo of roots at the bottom, double checked overall root health, and put them in their new 5 gallon homes. Can't wait to see what comes with the coming weeks in a much larger pot.
Week ending 10/01. Did some LST to the clones, and some light defoliation as well. There is some serious growth in the last week, and they are loving their bigger homes! With the mother plant, I re-secured the mainlines down so they remained the same height. Did some serious defoliation on the mainline branching, in order to keep it clear and easy. The stem has really girthed out now, and the branches are starting to thicken as well.
Week ending 10/08. Did some light defoliation again on the clones, and some LST to help them round the pot. Properly pinned the arms on the mother plant to make sure the growth is even across the canopy. Still no nutrients on any as they're still sucking it out of the soil. Had some wind burn this week do to poor positioning of the fans, but totally fine otherwise. Going to clip some more clones in the coming weeks!
Week Ending 10/15. These girls have had some awesome growth this week. Finally got to stretch their legs in the tent, and I can't wait to see what the clones do once they have the new grow op. The mainline looks incredible at this point, and I genuinely enjoyed the amount of work it took to get here. These genetics are incredibly resilient to stress, and in veg at least, not super nutrient hungry. Showing some slight Calmag deficiency for the first or second time, and they've only received nutrients a few times. Can't wait to see what next week has in store!