Fastbudskindablackberry Kushylicious

Week 5 - From the looks of things I believe they are done with what ever stretch they had left in them stopping at 29". I would be surprise if they grew in height any more. Seeing a lot more white pistils showing up so the buds are developing a more complex shape to them. Performed bit of house keeping trimming off some lower fan leaves a micro bud sites, finished tying off my branches to allow a nice spread for more light to penetrate the inside of the plants bud sites. Performed a Half-Cropping technique I utilized on my Fast Buds Zkittlez grow where I lightly roll the stems between my thumb and index finger then gently squeeze the stem then gave them a slight bend at that point with my other hand to maybe a 45 degree angle but not taking them to the point of performing a full super cropping by taking them to the 90 degree point. I did notice the stems seemed very thin and hollow especially the light green phenotype compared to my Lemon AK-47 stems in the same grow. I am theorizing that the BB strain may be calcium hungry and I have increased my Cal/Mag when feeding them which should thicken up the stems. Time will tell when I chop in the end I'll take a look. They seem to recover and strengthen the bent area almost over night. I would call this Half-Cropping the stem or so I will coin the technique. Using this creates some stress to mimic an injury that will force the plant to send more energy to repair the damage and hopefully create more resin and terpenes in the buds.*** Warning you may not be able to use a grinder on your weed if you do this technique it will jam it up no shit!*** Increased my nutes slightly still haven't reached the 1/2 strength dosage as of yet. Trying to compensate for AN nutrients in my opinion have a bit of a high nitrogen ratio for the bloom stage I think overly leafy buds add weight but I like to see calyx dense buds instead so this is my ultimate end goal in bud development. I will start adding extra phosphorus and potassium in week 6 to prepare them for some bulking up over the next 3 weeks. I also check my runoff after feeding. ph averaged 6.1 and PPM was running 950 or less. I do this to make sure they are feeding properly and will adjust feedings or just water if needed. They are getting 2-3 feeding a week about every 2nd or 3rd day as needed they are getting thirstier and are watered to the point of less than 5% runoff. Sorry I'm not into wasting nutrients. Light intensity has been challenging since I'm maxed out in terms of being able to raise my lights any higher. I had a few hot spots of 750+ umoles which hit one plant a bit with some light stress yellowing the upper leaves. I have been trying to keep the main colas to the outside of the tent where the intensity is lower yet keep the lower buds more directly under the lights and rotate the plants when ever possible. Only time will tell if the leaves will have some light burn over the next few weeks it should start show itself more prominently Hopefully they won't look worse for wear by the end of the grow. PPF/PAR meter readings range from 650 -750+ which is pushing it. Giving me a DLI range of 46.80 to 54.00 Moles Per Day (See week 2 for info) Lowered my temperature to 77 F and humidity to 55%. Leaf temperatures are an average of 73 F which gives me a LVPD of 1.07 (See week 2 for Info)