Just Getting Started

Temperature this week went back up on average 12-15 degrees, but the plants enjoyed the temperature rise. Medium defoliation this week to all of the plants spread out over 3 days and they definitely needed it. They responded very well to the defoliation as a lot of the lower and inner leaves that were not being hit directly by light were drooping or overlapping with other fan leaves in the same area. I imagine they will need to be defoliated again in around 2-3 weeks as they've been growing vertically so quickly and their buds are extending more towards the light. All the bud sites are officially identified, showing lots of hairs all down the stems and along the flower. Some of the plants are flowering faster than others most likely due an excess of fan leaves, so we defoliated those in response to help those plants get back on track to normal flower growth. Also removed lower bud sites that were not being directly hit by light to push more energy to the top of those plants. Regardless, they are nicely sized bud sites for only being 2 weeks into flower. Will probably continue to flower for another 7-8 weeks. Planning on cutting the BK and DSD a little prior to the rest of them. The BKH will take another 12 weeks. Note: We are watching some outer leaves on the WC that are displaying what looks like some nutrient burn on the tips (yellow tips), but it is most likely due to flowering and leaves changing color.