2nd Time Pineapple

Hello hello my internet acquaintances, another week has elapsed and it's time to type up a lil report for whoever looks at this stuff. To recap, these plants begun flowering earlier than I wanted because of an unforeseen circumstance - to be more specific, a mouse, for whatever reason climbed into my fuse board and short circuited the power to my grow tent, plunging them into a period of darkness long enough to begin their flowering. What are the odds right, just when you think you have all the factors dialled down. It always pays to stay humble 😋 So now you see that it hasn't gone as expected, you can understand my willingness to treat these girls somewhat experimentally. The yield is not going to be what it could have been, and I feel it gives me a license to try something new as a test for my next grow yet to come. Predominantly, what I am trying is heavier defoliation than ever before. My Pineapple Express clones seem to have very robust genetics, and so far they have taken two rounds of defoliation, and the only result I have seen so far is accelerated heavy bud growth. Today I have completed a third round of defoliation. This may not sound so experimental but allow me to digress - whenever I have previously practiced this technique I have focused on the more mature leaves of the plant. This time, I am defoliating from the top down, meaning what I am trimming is predominantly new growth. My thinking behind this is that the plants can detect what bud sites receive direct lighting, and appropriately developed these places more than those which are shaded. By removing the upper leaves I am eliminating any shaded spots on the developing buds, and instead of ending up with pyramid shaped colas they all seem to be rounded out and bulging. See for yourself, but for three weeks into flowering they are certainly more developed than my previous grow with identical conditions and genetics. If you want to try this out too I'd love to see how it goes for anyone else out there. The girl's still have a reasonable canopy of leaves, but none of them are interfering with the light that reaches the buds 😊 I have also fully switched over to flowering nutrients now, and in the weeks to come I expect the bud sites to continue to grow, develop and swell. Already trichrome growth is major and is even spreading down stems and onto fan leaves. The smaller of the two pineapple's appears to be a bit behind in development and she isn't so covered yet but her budsites also seem to hold great potential, time will tell. Thanks for stopping by ~