4 * Sticky Beast auto, LED (first grow)

A solid week without any problems, just a lot of growth and increasing bud development. Anna’s flowering stretch was amazing, she is now the longest of them all, 72 cm, but she was the smallest. The last few days, the vertical grow rate of Benthe and Ceylin has decreased, however, trichomes are now visible on their flowers. Hopefully, Anna’s flowering stretch is also coming to an end now, so the differences in height won’t become too big. In the beginning of the week I did do some serious defoliation. Reasons for this: - They were very bushy, leaves were laying on top of each other (creating wet spots) and bud sides were completely blocked from air and light; - They were (and are) very healthy; - They had shown good response to smaller defoliation sessions (and even unintentionally topping) and LST; - Other growers also reported good results when defoliating this strain. I removed about 5 to 8% leave mass, mostly in the bottom and in the middle of the plants. It didn’t bother them and they just kept on growing. A lot of bud sides are now getting the light and air they need to develop into solid nugs. I also continued LST every day, except for the last few days. On day 38, I gave them plain pH’ed water until 10-20% drain and after that 2 liters of a light nutrients mix, with N reduced and increased P compared to the mix of week 5. pH of the first run off water was at 6, while 7 is going in. Since they were doing fine after the defoliation, I also increased the light to full power. RH went down to below 50% because of a whether change this week, it would be great if it stays like this for the rest of the growth. The top of the soil is now dry and the pots are light, hence tomorrow it’s time to water and feed again. I’ll probably also defoliate a bit more tomorrow (just removing a few more leaves that are in the way of things) and perform some LST on Anna, but I expect that will be the last bit of applying training techniques. From then, it’s just water & feeding until harvest.