Rise of the Fogbender

The beginning of the week, I changed the rez and adjusted the nute to 550ppm. I also lowered my light from 30" to 22", but found symptoms of heat stress at the middle of the week. I raised it back to 30" and instead increased the time cycle from 18/6 to 20/4. The plant seems to be responding well. I started training Kate at the middle of the week, supercropping the two tops to form a manifold (Sirius style). So from each of the two main branches, I will keep the odd-numbered leaves and budsites. I plan to have 3 pairs of bud sites on each branch, which works out to 12 main colas per plant. If at the end I still have room, I might push it to 16 colas per plant. Kate responded very well to the training and exploded in growth nearing the end of the week. Pippa is truly a good sister and is just trailing her older sister. They were germinated 4 days apart, and I apply the same spacing to train the two. I supercropped and formed the manifold for Pippa at the end of the week. It seemed to like it. I use wooden dowels duct-taped to the container to form the main horizontal split for manifolding. The branch is attached to the dowel using bonsai wires. The game plan here is to form the manifold, fix them with the dowels as skeleton, and then use the scrog net to fill up the rest of the tent. Ideally they will veg another 1-2 weeks at most, during which the light period will gradually decrease to 12-12, at which time flowering officially begins. The future is looking very bright.