Icy Hot Super Slide

Week 8 update - 2nd week of the stretch and she’s behaving exactly as we’d hoped, push’s out full inches each day. As per the day-by-day photos from last week; it’s a daily chore of constant tucking and tying to get the stems tracking outwards while they’re still pliable. She’s likely gonna need a good prune this week as well. Just to maintain some more exposure to the less developed secondaries which are now starting to run out behind the main growth tips. We fall squarely in between the detractors and proponents of defoliation. You need the leaves to advance growth but you also need to free up the less developed tips to get max light and stretch to the net. The hope is that she’s still got a ton of stretch in ‘er for the next 2 weeks of transition. There’s still ample space around the perimeter so ideally she’s full by week 10 for the flower show🤞🤞🤞. All’s still extremely well in here. I can’t wait to see how this ones gonna turn out. Mar. 6 update - this is the formative part of the grow that’s the most interesting - trying to get a sense of what’s expected to stretch up and ultimately become the bud bed that we’re look’n for. Chopped out a ton of foliage today and I hate do’n it but it was necessary. Even if it was only to see where the ties were - it was so bloody dense for just a couple node layers of fans. Good thing is that we found multiple potential secondaries around the middle. Well see where she ends up through this week and look to drop back on the pruning to straight maintenance after week 9/10. Until then it’s constant daily tucking and tying and where necessary, pruning or defoliating for more even exposure. Background For those not in the know, SSSC has been around for 40 years. Out of Amsterdam, they are the 2nd such breeder to market their genetics worldwide and can lay claim to the origins of their beans better than most (if not all) others. They’ve produced here an indica hybrid cross of M33/Friesland Indica with an elite clone of Lava Cake. We’re hoping to encounter one of the purple phenos but only time will tell. She’s supposed to be super strong too and not for the faint of heart 👍. We’ve been wait’n on this grow awhile and she’ll be getting individual treatment in the small cab - 5gal. Coco w/perlite and the typical nute regimen. Also got the light on full blast the whole grow as I’ve been told that results are actually better when using a VS fixture (we’ll see I guess). ***update*** the vipar finally shit the bed and all the veg. Diodes burnt out. This light owes us nothing for how many grows it’s been on top of. Swapped out to a 100w Spider Farmer Quantum Board and plants are loving it. Gonna SCROG it if she’s got the bush for it. Advance props to these guys for the best packaging I’ve ever seen (although you may need to be an 80’s baby or older to truly appreciate it😉). See week 1 photos.