Day 1: Will change to 12/12 mid week, after the tops fill in a little more. Defoliated a good amount on photos. Autos are 13" tall.
Day 3: Missed the chance to move the Photos to their 12/12 tent. The Autos take up more room than I expected.... I envisioned being able to trim them. The Autos are stretching and I need to raise the light, which I dont want to do yet.... I want to keep the Photos short until they flower. Also, the 12/12 tent has a bit more room then the veg tent. Since I started Purpanator, the tips of the leaves have browned a little..... just a bit. I might skip it next week. The pictures were taken with the bloom light off to show the colour of those Kush's.
Day 5: Moved Red Purps and Purple Maroc to flowering tent, and Autos both have the tent to their selves. I am going to do some LST to Purple Maroc and will defoliate what needs it. Pictures to follow...
Day 7:. Defoliated both Photos, starting to clear bottom and center out. Just doing a bit at a time to avoid any big stresses now that I switched to 12/12
Start of 4th week, and some small pistils showing in both autos - should I feed veg nutes for now, and change to flowering nutes next week, or a mixture of them some how?
Keep it with the veg nutrients during the 1st week of stretch , then during the second of stretch you can do half grow half flo and after you can go with full flowering strenght. But it seems that ruderalis needs more N during the flo than classic strains so you can add a little extra N everythime you think it is necessary but not too much to avoid any excess
I was trying to even out the main growth area, as this plant stretched between 5&6th nodes. It looked like a palm tree. It's done now, but should I treat the wound?
Your topping is pretty clean even if like you said your plant was looking like a lil tree before that : it's now looking like a lil bush which is not that bad. Fortunatly you did your Xtrem topping on a photoperiodic plant so she'll recover soon enough. I hope that you have kept the apex to try to clone it !
You can put something to treat the wond but if you don't then the part you'v cut will dry just before the node and naturally "heal" , I know that there is a red kind of "glue" that peoples are putting on the plants scares or that they are using to make grafting : sorry I don't know the word in english to tell what it is.
@Fleetwood, Great! I used to make Peltier as cooling system. In an easy search you may find how to use peltier to chill water. I may help you if you need. With some 50w you may cool your water a lot!
@Psilocubensis,It's really simple, and I get all the aeration from the water running through the ceramic pellets and falling out of the mesh basket to the water below. I half fill a 5 gal pail. Only root issue i had was when tent got up to 35 degrees celcius. I use hygrozyne now to help the roots. I have thought about an air pump, but so far keeping it as is.
If your tools are clean and disinfected before use, then you never have to worry about the wound and it can heal by itself. You could use aloe vera or even honey
@@Athos,ISO 99 soaked before i did it. Its dried up a lot, so I was worried it might continue inside the stalk. I will take pics for the history books anyways :)
Thx for looking and reading
@Psilocubensis, I am excited to try it. Its drying right now.
I am trying an experiment..... I trimmed all the branches off, when I harvested and left the stalk in the hydro garden.... it has some foliage starting up at the bottom. After leaving it 3 days in the dark, I moved it back into 18/6. I have a new seedling, and this old stalk together.... seeing if I can get a 2nd harvest out of it. Be an interesting trick to get more bud from auto's
Thanks for keeping an eye on my diary... Fleet.
@SirDillton, Thanks, this week certainly saw a massive growth spurt. I think I am going to change light to 12/12 this week for Red Purps and Purple Maroc. I just want to see the mains on Red to pick up a bit before I shorten their light.
@DinafemSeeds, Unfortunately, after more then a week in a rapid rooter, the seed didnt root successfully. I will try another seed in a few weeks to get a plant going for outside.