4 Assed Monkey - Mephisto

So this was supposed to be a White Train, but after bungling the first sprout I couldn't get my other seeds to germ, so gave up and threw this one in :D I was super keen for this strain too so should be fun. Same set up as usual: 1.2x 1.2 x 2m tent Coco/Perlite 70/30 blend 11L fabric pot 600W MH for veg and 600W HPS for flowering She's running alongside 3 other plants, but a couple of weeks behind them. :)

Going well so far! Happy with the growth rate. From the description she has limited veg time so I don't know that she'll be a good candidate for topping, but I'll decide in a couple days.

Sorry for the lack of pics! Not sure why I kept overlooking the little gal. Anywho she's growing quite squat and bushy - I'm guessing it's just a pheno trait cause the light is quite high up due to my bigger gals, I would have expected a bit of stretching, guess the 600W is enough that the distance is ok! Pictured here is the start of a little LST. She's got dense growth on all the nodes so hopefully I get it right this time, she seems perfect for it.

So this week I was mainly focusing on getting the LST right. Def isn't perfect, but I've got a nice canopy developing. She's been growing quite bushy and dense so I've had to chop a bunch of fan leaves to try and get light to the right places, seems to be going ok! Monkey was starting to get overshadowed in the tent, I had her next to the Cosmic Queen which is getting all space invadery, so I did some rearranging. Growth is going a better rate now that she isn't fighting for light and space 😄

Not much exciting going on this week! Just trying to keep the canopy even. Yesterday I took a fair few fan leaves off from the lower half, and cleared a few from the top to bring some of the bud sites up. Starting to pick up steam as growth has been a bit slow up til now. :)

Not sure why this gal is growing so slowly! But since my last runt turned out to be a monster I'm not too worried yet. Hoping she'll pick up next week. :) She's drinking fairly well at the moment so hopefully that's a herald of mega growth 😆

She's flowering nicely now. :) She got mad tip burn overnight when I hadn't changed the nutes so that was annoying, flushed her and started back with a lower dose, will see how she goes. Been chopping all the growth beneath the canopy, gonna do another good defol tonight. Starting to get a bit of frost! :D

Most eventful thing this week was getting invaded by strayan wildlife! I left the tent open with the portable air con running just outside it cause we had a few days of 35C+ weather, was the only way to keep it cool in there. Next morning there were 20 odd flies and a skink in the tent. Took me two days to get the skink out - I was dropping water on the floor for him to drink which he seemed to appreciate, but the slippery little sucker just didn't want to be caught! Got him eventually though, he made it outside safely. :) Also FYI watching skinks wee is hilarious, both the back legs come off the ground and they do a little wiggle. The 4 Assed Monkey seemed unaffected :P Starting to get some chunk slowly!

Decided the time was right for the PK Heavy this week, looked like she had 3 weeksish to go. :D The smell is really picking up, it's grapey and delicious. She's stayed pretty well in the right shape so haven't had to do any more tying down, but gave her a bit of defol, you can see the difference in the canopy shots between day 57 and 61. Will chop a bunch more next week I think, try to power up those buds. They're developing nicely, so hopefully they'll be big chunkers soon.

The PK Heavy last week seemed to do the trick, bulking up nicely. :) The smell has dropped a bit this week due to the heat - it's 40C outside the tent and I've got the portable air con running next to it but sometimes just can't keep those temps below 30C inside. :( At least the humidity has been bang on lately, so that's something. I'm feeding daily now, so I normally do a full Nutrifield lineup feeding one day, then either a flush or an organic type one the next day with Monsta Bud and some Rock Resinator - not used the resinator before so I'm interested to see how she likes it. I'm mainly feeding daily to keep her growth moving in this heat, but I'm adding more flushes so I don't just burn her out. Seems to be helping, shes's bulking faster at least!

Bit of everything going on this week! Had a nasty heatwave for a couple of days, in the worst of it a few of the branches started falling down. Not sure if it's cause of the heat or they got too fat or maybe both... either way I think I shall pick up some silica to add to my nutes cause I get the same problem with half my girls and I don't like getting all sticky from tying them back in a semi-upright position :P They're drinking at least 3L a day now. I've eased back a lot on the nutes, I don't do all of the above ones at the same time. Adding molasses as well. Finally started seeing some colour change in the pistils so hopefully not much longer to go! I've no idea how I'm gonna harvest this though - our house is being put on the market in a week so we'll have to take down the tent every Saturday for inspections. Plants are easy enough to hide but all the smelly buds from this girl are gonna be a pretty obvious if they're anywhere near the house. I usually dry-trim then hang them for 5 days before I chop all the buds off and store them in jars, but I might have to chop this one into a container of some sort and dry them off the stem... easier to move around a container than a bunch of coat hangers with branches hanging off them. Any advice would be great!!

So had to pop this gal in the car for 6 hours on a hot day for the open house. SO HUMID IN THERE. Definitely some heat damage, the buds aren't as sparkly as they were before and the smell has diminished a bit. But they're hanging on!

Flush week! Would have liked to run her another week but there was a bit I could tell was getting some budrot or mould from the humidity stuck in the car so I chopped her on Day 90. Had to toss out a whole branch but saved most of her! Will have the harvest update in bout a week

Always a great experience on growdiaries - with all the craziness going on lately I would have been lost without this to keep track of my grow! 7631