'GDP x Bruce' by i49

Hello all and welcome to the final Week of Veg with Granddaddy Bruce. The flips a coming! The Deets (Last section is comparison b/t Grow #2 vs Grow #3): The Good: -Happy, happy, happy plant. She has been in great shape and form this week, praying nicely to the light for about 4 days in a row now. She's firm, strong, healthy, pistils showing and she's ready to go. -A little more training gave me a decent bubble to work with in Bloom. She was a very good plant to train. Never an issue, always receptive and no attitude. -Pretty heavy defo and under-canopy clean up (After feeding) went very well. No signs of stress noticed. Growth picked up exponentially after this defo and prune👍 The Bad: -Nope. All good. Wait no (this is happening while I type here😠). Hydro company is playing with the power and have CUT my power 4 times, just today, for about 30 seconds to three minutes. Really bad timing fellas. Considering a UPS or emergency light just to keep light on them. Seems like a lot or effort though🤔 The 'Meh' -Just the slightest 'meh', and I'll leave it at that. She's still hungry and I see that she's asking for more Nitrogen. Still catching up from the recent starvation. Nothing's amiss, just clear that she is indeed in need of some more food. Extremely fast growing and eating plant, atm (and probably from here on out). She takes about 1.75 liters a day right now, which is more then I expected. The second transitions feed will replace and give her a boost. Details on schedules for all plants in "Notes of the Week". Notes of the Week: -Yah, so it's time for the flip! Plant health, ppm's and pH are in check. There's no more room and it's time to go. -Besides Space Cookies (whom is propped on a 6" pot) the canopy of the girls is even and will hopefully grow evenly (somewhat) throughout flower. I see that PSK and DD will be getting very big, but I'm a little more comfortable with this, as I have trained lower and given myself a lot more buffer space b/t my light and my canopy (about 24 " of stretch space, where the tallest plant sits at around 17-18"). A 100% stretch would still work out fine with the current height of the girls and I'm really happy I started my LST earlier to achieve a shorter (but still wide) plant. They're monsters and only stand at 11-17 inches. Neat!👌 -All plants have had one "transitions" feeding before the flip and will receive their second, two days from today. Will apply a third if needed, but I'm pretty positive I can jump into my Bloom schedule sooner then later. -PK booster (King Kola) was not used exactly as needed in Grow #2 but will be used to it's full extent in this go. This will give me the full scope of the product and what/how it does. I know it works, but to what extent. -Only nervous about PSK. She has had the hardest time so far, and Veg was a battle. Her health is there and she looks decent (only decent for the moment). I'm not really sure what will happen, if anything, when I flip them tonight, May 31st. Staying positive and hope she transitions into flower well. **Quick Changes B/T Grow #2 and #3** -LST started earlier to keep the girls shorter. Triggered at 24" in Grow #2 and this made things very stressful. I ran out of room and they stopped just in time before getting burned. I did NOT want to put myself in this position again, and this is the result👌. -Aforementioned trigger at 24" is now being triggered at 11-17", leaving about 24-30" of play room for the coming stretch. -Plants are firmer then grow #2. Potassium Silicate (Sturdy Stalk) was used properly and throughout Vegetation, where in Grow #2, I started late (about week 8-9). Applying once every 3rd feeding has proven to shore up the girls stems and laterals much better then previous attempts. Releasing my training tyes does not result in any movement. -Size/Circumference of the girls in Grow #2 are about the same as Grow #3, but this took roughly 5-9 days less vegetation to achieve, even with allllll the mistakes and problems in early Veg. Attributing earlier training and the SF-2000 for this expedited growth. I know 5-9 days is isn't much at all, but cutting time out slowly with each grow is working quite well. Grow #1 took roughly 11 weeks of Veg (That diary does not have all weeks included and I compiled two, two week segments into one entry. This Veg did indeed take 11 weeks), Grow #2 took 8-9 weeks and this grow is down to 7-8 weeks. Slowly becoming more efficient and speeding things up a bit. Very happy to see these small changes as I would like to achieve 3 cycles/harvests a year. 20-22 weeks is far too long and the goal in this grow and the ones that follow it, is too bump this number down to a solid 16 week grow. Ideally 6-7 weeks Veg and 8-10 weeks Bloom. -Using a slightly more advanced feeding schedule this round seems to have kicked them in the butt a bit (but I did face consequences trying to find the limit...beware). Next grow I feel I'll have a better handle on when and what to feed the girls at specific times to encourage faster, healthier growth. Thanks for stopping by all! These are the last pictures before the lights turn off tonight for a 9pm-9am night cycle. I'm excited! Same plants but feels like a new adventure again. Cheers to you all and I hope you have a great week. STAY SAFE, HOLY CRAP! As parts of the world dip into chaos, please, PLEASE remember to love and take care of yourselves and loved ones. Stay healthy, content and peaceful my friends. I'm thinking of you all, seriously. 🙏✊