GGxWW

What happened with the GGxWW from-seed plant this week... What you see in the donor half is what i'll be doing to the ggxww plant soon. Top and remove a couple leaves. The GB-donor is middle and against the wall. It was done 2 or 3 days before the rest of them. Took off 1+ node at top (+= portion of new growth too) and 6 strong auxiliary buds should grow out. If the top 2 are a bit immature, it allows the lower ones time to catch up. The GB-donor has 2-3 nodes on the auxiliary buds now. It's a little mound of growth! Growing well after transplant. Allowing it to grow into light until I see a hint of a problem -- still adjusting for new lights. Setup airpump for vege area. Testing 1/4 reservoir next week. This is an indica strain, but all the seeds i’ve popped have skinnier hybrid leaves. I’ve germinated five different seeds of this strain and cloned two of them multiple times each. This will be a first-time experience with this partiuclar genetic lottery ticket, though. Hoping for a better taste. Typically, I LST. I’m doing something different this time in preperation for methods of growing i have less experience utilizing. So, I’ll be topping with the goal of 8-10 equally strong auxiliary bud growth. I want 30-40 strong colas per 1/2 bloom box or 4 plants. I’ll systematically get there in a predictable and consistent way with more information that only takes time to gather. Unfortunately, that doesn’t sync up well with alotted time for this cycle. So, this plant may get ugly with a couple extra weeks of growth that won’t be helpful. I may end up pruning it back needlessly, but that is better than an overcrowded mess when it blooms. June will have 4 new genetics I’ve never grown before. Getting all the bloom lengths alternating to maximize bloom box utilization will require 1 crop each to learn -- no empty spaces in bloom box (well, fully minimized anyway)! Except immediately following a harvest to clean and otherwise maintain, which is only a few hours. Luckily, i will have 2 practice attempts on the newer donor-plants progressing toward relevance, and if they are ugly it doesn’t impact their function as they will never be flowered. i think 4-6 to start and pruning can make that 8-10 by the time growth stops. Will have very limited time to grow these. May need to start with 6-8 and no time to prune later. Check out some photos this week about Daily Light Integral (DLI). Shows a quick way to determine PAR, even if you don’t have an exact M^2 area. You do need to know the total number of umol/s your lights produce. If not optimally placed, must also reduce a bit for any reflection you depend upon and other inefficiencies between the photons leaving light source and hitting plant... or just plain missing it. I also put up a higher-res leaf-symptom chart than the typical one you see out there. “Save image as..” keep them for reference. Right click any image and "save as" ... May need to "view image" first, if it doesn't save the full resolution image for you.