Early update -- defoliation July 20 after 8 nights of 12 hour length. Wanted to clean them up a bit, bend them out a bit, and get some nice tall, strong stalks of vascular tissue. Since they are still mangeable, i pulled them out for a good look. You can see that my lights do my plants no favors when it comes to pictures. Took some hi-res photos, so 'view image' or 'copy image link' and open a new tab to see them fully. Weekly notes will be screenshot and posted at and of 2nd week.
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Gorilla Blue - 48 whole days total / 14 nights of bloom
Jul 19 - Bent each out from center of plant. Been slacking on shaping it. Tons of axillary growth. Need to defoliate 3 of 4 sooner than later.
Jul 20 - Defoliated --- Jul 21 - All look healthy. See a 9-blade leaf coming out of F#1, which is probably the 2nd ugliest of the four (my fault, I’m sure)
Jul 21 - All have recovered well. Have to double check, but front/right is growing fast.
Jul 23 - All on autopilot at this point. Still bending them out a bit. F#1 is good to go on that.
Jul 24 - All shaping up very well. F#1 has wrinkled leaves like it has the entire time. Looks horrid under the grow lights. Gorilla Blue showing start of bloom.
Jul 25 - Lights are slightly angled up in middle. F#1 and GB are roughly 24-25” away.
Week 7 completed.
Man it´s incredible the way you weigh the drying buds every day. I personally never thought of that and never saw anyone do it, thanks for that! Also, the genetics seem pretty good. Peace.