41 / 7 Days - Six days since watering and pots are still a bit heavy. I won’t be able to have runoff easily, so will add a small amount of pH-only before fertigating to balance out evaporation on top and a little extra attention to the sides of fabric pots. Next 1-3 days for irrigation-patience grasshopper. PM - #4 and #? look to have the start of tufts at terminals. If not more obvious tomorrow, I am wrong.
42 / 8 Days - Borderline needing irrigation. Unless I see wilt tonight, pushing another day with enough heft to get through the night. Some stretch out of one, but mostly due to less intense light and slightly greater internodal spacing. If the buds form better, I’ll tweak the lights further.
43 / 9 Days - After 8 days it was ready for a watering. Fairly sure 2 of the 4 are slightly taller today. The other two may be at the edge of flower. Gorilla Blue ended vegetative growth after ~16 days of 12-12. To this day, they have gotten less than 8 gallons each in total. Gave a bit over 1gal and nearly had too much runoff for basin. Haven’t been interested in building anything and all the other jazz of setting up proper drainage.
44 / 10 days - Wow, the growth overnight makes me think I needed to water a tad sooner. That’s okay, because I don’t necessarily need more height but will take it. Even if a slightly lower yield, I think I’m leaning toward all top colas but leaving a bit more than I did with BBM, NOG and GB diaries. Can compare and figure out what I prefer to cut off in future. The durban poison’s and that earlier run’s results are very useful accidents.
Removed 5-6 lower shoots on each - outward-orientated shoots and alternating inward facing lower shoots. Done cutting these plants. Took a replacement clone from #4. Think the axillary growth slightly grown out nearer top will fuse together, but the inward lowest 2 shoots should grow large enough to give a worthwhile, yet smaller, top cola. 5 primary shoots might be best. Looks to be enough space in central area while still fitting 4x plants in a roughly 30”x30” area.
45 / 11 Days - Again, wow! Front/left is going gangbusters. However, if one isn’t a “fast version” I’d wager it is this one. Regardless, I am happy with the resulting canopy. Lessons applied from first 4-plant crop pruning with a greater focus on top colas. Left a bit more.. observe and adjust.
46 / 12 Days - Budlets beginning formations - no doubt now. I’ve seen this by day 14 before. It’ll be interesting tracking development and comparing to old notes. 2-4 days about 1/5th the way through a ~9week. So, 2-4 x 5 = 10-20 days ahead, which would line up fairly well with 6-7 week bloom.
Anyway, 5 or 6 of the shoots have grown into the 30k lux range. Will let them react before I do anything. The rest of the GP canopy is quite even. #4 is not as balanced as others with 2 shorter stalks (~2” shorter? 1”? still not bad, but compared to other 3 not so good). Budlets are forming and vertical growth should end very soon.
More certain that intensity of light caused #4 and the other in middle of box to be slightly shorter. Front/left was taller, but the back left is now even with it. If it turns out better, I’ll adjust lights down a bit for future grows, adjust height closer to 16”-18” with proper power from there. Also, more certain in PM of budlets about to burst out everywhere. Still some vege growth left, possibly? Can’t be much.
47 / 13 - Think 26-28k is sweet spot. 30K seems to be tolerable for this plant. May see sign of overexposure in the former ~32k spot. Left 2 grew into 30k range. Raised lights a bit with slight angle upward toward middle. Eliminated any 31-32k areas across entire footprint. A sport or two may go beyond that, but it’s an oddly tall cola relative to locale.
Likely to have a gap in bloom box in a couple months to get in there and make some adjustments to amps dial in the lux at intended height for both lights. As well as re-route some cords, remove air pump, give a deep clean and re-apply some DE.
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Excellent week of progression. Budlets are a burgeoning explosion… incipient madness! #2 and it’s cohort along the wall surprised with some extra growth the last 2 days - providing further insight on how to properly use the new lights. Hoping to see some insanely fast development the next 2 weeks.
Been checking out a few Sweet Seeds grows as this is my first time running there strains and i have been very impressed during veg. Can see yours isnt letting you down either.
Further thoughts on timing -- Going to see what the trichomes look like tomorrow in the AM (same time of current pictures) before making final decision on topping.
Hi mate, why do you check the trichomes before topping.
@@NobodysBuds, I love watching the new diaries from seeds. I catch myself checking back waiting for the next update. Good luck! Mine will be a couple months as my tent is currently about to be switched to flower.
@@NobodysBuds, I have been looking at Earth Dust - it is a 2 component organic dry amendment check out the website - https://thegreensunshineco.com/product/earth-dust-all-natural-plant-nutrients/ I am with you, mixing nutrients is a pain!
Coco is overrated anyways. Was never a big fan of that hippy fad. Pro-mix HP w/m is where it’s at for soilless as far as I know. All that’s missing now is to ditch jack’s and go organic. I used to think I needed “soil” for that. Never looking back at chems again though still looking around me. I can’t say enough good things about Gaia Green personally. It was a game changer for me. None the less your plants are looking great regardless. Cheers 🍻
@@NobodysBuds,bro i hope it only a bit of the plant absolute stinker when all that hard work goes to waste. My mate recently ad same issue but thankfully it only affected one branch which was in corner
@@NobodysBuds, if i ever will go with autos - it will be @FastBuds first ;))
@SweetSeeds provided me with 3x strains, 4x each, will have nice run to valuate theirs beans ;)