Mainlining Black Sugar

p4tm_CHEF This is the first picture I have of her so we will call this week one. I am attempting to mainline her, at least to the best of my understanding. The tent is only 3 feet tall so after pot and lights I have about 15 inches of height to work with before they are touching lights. And here we go. :) Black Sugar from Seedsman. Trying out the pH Perfect line on this one for the first time.

p4tm_CHEF Week two. She got her first topping today. Not much else to report other than something sprouted in the container. I have no idea what it is but I will let it go a bit so I can identify it. :)

p4tm_CHEF This week she got her second topping and full defoliation. Two mains will become four. Turned out that mystery sprout was common Ragweed and once identified, I pulled it.

p4tm_CHEF So it seems fast but the last topping and defol was at the beginning of last week and I did the next topping/defol at the end of this week. So on the 28th, I gave her another go. This mainlinging is not for the faint of heart. Damn! lol The plant is taking it like a champ though. Zero fucks given with all the stress. Four tops become eight.

p4tm_CHEF Just letting the girl grow out a bit. Sorry not many pics this week. Busy times. With 8 tops currently, I think I will do one more topping on it. That will give 16 colas in the end.

p4tm_CHEF The plant is handling the mainlining really well. Still only about 8 inches from soil to tip. At the end of this week I gave her the final topping/defoliation that should produce sixteen (16) main colas now. I will give her a few days to recover a bit and switch the lights to 12/12.

p4tm_CHEF I have sixteen defined tops now and I switched the lights to 12/12 this week. This one loves the abuse.

p4tm_CHEF She is doing great and definitely showing signs of flower. Starting to take on a smell too. The sixteen (16) tops are nice and defined and she is doing really well with no signs of stress or deficiencies so far.

p4tm_CHEF I had a spare light so I did some adjustments so for the rest of flower I will be running two lights. The LEDs each pull about 140W from the wall I think. In full flower and taking on a nice sent. Starting to see the first of the frosty trichs too. I am starting to train a couple of the taller tops towards the open center to bring them down a bit. Still just about 12 inches total plant height. This marks the end of the third week in flower. More next week. :)

p4tm_CHEF Bah...sorry for the interruption....busy strange times we are in. Updates are coming as I toke on some that has been curing for a month. hehe Forth week of flower is doing fine. :)

p4tm_CHEF She is filling out fine. It was a busy time as will be apparent with lack of pics over the next few weeks. As I upload these I see she is clawing a bit.

p4tm_CHEF Here she is definitely showing signs (of a deficiency) but I didn't have time to pay much attention to her. I remember thinking "couple more weeks she is getting cut just power through it" lol She is really starting to stink now too.

p4tm_CHEF I am away for almost two weeks and all hell breaks loose....lol I have no pics for week 13 and when I get back in early Sept....this is what I came home too. DOH She still stinks and other than the crispies still feels pretty good. Not sure what happened here but when I got back I gave her a good flush and then a solid feeding. She will probably be coming down at the end of next week anyway.

p4tm_CHEF She is not pretty right now but she is still a stinky bitch! After this week I am going to chop her at the end of next week.

p4tm_CHEF So, remember this was done in a 2x3 table top tent. This mainlining technique gave me almost a quarter pound which was better than my expectations or previous runs in this little guy. Virtually all of the buds were lovely after trimming off the crispy ones. The drying was awesome.....took about 20 days which I was super happy with. Just a perfect ambient temp and humidity during this time. After that she spent another couple of weeks in jars curing which brings us to today. :) She still have some curing to do but is nice and sticky and skunky. Hits my dome right off the pull then mellows out to a body high quickly after. I was pleased with the stressful technique and will do it again in this tent soon.