Green Poison F1 Fast Version -- Redux!

Summary - These plants are happy campers. Even unruly as it is now, it looks nice. Moved 2 into bloom box early this week. Have not finished pruning the plant beside the prep work in last weeks notes. Need to keep a few extra growths in case clones don't root. The canopy will be thinned to 9-11 colas on each plant. Reducing leaf to bud ratio as well as reducing larf being my primary goal above maximizing yield. Still expect 75 grams or more per plant, but not sure how dense this strain is, yet. Daily Notes: 55 Days - Finally, a respite from vegetative phase soon! I need to take 2 or 3 clones, depending on what enters bloom box tomorrow. I don’t think I’ll be able to tell the buds apart, but time will tell. Irrigation after 5 days. Everything is rocking. 56 / 0 Days - First 12-12 day of bloom after 56 cycles of 18/6. Two went in. #2 may follow in a day or two. Didn’t like the clone options today on #2. 57 / 1 Days - #1 and #3 look fucking amazing. One shoot is being a pain, so I bent her down. Keep eye on it to break apical dominance. If I can’t do it with simply bending it in AM, I’ll tie it down for a few days or so until it is the same height. Not sure about F#1. 2-3 days is worth the investment, but not much longer. If #2 is entering box, F#1 will be trashed. I won’t let it get further behind than 2-3 days. 58 / 2 Days - Looks fucking fantastic. How’s that for alliteration. Pruned #2 up and took a cutting in case it does enter bloom box. Either way, would need a transplant to a 1-gallon donor pot. F#1 is making me waffle. Irrigating tomorrow - in bloom box for sure. #2 might need another day. Re-vege #4 probably needs water every day in the solo cup. Removed lowest shoots - 4 remaining on #4. 59 / 3 Days - SSDD. Clones look fine. Cleaned up #4 (in cup, rooted) a bit. Only #1 and #3 in bloom box. F#1 just to spite me decided to do something this week. The flowering plants look amazing. 60 / 4 Days - Wow, the 2 in bloom box are just beautiful. I’ll thin each down to 9-10 strongest vertical shoots. Remove 2-3 from each likely. Lollipop a bit more than first run. Observe and update strain notes, which at this point are non-existent for GPFV, but soon enough plenty of good information will exist. 3 potential donor clones are happy and perky. #2 is still ready for bloom box, but… F#1 is in the way. This #2 plant may be tossed and salvage what I can from mostly unused pot of substrate. 61 / 5 Days - 2nd time is the charm it seems. These two plants are happy campers. I’m approaching defoliation differently this time. I’m going to do some minor pruning in coming days on obvious stuff that won’t be worthwhile for various reasons. Always* lowest first when clearing at this stage as I don’t want excessive axillary growth. When vege growth is nearly done, I’ll do any final touches and possibly thin out canopy to 9-10 vertical shoots. If it gets crazy, I’ll cut some off in waves so as not to shock the plant right as it enters full bloom-related growth. Shooting for 75g per plant without knowing current yield. That’d be 300g on a full run and lights are down to 200w / ~1A constant current powering the 12 bars of ~1200diodes. 62% of 288w or 185 watts might be a better guess, but want to err on conservative side -- open load on 1 driver is 178V x 1.623amps =~ 288watts, this is why I get the Type A constant current drivers, you get an extra 15-20% watts than advertised “240” which is really ~252w at 1.4A on the type B and AB - cost of 0-100% dimming capabilities and off-driver convenient dial. The internode distance has been great on new growth. If it starts to get too tight or new terminal growth slows, I will raise lights 1-2”. Think I have a 22-28k coverage as these grow into that level quickly, which is about 1.5x intensity of my vege area with same diodes. This lines up with math of DLI. Funny how that works. My lights are an excellent example of how lux recommendations are dangerous. If I ran mine at 50k, not sure if I could at any distance >=12”, I’d kill my plants. Some may read my comments, try my lux values with their lights and get some stretched out dumpster fire. Proportional intensity of the same exact light (or same proportional diodes/bulbs parts) is all that Lux/Lumens can tell you. Treat each different fixture as an island, otherwise. Lux can still help find consistency and recognize dimming of light when you need a shorter distance from canopy to reach same intensity of light.