White Crack - Mephisto Genetics

After what has been a nice quiet start to the grow, this week has been quite involved. I've been wanting to get on with training, but the plants were very low and wide, which made it difficult for any LST. They finally got tall enough, so this week, they were fimmed and LST was started. Fimming hasn't really slowed them in any way, and they have responded well to being bent over and tied down. Still quite new to this, so the LST isn't pretty, but it's working as intended. The satellite branches are receiving the newly diverted auxins and are all enjoying being kings of the castle. I tried turning on the auto pots this week, but after 24 hours, the plants had not drunk from the trays - The aqua valve itself was functioning correctly, I think that the roots were not quite down far enough to reach the water. Reverted to top feeding, and will give another week just to ensure the roots are ready next time. As always at this stage, leaf tucking becomes a way of life. New growth is there with every feeding (currently fertigating 4 times a day) and I always have to spend time tucking leafs out the way of potential bud sites. Very impressed with the genetics of these plants. My first grow had a bunch of mutations, but these plants seem to be perfect in every way! Not sure how much longer they will stay in veg. Was hoping for a few more weeks, but autos gonna auto I guess, so we will see. I've been very light handed with the nutes so far this run, might give them a little push this week and see what they can take. I think the coming week will mostly be all about leaf tucking and adjusting the tie downs. Happy growing everyone :)