Ghost Train Haze Week 7 Notes
**Midweek check in**
I took the new growth branches off of biggie today, who seems to have adjusted to the lollipopping I did last week pretty well. I left the fan leaves on for now but as he gets taller I’ll have to start taking them off too.
As for smalls, it looks like she’s taken to the topping I did last week And I now have two new main colors in addition to the E side branch style coolers that were forming at the same time. The legginess is still pretty severe even with an intense amount of light being shot her way. She’s very easily stressed by heat or water (on that note, she also drinks quite a bit more than Biggie) and she grows leggy under the slightest lessening of light, with 2-3 inches between mature nodes no matter I try to curb it.
I have two other plants that I plan on throwing into flower soon and I think that when I do I’m gonna go ahead and put smalls in the mix as well. With how leggy she has a tendency to get I’m a bit worried about how much she’s going to stretch out during the flower phase so I honestly don’t want her to get too much bigger at this point before putting her in flower anyway. I
I definitely won’t be breeding this pheno unfortunately - the work required to deal with her lack of bud sites is not really paying off as far as I’ve been able to see, so I’m just gonna take what little amount of bud I can get from her and enjoy a little batch of Ghost Train Haze as a treat I’m while I work on the last two seeds in my collection.
**End of week notes**
Biggie and Smalls are both doing really well right now. Biggie has not slow down on growth whatsoever despite the lollipopping I did, and I actually ended up having to take off the lowest set of fan leaves yesterday because of the unimpeded growth already occurring at the top where I left leaves behind.
Smalls legginess hasn’t decreased but I think topping may be a good solution in the future for other phenos like hers that I stumble on. I’m debating on how to move forward exactly with the shape and training of smalls because of the odd spacing of nodes even on her branches.
There’s nodes on the ends of each of the branches about 2 to 3 if you don’t count the main color/tip of the branch so to speak, but after those first initial nodes I don’t see others being produced. On some branches I’m seeing two or 3 inches and still no sign of the next node popping up.
I can’t say that I’m surprised or that this is new information, but I can admit I was hoping that it might change or develop in a way that I might figure out how to work with. Since that hasn’t happened I’m just gonna have to start taking the training seriously now even if I won’t be breeding her, I want to see if I can at least get as much out of her as I can when I flip her in about 1 to 2 weeks.
I’ve got a feeling she’ll be the type to be very tall and very stretchy so I think what’s important is topping her as much as possible right now. She’s already getting a lot of light the way she would’ve if I needed to LST her but it hasn’t been necessary due to the sheer amount of spacing between branches and nodes.
@ThrashedTV_BakedByGlaze, I'll be honest i've definitely thought about it lmao, could be a really fun experiment since conditions and temp mostly work pretty well together