Franco's Lemon Cheese

bhanga_garden So far this plant is looking good - it sprouted up nicely and now it’s starting to level off and put some growth into the first leaves! Just some info on the grow - I am growing in organic living soil. For the most part I use plain filtered water for my soil. There are somewhere between 300 -500 worms in the bed helping to keep things nice and happy! I also will plant a cover crop after I get my mainline built - I’ll let that cover crop get about six to eight inches tall and then I’ll smother that with straw which will give the worms and microbes in the soil a lot of yummy material to work with! The plants are lit up with a sweet COBB LED built by Timber Grow Lights - they’re the 3VL model which is 600 watts and dimmable from 10-100%. I currently have it set to about 20% and will ramp up later as I get towards flower. I’ll be keeping this updated - excited to log and share the process this time around!

bhanga_garden This week has progressed nicely - the plant is starting to work on fresh leaves and is pushing the second node now. This plant is looking really healthy and strong so far! Today marks week three - so I will be switching my light to 18/6 until flower - which wont be for a while since I do mainlining - generally my veg time is stretched out quite a bit because of that. I will be keeping this updated as I go along and I am excited to share the progress! This is organic living soil - no bottles - nothing made in a lab. Today I harvested about two pounds of worm castings from one of my worm bins - you can see in the pictures some friends decided to come along for the ride! I mixed the castings with basalt, glacial rock dust, crab meal, kranja cake, kelp meal, and neem meal - then top dressed with that mixture, working it down into the soil a bit with my fingers, and then watered that all in with about a gallon of water. I really like to grow in this large raised bed - its the entire size of my tent which makes it completely impossible to move during a grow cycle but I love the fact that each plant in this 2x4 raised bed essentially has 50 gallons of soil all to itself! Thanks so much for checking out my grow - if you have any questions or comments don't hesitate! Cheers to a great community of growers!

bhanga_garden This plant is coming along so nicely! She is starting to stack nodes really well! Her neighbor is a Gorilla Zkittlez - that one plant had some issues and is now about a week behind. I’m really happy with this plant!

bhanga_garden I ended up with a bit of a situation in my tent so I'm improvising a little bit. My other plant that was planted along side this one didn't make it so now I am going to get another one in there and get it ready for flower as well - it is going to take a little longer though to get that plant going and even then I won't be mainlining that one like I was planning to. Either way, this plant needed to be slowed down a little bit so I went ahead and stripped everything off of her other than topping and of course I left the branches that will become the foundation for the mainline. She's super healthy and was growing incredibly well before I chopped her up - I'm confident that she'll make a full recovery and also that it'll slow down a bit so I can get another plant going!

bhanga_garden It is going to take a while for this plant to recover from all of the limbs that I cut off. I have not topped the plant yet but everything else came off that won't be used to build the manifold. I have intentionally slowed this plant down by causing a lot of trauma but I am confident that she will make a good recovery because it was a very healthy and prolific plant before I cut it all off. I slowed this plant down because I had to re-plant a new seed for a different plant that shares the tent space - my plan is to be able to obviously flower them both at the same time - but also I am hoping to allow the neighbor plant to mature well and hopefully mostly catch up to this one before I flower them.

bhanga_garden First topping 12/18 - stripped off all other growth. Very strong and healthy plant! Hopefully no more than 3 weeks and I’ll be able to flip to flower - just waiting for this one’s neighbor to catch up!

bhanga_garden Lots of growth over the past week - I’ve let this thing get pretty over grown and here soon I’ll top it two more times and it will be pretty much ready to flower. I’m going to work the branches down over the next couple of weeks to get the base of the mainline down lower - to allow for a hearty stretch!

bhanga_garden She’s nice and strong!! I waited quite a while to do the final topping on this plant to let her neighbor catch up! I’ve got the one side all defoliate and I’ve left more leaves on the four branches on the other side to hopefully boost them up since they’re just a little weaker than the ones that I stripped already. I will be flowering within the next week - two weeks max!

bhanga_garden This plant is rocking strong! She’s super strong and recovers very quickly from defoliation - I can’t wait to see how it flowers!! I’ll be flipping the light Friday the 15th to 12/12!!

bhanga_garden Flower time!!! Today 1/19 is day two of flower. Defoliated a bit today and smothered the cover crop. I’m definitely excited to flower this plant! I’ve kept the plant super short for veg and now I’ll pretty much be able to let it stretch freely for flower!

bhanga_garden I'm starting to see the stretch begin!! There should be plenty of space for them to take off now. I will continue to remove growth tips as they pop out and to an extent I will be continually defoliating based on necessity. I'm definitely really happy with this plant so far - also as of 1/26 I am starting to see a little bit of sugar on the leaves and the beginning stages of flower formation at the tops of the colas.