Ice Bomb

Ice Bomb Week 5 Notes The topping I did last week worked fantastically, and there are now two main colas on the plant. I think it's time for me to dive back into research mode and see if I can get a feel for how others trained and worked with this plant again, because it's got stocky leaves and a stocky frame going on. Super healthy and happy from what I can tell, but will probably benefit from defoliation due to how little space there is between nodes. I've been tempted to reduce the amount of light on hopes of stretching her out, but she seems really happy with what she's been getting that I don’t particularly feel like tempting fate with experimentation quite yet. Around midweek I took off two fan leaves near the top. I would normally wait a few more weeks before even thinking of defoliation because tucking leaves or doing a little LST to get them where I want has worked so well before having to do defoliating, but there's just not enough stretch in the leaf stems and branches yet to do that. Now at the end of the week, I can say the early (and minimal) defoliation of the two leaves went exactly as I'd hoped - Ice Bomb's branches are finally starting to grow and stretch out a bit more noticeably now that they have more access to light. Note: After the defoliation I also put her pot more directly in front of a fan I have going inside the tent. With the density of her growth, I suspect it'll be a good idea to give her fresh air exchange a little more focus compared to the others I have growing right now.