This first round of photos is on Day 14 of flower. Technically the last day of Week 2 of flower, but it's the first day of a new week for the grow diaries. It has been extremely cold where I live and thankfully I'm growing indoors, but the cold still affects the temps in my tent a bit. They are probably around the lowest temps I feel comfortable with, probably averaging 75F° (24C°) lights on and 60-65 F° (16-18 C°) lights off. I turned off my exhaust fan over a week ago to retain as much heat in the tent I can, which has helped raise the temps/humidity and it's probably worse for the plants at this time. I just have my dehumidifier set to turn on if the humidity gets too high. I believe the cold has helped reduced the stretch though, because these plants haven't seemed to stretch like some of my previous grows, but I still have another week or so before I feel like they won't stretch anymore. When I was taking video up close on the Arise plant, I noticed some sugar leaves had a shine too them and they are already producing trichomes at Day 14 which seems pretty early too me. I hope it frosts up like a mofo! I like the structure of the Arise better too, but the Blue Dream seems to have a pretty unique structure as well it's just more of a "haze" structure. I did supercrop a few of the Blue Dream branches that seemed to be a little too tall compared to the others and they have adapted to it very well! I need to stall on increasing the amount of nutrients since they seem to have signs of burnt tips, but think it could have been the amount of my calcium solution I applied. I think it's extremely strong and I added 50ml instead of the 5ml I should have lol, but I'm getting it figured out.
Things are finally warming up a bit again outside, so the temps have been able to get back a little warmer where they like it better. The Arise even has a shimmer on some of the fan leaves so I'm hoping it's going to be a frosty one. The BD is still been stretching more so than the Arise, but I super cropped a couple branches just to even things out a bit. I did go ahead and give them their third defoliation since the day I flipped them. I just wanted to open them up a bit more to help the light get through better. Not much has changed since a few days ago besides the weather.
Finishing up Week 3 of flower and they are really beginning to bloom now. The stretch this go around was very minimal, especially the Irie Arise plant. It is probably one of the smallest stretches I've had with a plant, while the BD stretched twice as much. Honestly though, even the BD's stretch wasn't that bad. I think since it was soooooo COLD in my area, the tent was getting about as cold as I felt comfortable with. It got to the point where I was considering buying a small heater just in case, but I made it happen. I did go ahead and give them another defoliation and probaably won't give them anymore besides little trimming here and there. The stretch seems to be wrapping up because the blooming was really begun to take over. Just gonna try and keep them happy!
@Rock_n_Roll_Randy, Thank you sir! I just rolled a 2g King palm with a few tops for my YT channel review after a month cure. Definitely my favorite plant I've grown yet.