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I *think* I got away with the light feck-up. They seem to be flowering normally as far as I can see.

I so wanted to keep that plant, despite it having been only a bag seed ... my first cannabis plant :( and it turns out male. Crying!

So I pulled these three cuttings from my propagator today (see latest picture this week). Well, two cuttings (middle and right) and what remained of the Haze Express after repeated attempts of saving it. Now that I look at the hollowed out stem I reckon it took the gnat larvae with it into its new medium. Nae chance. Middle one is the first cutting I took, and as you can see it just rotted away instead of doing anything. Probably because there was no node underneath the soil surface. Right one is surprisingly the one that actually rooted - I just took that cutting for fun, it's from an auto, it never had a future as a separate plant ... but yes, two nodes in the soil, both developed healthy looking roots.

They got really bushy this week somehow. Too much N? Gave all of them some defoliating, most of all the Special Kush again, and OH MY GOD MY FINGERS ARE STICKY AS F-...

Had a look if they needed more defoliating, but it seemed mostly fine - I did some to the Special Kush (top right), who is shaping up to become a wee little frost nugget by the looks of it.

I've done some minor defoliation. At least I think it was minor (well, some plants got the knife a bit more than others). In some cases I left large bottom fan leaves on the plant where they didn't obstruct anything but were the last thing before the soil to get light. Also some fan leaves pointing outward and not obstructing anything either. But mostly I removed all fan leaves except the newest pair per top / growth tip.

In related news - good news for anyone who will ever have the misfortune of directing their gaze at the lousy pictures I take - I've moved the Letting Eyes Disintegrate light back to the small auto cabinet, as the LEC (or CMH or CDM ... the ceramic thingy) will get an amazing square reflector next week that *only* fits in the tent, so I need to swap the lights. Meaning the main grow tent will have the nicer to look at light. I've also realised that that lamp is a wee bit too hot for the small cabinet, so I'm inclined to keep running the Lightly Excruciating Demon of a grow light in there.

Just something i forgot to add in my solution to your problem, If you stand over the top of your plants as if you're where your grow light is you can see where the light is not getting through. Those are the fan leaves you want to get rid of. Take it easy 😀

Chamalla that's awesome that your trying out so many things....expect that baby to be one huge bush! I'm talking 70's porno bush! Excuse the crude reference. I can't wait to see how she turns out.

@Chamalla Hi there! This looks like a Phosphorous deficiency. You may have a nutrients-lockout in your soil preventing Phosphorous uptake. Overfeeding, overwatering, or wrong pH can result in nutrients-lockout. Do you check your pH? If you don't, I'd recommend to buy a pH-pen asap, they're affordable and this makes a real difference. I'll be around, keep us up-to-date, and happy growing! 👊

First grows are exciting, but kind of scary! Liked and followed =) I'm a big fan of doing a lot of training techniques myself as well; the main thing that the guides might leave out: make sure that the plant is in the middle of a vegetative growth spurt -- instead of one of the precious early veg root spurts -- to make your tops and other stressful moves. Either way, you're doing very well so far! Eagerly anticipating the rest of your diary. Let us know if you have any questions!

Did you really "top" "fim" 8 times?! That's awesome. I want to try topping one of my girls multiple times just so I can experiment and see how much different it would turn out from the others, but I'm nervous to end up messing her up. Have you done that before? Multiple toppings?

That's some hard core bending there. I'd bet she survives fine. Its gonna be a stinky bonsai! 😀

congratulations , very nice , leaves are barely burned with fertilization, no big problem, stop fertilizing, yes try just clean water and it will be good

happy harvest =)

That's the last of them in the dark for a few days, been flushing them for a week now. Next step is a slow dry on the vine, as it were.

I think I may put them all into flower now. and start a new grow in a month's time, to be flipped to 12/12 when they're harvested in ~2 months. I'll keep a razor sharp eye out for male flowers. And a razor.