Sugarcane ten gallon monster

Received this plant in a ten gallon pot from a good friend. The perfect way to break in the new HLG lamp I bought at a discount over Christmas. This thing is going to turn into a monster.

Last week before flower. Tied some very long branches down pretty much horizontal and brought the overall height of the plant down quite a bit to fill up the width of my space better. Also ripped one of the big branches a bit at where it connected to the main stem. Nothing a little gorilla tape and some staking later won’t fix!

Most of this week was a bounce back from the main stem rip and the branch tie down. She recovered quickly though, and the training really helped flesh the plant out.

Week two was a major week in this girls development. Major side branch development, bud sites everywhere. She grew to fill essentially a 4x4 space this week.

Not much happened this week. Mostly the end of stretch and the necessity of staking and tying up some branches the are easily 4-5 feet long.

Massive bud growth this week. Not much to say, I’m in awe of what a plant in a ten gallon pot with a high end LED light can do.

Big thicc buds. Hard to imagine what these will look like at the end in about 3 more weeks. Used twine over the last few weeks to individually tie up about 15-20 branches to the three stakes I put in. A trellis would’ve helped a lot, but she’s sharing a room with plants earlier in flower now, which is why I decided not to use one a few weeks back.

Started the flush this week, I plan on taking her down around week 8. Hairs are about 50% orange and trichomes starting to turn mostly milky.

Harvest week. After about 4 hours of work she was all hung up. Got some decent purple on the tops, lots of pretty colors.

This plant ended up too tall and too close to the HLG at the end of flower so I believe the heat kept the very tops of the colas from reaching their true potential in terms of size. There were quite a few branches where the unders were actually larger than the tops. All in all though the plant produced more than 14 ounces so I can’t complain.