Stretch Surges, Transition to Flores and Pre-Flower Progress
Another week in the books and things are humming along nicely in the tent. Operationally speaking, life has been pretty quiet on the maintenance front with only minimal pH corrections required throughout the week.
With the vertical growth kicking into a solid stretch, the canopy started getting a bit too close for comfort to the light fixture. Since I was already running at 50% power, I raised the light higher up and bumped the intensity to 75% to keep everything happy and well lit.
Friday brought another routine reservoir change, marking a major milestone as I made the official switch over to Canna Aqua Flores for the bloom phase. The EC is locked in right at 2.1 mS and I'm keeping the pH hovering nicely between 5.6 and 5.8.
The stretch has been properly respectable so far. The plants are now sitting at 60 cm height, which translates to about 23.6 inches, standing 25 cm or roughly 9.8 inches above the ScrOG net. Including the buckets down below, the total height reaches a solid 100 cm, or about 39.4 inches for my imperial friends.
As I mentioned back in the seedling phase, I expected my HOMEBox with its 180 cm height to be too small for the exhaust fan plus filter space wise inside the tent, and it turns out I was right. At this point, and I fully expect the flowers to stack even higher, there are just a couple of centimeters between the grow light and the exhaust fan.
The plants used the switch to 12|12 nicely for their stretch and showed the very first signs of flowering last Friday. Today on Sunday, the sites are looking healthy and vigorous as captured in the photos, while one of the other photos shows just how nicely bushed out the structure is underneath, even if it turned out slightly less dense than I initially anticipated.
Looking forward, I plan to do a heavy defoliation session this coming Wednesday or Thursday. Once that is out of the way, the plan for the remainder of the grow is to lean back, relax, and just watch ‘em do their thing. That way, I can fully focus on letting my hand heal up properly and finally tackling some of those other lingering aches and pains.