After many delays the plant babies

[IanHale]

The growth on the other plants is insane. I had the center two colas bent down at their tips and within 24 hours a whole new inch and a their node and a half out. I also had to adjust the training spots from yesterday on the rest of them as well.

Next res change I'm upping the nutes to full (50%) power. I'm at 40% right now.

The chillers wouldnt arrive for a month if I ordered them today...but I can keep them veggin as long as I wish and max them out size wise before flowering

[alltatup]

If the growth is vigorous, why change the nutes? They clearly love what you're doing. Remember: light is the food, nutes are supplements.

[IanHale]

Just following the steps in the guide. It suggested upping the nutes up to 50% of full strength the last 2-3 weeks of Veg. So I started at 25% of 50% and increased a little each res change. I'm planning on doing 2 1/2-3 1/2 more weeks of veg. I don't wanna transition to flowering until after my daughter arrives next week. Veg state is safer to be away from for several days rather than the transition.

[IanHale]

I also can't help but think that if I could keep the res temps about 15 degrees lower they'd been growing even faster

[IanHale]

BN1 is almost covering the lid entirely and I should be able to remove the reflector under the plant.

i retrain them every other day keeping the new tips low and turn the interior tips up and tuck the central fan leaves down.

i broke a tip of PM2 trying to remove a tie that had slid and accidentally clipped the tip. The two side sprouts immediately filled in and had tips of their own less than 12 hours later. Apparently she learned from her early broken arm and responds more quickly to trauma now.

The size difference between CB1&BN1 (no defoliation) versus CB2&BN2 which had light defoliation (3 lower fan leaves on inner four colas) is apparent. the 1's nearly cover their lids while the 2's have a bit more to go.

[alltatup]

They really look fantastic, Ian.

[IanHale]

Thanks man. They're really going into full on grow-like-a-mofo mode. I retrain them as needed every night. Nice low flat bushy table. They drank over a gallon each since I topped off two days ago.

Just topped off again and I'm pulling the water for the res changes to let it sit. Although I'm not sure of the efficacy of it as the water treatment center near me uses the chloramine sanitizer instead of just Chlorine.

My daughter should be coming any time now so I'm def gonna veg these girls another week.

It's almost time to let them start growing vertically before inhit the switch to flower.

I want to experiment with a scrog on one plant next grow and see how that works for me combined with the manifolding I'm doing.

[IanHale]

CB1 showing off her nice structure and size. LST freshly redone.

37 days from seed. Gonna take it to at least 45 days of veg, or up to 49 days from seed before I switch to 12/12

[IanHale]

Day 38 from seed

The training on the main colas after manifolding has resulted in these nice flat canopys with many happy growth spots.

the plants are 8-9 inches tall but spread way out. BN1 completely covers her tank lid and CB1 is close behind.

theyre gonna be kept in Veg until my daughter is born and when I get back from the hospital I'm flipping the switch to 12/12.

Im not worried that they'll overgrow the lights or space. I have 8 foot ceilings in the room I built and they have plenty of room to grow outwards too.

[Aloner]

Phenomenal!

[IanHale]

Changed out the water, upped the nutes to full (50%) strength.

Time to let them run wild

[IanHale]

Gone for 3 days and my plants exploded

[Aloner]

Boooom!!

[IanHale]

Topped off the rezzes with ph'd tap water. They grew another several inches over night.

current height of tallest plant, 40 cm. Taking them until Wednesday in Veg, doing a res change and flipping to fower

[IanHale]

Day 45 from seed.

Reservoir change. Flipped the switch to flower. Lights or at 8am and back on at 8pm

plants are between 40 and 55 cm tall, perfect height for flowering stretch

[IanHale]

Day 46/ flower 1

defoliated CB1 and spread the colas out.

Tied em down and flattened out the top.

What yall think?

plus a nice shot of the manifold base of CB1

[IanHale]

Day 5 of flower

Switched out the MH bulbs for HPS.

Plants are so bushed out now they're getting challenging to rotate.

I'm definitely gonna try scrog on at least one plant next grow

[IanHale]

Flower Day 6

theyve drank about 1/2 their water since last change. Gonna top off for now and water change on sunday

[IanHale]

Flower day 7

fun fact when your lid is no longer able to support the weight of the plant and the net pot slips down into the reservoir and your plant tilts like crazy.

used zip ties and duct tape to give it more support

[IanHale]

Defoliated everything in the canopy shadow and removed larger fan leaves and tucked the ones in the middle of the plants back. My finger tips were sticky afterwards

looking at the comparative side of the plant that I broke the arm of very early.

I probably shouldve sacrificed it and just trained the other half of the plant. It is definitely the flipper armed kid in gym class

[IanHale]

The top of PM1

looking fat and happy

[IanHale]

Tried supercroppjng some tops that were taller than the others on BN1.

i think I made her mad.

she was like NOPE I'm standing back up motheruckrr

[Aloner]

Yep, you gotta tie 'em down after you bend 'em or they'll just pop right back up again. The resiliency is pretty amazing.

[IanHale]

its al good though.

If I get 4-6 oz per plant I'll be more than stoked

The more the better