LST in real time

[90Gizmo]

changeofpace2014 and Bluey - Okay. It did get a lot bushier overnight so another round of stick torture today.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

She's look excellent Gizmo good for you with just tucking for now. That's so hard for me...cause i just want them off an out of the way.

 

[90Gizmo]

Day 39 - Starting to look hungry so I gave her a little bit. Still nudging the tallest branches down. I'll get a real measurement soon but estimate she's about six inches tall.
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[kingfish]

90Gizmo, your plant is looking really nice, but I wonder if watering your leaves at this stage of flowering is such a good idea?

 

[90Gizmo]

You are right. I'm too sloppy with the watering can. It's challenging with all the branches and sticks to get the spout pointing where you want... I have to go slower.

 

[90Gizmo]

Day 42 - Grew three inches in three days, now 9 inches tall. I don't think I mentioned that the sticks only need to be in place for a few days before the branches hold shape. Good thing the sticks are reusable. I'm still nudging branches to make light for slower growth. Baby needed watering yesterday but didn't get to it until today. Previous water had a little grow and flower nutes etc. This one was just cal-mag. I turned on a second light to get more even illumination and adjusted the two to get an even 45 DLI all over. Some bottom fan leaves were showing their lack of light so I trimmed 5 or 6 and it's a lot more open underneath.
This is a "designer" seed so there's not much grow information on it. I hope it has many weeks to go because it's going to need many weeks to make big fat buds.

 

[farmerchand]

My plants also have the same type of growth.

 

[90Gizmo]

Wrapping up week 7. Adding 1/4 bloom nutes every other water, 1/2 cal mag on the other. Now 10" tall and making buds. Some shaded leaves are yellowing. I'll take them out.

 

[90Gizmo]

Day 50 - Starting week 8, Catalog suggests 5 or 6 more. Little difference except now there are trichomes on the tiny sugar leaves. Seeing some spots on leaves, gave a little more Cal-Mag. Think my pH was too low so raised that a bit, now 6.3

 

[SoOrbudgal]

She looks good 90Gizmo yep they are small as i'm still learning them and have grown plenty of them. I hesitate with giving them enough food my main issues and i play with the training too early still shoot i really get bothered with them. I stunt the growth if i do too heavy tie downs i thinK ? My 2 are the same age as yours now. You have 2x the bud sites as mine and still yours look way bigger. So don't kick your self too badly we may yet pull off a decent harvest. I too have set my ties free and now mine look more happy.

 

[Bluey]

Something like went wrong

 

[90Gizmo]

Overachiever.

 

[Bluey]

It's a toothpick, not a broomstick

 

[90Gizmo]

... cute? I'm a beginner so there's a long list of mistakes still ahead of me so I'm not laughing at anything. I can commiserate though. My canopy is now at 11" with one branch at 12" . I'm only shooting for 14" so I'm hopeful it will get there.

 

[90Gizmo]

IIRC I started with three nodes and the bottom two sets of branches are now the smallest ones. They were the largest ones when I started with five nodes. Perhaps I was too rough with them when they were too young. Every grow so far I've had problems starting when I transition to bloom nutes. Last grow seemed to help when I added a little grow nutes back in. I'm planning to keep 1/4 grow and work up tp 1/2 bloom at the end. Or at least until I see some reaction to tell me it doesn't like that.

 

[Bluey]

I almost lost them these past two weeks with something that was growing in my nute tank. Destroyed the pH stability and it got well away from me..7.11pH in coco before I could fix it...I have no doubt I won't stop learning new things. Love this hobby

 

[90Gizmo]

How about a UV sanitizing light in the nute tank? I get algee in my filter cartridges... don't really know how to stop it.

 

[Bluey]

Sounds like it might work well but electricity combined with water I stay well away from. I'll just clean out the tank and pump every 4 or 5 weeks with a bit of bleach and pump it to waste with a decent flush. I suspect a decent UVC light would kill most things with just a small exposure...Inc me...lol.

 

[90Gizmo]

Day 54 - She has a fairly flat canopy from the LST. Still pushing branches away from center to let the light in. Trying to end what looks like a calcium deficiency.

 

[Bluey]

Here we go....I did the same, upped to 6.3pH.but was slow to get cal mag into it and now I have a plant with so much rust I'm going to recycle it at the scrap metal yard.