Well it has been a while since I have had much time to take photos and post them, so this morning I took a quick cell phone snap.
As you can see, things are moving along alright at 5 weeks of veg. I LSTed and topped them all and they have all responded to it well except the Northernberry is slow going.
Top left - Cali-O x Durban, top right - CBDream x Critical Kush, bottom left - Northernberry, bottom right - CBDream.
Funny that the CBDream was easily the weakest plant at the start and now it is just flying. Maybe it likes the lighting and feed better. Apparently the CBDream x Critical Kush got quite a lot of CBDream DNA, too.
I canāt decide whether to flip or not. Iām not really in any rush.
I think I have it easy, because maximum potency and yield are not high on my list of priorities.
Iāve learned with many other hobbies and activities that the āextremeā end of the scale is where all the chaos happens.
My goals are pretty simple - 1) raise the healthiest, best tasting, cleanest plants that I can, 2) Enjoy the process - growing the plants should be as therapeutic to me as smoking them. The last thing I need is more stress in my life.
See, in theory i believe in that principle as well. In practice, canāt help but mess with shit. Especially after the kid and wife are asleep. Itās my second wind dammit, and iām gonna do something
I should really stop that and be more like you. Plant look great KISSed.
This is what I look for when identifying males, clusters of flowers. Single male flowers sometimes look female. Same with females, unless I see a pistil coming out, I wait to declare sex.
Wow. Thats a lot of grow in 4 days what is your feeding? How old are they? what temperature and humidity at the moment? Did you removed any leafs so far? What medium you grow in? Have you added anything to the roots?
I Hope that its not a lot of questions and I bet some of them were answered already but Its nice to do assessment once a while
Thanks! The photos were taken 3 days apart, actually!
Feeding General Organics āGO Boxā nutes at half strength according to box feeding chart. They are 6 weeks and a day from seed. Switched to 12/12 5 days ago. Only removed a few fan leaves that were shading the mains. They were topped and LSTed a couple weeks ago. Temperature under the canopy is around 21-23 C all the time. Was closer to 28 C during the first few weeks of the grow. I donāt monitor humidity because it is never a problem where I live. Quite dry here. Probably 50-60% max in the tent. Growing in peat moss+perlite+EWC+dolomite lime. GO Box includes āBio Rootā but that is the only thing I have done for the roots.
Growing under a combination of 200w(actual draw) blurple and 5x36w Citizen 3500k 90CRI COBs.
Iām tempted to do some defoliating on the bottom 1/3rd or so of each of the 4 plants, and maybe get rid of some of the small āsuckerā branches thatāll never get any light.
I dunno. After reading everything, I have come to realize defoliation is solidly in the same category as Marmite when it comes to public opinion.
Aye it splits opinion that one eh. I normally do what you just suggested, remove a lot of the low stuff to improve air circulation and maybe send more growth energy to the heads. I usually do it in stages to limit stress, just removing a few leaves and a couple of shoots at a time doesnāt seem to bother a healthy plant and the extra light and air circulation can help big time. I also remove lower limbs that want to grow through other plants or that shove buds against the side walls. Crushed buds rot fast eh.
keep growing 
