Alright, flower day 27 today.
If I seem like I’m in a seriously pissy mood in this post, it’s because I was in the room watering and taking pictures and shit and decided the Mexican Melon #1 needed to be tied down. A couple grows ago, one of my Starkillers really stretched out of control, so I tied down her tops and she split right in half. And I was real careful when I was tying her down. I really don’t like doing any kind of training, so when I do, I’m always very careful.
Today, when I went to tie down the Mexican Melon #1, I was even more extra-extra-careful super-special careful haha. I didn’t even spread her out too much, just enough to lower the tops maybe four inches, because anything’s better than nothing. Anyway, I tied down her first top, very gently, turned my back to grab the floral tape to tie down the second top and heard a loud,“SNAP!” and she’d straight broken in half. I’m super-fucking-sad right now. That plant’s been getting on my nerves for a while. I don’t mind the stretching, I fully expected her and the MM#2 to stretch. But it seems like her root development wasn’t really that great after I got her into the seven gallon pots, either. She’s been kind of leaning hard-core at the base for days now, almost like she just gonna rips all of the roots out and fall right over. And, I mean, sometimes that happens when flower development is nearing the end and shit starts swelling and stuff. I can understand that. It’s why I’ll stake and tie sometimes. But this early? I don’t know.
Anyway, I measured them all today, too. Plant height will be in parentheses next to each strain name.
Mexican Melon #1 (41"):
You’ll notice that the two tops are very close together; that’s because I took these pictures after she had snapped in half and I had taped her together where she snapped. But I measured her BEFORE she had snapped, so the height is accurate. Forty-one inches isn’t too bad. She seemed to reeeealllyyy stretch super-fast and then just stopped around day 19 or so. Which is great for me. I was afraid she was gonna end up six feet tall.
Couple close-ups of the MM#1:
Here’s the Mexican Melon #2 (37")(my favorite! lots of pics):
There’s just so. Many. Budsites… haha! Both she and the MM#1 look like they’re gonna take longer than the ones Doc D was running, which he said finished in “just under ten weeks.” And that’s fine. I don’t mind. I was a little skeptical of that ten-week finishing time when he mentioned that, but you never know! Maybe they will finish that quickly. If they don’t, though, I won’t be mad. I’ll actually be super-happy haha. I don’t want to grow any kind of Mexican cross that finishes in only 67 days.
Anyway, as far as the stretch is concerned, both only stretched about 125%, which isn’t bad at all. The MM#1 was 17.5" the day I flipped and ended up at 41"; the #2 was 16" and ended up at 37". That’s totally acceptable.
Here’s the Black Triangle #1 (20 inches! Shit!):
I wasn’t able to get vey many good pictures of the BT#1, I guess.
And the Black Triangle #2 (26.5”):
Trichome development on these two has been kind of slow. Usually by week four, with almost everything of Bodhi’s that I’ve grown, there’s frost all over the fan leaves and shit, looking very good. These look okay, but not nearly as frosty at this point as usual. Still a long way to go, though.
The Black Triangle #2 stretched a little more than 100%, from 12" to 26.5". That Black Triangle #1 though, didn’t even stretch 50%, from 14" to 20". She’s killing my canopy! Haha. Seriously, if it wasn’t for that plant, I wouldn’t have even messed with the MM#1. As it is, I guess I’ll stick the Black Triangle #1 on a five-gallon bucket or something. Fucking short plants… Can’t stand 'em haha.
Also, I dunno if anybody noticed, but there’s already some brown pistils showing up on the Black Triangles and also on the Chem Fuegos that I’ll post pictures of here in a second. I think it’s because of my humidifiers, running five right now and some of the mist gets on the plants, even though I try to keep the humidifiers pretty far from the front of the tent. But yeah, I dunno why some of the plants are starting to develop brown pistils already. But that’s happened before, my last few grows. That’s actually why I think it has something to do with the humidifiers, simply because running five humidifiers is a relatively new thing for my grows. It’s so fucking DRY out here. I used to only have to run one at our old house.
Anyway, here’s the Chem Fuego #1 (29"):
I took like twenty close-ups of her and didn’t get a single good one. I may have taken pictures of her after the Mexican Melon #1 had snapped, when I was shaking with rage haha! Maybe that was the problem…
Chem Fuego #2 (32"):
And the Chem Fuego #4 (30"):
The Chem Fuegos #2 and #4 stretched exactly 100%, which is kind of cool. #2 stretched from 16" to 32" and the #4 stretched from 15" to 30". The Chem Fuego #1 only stretched one inch above 100%, from 14" to 29". Damn close to being uniform, really.
SO alright, there we go. Day 27 of flower today. Hopefully that Mexican Melon #1 will pull through and be okay. I taped the shit out of her right where she split, probably take the tape off of her in two weeks or so and see what’s up. She should heal fine, I think, but the way she’s taped up, both tops are really close together. That’s okay for now, while there’s barely any flower development, but once they start getting fatter, I want the tops further away from each other. So, we’ll see… It’s just such a goddamn bummer haha. I was actually thinking to myself today, when I was watering and checking her out,“Naaahhhhh, dude, it’s okay, don’t tie them down,” and then decided to anyway. Shoulda listened to myself.
This is why I never train my plants!!! haha.
