Welcome to my second grow tent.
I delayed this diary for a long time, because this is a new grow tent, light, and ventilation setup that took me a while to get under control in the blazing heat of the summer, and the plant wasn’t doing well for a long time, and I wasn’t sure if it would make it.
The strain I am growing, started from seed, is Banana Jealousy, from Seedsman.
Here we have her at the worst of it all, at the end of week 2, with serious heat stress from triple-digit heat-wave temperatures (F) in my area:
Man, was I wrong. I flipped her a week ago at the end of week 5, right after super-cropping her apical stem, due to a very large internodal distance, and tying down her lateral branches. Ever since then, she has exploded in growth.
Here’s the start of my bondage treatment at the end of week 5:
We’re now a couple days into week 7. All through week 6, and the last couple days of week 7, we defoliated a ton of large leaves, to remove micro-climates and stimulate top-growth. Every day when I checked on her for over a week now, she was covering the entire footprint of my 3x3 tent, so I needed to, anyway. She’s growing in a 5-gallon fabric pot, and growing very laterally due to the super-cropping.
After a lot of defoliating today, part way through week 7, she looks like this:
We don’t have any flowers forming yet, as she is still preparing herself for a grand finale.
She has been drinking an incredible amount of water each day, more than any plant I’ve grown in a long time.
The new light I am using and she is responding very well to, is an AC Infinity Ionboard S33.
I’ll be back in a week or so with more progress, but for now, I’m pretty happy with the results of the new equipment.