The Monster Mash
22 February 2023
We’ll have 40 flowering growth tips per plant during week 4 of veg mode. Remember me saying all this method really does is take advantage of the plants natural growth structure (just tweaking it a bit for indoor growing)? Well here’s the proof. Is this method anything new? No, not really. Is this layout and structure revolutionary? Possibly. Will learning and taking advantage of this layout and structure really improve my over-all yield without increasing my grow time? ABSOLUTELY, without a doubt, YES!
PLANT A - Before and After clean-up
PLANT B - Before and After clean-up
PLANT C - Before and After clean-up
The Three Little Monster on day 30 [32 - 40 flowering growth tips per plant]
Thoughts on growing Feminized Frankenstein S1 AKA Frankenstein’s Daughter from seed to this point…
- She is not a fan of cooler temps or cold toes
- She doesn’t like the wind directly in her face (messes with her beauty shots)
- Like most Indica heavy hybrids she likes calcium when little
- She will take extreme note of ANY pH fluctuations
- She does like her magnesium
- A growers dream - takes a licking and keeps on ticking!
- Internodal spacing is still LONG even with extended light hours
- Nodes on side branches after topping rapidly lose symmetry
WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME
FD can be a bit picky. Yes even the HILDA phenotype; but this is nothing that is truly out of the ordinary for any strain and especially a NEW strain from seed as opposed to a cutting. I think she would prefer (and her growth tends to back this) to be left unfettered and unchained and grown under warmer more humid conditions with mild to gentle wind. The plant really does appear to like and respond well to additional magnesium (and a little calcium). It is my estimation that grown outdoors with minimal to no training this strain would and will be a TRUE Monster! I’d estimate generally unrestrained height at between 5-7 feet with a VERY full leaf load due to it’s tendency to deviate nodal spacing rapidly off the main branch. You might want to keep that in mind when growing indoors as I think if you blink twice she could easily get away on you.
Grown indoors, either in Hydro or another growing medium; you’re going to need to keep an eye on her. I really wasn’t kidding about all the notes above so keep that in mind when ‘growing your own’. Truth be told she grows like a dream, hardy and durable appearing to be able to quickly bounce back from incidents and accidents, is pliable and EXTREMELY trainable without the need for High Stress Training and will quickly be having you admiring her many positive attributes.
- note on the graphic: if growing autos I use the same structure as shown with two exceptions. The plant is grown out as a quad I.e; all four sides of the initial + are used and plants are NOT topped at the end of each main branch. This is is due to autos starting flowering around week 4. For autos this will produce about 80 flowering growth tips by week 5. Ya, you’re gonna need to do some culling.