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Remind me to never again water my plants with a sprouted seed tea when I'm trying to keep plant height to a minimum....
So things are going well. These plants still have almost two weeks to go until I can start flowering them and they are fucking MASSIVE already. It's going to be chaos once the stretch starts happening. The Tangerine Kushes in particular are very, very vigorous. The Clusterfunk, too, is surprisingly huge. I'm not too too worried about that one, just because I remember the last time I grew it that it didn't stretch a lot, but it is really big already. Even if it only stretches 50 percent, it's still gonna be awfully big. They're all gonna be huge. The Fuzzes and one of the El Jefe Thais aren't vegging out of control, but they're pretty bushy. All of the plants are pretty bushy. I keep thinking that maybe I should top some of the taller plants again, just to keep the canopy relatively even, but I think I'm just gonna let them do their thing and deal with it as things need to be dealt with. Topping them will just increase horizontal growth, which I feel like will be more of an issue than vertical growth. I can tie down tops and shit, but I can't really do anything about bushes. Height is something that can be dealt with; horizontal growth can't, so....
I watered all of them with a sprouted seed tea (barley; I'll give them a couple sprouted corn teas once I switch to 12/12) along with a little K silicate and TM7 a few days ago. They loved it. A little too much, actually. All of the plants loved it, praying their asses off. The Tangerine Kushes, the Clusterfunk and one of the El Jefe Thais took OFF and grew about six inches in two days. No lie. I've moved all of the tallest plants into the very farthest corners of the tent to decrease how much light they get and hopefully slow down their growth. I am so ready to move into our new house. Yeah, I like that we're going to have a pool, yeah, the new house is really sweet and looks great and all that, but I could give a shit. All I care about is starting 12/12. Having said that, it should be pretty cool to see what happens and how these plants produce, considering that they will have been vegged for almost ninety days before I finally flower them. I don't think I've ever read a grow log where the plants were vegged for ninety days.
Also I should mention that yesterday was the first day of a 14/10 light schedule. Hopefully that'll reduce the stretch some once flower is induced.
Anyway, here's some individual plant shots. First up are the Tangerine Kushes. I have to say, the TK's have really wide internodes, which I kind of expected, considering the genetics. Having said that, the branches on all of them are THICK. I doubt I'll need to stake and tie them at all. They look very sturdy.
Tangerine Kush #1:
Tangerine Kush #4:
Tangerine Kush #5:
The Tangerine Kush #5 is my favorite, but I love them all. Plus, they fucking REEK of tangerines. I think I may have mentioned this before, but they really do smell like a full-on tangerine. Not a generic "candy" type of tangerine smell, but like a freshly-peeled actual tangerine, down to the bitter-skin sensation. I can't fucking wait to see how the flowers turn out.
Here are the El Jefe Thais. First up is El Jefe Thai #2:
It's really bushy, if you can't tell from the pics.
El Jefe Thai #3:
And El Jefe Thai #4. This one is real weird and I think it'll turn out very Thai-ish. I topped this one, along with all of the other plants, a while ago, but as you can see from the pics, one top is out-growing the other top big-time. Real weird. I've read that article "Strains of Yesteryear" by DJ Short a billion times and I feel like he mentioned that the Thais he grew out in the early 80's or whenever had a tendency to kind of "catch up" to the meristem. Like, one branch would shoot up and become the meristem and then like a week later, another side-branch would shoot up and become the meristem, and then another and another. In other words, the Thais he grew didn't really have any sort of uniform growth, which is what the El Jefe Thai #4 is doing. Whatever, take a look at the following pics and decide for yourself.
It's not exactly like how DJ Short described his experiences with growing Thai strains, but it is a little weird. Look how much taller that one top is than the other top. I keep moving the plants around so that each one gets a decent amount of light all around, but the El Jefe #4 just keeps growing in this weird way, with that one top growing way faster than the other top. Here's another picture of it:
Okay, so there's the Tangerine Kushes and the El Jefe Thais. I'll post pics of The Fuzzes in a second.
So things are going well. These plants still have almost two weeks to go until I can start flowering them and they are fucking MASSIVE already. It's going to be chaos once the stretch starts happening. The Tangerine Kushes in particular are very, very vigorous. The Clusterfunk, too, is surprisingly huge. I'm not too too worried about that one, just because I remember the last time I grew it that it didn't stretch a lot, but it is really big already. Even if it only stretches 50 percent, it's still gonna be awfully big. They're all gonna be huge. The Fuzzes and one of the El Jefe Thais aren't vegging out of control, but they're pretty bushy. All of the plants are pretty bushy. I keep thinking that maybe I should top some of the taller plants again, just to keep the canopy relatively even, but I think I'm just gonna let them do their thing and deal with it as things need to be dealt with. Topping them will just increase horizontal growth, which I feel like will be more of an issue than vertical growth. I can tie down tops and shit, but I can't really do anything about bushes. Height is something that can be dealt with; horizontal growth can't, so....
I watered all of them with a sprouted seed tea (barley; I'll give them a couple sprouted corn teas once I switch to 12/12) along with a little K silicate and TM7 a few days ago. They loved it. A little too much, actually. All of the plants loved it, praying their asses off. The Tangerine Kushes, the Clusterfunk and one of the El Jefe Thais took OFF and grew about six inches in two days. No lie. I've moved all of the tallest plants into the very farthest corners of the tent to decrease how much light they get and hopefully slow down their growth. I am so ready to move into our new house. Yeah, I like that we're going to have a pool, yeah, the new house is really sweet and looks great and all that, but I could give a shit. All I care about is starting 12/12. Having said that, it should be pretty cool to see what happens and how these plants produce, considering that they will have been vegged for almost ninety days before I finally flower them. I don't think I've ever read a grow log where the plants were vegged for ninety days.
Also I should mention that yesterday was the first day of a 14/10 light schedule. Hopefully that'll reduce the stretch some once flower is induced.
Anyway, here's some individual plant shots. First up are the Tangerine Kushes. I have to say, the TK's have really wide internodes, which I kind of expected, considering the genetics. Having said that, the branches on all of them are THICK. I doubt I'll need to stake and tie them at all. They look very sturdy.
Tangerine Kush #1:
Tangerine Kush #4:
Tangerine Kush #5:
The Tangerine Kush #5 is my favorite, but I love them all. Plus, they fucking REEK of tangerines. I think I may have mentioned this before, but they really do smell like a full-on tangerine. Not a generic "candy" type of tangerine smell, but like a freshly-peeled actual tangerine, down to the bitter-skin sensation. I can't fucking wait to see how the flowers turn out.
Here are the El Jefe Thais. First up is El Jefe Thai #2:
It's really bushy, if you can't tell from the pics.
El Jefe Thai #3:
And El Jefe Thai #4. This one is real weird and I think it'll turn out very Thai-ish. I topped this one, along with all of the other plants, a while ago, but as you can see from the pics, one top is out-growing the other top big-time. Real weird. I've read that article "Strains of Yesteryear" by DJ Short a billion times and I feel like he mentioned that the Thais he grew out in the early 80's or whenever had a tendency to kind of "catch up" to the meristem. Like, one branch would shoot up and become the meristem and then like a week later, another side-branch would shoot up and become the meristem, and then another and another. In other words, the Thais he grew didn't really have any sort of uniform growth, which is what the El Jefe Thai #4 is doing. Whatever, take a look at the following pics and decide for yourself.
It's not exactly like how DJ Short described his experiences with growing Thai strains, but it is a little weird. Look how much taller that one top is than the other top. I keep moving the plants around so that each one gets a decent amount of light all around, but the El Jefe #4 just keeps growing in this weird way, with that one top growing way faster than the other top. Here's another picture of it:
Okay, so there's the Tangerine Kushes and the El Jefe Thais. I'll post pics of The Fuzzes in a second.