Update time.
It's been over a week since I discovered my 'timer' failure and they've been back on 12/12.
Look's like we're on-track again now tho' ..
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On Monday, I tied them down and supercropped them .. or attempted to! The stems are really snappy, I've had a couple come off clean in my hand (shit) and I've had to fix a few more .. think I'll just have to leave them alone now ..
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This is how they looked today ..
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Meanwhile, back in the vegging chamber, all the 'mainliners' got spread and tied down ready for phase 3 ..
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That was a couple of days ago .. they're bushing up again rapidly, this was today ..
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I guess-timate another 6 weeks, I've lost about 10 days with the timer disaster, so that's how long I've got to keep these vegging for. My plan is to grow them out now for about a week, then give them another topping, phase 3 .. go up to 8 x growth-nodes. A week's recovery, another week's growth and then the final topping, phase 4 .. 16 x growth-nodes. Another week's recovery, a week's growth and that takes me to 5 weeks.
To help slow them down a bit, I'm trying to keep the temps down at around 20C and when they get to the last few weeks, I'll drop the lights to 18/6, then 16/8, 14/10 .. then they'll get re-potted, given 36 hours of darkness to properly trigger the flowering phase and then nuked under the LEDs.
Happy Bud