Indoor GreenBean's Grows

Lady Walter at Day 27. She seems to have started to kick into gear now. Sometimes you just have to ride it out. Dropped her back down to 3.5g per gallon of V1 and V2 since Mendel is going on Bloom very soon - if not today. I'll see where she's at once she hits preflower and adjust if needed. At this stage, 4g on her was just a waste. She's still a slow mover, but I think that's about to change. If I can get her vertical, I think she's going to have a beautiful structure.

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And Mendel at day 37 is starting to reach for the sky more as she heads into full bloom. I expect that to continue. Did a good lower defoliation last night, as well as interiors. But she seems to fill in those interior areas super fast, literally overnight. The Floraflex B contains a good amount of N in it, so I expect her to keep climbing.

She's starting to take on that "crown" formation that I want as I work the grommets = the taller inner limbs (like the two original colas) get pulled to the outer edge outer as I widen the canopy, and then the smaller outer limbs become the new inner limbs and can get good light penetration and continue to grow up. I continue to widen the canopy as we go. Trying to keep the taller limbs around the outer edge of the plant. For the most part. There will always be some limbs around the edges that I just have to get as much light as possible to.

Still a few smaller sites and leaves on the lowers that I left, I usually wait until I can really see how vertical (and wide) the plant is going to get, and if they will get light penetration to them, before I decide to keep or remove them.

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Lady Walter at Day 27. She seems to have started to kick into gear now. Sometimes you just have to ride it out. Dropped her back down to 3.5g per gallon of V1 and V2 since Mendel is going on Bloom very soon - if not today. I'll see where she's at once she hits preflower and adjust if needed. At this stage, 4g on her was just a waste. She's still a slow mover, but I think that's about to change. If I can get her vertical, I think she's going to have a beautiful structure.

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And Mendel at day 37 is starting to reach for the sky more as she heads into full bloom. I expect that to continue. Did a good lower defoliation last night, as well as interiors. But she seems to fill in those interior areas super fast, literally overnight. The Floraflex B contains a good amount of N in it, so I expect her to keep climbing.

She's starting to take on that "crown" formation that I want as I work the grommets = the taller inner limbs (like the two original colas) get pulled to the outer edge outer as I widen the canopy, and then the smaller outer limbs become the new inner limbs and can get good light penetration and continue to grow up. I continue to widen the canopy as we go. Trying to keep the taller limbs around the outer edge of the plant. For the most part. There will always be some limbs around the edges that I just have to get as much light as possible to.

Still a few smaller sites and leaves on the lowers that I left, I usually wait until I can really see how vertical (and wide) the plant is going to get, and if they will get light penetration to them, before I decide to keep or remove them.

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I have seen that look before. Lady Walter will exlode and might just end up the bigger plant with a bigger yield. I also bet it take a little longer.
 
I have seen that look before. Lady Walter will exlode and might just end up the bigger plant with a bigger yield. I also bet it take a little longer.

She started showing her first signs of pre-flower last night. So we're about to find out what's going to happen.
 
Hey everyone. Day 39 for Brother Mendel Pina Kaleidoscope. Got her first dose of B nutes last night, and her last foliar feed. Been playing around with the foliar sprays from Floraflex a little more this run since I have them. Nothing too wacky. I'd say about 3-4 total foliar sprays in veg with the V foliar, and 1 B foliar spray right when I switch to B nutes.

Anyway, Pina is starting to reach for the lights, and I've had to bump the light height slightly for the past 2 days. She's at about 725 PPFD right now and that leaves Lady Walter at around 525. I'll raise the light intensity as we go. She looks good, getting taller still and her tops are starting to even out little by little in height. Figure we've got another 50 days give or take, so everything is looking good. Canopy widening shall continue to get the interior fruits more light.

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Lady Walter, day 29. She's still a clump, but showing signs of breaking out and up. First signs of pre-flower showed yesterday. I'm going to need to pull her out of the tent later and comb through that older undergrowth. Start picking some of that off of her to get her a bit more open to light penetration. At this point, she's still like a giant mass of growth. Very healthy, and if she's gonna go up, it'll start to happen soon.

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Wow.. I missed a couple updates and look what happened.. they took off :d5: pina looks great already m8 and I like to think Walter is gonna surprise u.. I have a feeling she's been working harder underground than up top and may well stretch rapidly very soon :smoking: lovely ladies.
 
Wow.. I missed a couple updates and look what happened.. they took off :d5: pina looks great already m8 and I like to think Walter is gonna surprise u.. I have a feeling she's been working harder underground than up top and may well stretch rapidly very soon :smoking: lovely ladies.

Thanks! Mendel has been pretty hassle free so far, and just lets me do my thing. Looks like she will give me that structure and big floppy fruits I enjoy seeing. And yes, Lady Walter seems to be eating the pot and going out before she goes up. Very thick and dense growth, so I do need to pull her out and do some clean up later. We shall see where she takes us. Interesting plant that has been a bit of a challenge so far. Almost like topping her froze her in time for a week, while she just went crazy underground.

EDIT - also going to need to get that humidifier out soon. Not worried about humidity with it in the tent, it's been doing a fantastic job. But soon there will be no room for it as these plants widen out and get taller. We have 10% RH outside today in Southern California, so I hope that the Vornado can do a decent job humidifying the room, outside the tent, when I pull it out.
 
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I think after this run, I may start a new "2022" grow journal. This thing is getting pretty long and it can be a slog to get through it. Plus, you know I ramble (not even high either, I'm going on 3 weeks of total sobriety, including beer.). SO that probably makes it worse. Hopefully you guys (and gals) will carry onto that one.

Day 40 for Mendel Pina, and Day 30 for Lady Walter White. Just a little family photo to show this odd couple. Mendel is starting to slowly look like she wants to take over the tent, and she will likely be decently wide. Moved the humidifier out and into the room now in anticipation.

Lady Walter...she's just lazy.

Anyway, Mendel got more lower defoliation, and a bit more canopy widening today. She's still growing taller, had to raise the light again. You can see her tops starting to even out. I'll lay off the defoliation for a bit now and let her get taller and wider and do some more clean up next week. Overall, been pretty much a stress free grow with Mendel. She's giving off a lot of pineapple scents.

Pulled Walter out last night and did a little clean up around the lower section of the plant. It's so compact and jungle-esque in there that I had to be careful. She seems to move one day, then does nothing for a couple days. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm past the point of rage yanking her. At this stage, I'm just curious to see WTF she actually does. Definitely NOT the epitome of "vigor", this girl. I tried threatening her with The Chop earlier to see if that would get her ass into gear. Guess we'll find out! We got a ways to go.

Oh and apparently, my pots are lopsided...

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Maybe threatening the chop will get her going?

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You guys know I love my Atreum lights. They fly under the radar. They mostly used to sell DIY kits like mine. Easy to put together.

They’ve started moving to plug and play lights. I shouldn’t have watched this! Now I want one. Pretty interesting about LED selection. My Atreum in the 4x2 is 3 bar. This 4 bar is a beast.

 
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