Update 5/7/18 Day 22
The plants are starting to grow very nicely. It's just the right time for them to get going, but I also really think the Nectar nutrients are helping as well. The only thing I can really see going on with any of the plants is the Quick One still has a tiny bit of leaf curl, which looks like heat stress (which I thought it may have been originally being the closest plant to the heat lamp) but I'm pretty sure it's from the small fan blowing a little too directly on her, so I adjusted that a bit to help. I devised a new tie down method, as I really don't like to grab the plants and hook stuff onto them very much. I used my soft ties diagonally across the pots, tying them to the holes I drilled around the rims for various purposes. It's not super easy to see in the pictures, but you will get the point. They are working well so far and the new growth tips are slowly but surely rising up. I guess the idea is similar to SCROG but without the shitty nylon netting that most just clip from around the plants and throw away at the end. Hoping the soft ties are reusable lots of times, if not I will figure out a different material to use that isn't making the landfill a worse mess. There is another goal of mine: help others with creative ways to have a smaller footprint, we can all grow chronic without all the trash and consumerism, in my opinion. There is also a fifth plant in the tent (last freebie RQS N. Lights) growing in a glazed 1 gal terra cotta pot. I had just enough soil left and found that pot in my gardening cabinet, I think there should be just enough room in the tent, if not she can be my patio test. Anyhow, she is growing incredibly in the smaller pot and is only on day 18 (youngest). Also of note, I gave plants their second feed yesterday with the Nectar goodies. I went half strength, last time was quarter, and probably could have gone full, but like to air on the side of caution. The reason I say probably could have gone full on is that if you read the ingredients everything is so broken down and simplified, half of it is to nourish the soil more than the plant. Anyway, the plants love the Nectar and I strongly encourage others to check this stuff out.
Jack Herer chugging along. Just about to overgrow the edge of the 3 gal pot. I keep tucking the upper fans as often as I can and the growth tips are really coming along. No tie down on her yet.
Seedsman Kush, same as JH, growth tips coming along nicely with lots of upper fan tucking. Might tie this one down, going to decide today as I probably ought to get it bent sooner rather than later if I'm going to. And probably should since it sounds like these girls can get some height.
RQS Quick One. You can kind of see how the soft ties snake through, they are just crossed in an "X" and hold the plant down without hooking around it anywhere. The growth tips are starting to be higher in elevation than the actual top of the plant, this is a good thing, breaking apical dominance without cutting the plant, therefore should not increase time to harvest and have multiple main colas as a result.
RQS Northern Lights. Same criss cross of tie downs to hold the plant over. The growth tips are also really starting to pick up speed and four of them are working on their second nodes. One looks very pale in this picture, but looks beautiful in real light. That lower fan leaf pushed up against the side of the pot is getting cut off today. It's adjacent growth tip is in the worst place of all of them, so I will take off both the fan and that growth tip and I think the plant will be happier and divert energy elsewhere as a result.
