I have read about clone cuts going in soil and in water, both use cinnamon powder.
It definitely works well against gnats. They hate the stuff! Sprinkled cinnamon all over my cloner. Gnat problem solved. Put some on the shoots that are in the cloner and in the water for the soil clones this morning. Will check in a couple days for signs of rooting
 
Well since I’ve stopped throwing frozen water bottles in the reservoirs I’ve noticed the plants slowed their growth. Read up on dissolved oxygen and found out that D.O. decreases as temps increase. Back to frozen water bottles to cool temps.

Will be throwing the rest of the girls into flower next Monday. Ready or not, the next batch is growing quickly so into flower they go. Still crossing my fingers on the clones.
 
Everyday I wake up to this sight. Then bend and tuck, bend and tuck. I’m running out of space along the edges. Removed LOTS more fan leaves today. It’s getting overcrowded. I’ll pull a bunch of large leaves and a couple days later the smaller ones will grow out and crowd it up again. I don’t want to cut any edges off so I keep stuffing em back in there. The rewards from this Scrog better be worth the work. I’ll probably stick with LST next Grow.

If you look toward the lower left, one of the girls fell ill. Looks like root rot. She’s out of the line up. Pulled her plug today.
 

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Sorry for your loss.
 
All good. 4 other girls to take her place. Only licensed for 20 plants here. So I was gonna do a 4 or 5 plant grow a month. Hawaii is year long so I’m going to be growing through the winter months. Gotta love this climate!
 
After 3rd try. This time, used rooting gel and placed clones in reservoir of plain water. Whoddathunk?
 

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Today made two weeks since flip, and is the last day for tucking shoots under. White pistols have formed. Branches are beginning to firm up more making it quite difficult to bend and tuck. I had about a good 6 inch overhang on the edges. Just flipped them over the edge rail and under toward the center. Weavings are pretty tight, but the center still looks like it has gaps. Will clean her up one last time underneath her canvas then let-her-rip! I’ll give her one last shot of neem under the canvas after defoliating. No pests as yet, more for preventive measure. Predicted harvest day... Christmas.

She’s now on protekt, bloom, foliage pro, hydroguard. In veg, I used only Grow and hydroguard. Feed once a week.

**Side note, I have never used PH up or down on my plants or anything other than nutrients and water to control PH. The reason I added the foliage pro to the bloom mix is that Protekt drives the PH way up. Too high up for the other nutrients to bring PH in range. I actually use less protekt than required so I don’t have to add too much foliage pro. Never had a problem with PH going to low. Not opposed to PH up/down, just don’t have it on hand, but this seems to be working. The girls are sitting in 8 gals of water, but nutes are mixed according to 7 gals. PPMs.. no problem. I err on the side of caution.
 

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Day 16
Ive stopped tucking, but as you can see she’s still got some stretch in her. She’s filled in her 2x2 grid and now has about a 5 inch overhang all around. Her reservoir is low so I’ll be topping off this evening with just water. Im contemplating feeding her twice a week now that she’s in bloom; she’s taking in tons of water. Will continue with once a week for now.
 

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Scrog gone wild... the sisters, Critical Plus 2.0. Gave up tucking them after the 1st week of flower. They turned out to be beautiful bushes. They had an abundance of large leaves which made it hard for scrogging. The sunset however is perfect for scrogging as she naturally grows outward like an octopus’ stretching her legs. Her leaves were no where close to the size of the Critical sisters.
 

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Another Critical Plus 2.0 sister that’s was intentionally unscrogged to see if the Scrog or she would bring in the bigger yield. it Doesn’t look that bad in the picture, but her center leaves have been yellowing and dying off. I gave her a dose of cal mag thinking it was a defiency. Still curious to see if she comes close to yielding the same even with her defiency.
 

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Day 17
I said I was done tucking, but there were a few ladies showing their dominance in the race for top cola. Tucked the taller ones under.. trying to keep the canopy top even.

Did a major defoliation. Removed any fan leaves blocking bud sites, removed all lower fan leaves under the canopy. There were quite a lot of larger fan leaves taking up space. Found many little bud sites that were hiding among the thickness of fan leaves. Counted over 50 bud sites.

One more bottom shot of neem tonight, and I’ll let her grow from here. Her clones have all started taking. Her reservoir is still full. I’m assuming I’ll be filling with water again on Saturday and maybe a little bloom depending on PH. She should fill in some by then.
 

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Day 19
And then this happened. She had waaaay too many fan leaves making it difficult to Scrog and I was worried about airflow blockage. Remedied the problem and relocated a few branches. The fan leaves will grow back in a few days. In the mean time, all bud sites are exposed giving them plenty of light to catch up with the rest. Probably looks extreme, but I’d rather the energy go into nourishing the bud sights and not the over abundance of large fan leaves. I was able to maneuver most of the overhang back within the grid.

Reservoir level still good. Will be topping off water level with nutrient water on Monday. Today’s PH reading - 6.2. Compare to the other girls I’m growing, her PH is the most stable as well as predictable. The others drop down to the low 5s after a couple days. My Critical Plus 2.0 is reading 5.1 right now. I’ll add some water to bring their levels up.

Now that she’s nice and exposed, I’ll neem her again tonight. I’ve had problems with spider mites in the past, which is why I’m so cautious with this grow. The neem seems to be keeping them away.
 

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