Greetings Peeps, hope all is well?
So I'm just into the flowering stage of my second grow, Amnesia Auto from Seedsman, organic living soil mixed with Happy Frog potting soil, currently day 41'ish. Just water, no nutes, 18/6, 75F, 60% Rh.
The plant was on the 4th node, and I was starting my LST, which after manhandling the stem I broke it at the node just above the node with the first single serrated leaf on it. The sharp intake of breath I made could have been detected by NOAA. I thought I'd killed it in its infancy. It snapped like 98% off, like breaking a celery stick leaves you with a few strands that's still attached?
So with one hand holding the tiny plant together, and with the other I managed to cut some small silver strips of aluminum peel away tape into tiny strips with a pair of scissors nearby, some real Tom Cruise Mission Impossible shit let me tell you, beading forehead sweat and everything lol.
So I did the best I could do with the repair, and fingers were crossed.
Now this is my question, did the plant assume by the break here, that it had been topped? Thus putting a lot more effort into growing the two side shoots as its 2 surviving main colas, ie "topping", right?
However I was able to hold it steady with that metal tape for the original main cola to repair again. 7 days later this is what it looked like. So did this give me 3 main colas, instead of a topping that would have given 2? These are the first nodes that most people end up just cutting off.
It has the appearance of 3 main colas and I wondered is this an actual technique, of breaking stems to mimic topping, but just let the break repair again to regain the cola the plant thought had lost?
This was her about a week ago. (Amnesia left, Bruce Banner right). It makes the BB look empty in comparison, plus it reacts so damn well to LST. The BB would be 50% bending towards the light by the time the Amnesia had twisted and was already facing it, very fast mover.
Since I have you at this point, the Bruce Banner has very dark tops to the leaves, almost like a leathery look, and they curl downwards at the ends, any ideas? Keep in mind its also a full organic grow. The seedling came out with two twisted first leaves though, and there's been something odd about all its leaves actually. Bad genetics, or is this indicative of the strain?
Thank you to all who made it this far.
So I'm just into the flowering stage of my second grow, Amnesia Auto from Seedsman, organic living soil mixed with Happy Frog potting soil, currently day 41'ish. Just water, no nutes, 18/6, 75F, 60% Rh.
The plant was on the 4th node, and I was starting my LST, which after manhandling the stem I broke it at the node just above the node with the first single serrated leaf on it. The sharp intake of breath I made could have been detected by NOAA. I thought I'd killed it in its infancy. It snapped like 98% off, like breaking a celery stick leaves you with a few strands that's still attached?
So with one hand holding the tiny plant together, and with the other I managed to cut some small silver strips of aluminum peel away tape into tiny strips with a pair of scissors nearby, some real Tom Cruise Mission Impossible shit let me tell you, beading forehead sweat and everything lol.
So I did the best I could do with the repair, and fingers were crossed.
Now this is my question, did the plant assume by the break here, that it had been topped? Thus putting a lot more effort into growing the two side shoots as its 2 surviving main colas, ie "topping", right?
However I was able to hold it steady with that metal tape for the original main cola to repair again. 7 days later this is what it looked like. So did this give me 3 main colas, instead of a topping that would have given 2? These are the first nodes that most people end up just cutting off.
It has the appearance of 3 main colas and I wondered is this an actual technique, of breaking stems to mimic topping, but just let the break repair again to regain the cola the plant thought had lost?
This was her about a week ago. (Amnesia left, Bruce Banner right). It makes the BB look empty in comparison, plus it reacts so damn well to LST. The BB would be 50% bending towards the light by the time the Amnesia had twisted and was already facing it, very fast mover.
Since I have you at this point, the Bruce Banner has very dark tops to the leaves, almost like a leathery look, and they curl downwards at the ends, any ideas? Keep in mind its also a full organic grow. The seedling came out with two twisted first leaves though, and there's been something odd about all its leaves actually. Bad genetics, or is this indicative of the strain?
Thank you to all who made it this far.