Phantom’s RDWC Cherry Cookies Grow Journal

[Anthony Suszko]

Observation.. I look at Phantom's, Chester's, and my own plants to gauge normalcy throughout growing stages.. (Height, Width, and overall proportion). Lately I've been seeing a bunch of short-stunted overly thick branched mutant looking plants juiced up on roids.. Is it just me or do you guys also see it as something starting to trend around here? ( and is that also a bro thing ?) To me this feels like Youtube bro scientists copying down maximum boosting formula's then showing up here with their jacked up plants..

 

[Anthony Suszko]

It's Snowing!, It's Snowing! ...Dad can we go sledding this afternoon ?

 

[The Phantom]

I think a lot of it has to do with the more powerful lighting you are starting to see, creating very tight node spacing on a lot of grows. I've noticed quite a few thicc plants recently with such tight node spacing being vegged out and so compact that they look like heads of lettuce. My ladies are more sativa leaners with their more thin bladed leaves and a pretty decent stretch. I'm just hoping the flowering time isn't longer as well, harvest is Labor Day and not a day longer. Crazy how just a few weeks ago they were only a foot tall now some are close to four feet.

 

[Anthony Suszko]

I think a lot of it has to do with the more powerful lighting you are starting to see, creating very tight node spacing on a lot of grows. I've noticed quite a few thicc plants recently with such tight node spacing being vegged out and so compact that they look like heads of lettuce. My ladies are more sativa leaners with their more thin bladed leaves and a pretty decent stretch. I'm just hoping the flowering time isn't longer as well, harvest is Labor Day and not a day longer. Crazy how just a few weeks ago they were only a foot tall now some are close to four feet.

Yeh i got up and measured today and I have a jack and the bean stalk plant still stretching at 5'6" laughing at the tomato cage i made for it surpassing those sticks already.. OK great observation all around on the lighting making them look like lettuce heads.. thats also what im noticing around here, and that the stalks and branching are Arnold Schwarzenegger like unproportionally super thick..

 

[Modest Grower]

Thicc gurls! I was going to say your girls look like they have some nice sativa leaning genetics.

 

[oldsmokey]

Might have something to do with LST supercroping and topping all will do that to a plant.

 

[Anthony Suszko]

Might have something to do with LST supercroping and topping all will do that to a plant.

The thing is there's not much veg to LST on them lol.. they're lettuce heads very tight and compact like Phantom mentioned.. or they got Manscaped ?

In all seriousness, I think causation is small tent and very strong lighting and possibly some nutrient stunting. I mentioned nutes because some Bro scientists leave their evidence in plain view (little sample jars & bottles in the photo background).

 

[The Phantom]

Yup intense lights and training are probably most to blame. I'll admit these girls are slightly out of control and I could have used for some training but it hasn't caused me issues other than I have about 2' of clearance left in my tent for my lights and that's about all.

 

[Modest Grower]

Speaking of training and lighting. I was lazy this round and didn't really train past topping. I was also lazy and needed to raise my lights a bit earlier. owell, learned what was wrong with the auto it stretched next to a light and had light bleach. Raised them up now.

 

[The Phantom]

There's always next time. I would like to veg a little longer under some heavier training before flipping on the next run.

 

[Anthony Suszko]

Speaking of training and lighting. I was lazy this round and didn't really train past topping. I was also lazy and needed to raise my lights a bit earlier. owell, learned what was wrong with the auto it stretched next to a light and had light bleach. Raised them up now.

This is my first grow so new /novice and haven't done much LST cause still finding out how bendy and forgiving my plants are.. The thing i did notice right away is how they shot straight up almost at a 90' angle from where they were tied down horizontally which is remarkable... I've basically tied them down to empty spots after removing a few big fan leaves in order to fill up that space the fan leaves occupied.. I think I'll def play around with this set of clones and try doing more than just head chops..

 

[The Phantom]

They will fight tooth and nail to grow upright. My transplanted mothers are taking off that I may need to top them a week sooner than expected, no problem by me. The mothers I've already topped are starting to take off on the nodes below.

 

[The Phantom]

You can consider me done working for the day, about 2 hours ago. Did a dab of Tropicana before making lunch, well I still haven't had lunch. I'm still high and just finalized my PO for more LED panels, drivers, heat sinks, and all of the good stuff to assemble them. All this instead of eating lunch and getting back to work.

 

[oldsmokey]

One dab over the line!

 

[The Phantom]

Exactly so! More lights = more seeds. I definitely can't afford seeds for a while now.

 

[oldsmokey]

Ya me too going cold turkey.

 

[The Phantom]

Cold turkey until Black Friday.

 

[Modest Grower]

Sounds like a productive day! Very exciting

 

[The Phantom]

It was a productive afternoon for my personal life, not for work! It feels good to get my light situation settled, for good/life/any scenario I have. Lights for life, now I can go back to the exhaust fan and continue to make a mountain out of a molehill.

 

[The Phantom]

The tents should be rocking about 750w of 301s LEDs, each, come fall plus supplemental lights to boot. Need to invest in sunnies and sunscreen.