Smashed Cake

[anova.330]

plants are praying nicely

have you ever done stem pinching to help control front runners during stretch?

Supercropping yes...
Pinching the tops and laying over top the scrog (no if that's what you mean). I could try although I typically don't.

Tried one and snapped it...my bad. Letting em grow all the way up!

[GMO]

hahahahaah. im talking just a little lighter than super crop sorry, just enough so the stem pops but it doesnt go floppy. sorry for the damage mate

[Guest]

hahahahaah. im talking just a little lighter than super crop sorry, just enough so the stem pops but it doesnt go floppy. sorry for the damage mate

I think I'd prefer a little more of a stem pinch. I'm waiting to move so I can set my sog net back up. I will keep that in mind.

[anova.330]

Day 21
Fed a Mung Bean SST and cleaned up some of the tops within the past few days.

[anova.330]

Day 28
Pheno #1 looking proper and #2 coming into its’ own look (1-2, L-R).
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[anova.330]

Day 35
Both phenos #1 and #2 are happy, but I will lose some top material due to light bleaching. As I continue in successive flower starts, light bleaching is almost always going to be the case. The CLW SolarSystem 550 is commercial grade, meant to be in warehouses with 12 foot high ceilings IMHO. I have been looking for the right fixture to, maybe, recover two inches in tent height.

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[duke]

Will you be making seeds from these once you get a pheno/cut you’re happy with?

hi i had trouble with the bigger led in my drobes and bleaching ruined a lovely scrog,then my pal fitted a dimmer switch and at 3/4 power it is perfect and no bleaching maybe this could be an option? i ended up swapping back to the hps for a while as it just works,good luck

[anova.330]

Will you be making seeds from these once you get a pheno/cut you’re happy with?

hi i had trouble with the bigger led in my drobes and bleaching ruined a lovely scrog,then my pal fitted a dimmer switch and at 3/4 power it is perfect and no bleaching maybe this could be an option? i ended up swapping back to the hps for a while as it just works,good luck

I may try to run the other two pheno at a reduced wattage. Better to deal with a little loss, than underpowering the whole grow. I typically increase 10% every three days after the first week of flower (which runs at 50%).

[anova.330]

Day 42 (1&2)
Of the four different phenotypes, only pheno #1 will be kept for the time being. Running out of space in veg and wanting to pop additional seeds, I have culled several strains. Both phenos 1 and 2 are doing well minus the bleaching – expect to see color on #1 any day now.



Day 4 (3&4)
Not pictured are two additional phenos of smashed cake. At the advice of GMO, I was to give these plants an extra week of veg after topping #3. My patience lasted about four days. Since #4 was larger at transplant, I expected more; instead, it stalled and leaves look like the plant aint gonna make it through flower. Regardless of the outcome, I will experiment on this run with delaying light increases and capping the total to 300W…kinda.

[anova.330]

Day 49, 1&2