Flittermouse's NL#2 F2 Indoor Grow 2024

[Flittermouse]

Hi,

Nothing interesting to report .

Patiently waiting for NL flowers to develop in the flower tent humming along at a consistant 80°F through a 12/12 light cycle .

I have been reading HDT's "Walden" for 49 + years and still profit from such.

In the begining I would underline . . . until I had the whole book underlined.

Several pages short of the end of 'Conclusion' one reads :

"Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. [...] Give me a hammer, and let me feel for the furring. [...] Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse. So will help you God, and so only. Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work."

Tending my plants is rather such as this - I am continually aiming at getting to the bottom .

And by bottom I mean "[...] a hard bottom and rocks in place [...] " ( Penultimate page of "where I lived and what I lived for" ) .

Hi,

Today I have a mistake to report . Mistakes happen and they are a good opoortunity to learn .

Following is a photo of Blk Flo plants potted for flowering . Notice the plant at upper right as damaged . This happened when transplanting .

Blk Flo for flowering

• Flittermouse
• Yesterday at 5:56 AM

Blk Flo potted for flowering with one plant damaged

During transplanting I snapped the main stalks of two plants as they had become too woody to bend enough to fit in pot without snapping .

That plant makes three casualties .

Following is a detail of broken plant :

Detail of damaged Blk Flo

• Flittermouse
• Yesterday at 5:56 AM

Plant damaged in planting

I had 6 Blk Flo potted for vegetating and used two of them to replace the first two broken plants leaving me with 4 vegetating Blk Flo .

I will use one of the remaining four ( photo following ) to replace this third broken plant which will leave me with three vegetating Blk Flo - which is fine ; 3 is a good number .

Blk Flo potted to vegetate

• Flittermouse
• Yesterday at 5:56 AM

One plant to be repotted to flower

I will use the plant with the most stems to flower , transplanting into the flowering soil and reserving the veg soil for furure use .

I got into this mess because I did not want to transplant the Blk Flo clones into flowering pots too soon in order to prevent the plants from getting too tall , and thus risking leaf burn ( under the flower light ) , while waiting for the NL to finish flowering .

I waited too long and the stems got woody and brittle making successful transplanting into #1 pots a risky endeavor .

Again , this is the reason I try to clone more plants than I actually need .

I would rather be up front about my mistakes rather than hide them because mistakes are learning events .

Next time I will transplant when the plants are ready ( not when I am ) and figure out how to limit their heights ( probably with LST ( Low Stress Training ) when the issue confronts me . After all , a dead plant can not be flowered !
I may end up having to cut them down to a growth node , which , if done early enough , may produce some virtuous branching .

Hope you can learn from my mistakes so you don't have to make them yourself .