Fulvia
Day 39
A couple things of note today about this plant.
First, the broken main. In the picture below you see the two mains, both topped. The one with the tape is the one that had the bad break a couple days ago. "Had" the bad break. Lol. More like I ham-handedly broke it. Anyway, as you can see here, the fix is going to take. If that weren't the case the two "colas" coming off the break wouldn't look fabulous as they do. The one leaf that still hasn't come back up is still not dying, it's just laying down. So that's all good and I'm pleased it's going to take. What's interesting is that what we have here is a perfect visual reference for the difference in growth rate and what the result is when you break something. These two were identical in height and appearance when I broke the stem. Same height, same size "colas." Since the break, in just around 48 hours, the taller of the two has grown to the height you see. The broken one has barely grown, if at all, since then. All of it's energy has been rerouted to attend to the break and repair itself. As a result, the vertical growth stops (or massively slows) until the plant feels it's fixed itself adequately and gradually the energy "dispersion" goes back to how it was. I know this is sort of Pot 101 type information, I just thought it was a good picture to clearly illustrate it.
Now onto the plant itself, regarding size/flip timing. Right now as you see her below the plant itself is 30" tall. With the pot and wheels and just the minimal tray setup she's on, she's 44" tall. Almost four feet. She can be lowered no further, she's already "on the floor," as the wheels are indispensable for me. My tent is 9' tall, and if I max height the light the bottom of the bars sit a 8'6" (102 inches). In flower the plants can get as close as around 10". Interestingly, this is one area my light over-performs its' stated specs, as they say you can get as close as 6". Sure you can, heat-wise. The heat is almost non-existent. But I have yet to have a plant I can get that close without burning it. Just too much light. In any event, she's at 44" and I have 92" max the plant can be in flower without having to supercrop or anything else I don't wish to do. So from where we are now I have 48" to play with.
If I flipped her today (I'm not, lol) and she only doubled in size that leaves her 18" from the light and we have no issues whatsoever.
But what if she triples in height? Based on how this pheno of this plant has grown so far, and considering she's in a 7 of coco getting world class nutes, I don't think that's an impossibility at all. That puts us at 30" of plant + 60" more = 90" of plant + 14" for the pot setup = 104" total height. This does not work without altering the plant up top.
Elora has no such issues and won't, due to how she's trained and the much shorter pheno. Fulvia is going to dictate the day.
So the question is, when am I going to flip them? How long am I going to push it on Fulvia's height and begin to "hope she doesn't stretch too much?" Lol. Regardless of days old, both these plants, as well as the Mystery Plant, could be flipped today, they're all mature enough. No idea what will happen with the MP, and I half expect her to develop seeds and get pulled. We'll be watching her closely on that. But square footage in the tent is not at all the concern, only height.
Here's the full plant as described right now:
