Morning @Bill284. Hope this Monday finds you well. So apparently your coco tutelage has worked pretty well. As you know, we sort of stumbled into it last time, with the 3s and all that, and getting ramped up in the midst of a big grow...I didn't consider that a real coco test. This grow I do. We started both Fruity Pebble Cookies and the Watermelon WeddingCake auto from coco in a Dixie cup, with appropriate sized pots this time, and in the same environment start to finish. I feel this is a much better gauge for me as far as what tent growing in coco is all about. This time I'm learning all about limits, and pushing them or not, etc.
Also, I will note that I found starting the seedlings in coco/Dixies to be *slightly* more challenging than starting them in soil. The way the coco holds water is trickier in terms of gauging when the seedling needs more water, or at least it was for me. I probably overwatered them in the very first couple waterings due to this. Good to know, now I get it.
So here she is today, right now. The plant is 46" off the floor, with the plant itself being 32". I figure I can let her get to 40" tall. Doubled, that's 80", or 6'8". Tripled it's 120", or 10 feet. My tent is 9 feet tall. Lol. So obviously I can't have her tripling in size. But the way she's trained (or not, really, just mostly a lot of topping), I fear more than a double. It's been my brief experience that a relatively untrained plant like this will stretch more than one trained like Elora.
If she goes 2 1/2 times her current height we're talking a plant of 80" and total height of 94", or 7'10". This would be the best case scenario, as I figured the tent can handle a plant just about 8' tall.
Honestly, it's been very rare for me to have any plant triple in size. Mostly they double or less. So I think I will be okay, and then if we have to get extreme, we have to get extreme.
So there you go Bill.
After all that dumb math, we flip the tent when Fulvia is a 40" plant and 54" total off the floor. Regardless of the state of play of Elora or the Mystery Plant.
Cool. Another decision made. She grows about an inch a day, so we'll flip in roughly a week.
She's a BEAST. Hard to believe this is only day 41. If I were back in PA now this would be my starting plant for the monster outdoor grow. Perfect strain for it, especially if you get this larger phenotype. With this head start, and still a month before she'd go outside? I'd have me one of your Jack Herers!!! From what I see here, this plant/strain has the potential to get VERY large. I can't wait to see what kind of buds she makes. There isn't even one photograph of it anywhere!!! (pre-release seeds from Ethos, not even in the catalog yet!) Shit Bill, I literally could fill this 5x5 with this one plant, EASY. Maybe not in the 7, but I'm already seeing a one plant 5x5 in a 10 or 15 and trying for a record yield grow.
Anyway, here she is this morning. Damn if she isn't majestic. This is a front side view.
Here's a back side view.
And her sister Elora is no joke either.
40 inches my friend. 40 inches. Lol. Thanks for the ongoing education.
