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politoed
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Week 4 - Quadlining
It was a very eventful week in the 4x4 tent. At various points throughout the week, the plants started throwing out pistils indicating they are starting to flower! I decided to quadline my girls around day 23-25 from seed.
For those unfamiliar, quadlining is a training method where you remove nodes 1 and 2 of the plant, and top at the 5th node leaving only nodes 3 and 4. I have included pictures on how this process looked on my Cream Cookies plant. You can see that although it seems like a major surgery, within 3 days the plants are creating 4 new main growth tips. I learned this method here on 420 forums, and am excited to see how it improves yields.
I have some plant ties at the ready, and hopefully by the end of the week the growth tips will have reached the ends of the pots and i can start shaping the plant into its final form. I have broken basically every rule of autoflower plants so far. I have topped them, defoliated and repotted. I have also done some leaf tucking to expose the new main grow sites. So far they seem happy, and if I end up with decent yields I will consider it a major win.
The large Cream Cookies plant pictured was the last one to throw pistils out, which happened today, 4 weeks from the date I planted the seeds in the perlite. So hopefully within about 9 weeks or less, we will be harvesting these six plants. The large Cream Cookies is shaping up to a be a beast, and I am excited to see how big it will get.
I did a little experiment, because the Grapefruits were about a node behind where they should be to perform a quadline. On one of them (the one showing the single calyx), I performed the quadline as normal. Since the top node was a lot smaller than I would prefer, I ended up fat fingering it a bit and taking some leaf material from the new branches that I didn't intend to take. Mistakes happen. On the other, however, since the second node had real true leaves (5 tips), I decided to only remove the first node and top above the fourth node, leaving nodes two and three as opposed to the usual nodes three and four. That plant responded really well, didn't miss a beat, and is the other plant pictured "looking like a cabbage."
Nutes (/gal)
4ml Micro
4ml Gro
4ml Bloom
Temp: 73-79ºF
RH: 40-60%
Grapefruit pistil action.
Grapefruit looking like a cabbage.
It was a very eventful week in the 4x4 tent. At various points throughout the week, the plants started throwing out pistils indicating they are starting to flower! I decided to quadline my girls around day 23-25 from seed.
For those unfamiliar, quadlining is a training method where you remove nodes 1 and 2 of the plant, and top at the 5th node leaving only nodes 3 and 4. I have included pictures on how this process looked on my Cream Cookies plant. You can see that although it seems like a major surgery, within 3 days the plants are creating 4 new main growth tips. I learned this method here on 420 forums, and am excited to see how it improves yields.
I have some plant ties at the ready, and hopefully by the end of the week the growth tips will have reached the ends of the pots and i can start shaping the plant into its final form. I have broken basically every rule of autoflower plants so far. I have topped them, defoliated and repotted. I have also done some leaf tucking to expose the new main grow sites. So far they seem happy, and if I end up with decent yields I will consider it a major win.
The large Cream Cookies plant pictured was the last one to throw pistils out, which happened today, 4 weeks from the date I planted the seeds in the perlite. So hopefully within about 9 weeks or less, we will be harvesting these six plants. The large Cream Cookies is shaping up to a be a beast, and I am excited to see how big it will get.
I did a little experiment, because the Grapefruits were about a node behind where they should be to perform a quadline. On one of them (the one showing the single calyx), I performed the quadline as normal. Since the top node was a lot smaller than I would prefer, I ended up fat fingering it a bit and taking some leaf material from the new branches that I didn't intend to take. Mistakes happen. On the other, however, since the second node had real true leaves (5 tips), I decided to only remove the first node and top above the fourth node, leaving nodes two and three as opposed to the usual nodes three and four. That plant responded really well, didn't miss a beat, and is the other plant pictured "looking like a cabbage."
Nutes (/gal)
4ml Micro
4ml Gro
4ml Bloom
Temp: 73-79ºF
RH: 40-60%
