Happy Friedday Lester! Thanks for the update and for re-sharing some older pics too. Loved'em all!
Thanks for the kind feedback!
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A few garden notes for the ol' journal:
Just got done tying down Zilla's Sister. I don't mean to ride my own bike but this plant should look really nice in flower, and I mean
really nice. I tied down the branches in order to "open her up - spread her wings a little bit". To be honest, I think my favorite part about the growing cycle is the LST right before hard flower. You really maximize your yield, and as you could see from Zilla herself. If you have a very long limb with a lot of branching, if you can horizontally LST it according to the Sunlight pattern, ie: Sun rises in the East, so you trellis it backward towards the West, and those branches will each become large colas.
Anyway, things are looking wicked. After her tie downs, I was tempted to take more pics, but I will wait. She looks A LOT bigger. I am surprised how massive she is. With the cool and cloudy weather this morning, it was the perfect time to spray a little SNS-604B/SNS-311. There is nothing like a nice sea kelp mist to make them feel right at home on the Ocean. And the 311 is supposed to reduce any "oxidative stress" that comes from my LST and popcorn pruning that I did in the bottom canopy. What I can say for certainty is the KC-45 is really really strong and hardy. When its cool/cloudy and foggy, she just acts like it's perfectly fine. All perked up. I remember from the winter grow, when I harvested the first two phenotypes, we had a rain storm, and I had 2 of them flowering out in the "wildneress" - not in the tent. They stood tall, all perked up throughout the storm/night. Remarkable.
So with Zilla's sister, there is obviously going to be quite a bit of popcorn, which is isn't a problem. But there should also be some decent sized colas. I should not be doing a TON of pruning of "popcorn buds" at the time of the pre-"hard flower" LST stage because once you open them up with LST, you need to give those sites a chance to produce something!
This plant is absolutely going to look what I envisioned it would in the first place. This plant was originally born in early February, same time as sister Zilla, she was also put in one of those cheap SCROG screens from Home D. When I force flowered it initially I thought it looked really cool, nice and symmetrical. But the reveg. has developed the plant into what I originally envisioned it would turn into. So happy its looking like I am gonna get the bang for my buck, times two. She is scheduled for another transition tea on Monday, I know she's gonna LOVE it. She has a nice stink to her, Go baby Go!
Well I noticed that Doggett & Simpson are no longer a part of the contest prize packages, and I don't know if they're still a sponsor.
What I can say about their products is that the Step 1 and Step 2 are really really useful and they are good products. My only pitfall with the line-up is the Step 3. It's a big issue because the stuff does not have a great solubility in water, so what happens is you have a bunch of salt particles floating around, and these particles build up in the soil and burn your leaf tips, especially if you have other nutrients in your soil. So I have found in my experience that using their 1 tbs per gallon of water everytime you water is not a good recommendation. I don't like using it because I know I'll have to flush a ton at some point, and that can be difficult sometimes, but I'm still in stages of experimenting with the Step 3. I just don't like to use it because I almost immediately see burned leaf tips. I suppose my soil is just a little too hot. But then again, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see particles of undissolved salt in the solution. If it had a better solubility, it wouldn't just sit around in the root zone, accumulating.
End of general thought section
oh well. 
