It's officially day 6 of flower. Obviously there's no flowers yet, and no sign of stretch yet either. Based on the stubby "indica" nature of this strain, I don't expect much stretch over the next 2 weeks as she transitions into flower. She's easily doubled the number of leaves in the canopy within the last week so I should have enough to power through its flowering stage. The purpose here is to create a nice base canopy that contains no nodes - just leaves along the stem, with the colas growing over that green base layer. That way I don't have to sacrifice many leaves in order to uncover shaded buds later on. The extra leaves also increased the humidity in the tent by 5 points (YES!) so I'm running at 35% humidity rather than 30% now. She's also taking a lot more water now - 20 litres per day.
I feel it may be time to stop pinching off its side-nodes and just let her go for now until I figure out how much she might stretch over the next week or so. Sadly ANC Cannabis who breeds these seeds doesn't mention anything about what to expect, except that it's more difficult to grow than their other strains (not sure why) and has a flowering period of 8 to 5.5 weeks.
I'm pushing her hard now with all lights on full power. I added one of my bathroom bars to provide extra coverage where the light intensity was falling off toward the middle. The bar is holding 8 14W bulbs at 3000K spectrum. In total that's now 1,072 watts of power with 42.88 watts per square foot. That's a record wattage for me, yet the plant doesn't seem to mind it. The tent is running warmer of course, hitting 31 Celsius during lights on and 22 C with lights off. I wont even bother trying to figure out the VPD, because I know when I look at the chart it will tell me that my plant should be dead. lol
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