Cannabis vs the Mojave Desert grow, my money is on the desert. Today the grow room reached 87 outdoors we are idling around 103-105. This is still mid-spring so the real heat, 110+ is yet to come. I'm figuring I'll see temps around 95-97 under the lights, with no CO2 so I'm not really hopeful.
I am hoping that I'll get genetics to October so I am ready to go into flower. Apparently I failed canopy 101. This is the second iteration of canopy out of control (the difference is all were out of control this time where I allowed 1 plant to dominate the canopy last time).
Here we are after trimming the Nirvana genetics, the Cali Connection Bubbas are tall.
The Nirvana Aurora Indica did not help with my pain. It's actually quite Sativaish and that causes me paranoia. So this won't work. I was thinking could it be just the expression of the genetics on the AI (which I believe it is) or was it my lack of grow knowledge? Worse I took a LOT of clones because I figured I'd lose most. Of course I got almost 100% rooted (I lost 1). I've then neglected them and lost a couple more but I still have WAY more than I need. So do I throw all the Nirvana genetics out? I figured I might as well flower all I could on the tray because I was running the light anyway. Today I decided I was NOT going to do that.
Instead of killing all the Nirvanas I'm going to flower out 1 of each; AI1, AI2, AI3, AI5, and see if that changes anything. I'm going to kill everything except the four AI mothers. So making that decision I had to bring the bubba's down to the same canopy size as the Nirvana's. Here they are after their haircut.
This is the table as it will go to flower. Last time I did not control my canopy at all. This time I've decided which 4 arms will be the cola's and that is it. Only 4 colas per plant. I don't want to lose this canopy so I figure I need to allow the 4 branches left to get to about 6" each prior to switch. Is that right? How long should I wait or what is the criteria?
Here is the last of it. I am trying to root the two tops but they were far to large to go into my little cloner. Here are the babies in the cloner.