Well Sunday again, and I'm really having trouble deciding how to approach this grow. Here she is today:
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I'm starting to think filling 25 square foot tent with a single indoor plant might be a bit harder than I imagined. The stems are really thick and difficult to bend without breaking. And the main stalk is rather large for the plant's size.
Here's the main stalk with lighter for scale:
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I was originally hoping to flip her no later than November 1st for an early January harvest. I don't think that's possible anymore, but luckily I don't have anything else important to do with the tent so I can let her veg longer if necessary. I have noticed that the branches that compete with each other have thinner stems and the growth of side node branches is suppressed due to shading. So one possible idea I had was to just let it grow now in height, and let them all compete until the plant reaches around 2.5 feet high, and then just flatten everything under a SCROG at that time spreading all the main branches towards the tent edges and corners.
I've already chosen the main branches, and I managed to get them growing at the same height which was a royal pain with this phenotype. Here's a side view:
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If anyone has any suggestions to the approach I should take to fill up so much horizontal space being stuck with a single plant, I'd love to hear them!
So I did get a deep mulch down over the stems and veggie material from my last grow, so everything is nice and moist under there and the springtails are going nuts over it. In a few weeks, they'll be a few crops of mushrooms appearing which normally happens when I keep stems with high carbon content moist under the mulch. That concludes the "feeding" schedule for this cycle so now all I need to do is remember to water them until harvest time. I may however add a bit more mulch if it grows thin in places at any point in the grow. I don't want to ever see bare humus showing.