Wedding Cake DWC

MY OWN DANK said:

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Lookin really good so far...

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Is that some Sunny D nutes I see???

Laughing Grass said:

Thanks @Justlove growing

Another week done. I gave them a heavy defoliation last Thursday. By Saturday you couldn't even tell I had done anything. I'm trying my best to avoid getting the larf layer that I've gotten in previous grows. The two on the ends really don't like scrogging and it's a struggle to not break the stems. I'm only going to clone the large on in the center, it would take a few months to fill the screen out with the other two.

@DustyDuke what do you think? Should I start flowering now?

Pic From Thursday's defoliation.
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From Sunday.
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Holy cow. Talk about recovery! That was literally three nights?? I will not be afraid to defoliate anymore!

Laughing Grass said:

I flipped my lights to 12/12 last night.







It would be nice if the little ones doubled and the middle one just stretched a bit. I don't think that's going to be the case tho.

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I remember you mentioning clones if it’s all WC. I’d clone all 3 but If the middle one flowers awesome I’d just run the middle plants clones the next grow everything will be even. Main reason why I run clones just makes life eazy

ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:

Saves on acouple weeks of of veg too

One thing I really do like about scrog is it helps with this issue for sure.
If I didn't have my net, I probably would have that same issue with one being 6' tall and another 3'
I'm sure there will still be a big difference after flower stretch, I am only training through the first few days
Should be flipping thursday

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Do you have a grow journal going?

thegreywind said:

Is that some Sunny D nutes I see???



Holy cow. Talk about recovery! That was literally three nights?? I will not be afraid to defoliate anymore!

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I'm still a newbie... I'd be cautious following me lol.

This is what they look like this morning, you can barely tell they were defoliated so heavily. In my experience they stop for a day after a heavy defoliation, then they explode. YMMV

DustyDuke said:

I remember you mentioning clones if it’s all WC. I’d clone all 3 but If the middle one flowers awesome I’d just run the middle plants clones the next grow everything will be even. Main reason why I run clones just makes life eazy

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We're restricted to a maximum of four plants here I have to make a call on which one I want to keep before flowering them out.

Laughing Grass said:

Do you have a grow journal going?

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Not quite a journal because I haven't kept up at all lol
My first 4 plants were all funky, then I foolishly gave them some clonex solution thinking it would boost root growth. Killed them lol
Second run in my new hydro set up I have got down now. Had all kinds of deficiency at first but was running nutes too low.
I am going to try and keep things better updated

Laughing Grass said:

This is what they look like this morning, you can barely tell they were defoliated so heavily. In my experience they stop for a day after a heavy defoliation, then they explode. YMMV

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I try to do any defoliating I need to do in veg, try to avoid stress on the plant in flower.
I do defoliate though twice, all at once. Again, this is to try and minimize stress too. Around Day 22 flower and 42 flower i pretty much strip all the large, fully matured fan leafs. This opens everything up perfectly for me
I also am in rdwc so I run just straight water and UC root (stanatize and descaler) for 24 hours after I defoliate. Gives the plants a nice rest and cleans the system and roots well

Laughing Grass said:

Do you have a grow journal going?



I'm still a newbie... I'd be cautious following me lol.

This is what they look like this morning, you can barely tell they were defoliated so heavily. In my experience they stop for a day after a heavy defoliation, then they explode. YMMV

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We're restricted to a maximum of four plants here I have to make a call on which one I want to keep before flowering them out.

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I’m restricted to no plants lol. But less then 10 your not getting in to much trouble still classed as a personal amount.
I would go with the middle plant

ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:

I try to do any defoliating I need to do in veg, try to avoid stress on the plant in flower.
I do defoliate though twice, all at once. Again, this is to try and minimize stress too. Around Day 22 flower and 42 flower i pretty much strip all the large, fully matured fan leafs. This opens everything up perfectly for me
I also am in rdwc so I run just straight water and UC root (stanatize and descaler) for 24 hours after I defoliate. Gives the plants a nice rest and cleans the system and roots well

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Your scrog looks great! For my first couple grows I treated every leaf like it was precious. I started defoliating on my last successful grow but not to the level that I've done this time. Even with defoliating I ended up with a ton of larfy popcorn buds at the screen level. I'm trying to avoid having that issue again.

Here's a pic of all the larf.



Last night it was ready for a tucking. You could barely tell that they were defoliated a week prior.



After tucking

DustyDuke said:

I’m restricted to no plants lol. But less then 10 your not getting in to much trouble still classed as a personal amount.
I would go with the middle plant

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part of my keeps telling myself I'd never get caught... but knowing my luck.

Thank you! I am glad its turning out well. Hopefully get a killer yield and some great product.
I may have got alittle carried away today on my de-leafing but I haven't switched to flower yet even so I'm sure they will be in full bush mode again within a week.
How far into flower do you plan to keep tucking?

Dtownhellbilly said:

I was just sayng from my experience ( which isn’t much) wedding cake doesn’t seem to stretch like other strains.

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For me Wedding Cake stretches quite a bit, but it doesn't stretch as fast as some other strains, however it stretches for a longer time. When I grow Slurricane and Wedding Cake side by side, the Slurricane shoots way past the Wedding cake, but then stops stretching around 20 days into flower, but the Cake will keep stretching for another week or so, as it catches up. By that point, both strains are the same height.

Good to know and makes sense. My wedding cake was outdoors on a short season and my buddy does aquick veg and flower because he runs out of room in the veg room.

Dtownhellbilly said:

Good to know and makes sense. My wedding cake was outdoors on a short season and my buddy does aquick veg and flower because he runs out of room in the veg room.

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I just keep cutting the plants back in veg when they start to get too big. Helps build big root mass while keeping the plant small.

ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:

Thank you! I am glad its turning out well. Hopefully get a killer yield and some great product.
I may have got alittle carried away today on my de-leafing but I haven't switched to flower yet even so I'm sure they will be in full bush mode again within a week.
How far into flower do you plan to keep tucking?

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So far I've been going about two weeks into flower when I stop tucking. On my last grow with the critical 2.0 it barely stretched and stopped after about a week. It would have been a beautiful plant if I could have gotten it over the finish line.

Here they are this morning.





Just starting to see signs of flower.

PJ Diaz said:

I just keep cutting the plants back in veg when they start to get too big. Helps build big root mass while keeping the plant small.

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Think there's any chance of the two small ones filling out more? They've picked up the pace a lot since switching to flower.

Those trunks are thicc ! Big nugs on the way ! It's getting exciting here

mistergrafik said:

Those trunks are thicc ! Big nugs on the way ! It's getting exciting here

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I really hope you're right! I've just about finished my clone area, it's going to be ghetto, but functional. The new light arrived today so think I'll do that tomorrow.

Laughing Grass said:

Think there's any chance of the two small ones filling out more? They've picked up the pace a lot since switching to flower.

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For sure. How far into flower are you now?

PJ Diaz said:

For sure. How far into flower are you now?

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I'm one week in now. The two on the ends have always been really slow growers with super tight nodes. This is a pic of one of the shorter ones. You can see how tight everything is compared to the middle one above.

Looking good LG!

Laughing Grass said:

I'm one week in now. The two on the ends have always been really slow growers with super tight nodes. This is a pic of one of the shorter ones. You can see how tight everything is compared to the middle one above.

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I'm going to also have to take a clone or two soon
What is your plan to harbor those plants untill your flowering room opens back up?

I'm thinking I will need to take a clone, keep it small as a mother, then take some clones off that 2-3 weeks before my harvest.
I'm not sure what else could be done during 10+weeks of flower

Laughing Grass said:

I'm one week in now. The two on the ends have always been really slow growers with super tight nodes. This is a pic of one of the shorter ones. You can see how tight everything is compared to the middle one above.

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Wedding Cake is a late stretcher. For me it stretches a lot between week 2 and 3.

Rurumo said:

Looking good LG!

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Thanks!

ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:

I'm going to also have to take a clone or two soon
What is your plan to harbor those plants untill your flowering room opens back up?

I'm thinking I will need to take a clone, keep it small as a mother, then take some clones off that 2-3 weeks before my harvest.
I'm not sure what else could be done during 10+weeks of flower

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Funny you should ask. I finished setting up my clone area yesterday. Don't laugh, I know it's ugly. I bought a small 100W led but I think it's way overkill lol. I was planning on running a mother plant but after listening to @curious2garden I think it makes more sense to run the clones and skip the mother plant altogether. I have a small dwc tote that I'll move them to once they're done in the cloner.

PJ Diaz said:

Wedding Cake is a late stretcher. For me it stretches a lot between week 2 and 3.

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did you notice much stretch in the first week? I was surprised how little I've gotten so far.