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Even though we still have 15+ hours of daylight; the girls are starting to enter the pre-budding stage of their life cycle, indicated by the little hairs sprouting from the crotches of the fan/shade leaves.
This tells me I really only have a couple more weeks to feed the hell out of the plants with the vegetative nutrients, then ill need to ween them off of that and onto the budding nutes.
It's been so rainy here over the past two weeks or so that I havnt really been able to feed them as much as I, or they, would like. Sun=rapid growth for these things. With no sun and no nutes for two weeks these are at least a foot shorter than they should be.
I'm also going to need to, unfortunately, transfer the plants into bigger pots.. as Im starting to see roots through the drain holes I drilled in my buckets. The cannabis plant goes through what's called "the flowering stretch" as they start to bud, and will rapidly double in size. 5 gallons of dirt is barely enough for where they are now.. so it certainly won't be after they're 2x as tall.
After they recover from transplanting, ill pretty much need to immideately start the final pre-bud pruning. The final pruning will involve chopping every branch off the main stalk that won't reach at least 75% of the height of the main stalk, and chop pretty much every branch off of the main branches that's more than 3 or 4 nodes inward from the end. This allows more sun and air through the middle of the plant, which is good for bud production, and cuts down on the chances of developing bid rot.. AND it forces the plant to spend its energy creating all giant "tops" instead of splitting its energy between the tops and making a bunch of faffy popcorn buds that grow in the "middle" of the plant
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