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More time has passed, and I continued to let her grow unbound. This was her first real opportunity to stretch

About a week has passed since the previous pic. She still would not have received any food or water at this point (aka fertigation).

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It was time to tie her back down at this point. She had stretched quite a bit as you could see in the last pic.

She starts to get her food again also.

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If you look at the bottom most part of this pic, you can see a wee clone. It was the first clone from this mom.

I only point it out because I want you to see that mom is pushed back against the wall currently, with the clone closest to you in the foreground; basically right up on the edge of the closet sliding door.

This is important because the only real way to compare growth from pic to pic in my one-week increments, is to see the branches in relation to the walls of the closet.
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In other words, all the remaining pics are going to have the clone removed from the closet and mom centered; allowing her the whole closet.

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I knew it was ok that I was letting my mom gain so much stem, in other words, the stretching. This is important because she needs to gain this weight in preparation of the oncoming buds she will grow.

She was still receiving veg ferts, since the first couple weeks of flowering are hardcore stretch weeks, for the reason I explained above. She is not yet concentrating on actually GROWING her buds.

She DOES however get the added light of the 400 watt HPS. It stays on from here on out along with 400 watt MH.

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After completing one week of flowering, I started to worry about mom locking up again. She showed very early signs (in my very underdeveloped leaf reading skills) of locking up, so I decided to give her another flush.

It ended up that she was probably not as bad as I had thought. Remember, you watch for the coloration of the water pouring out from the pot when you lift her out of the water

The more YELLOW the water is in the beginning, the more salts that had built up. My first flush, lots of yellow; the second flush, not so much.

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Now since mom had gotten another flush, she needed another drought. I didn’t want to make it too long however, because I was eager to start her new flowering mix.

Mom ended up with a 3 day dry out period from the flush, and then got her first flowering food. During the 3 days, she was not bound. The remaining 4 days of this week, and here on out, mom was bound down.

Look how quickly she responded. Re-examine her branches in relation to the closet walls. She has put on quite a bit of weight. From here on out however, she will put all her energy into the buds.

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Just adding weight. Fattening up.

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Another Angle.

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Now, this is where if you were following Deltas ways, you would let up on the restraints and watch the buds swell.

You could also wait till the end up week 5 if you wish, there is no science to it.

This grow, things got complicated, and I ended up pulling the grow at the end of week 6. She was bound all the way until I pulled her also. Next grow, I will probably wait till the end of week 5 before I let her loose.

This is also the time that you start to pull back on the N almost completely. She has plenty stored up, and will use the leaves as energy, and at the same time, this helps the smoke become less harsh.

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Another Angle.

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mmmm

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