Triple Cheese - First photoperiod. #2.5

Typically you wanna wait till the plant has 5 nodes before you wanna start topping a photo period plant . I say this because you wanna wait for the tap root to be long enough . Once you top a plant it removes the steroid that pushes it to grow upwards and makes it grow side ways . With that being said it also make the tap root grow much much slower now and the little side roots are whats going to expand vigorously . You can top sooner but you run the risk of having a much smaller plant in comparison . If you look at my GG#4 grow you can see that example set out between the 2 that I have in that grow . One was topped at node 4 and one was topped at node 5 one ended far bigger then the other even tho the training methods were almost the same . Also allowing your plant to be a fair size 5th node or bigger will ensure that your root system is strong enough for a speedy recovery so you can determine if you want to top again or if you just wanna let it grow from there out . I hope this information helps you on your quest to becoming a master grower ! -Happy Growing!

Hey there Willy! So you should start to see signs of pistols in about a week or so like you said👍 As for the feed what I like to do is lower the veg nutes a little and add what I took away from the veg nutes with the bloom nutes make sense? The reason i like to do this is to keep some of the veg nutes in for the stretch where the plant will need a little more nitrogen than most Bloom nutes have. Then at about start of week 3 or once all the pre-buds have come in which ever comes first, I Get rid of the veg nutes and go straight bloom nutes. It seems to work very well Oh yea with the micro you can keep that in the schedule if you want👍 Happy Growing

Hey WillyWonka, yeah you did well adding the extra spectrum to the light, plants like that slightly different spectrum more during flower. Thing about led lights is the spectrum they say it is and the actual W at the wall they take may be very different. To be 100 rigorous you can get a watt meter online for less than 10 dollars plus shipping. Just plug the plug into it and it gives you a reading. With LEDs there's two main problems (strength, and the blurple - is the sun purple?) and coverage. The best you can do with LEDs is make sure every square inch of your tent has a LED on it. Try getting a lux meter or a par meter to check around at various places in your tent , you'll be surprised at how the light intensity varies. Folks say you dont get acurate readings LEDs and lux meters, but you get a ball parc idea of the variations occuring in your tent. Hope this helps ! 🚀

Yoo dude ! considering the fact that is announced 8 weeks of flowering by barney's…. yeah your buds seems small. but often it takes also more than announced. to my point of view there is one thing that you could do now to try to boost your grow… add a watering solution 22/24 °C (Depending on your tent temperature) with symbiotics fungies (mycorhizae and trichoderma + if u can some bacterias) and you add a litle bit of bio molasses with them (3 ml /L for sugar) in order to accelerate the development of these micro-organisms….It is advisable to put a little pinch of this fungies on three 7cm holes deep, holes that you will then close before watering the solution normally this mix In addition to stimulating flowering, is possible to break the blocking of eventual nutrients… and it will restore the soil activity as it best… where you from ? the nutrient company in UK have a good pack, including bacterias. but if i have an advice it is alway use symbiotics fongies at start, when you transplant and after 2/3 weeks of blooming stage 👍 last question what is your led light ? (ref plse) Hope it will helps. Namasté 🙏

Depending on how they were drinking you could give them 1 last water. I would make sure the soil is dry before going into the 48 hours of darkness. Keep the airflow up and you will be good. Good luck and happy growing! 💪