Day 1: Will change to 12/12 mid week, after the tops fill in a little more. Defoliated a good amount on photos. Autos are 13" tall.
Day 3: Missed the chance to move the Photos to their 12/12 tent. The Autos take up more room than I expected.... I envisioned being able to trim them. The Autos are stretching and I need to raise the light, which I dont want to do yet.... I want to keep the Photos short until they flower. Also, the 12/12 tent has a bit more room then the veg tent. Since I started Purpanator, the tips of the leaves have browned a little..... just a bit. I might skip it next week. The pictures were taken with the bloom light off to show the colour of those Kush's.
Day 5: Moved Red Purps and Purple Maroc to flowering tent, and Autos both have the tent to their selves. I am going to do some LST to Purple Maroc and will defoliate what needs it. Pictures to follow...
Day 7:. Defoliated both Photos, starting to clear bottom and center out. Just doing a bit at a time to avoid any big stresses now that I switched to 12/12
Start of 4th week, and some small pistils showing in both autos - should I feed veg nutes for now, and change to flowering nutes next week, or a mixture of them some how?
Keep it with the veg nutrients during the 1st week of stretch , then during the second of stretch you can do half grow half flo and after you can go with full flowering strenght. But it seems that ruderalis needs more N during the flo than classic strains so you can add a little extra N everythime you think it is necessary but not too much to avoid any excess
I was trying to even out the main growth area, as this plant stretched between 5&6th nodes. It looked like a palm tree. It's done now, but should I treat the wound?
Your topping is pretty clean even if like you said your plant was looking like a lil tree before that : it's now looking like a lil bush which is not that bad. Fortunatly you did your Xtrem topping on a photoperiodic plant so she'll recover soon enough. I hope that you have kept the apex to try to clone it !
You can put something to treat the wond but if you don't then the part you'v cut will dry just before the node and naturally "heal" , I know that there is a red kind of "glue" that peoples are putting on the plants scares or that they are using to make grafting : sorry I don't know the word in english to tell what it is.