Barney's LSD Auto - 90x90 - 400w hps

Good evening my good friends! So, another Thursday night comes, meaning another week starts in this grow. As a balance from last week, I'd like to underline the smooth and constant levels. RH stabilised both stages of light, good reaction from plants to nuts feeding, well succeeded transplant. In general, couldn't be happier with the grow! This week, the main topic will be: topping or training? Or even both, why not? Until the weekend I'll make my mind regarding this technique that can stress or even get plants stunned. And nobody likes that, right? So, let's give it some time and see what'll be the final decision. Day 22 28/5 - #1 has nothing new. keeps growing according to the expectations, nice structure, looks healthy Today I got a little distracted with time and the humidifier went empty, throwing my RH to a very dry 19%. Immediately fixed, got it back to the 40% (ish) It's amazing to observe how much water it goes in the humidifier. 6 liter every 24h. Impressive uh?! Temps are under control, think I got a good hold on this lately. Getting a steady 27 on / 18 off. Feeding today again with the same nut-mix, so far they're loving it! Day 23 29/5 - #1 time for some LST in this LSD aha was thinking to top it, but won't do it. Maybe on the #3 when it's time for it. I never performed any kind of training in a plant, so I'll start with the less aggressive and easier method. Curious to see her reaction tomorrow, and probably will need some readjustments. Fed her again with the nut mix, is enjoying the mix and the pictures state. Nice. RH and temps are around the same. 32% on, 60% off. 28 on and 18 off. Day 24 30/5 - #1 reacted well to the training. Still afraid I bent her too much, only the future can tell. To make sure, I pulled it a little more, and stabilised it better. Today had another feeding with nuts (as everyday) and appears to enjoy every bit of it. As we are in the middle of week 4, I decided to make a new batch of water (4 liters), enough until the end of this week. Now added also Root Juice by half to make sure the roots are getting what they need. This warm days here where I'm living also brought me a new problem: Humidity here is down to 20's%, so the air going inside the grow is warmer and drier. Even with the humidifier on, full power 24/7 and won't get it over 34% with lights on. Lights off can keep up under 60% Day 25 31/5 - #1 My worries about the training were gone when I saw her this morning. Actually I think it was good for her as it looks like can get more exposure bending like this. Soon I'll tie the new top to keep an even canopy, and will keep defoliating the bigger fan leaves. Today I start defoliating the plant. just a little to start, taking the fan leaves that were in direct contact with the soil, making no point to waste energy on that. Soon will take a few more as it seems that she's starting to flower. Or so it seems and you can check on todays' pictures. Had a little over a nice pint of her favorite mix of water and nuts just an hour before the lights went off, just to give her a night boost. Love this Beauty. The grow keeps the same, dry during the day time, nice in the off time. RH is 35% on, 55% off. Temps from 28 on to 18 off. Time for light period is now changed. 23h to 18h. Let's see what this brings, but I'm hoping to find a nice balance here inside the grow, even though they look super healthy and nothing wrong is going on. Day 26 1/6 - #1 Defoliation keeps on, today I cut off a couple more fan leaves in hope the plant will focus more on growth and development of what we all want - bud. Hope I'm doing it right, and off course counting on your opinion about it. LST seems to work at this stage, as the plant seem already to be adapted to her new position. Very soon will be pushing the new top down, attempting to make the spiral method of training. The plant itself has a strong green color in the leaves, they're super vigorous. Tomorrow is the last day of the week for this diary, looking forward to a great ending. It got hot in the grow today, can't really get distracted with the temps, or having enough water in the humidifier. As I'm still home, could spot that at early stage, otherwise could have been a bigger problem. Fans were adjusted, to circulate better the air around the plants and lower in the bottom of the grow. With this said, temps were today: 32 on and 22 off. RH was 28% on and 50% off. Remember, this are peak temps, not the constant, that is around the 28.8c same with RH that stands usually over 35%. Day 27 2/6 - #1 didn't suffer from any stress from previous defoliation, so moved on and keep training her. As you can see on the pictures, I tried to move all the branches to get full exposure. It's a lot of twisting and it's a job that demands dedication, patience, and steady hands. It's not the job you wanna do sleepy, or distracted you wanna be focused to do it properly, without hurting the plant, or even break it. But it's quite fun and relaxing, almost therapeutic I'd say, helping to elevate this hobby to a more passionate level. It's my first time training a plant and I really enjoy it, can't wait to see the results! Back on track, the plant wasn't fed for 36h, and probably will stretch it to 48h, and will water in the morning - That's her afternoon and it helps me getting temps down and RH up. Misting happened a few timer during the day to push temps down and the foliage cooler from heat and light exposure. On that topic, today's levels were ok, a bit on the hot and dry side with RH at 34% on and 50% off. Temps oscillated between 32 on and 20 off. Day 28 3/6 - #1 Is reacting very well to the training. Keep on adjusting the plant, everyday twisting and tying around. Looks now more flat and leveled, all the branches are kinda separated from each other, getting maximal exposition to the light. Due to this, I decided to defoliate the plant a little more, removing another 2 fan leaves. You can see on the pictures above the before and after. Fed her now before lights goes on with the nut mix. Almost a liter this time, together with a generous mist of the plants and also, after moving up the lights last night, just did it again. The temps, the RH and the plants seems to be closer to the optimal levels and that makes me very happy after struggling a couple days with high temps and low RH in the grow. Temps between 28c and 20.4c and RH from 34% to 54%. This is the last entry of this week, tomorrow is the start of a new one, and if I'm right, will be the last week of veg.