The Orange Apricot cannabis plant was cloned, trained, and put into bloom mode, the Pink Kush was trained and topped. The Apricot Kush seedling has caught it's stride, growing quickly, and received bent stem training too.
Orange Apricot
This Orange Apricot cannabis plant has had five weeks of growth, a few days ago it was put into bloom mode. It's seed was made with the crossing of the Orange Barb and Pink Apricot strains. A clone of this plant was made before putting it into bloom.
Cloned
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A small lower branch was selected for blooming, snipped and dipped in water. The wet snipped stem was then dipped in root promoting powder.
A small hole was poked in damp dirt, the powder coated stem put in the hole, the dirt firmly pushed from all sides against the coated stem for a tight fit. The container was covered with plastic to retain moisture while roots get a chance to grow from the stem. The container is placed off to the side, not in direct light for a couple weeks. After a couple weeks the clone has had it's chance for roots to grow and it's time to start to bring the clone under the lights. One more week for this clone.
Training
After four weeks of vegetative growth, this Orange Apricot plant was tall enough for some bent over stem training.
Last Week
A small cord was looped around the top of the plant, then attached to a hole on the edge of the container with a cord tightener, so it could be tightened.
Tightened
The cord was tightened and the top of the plant was pulled down to the side, towards the edge of the container, until the top of the plant was at the same height as the tallest branch.
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In the pictures above you can see how the tied-down top of the plant has turned itself upwards towards the light by the next day. You can see the bent stem in the picture below. The purpose of the training is to have the top and all branches grow up at the same height for the most efficient grow light energy usage, to maximize bud growth. Instead of just one big cola, each branch could potentially be a large cola is the goal.
Bloom Mode
A few a few days after training this plant was put into bloom mode. Red spectrum lighting that is only turned on for twelve hours per day. In another week and a half this plant should start showing pistils for a female bud producing plant, or flowers for male pollen producing plant. If it turns out to be male then I'll bloom it long enough to collect pollen, then destroy it's male clone, if it's female then I'll grow the buds and will have a female clone in the waiting, ready for budding.
Pink Kush
This Pink Kush has had five weeks of growth, grown from a feminized seed, this female cannabis plant will surely produce buds when put into bloom. For now I will allow it to grow larger in vegetative mode, so it will grow more buds when eventually put into bloom.
Trained
After the fourth week of growth, this Pink Kush was ready for bent stem training. A small rope was looped around the top of the plant and tied to the edge of the container so that it could be tightened.
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The rope was tightened, the top was pulled down to the height of the tallest branch, exposing the branches to more light.
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A few days later you can see how much the branches have filled in, and how the top of the bent over stem has turned upwards - ample surface area for the light.
Branch topped
A few days after training, one of the lower branches was a few inches taller than the rest of the tops. I could have tied the branch down a little, but instead I decided to top it to slow down it's upwards growth, giving the rest of the tops a chance to catch up.
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In the picture above-left you can see the top of the tall branch and the two branch starts from it's leaf nodules. In the picture above-right you can see the top removed, the two new branches will grow up was two new tops, replacing the one that was snipped. Below you can see bushy and filled in Pink Kush, I'll give this plant another week or two of vegetative growth before putting it into bloom mode.
Apricot Kush
This Apricot Kush has had four weeks of growth and was also tall enough for bent stem training - it's training week.
Last Week
You can see the training rope attached above, after tightening the rope, the stem was pulled down.
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A day after training, below you can see how the bent over top has turned back upwards towards the light. You can see how quickly the lower branch tops are level with the bent over mail stalk's top. A level canopy for the shallow LED grow light penetration.
This Apricot Kush plant has a few more weeks of vegetative growth before it will be put into bloom.
