Lucas STC

Draconium Strawberry is one of my favorites, sprouted just like the rest, placed in 1/4 cup of water checked the next morning to find seeds with tails at 1/4 inch or longer, very vigorous seeds, placed seeds directly into 10g cloth pot wit 1 bag of Ocean Forest. I have the best results with direct sow, roots never see the side of a pot/plastic.

Draconium I'm not sure what happened to the top, looks like it was FIMed, but she is too small for me to top. 1 leaf just didn't form right, but under the scope it looks like the next set is coming in just fine. . . may go to leaf set 5, and remove the first multi finger set at first topping will leave 4 nodes ate first top.

Draconium Growing along nicely! Nothing to report really this week for my STC. She is moving right through the issue she has with the 1 finger that is retarded, it's not affecting her in anyother discernable way. Started to feed them Big Bloom this week, Only Organic nutes in the first month, and not for the first 2-3 weeks, don't want to burn the little ladies.

Draconium Node 4 separated from 5 this week so I topped in between them. Started into the nitrogen, always best to go in slow. Doing great.

Draconium Doing great, not gaining height as fast as I expected a sativa to go, but doing amazingly otherwise.

Draconium Interesting things I am seeing about this young lady, #1 fat fingers, must come from the Indica parentage but is supposed to be a sativa dominant plant, #2 not putting height on as fast as the Indica's, only the plant that is 1 week newer is smaller than her and she is smaller in every way than the other 4 plants, #3 this is not a leggy plant at this point in any way.

Draconium 29 inches now. . . She's a beautiful little plant, however she seems a bit bushy to be a sativa and those fat fingers. . .definitely showing her Indica parentage more, but it is still early in the season.

Draconium Not doing anything with her just yet, going to super crop her to try and keep her from outgrowing my hoophouse. feeding is going to exclude calcium except for the 2 weeks after super cropping, then the plan is to Cal-Mag those 2 weeks, should mean less snaping during the supercropping.

Draconium Started to super crop this plant this week, bent all tips away from center of the plant, most simply stood back up, so am fighting to keep them bent, am thinking of adding a few fishing weights to help fight going back to straight. this will be my only super crop plant this year.

Draconium The distance between nodes has reduced significantly this week, I believe this to be due to the super cropping causing hormonal/nutrient flows to change. Still doesn't have the long thin fingers of a sativa, and I just stunted any height she might have gained quickly by bending all of her tips 2x in a week, however, all of the nodes look like they are becoming nice little tops all on their own since I started. Ladybugs have been added as a precautionary to all of my plants this week.

Draconium Starting to show her fem side, added some soil to the top of her pot as a preventative, my other plants have had theirs done as well. Not becoming very broad but is definitely very full, and starting to reach for height at 42 inches. Still Super Cropping every few days but since is showing sex may stop after tomorrow's bend session.

Draconium Continuing to bend, finally got the top of the plant to go almost flat across instead of arching, many of the tops have taken the SC, while other tops are still fighting it. All of the tops, weather it accepts the bending or not, are repairing themselves with in 48 hrs, so either it will have gone straight or it will stay bent, none of the tops are suffering from wilt or lack of liquid flows in any way.

Draconium Am now stopping the Super-cropping, she is showing her femininity, so flowering will be along in a week or 2, has made many nodes very dense, will continue to monitor, hasn't spread the plant out much, but being a sativa the bushiness is probably due to the bending. Not tall and lanky but definitely thinner finger than the rest.

Draconium The super cropping is definitely keeping her shorter, it's also creating thick knot areas for higher nutrient flows where the bends occur. It's definitely created a denser plant than anticipated, being a sativa she should be 1.5 times as tall (or more) but isn't so i would say "yes, super cropping works to keep your plant shorter".

Draconium getting close to flower, am adding in 1tsp of Tiger Bloom to help ensure proper nutrient availability as she shifts into full bloom, probably 2 weeks(ish) until I call it week 1 of flower.

Draconium Large healthy and well balanced, she's doing great, no real yellowing or excessive leaf shed. Definitely starting to flower, will begin to increase the Tiger bloom 1tsp this week and 1 more next week, while reducing the grow big to 0 3 weeks from now.

Draconium having some minor mite issues (predatory mites have been released to deal with the issue, will bring in more ladybugs in the next few days), otherwise surviving the 100+ f temp days we have had this week. definitely into flower now, have figured out where I'll tie her if I need to for support later.

Draconium Skipped a week on here due to a vacation. Doing awesome, it's that time of year where they naturally slow their intake of Nitrogen there by causing the leaves to reduce in number, in flower not trying to put on height or leaves, now is the time for bud production and bulking!