Clementine Slush #3: Her spot in the back left means I'll have to do some interesting shaping to keep her back edges from spreading too far and touching the sides of the tent. Outside of that, she is stretching nice and growing well! She is loving that back grow and responding really well to the stability in general.
Tent-Wide Updates: Week 2 Flower β Big Trim Complete!!!
Week 2 of flower is officially in the books, and this was the week where the plants really started showing me what kind of canopy I was working with!
My goal coming into flower was to keep stress as low as possible. I had done a lot of training during veg, and after dealing with seeded runs in the past, I really wanted to avoid stacking stress during the transition. For most of the first two weeks, I stayed very hands-off outside of small maintenance trims where branches or leaves were being pushed into the tent walls.
The biggest challenge continued to be humidity. These five plants are transpiring like crazy and drinking an enormous amount of water, so I focused heavily on environmental control instead of plant manipulation.
I added:
- a second fan aimed through the middle/under canopy
- stronger oscillating airflow across the canopy
- a 25-foot 6-inch exhaust hose so I could vent the humid tent air directly outside instead of recycling it into the lung room
That made a huge difference.
Once we reached around Flower Day 14, I finally did the planned big cleanup.
Each plant got a selective lower and interior defoliation/lollipop, removing weak shaded branches, large fan leaves that were trapping moisture, and growth that clearly wasn't going to reach useful light.
I tried very hard not to go overboard haha.
The goal was not to strip the plants, but to create airflow channels through the canopy and remove growth that wasn't contributing much.
The plants responded beautifully!
Within a day or two they were already standing tall, stretching, and stacking flower sites like nothing happened.
My Week 2 reservoir feed gradually shifted more toward flower nutrition while still leaving a little Ventana Plant Science Grow in the mix.
Average Week 2 feed per gallon:
0.75 ml Ventana Plant Science Structure
0.5β1.25 ml Ventana Plant Science Grow
2.25β3 ml Ventana Plant Science Flower
8.5 ml Ventana Plant Science Support
EC: 1.2β1.3
pH: 5.5β5.7
No Expand yet during Week 2.
The plants continued drinking around 4 gallons every 1β2 days, which is honestly getting kind of ridiculous haha.
I am still sticking with my smaller, clean reservoir strategy instead of filling the full 12 gallons. The reservoir stays extremely clean, there is no algae or biological buildup, and I can make small nutrient adjustments with each refill.
The biggest change heading into Week 3 is that stretch is beginning to slow and the flowers are really starting to stack.
From here, the goal is simple:
Hands off. Stable environment. Stable feed. Let the flowers build.
I am extremely happy with how healthy the tent looks right now, and I am hoping this low-stress approach gives me exactly what I want β healthy, high-quality, seed-free flower.