Yeah unfortunately I have two plants that are dominating the small space they are in. So I have two big ones and two small ones. I’ll get a handle on it here pretty quick. 
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Well, my plan to flip the girls at 60 days is becoming less likely - overnight they exploded and I think it wise to listen to them 
I have not defoliated them on purpose so this will be interesting
Youtube has been very strict so you have to view this on youtube -
Really happy with this grow -
Thank you for looking and have a GREAT Sunday!
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They have a familiar appearence chief!
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Yep - they are about to go Nuclear
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Your UV light experience is going to be very helpful for a lot of growers…
Would appreciate your observations on stretch…growing with BBP seems to give a lot of lateral branching producing a plant with dense foliage but a uniform canopy. I’m just curious if you did no defoliation until say two weeks into flower…would that contain stretch to any extent???
LOL, nothing better to think of this morning…they look great chief!
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Thank you so much @TheMadFlascher
I have upped the uv(AB) to 7 hours mid day of a 17 hour veg schedule - I have NOT noticed any burning or negative symptoms and in fact have noticed the density of the foliage increasing (I suspect from both BBP and the uv)
There is fantastic lateral branching in every single one of these girls credit to BBP - I experienced that this summer as well - BBP is without a doubt the most valuable product in my arsenal - and this run I have been toning down all my other inputs to strip away some of the smoke 
I don’t plan to defoliate until 4 weeks after flipping - I want to have alot of BBP power going on
I will be sure to post my experiences on the stretch - I want to delay to as close to 60 days as I can but if they grow more like they did last night I won’t make it…haha
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Thanks chief, as always, it will be a lot of fun watching your progress !
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Nice stuff. Like a lot of the strains you are farming.
I heard y’all don’t like to trim… well, send em my way lol I will trim em’ and smoke some. Haha
Nice techniques, good ideas for a future outdoor grow.
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Thank you so much @mj1 and @TheMadFlascher - another thing that I am doing that I am noticing makes a difference is I am manually raising and lowering the intensity of my lights to correspond with a rising to mid-day then declining to sunset - I am now giving them 100% at the mid day so lights on at 2am set to 70% - lights up at 5am to 80% - lights up to 90% at 7 am and 100% at 9am till 1pm then I start backing them off - the UV lights are on from 7am -2pm - lights out at 7pm. I am liking the 17/7 veg schedule - especially with adjusting the lighting - the combination seems to be a good one to getting a little closer to replicating mother nature.
I am lucky to have the time and motivation to do this manually - ultimately I would love a light mover with a dimmer that could give me more flexibility - I would also like a way to vary the spectrum intensity - I know you can get lights that do that in the very high end equipment but soom I am sure it will be more available
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I’ve been sniffing around for a tool that will do sunrise and sunset. My lights are wired for it. Maybe I’ll call the grow light depot tomorrow and ask about it.
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The light manufacturer of my light just came out with a sunrise/sunset dimmer
I will see how this grow turns out before I make another investment - my take on grow lights are they are a fast moving technology - they will have UV, IR, Deep Blues and controllers that dim with automatic sunrise/sunset AND adjustable spectrums.
Let us know what you find @happilyretired
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Very good lookin grow brother!
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This is what i do also with my foshe it has sunrise and sunset and it also has an overcast cloud feature that really turns up the uv. I still like to run the spring light recipe until i flower then i do summer recipe for 2 weeks then as they transition to flower i flip them.
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That sounds like a solid plan. 
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This was Wednseday night before I put her in the dark
and this was this morning after 36 hours of darkness -
its hard to see but the autopot gals in the big tent with UV stretched about 2 inches the other tent somewhat less but nice and healthy start.
I haven’t defoliated at all - I am wanting to give BudBusterPro all the time it needs to fully absorb and release the goodness
I gave them a Bloom microbe tea to help transition and I will start flower nutes gradually.
Very happy with this grow so far.
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I can’t believe it but the female praying mantis that I believe left the eggsack very close to our house on a tree branch came back and is still alive. It’s supposed to die weeks ago. I’m very happy that she didn’t die yet but she looks very weak.
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Well, it’s obvious that she thrived while living with your plants. I love that she left you some babies. By the way, I love your 'birdie" video and wondered if I could share it with my friends. It has a very special meaning for me.
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Thank you - and yes of course you can share the youtube video - I made that when I was promoting my app several years ago - Enjoy…
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thank you so much 
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