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So - after at least 12 weeks' vegging, I'm left with one plant - one that was hungrier than a simple repotting from 15cm to 25cm was able to provide for.

But two weeks into flowering, this plant is responding to some 20:20:20 nutes and is revealing all the amazing resilience I had heard of from the keeper of the bonsai bondage crown over at *****.

Because of the very extended vegging, it's difficult to say how much stretch there was, but my perception is next to none.



With two 250 watt lamps all to itself, I swear I can see the bud development in real time !

Having only one plant - and a very compact one - about 26 inches from the compost surface - I have been able to indulge the root zone - something of an issue in a cold house in winter.

To save money on heating, in addition to the thermostatically-controlled tube heater, I have moved the two ballasts from their high shelf to under the mesh shelf. In order to mop up otherwise wasted heat from the 3 foot tube heater, I have been more organised than ever before with my watering - so there's over a week's supply warming up ready for use.

I have had a good prune of the under-storey - leaving just a few air-buds in case I decide to reveg - I also took some cuttings - but with the days so short, I would need to set up a lamp and bottom heat somewhere...

This is a dilemma because I'm a very modest toker and assuming I get a few ounces from this plant, I won't actually need to grow again until winter 2014/2015.
Next winter's grow will be to replenish my sativa jars.

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The biggest deficiency in my grow (apart from the watering and feeding ) is ventilation.

I regret I'm a serial offender over 17 intermittent years.

When I started out, I had absentee or chain-smoking, dog-owning, shake-and-Vac ing neighbours and I used to convect straight into the poorly-felted roofspace - and I sometimes caught a familiar whiff elsewhere in the house.

I've now moved the grow to the back of the house so was able to cut a 4 inch hole in the outside wall for a 4 inch kitchen fan.
There's a void up the top of the space to accommodate a filter - I even bought a hefty drill to enlarge the hole to 6 inches ....

My current neighbours are super-cool and nice and in the highly unlikely event they smelled something and suspected their quiet, middle-aged neighbour of growing, there's no way they would act on it.

Since I sleep in the adjacent room, noise is also an issue.

But my yield has always been much less than it should be - half a gramme per watt - no matter plant numbers or genetics - so I'm guessing it's a lack of CO2 that even talking to them won't fix.

So it will be interesting to see what difference it makes having a single - albeit large plant with a lot more space to stretch out and breathe.
Since it's still in the tent, it's still very much still down to convection up through a gap at the top of the tent - with the fan on tickover all the time and only cutting in on full when the temperature at the top of the space creeps up to the high-20s.

Perhaps I'll get my finger out for the NEXT grow - I should at least enlarge the hole and fit a 6 inch fan.

So for several different reasons, I'm almost glad I'm down to one plant - from the previous arrangement of four 8-week vegged, LST'd plants.

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A close-up of the under-storey - showing on the right the original leading shoot that was bent downwards early in veg to encourage the plant to spread out.

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And here is the main cola after little more than two weeks of 12/12.
If shown a photo I might well have guessed it at 4 weeks in based on what I've mostly grown before.



Fairly neutral aroma at the moment, but one of the smaller colas is distinctly skunky.

I'm so very sorry to hear about Tiki's troubles - I sincerely hope we don't lose genetics like this.

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Photo showing the main bud filling out :-

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And the whole forest at 19 days :-

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I was determined to get the maximum chilled-ness from this harvest so I tried to wait until I was certain I had milky trichomes, but as it got to 10 weeks, I started getting a bit of budrot here and there. I would pick out the bad bits for processing into hash and liberally sprayed the adjacent areas with Citrofresh..
But the time had come.




After a week drying :-



If there had only been a second plant, I would have harvested as much as I ever have done before from 4.

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It's hugely annoying I can't reveg the stump and put it out in the greenhouse.



I have a single well-rooted cutting I carelessly took in early flower and stuck in a bottle of water, so I may see if I can't keep it alive until late autumn with a short light cycle and night-break light ...

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So there you have it.

Test smokes show Yarkoum to be very tasty and an interesting mixture of the psychedelic and the stoney and I have high hopes for the quality after curing.

Excellent genetics and I hope Tiki's problems are eventually resolved.

[Greenadian]

Nice work bro!
Keep that plant in veg and eventually it
will get some new growth!!
Cheers