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this is my latest test, used plug, stem left in place, turned on its side with the plug cut into the middle. This has the advantage of shielding the plug from light, and keeping it exposed to air and also with a small foot print. Right now there is no drainage as it's not needed yet but I can easily turn it upside down to drain, which obviously cannot be done with a normal pot, so I'll just see how it goes.

Two of the beans have maybe become a bit stunted probably due to high ppm in the plug but they are all healthy, and don't require any work to maintain. I topped the one that is growing more normally and left the other two.

I was a bit worried at 8wks, but I torture myself like this every grow. Looks to be my favourite type of structure. Clipped a bit by accident from two weeks ago and even then she was sticky with a bit of a fresh strawberry smell, there's a lot of her too!

It is wrong of me to be bothered by the weird layered fireplace logs that appear to have been arranged by an overenthusiastic eight year old?

This one had a hard time and almost got put out in the garden at two weeks, leaves went necrotic due to likely plug overloaded with nutes as well as bad root formation, but she pushed through and ended up with some very tight juicy buds. Looks to be about 40g dry.

Crinkled Cookies is still plowing forward. Mulberry F3 doing her best at the back. Sirius has lots of extra sprouting vigour with stems splitting off etc, Popesicle is tall thin leaved and open, Chem 'n' Kush has that typical Kush look, there's more going on underneath the canopy. All three looking tip top.

Wider than she is tall, self terraced, pungent berries and chemicals, springy sticky buds.

This one was exceedingly tricky, massive branching impenetrable canopy with yellowing leaves early on with not many trichomes, however with patience and judicious leaf removal she has turned out to be rather spectacular, with a lovely terraced appearance. Very strong berry and chemical terps, extreme frosting with small springy buds very similar to a particular pheno of cookies n creamix. I'll keep going a bit longer because it's hard to tell what's happening with the buds.

I run three beans every eight weeks and in between I run a single re-used plug also every 8 weeks. This week I have tried putting two beans directly into the used plug and I left the old stem in place.

It's rare that I get to see four generations all 4 weeks apart beginning with the new ones which are coming up to one week. The one on the far left is a mulberry f3 that I was going to put in the garden because it just stopped growing but she perked up and while small looks to have a killer kola. Crinkled Cookies, nearly done and very similar to my 2nd cookies and creamix.

Sirius Blue is stocky, Strawberry Popesicle is open and Chem n Kush is in between and smaller. On 6th August I removed the main leaves off the top to get light all through the plant, and then you see the result on 9th August three days later.

As you see the canopy on all of them is what new growers who bend their plants over dream of, but instead of getting a good result because they have been convinced that topping an auto is "high stress", they pull the plant over damage the roots and end up with stunted plants and then they come here and ask 'why are my plants stunted'.

These are all hand watered in an eazyplug, nothing special.

I just discovered that if I underexpose by 3 stops, it looks more like it was under flash, but this is just the same shots under lights, straight out of iPhone 12 mini, knocking all the brightness out reveals the true colours.

When tearing part very sticky buds, these fine hairs are almost identical to the naked eye as the growing tentacles of a fungus.

While the heads are chunky, the stem is fairly thin and there are holes through the cola where air can flow and it's dry right now so I think there won't be any bud rot problem, it does continue to swell I did plan on taking her down on wk 12 but now maybe she'll go to 13.