Small update on RTC: she is ready for my liking, lights out tomorrow. Pictures of her final look and budshots follow soon. Crowded beauty , no issues with pest or mildew, no rot,nothing. Will i grow her again? Sure, she was fun and besides the defoliation madness with this method of training and the 4x a day handwatering there was literally not much work… so all in all, I’m happy to have tried rockwool and a few different, new to me approaches (@420autoflower ,thx for having shared your method with us).
SMCs looking dope. Promissing!
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Nice bro, field of SMC’s looks promising! Don’t be afraid to take away a few leaves here and there, especially at those places where you multiple layers overlapping each others. For the rest let her do her thing and you’ll be golden soon 
BTW, is our brother @420autoflower finally back here? 
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SMCs - Day 19 , 12/12
The ladies are thirsty and need a lot of defoliation. So I did yesterday. They had a little too much going on , so like Antonio said , a few branches , fanleaves and some suckers had to go again. Overall airflow within and under the canopy is so much better now and also the light can reach deeper inside the plants. Today they already bounced back nicely, and these are damn nice promissing looking plants. Pheno4 definetly goes nuts, so fun to watch.
The RTC of my wife should be dry and ready for at least a first smoke test / first bud review around 4.20. Overall, she’s fine and she had some special treatment during her final 48 hours , from stem splitting to near frost temp spikes and her first darkness ever…Sure , won’t correct 90days of failures here and there before, but it added a little tiny bit, even though it’s imaginary, at least I can say, I’ve tried everything 
@antonio 420autoflower is here since 13th March, however I’ve not seen him posting yet. Also got no answer on Instagramm, after asking if everything is okay. Probably just life interfering with hobby.
Above: SMC Day19
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RTC Auto officially done and hung up to dry. Happy wife, happy life!
Nice !
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Flowering Day 22 SMC Update:
Pheno #1. She’s having some leaf deformations, the weakest bud production and a weirdo growth pattern , where I don’t want her to grow. Remove today. remove tomorrow again, 1/2 the size but twice… Lot’s of work to do to keep her under control and clean.
Pheno #2 doing fine, she’s most “green”, staying the smallest in height yet, with stretch on few branches. I dislike the crowdyness of the front side towards the door tent. - work to do there. That net under pressure of the plant really deformed heavily , which affects the squares spacing negatively. Need to rethink the way to hold it in place better in the future.
Pheno #4 clearly ahead 2-3 days compared to the 2 and the most promissing looking yet. Lower buds also form nice, and overall , she is doing great. Lovely node spacing. She’s 3 weeks younger than her 2 sisters but outperforms them - again. She’s stretching hard and a few first signs of early frost is already noticable, quite similar behaviour to what I expirienced with Blue Zushi Pheno#1 last year.
Defoliation done today again after few days of recovery. They are on 5l/day water atm , I’m using Nova max Bloom now and they love it.
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