[speedingsnoopy]

Hi everybody!

Well I cleared off all the dead plant matter, and I definitely lost a ton more than I thought I would. See pic 1 for all the dead leaves I pulled off. The poor girls are down to sticks...

I've been sure that Kya (pic 2) was gonna make it, but only in the last 24 hours have I gotten the impression that Jasmine (pic 3) will survive. Despite not having any fan leaves, her new growth looks quite happy (pic 4), and the hairs on the whole plant are perking up.
Has anyone stripped their plants down this far? Do I need to adjust temp, nute concentration, etc?

While I'm here, I think I'll talk about my hydro set up real quick. I have 8 clones that were rooted in half a 3 inch rockwool cube, which has been stacked on top of a whole rockwool cube (total is 4.5 inches vertical growth space... still not very much). They get solution 3 times a day via a small fountain pump.

Right now, all 8 are crammed into 12x7 in rubbermaid. I didn't mean to cram them in that bad, but when I took the clones I had no idea if either plant was female, so I wanted the best odds. Once they both turned out to be female, I couldn't just throw away perfectly good clones! Should I get a bigger flood box so they can spread out a bit?

I intend to grow "budsickles" by trimming off all the growth nodes, leaving only one main cola. These plants seem to like to spread out a bunch (characteristic of sativa?), so I don't think there's enough space in the little box to let the nodes grow.

Picture 5, 6 and 7 show the progress as of this morning. They are growing like weeds! (ugh, I can't believe how funny that pun was to me) Last night I built that trellis to keep them growing as close to vertical as I can. If anyone has experience with a budsickle style grow, advice would be most welcome!

Laugh, teach, and tolerate my idiocy. Peace!