Yes, they’re under HPS and I had the same reaction. After a few weeks I went, “I see why they’re called Fat Bastard”, then sent it to a dispensary owning friend in another state who said, verbatim, also, “I see why they’re called Fat Bastard.”
They’re otherwise on my usual regimen-- Promix dirt and osmocote with occasional calmag or superthrive folial every few weeks. Literally everyone is like ??? why are they such fat bastards
Anyway that was 4WK, I took some 5WK pics tonight and have since the previous pictures changed them to LEDs at similar PPFD to see if it… changed anything? But no they’re still real bushy. One of these actually took damage bc i’m a dumbass and clogged it with a light on replacement but I just trimmed a few leaves when the stem started struggling to repair since I had just FIMed it beforehand and it was a lot for the repairing core stem to keep up with, so it’s more… topped, artistically™
Like. I too was curious why my bastards are, in fact, short and fat, but I wanted to try to get them to spread out. I generally LST, all my BBK/Blueberry/StrawCough are LST with exception to one I did an experiment with, but I was like. No. You fat bastards absolutely need to start branching out.
I also had a sub-prime setup with some I had set to germinate before my new peat pots came in (their shipping arrival delayed) and my local garden center is useless, so I went “Meh I can transplant them once they pop up” with a new round, the seedlings you now see in peat pots but, oh my god? The three in the one shot had 8~ inch tap roots already??? I put them in the ground from germ like 3.5 days ago??? wot. You fat bastards. The other 3 I put down were more what I’d think like 4~ish inch main tap root? NOTICEABLY LESS. (I live in a state where the legal license cultivator is a 6>6>6 cap per stage/height/misc limits so most of my stuff will be in 6 waves. I’ve decided I like the strain, possibly because it actually confuses me. WHY SO FAT? WHY SO SHORT? WHY TAP ROOT SO DEEP? WHY SO SERIOUS?
*for what it’s worth, the nibblings you see are a mix of topping after effect and a minor pest problem around week 3 I treated out, or more, flies fkin loved my HPS and my weather insulation on my door gave them a beeline toward the current tent at night while it’s cooling off outside, but it’s fine, we’re good. I just wish I could set up another tent but. Working on limited/awkward space arrangements. I’d need to custom build it no higher than five feet and even then only 3 feet wide and since I plan to shove them in the main tent in a few weeks that’s a no go.
Either way the last ~8-9 days for them they seem to have about doubled in height. It seems like they vegetate out and real full, THEN start popping up. That or they really like the LED for some reason despite the same PPFD? UNCLEAR.
I’m used to strains that were uh. Popular by other routes back when I lived in texas 10+ years ago, like BBK, Blueberry, etc hence running those on main but I took this quest on and I’m like “what even ARE you, what are you DOING”
Also fml how long am I grounded to the only five posts a day thing and what kind of time period rollover is it, is it a server based time roll or what. blease ilgm I just want to discuss plants I’m not a spammer I swear. I had to wait over an hour to send this, sorry.
Also I found a sort of stage-between pic, which is the one I sent that got the duplicate comment, this was about 4.5wk
Do not judge my runt her name is Thelma and I loves her still (she also has herself become a tiny christmas tree since then).
