Those look amazing!
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It looks like the heavy blue is causing extremely tight internode spacing… you may want to bring in some warm white?
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Thanks @Cannabian !
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My pleasure! They look super happy!
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In preflowering and flowering I’ll be going the exact opposite, heavy red and low blue light so my stretch will really be a stretch. After training I am considering upping the red during veg just as you suggested.
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Thanks for the info. Outdoors I’m definitely headed the no till route with cover crops to enhance and keep the microbes happy. Indoors I want to see what happens this grow with recycled soil and almost 50% of my medium coming from my actively maintained high quality input compost. During my last outdoor grow I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of a need to supply amendments to keep the plants happy. My thoughts are the compost must really be bringing a good amount of beneficial microbes. That also supports the idea of no till grows! Well, I hoarded way too many seeds so no better way to find out than to experiment , no 
Happy growing my friend!
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Goodafter noon. Checking out the garden today. Stopping by to say hello. Your plant are looking great friend.
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Absolutely! Here is an issue I have in my area with no till… the native soils here are either old river run rocks or clay, or a mix of both. So before I can " no till " I have to till. Then I have to mix organic material, manure and coarse sand, otherwise the soil compacts terribly hard with watering or trampling.
That’s lama poop !
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@Cannanaut hello friend.
Your No-till comment got me to a thinking.
I have grown huge no till gardens in the past. They work well for me. I wished i had a photo to show ya. During that time i was so poor i didnt even have a cell phone. I learned how to work with mother nature, i did.
My no-till was a vegetable garden. All i did was got carboard boxes from the DG. Then laid them all overr the garden, covered. Then i took hay and placed it about 10 inches on top of the cardboard. I do this set for a couple of months during winter.
When it was time to plant i dug a hole in the rotton smashed down hay and cardboard and place my seed or plant in.
If i lift up that carboard, underneath was moisture, it was hot and dry where I live so this was important to me. And the worm bed under that cardboard left me little need to fertilize. Very mice to work with mother nature like that.
I had 300 tomatoes plants that year. I suppled the whole neighborhood with free tomatoes.
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That sounds interesting and I would have loved to have been a neighbor to grab some fresh homegrown tomatoes! The whole no-till approach makes sense in optimizing natural conditions to make life as easy and highly productive if done right. I conducted an inspection for my job of the ag fields of Limoneira back in the day ( https://www.limoneira.com/)
huge agriculture producer and I saw compost piles and basic no-till practices in all the areas where there production trees were located. i don’t think a company with their resources do things that aren’t productive.
Have a good day my friend!
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Thank you @kw_Bat ! I’m kind of nervous because today or tomorrow I’m going to start my quadline and it’s always nerve racking to cut up a plant. I never had an issue but still 
I hope your day is a good one!
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Wait hold up, that’s a weed stalk? I salute you 
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Very nice my friend!
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Very true but fat stalks and fat roots usually results in fat buds from what I seen. Personally I haven’t seen a grower who can get stalks that fat not come through with the buds to match! That’s a pretty bud 
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Quadline under way with the major topping and cutting done. Red spectrum bumped up a bit and a bit of liquid kelp meal to help recovery. Let’s see how she recovers. Have a good evening all!
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@Cannanaut Goodmorning friend.
Dem plants can take allot. Crop the city out of them
Cheers!
They are looking good so far
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I think this is what all gardeners are trying to accomplish. Mimicking each plants optimal conditions.
Here where we live i know personally corn farmers in which only use notill. I think they use chemicals to kill off, then s
Plant and then slray to keep weeded. Process works for the commercial guys.
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Thank you my friend! I’m going to crop/torture her like @kaptain3d would
Have a good day!
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