From personal experience, I have gotten cuttings (clones) from friends without either parties knowledge of powdery mildew. Some strains are more receptive to the fungi then others. That being said it can thrive in the right environments laying dormant. Beware of any leaves that look like this ^

Spores become airborne when disturbed so be careful not to allow them in the Bloom environment.

An organic remedy is a sulfur foliar spray which coats the leaves and effects the ph making it inhabitable for the fungi to live.

If you have a clean clone, the BLOOM will provide the perfect temperature, humidity and air flow to deter spore colonization.

After cleaning out the Bloom, I have started a feminized flapjacks seed. This is a limited release strain from In House Genetics. It is an indica leaning hybrid cross of MACflurry x London Pancakes. Im going to use the ABK recipe and edit it down the road based on how it grows.

before and after pruning

buds starting to stack!

Congrats Mike! after growing this strain in a controlled indoor environment for years I am super pumped to pass along the legacy.

Buck Eye Purple is one of the most beautiful strains I have ever grown. This is what you get to look forward to!

Woowzer! I don't know if there is much to do now, so far along in the flower cycle unless you want to sacrifice some top colas to allow the lower growth to get more attention. maybe next time begin the flower cycle at half the size of this round and under cut HARD remove everything except the top three nodes. This has been a technique used my previous experience that feels very wrong when executing but it works! you should end up with few bud sites and nice big colas. It also will reduce your harvest time!

Check out this time-lapse from the company called three a light. This means they are yielding 3LBS A LIGHT which is very impressive for indoor growing.

If you notice how they strip off all of the foliage and love branches at the beginning of the time lapse. Then they stretch and begin to produce new leaves like crazy! They then do ANOTHER heavy de leave and pruning of weak branches.

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under cut the weak lower branches and leaves, its not too late. use your judgment and leave the strongest stems.

Seven days in the BLOOM!

The topped main stock is producing the next two main branches beautifully. I took off the two lower, weaker branches leaving me with four strong ones that will provide the structure for the the entire plant. Once these grow a bit more I will most likely repeat this process until it looks the ready for the flower.

You can tell the new roots from the old ones are much whiter and stronger. The old ones are browning which shouldn't be a problem but there could be a chance of root rot down the road.

This is how I started the ABK from seed but here are three papaya cake clones an indica leaning hybrid. These were put in the aero garden a few days ago. Not the same strain but it will be interesting to see how the clone takes off compared to seed. No roots yet but happy and perky.

Here is a quick update on the ABK.

The new topped stack has two healthy new branches that have grown about 4inches since the topping.

The plant is still a bit droopy looking but growing well. Im hoping it will perk up this week, it may still be in shock from the environment change.

You can see there are four new branches growing off of the previously topped stock. I went ahead and topped each one again as well as removing larger fan leaves and weak under growth. You can see the old topped stock in the bottom of this image and the new topped branch in the upper part of the image. we will see how these grow in and evaluate next week whether to top or not again.

by the way, when I broke the branch I used athletic tape to try to adhere the branch back to itself. There are products made for this, but this is all I had on hand at the time of need.

Started this feminized seed and November 17 and it took a long time to germinate, sprout and become a bushy plant.

I did top it once before these images below.

Here are some photos of the before pruning.

After pruning.

And trellising.

I'm trying to encourage this dense, squat growing indica to spread out to create more light penetration to allow more branches to grow!

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And we are officially over grown...

I did my best to train this plant down which it would be way past the lights if they weren't there. The technique works but the lower auxiliary branches are beginning to out grow the space. Luckily She is stacked and shooting out pistols so this phase of growth should be done. Now for bud formation. I hope it goes well with such a crowded cabinet.

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This strain took off even more when it switched stages in to bloom.

It stretched about 10" in a weeks time. I didn't want to cut of the tops to I put in another trellis to bend the branches down giving the plant some more room before hitting the top lights. The branches find the light in a few days and regrow vertically.

Growing Sativa dominate strains in the bloom is much different then Indica dominate. I should have begun the bloom stages earlier.

Here are some pics of what I described above.

Here are a few pics of the insane growth that has been going on inside my bloom.

Next I put her into early bloom stage to try and get some nice branch stretching before the buds begin to form

I then removed the largest fan leaves allowing for better light pentation to lower branches. I'm going to see how the plant bounces back from this shock and most likely remove some of the weak, spindly branches down low.

Some of the leaves were massive, blocking lots of light.

Here are a few pictures from the topping I did two days ago. She's growing very quick and strong!

Here is the top I took

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This is what it looked like right after topping

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Two days later and these two branches are taking off!

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The next strain being planted in the BLOOM is call Hibiscus Sunrise. This is a feminized seed. The genetics are Hawaiian Sunrise crossed with Gupta Kush making it an Indica leaning hybrid.

The seed was planted 7 days ago and has already germinated showing its first set of leaves. Impressive!

She filled the whole BLOOM -- my semi-aggressive pruning strategy worked.

Growing in the BLOOM is no joke, this is some of the better quality indoor grown weed I've seen - and I've seen a lot!

Flap Jacks is all done!

The total dry weight of bud is 8.39 oz which is just over half a lb (we gave out a few buds before the official weight) so it was probably at 9 oz.

The interesting part is the amount of trim there was, 110 g which is a lot for one plant. The amount of leaves covered in trichomes was amazing, even not on the bud sites.

The plant structure grew many small buds opposed to large colas which is most likely why the weight is low but I am still pleased.

It dried out well in the bloom but next time I think ill cut the plant into a few pieces instead of keeping it as one. The end of the branches dried out quicker then the interior parts closer to the main stalk.

It has been jar curing for about two weeks and it's ready!

The smell and taste is like a sweet fruity Kellogg's cereal.

When opening a jar the whole house smells, its strong.

The high is very strong, I don't smoke as much anymore and I can barley take it. My daily smoker friends say its some of the "dopest dope they ever smoked" which says something for its quality

here are some photos of the final product

Those are 4 gallon-sized jars, about 60 grams in each!