News Joint Grow Journal 26: Tenzin Kush #4 x Hazy Kush by Green Bodhi
Welcome back to News Joint Grow Journal 2.0: Five Signature Strains. After rotating through the first five strains, I’m back to where I started with Tenzin Kush #4 x Hazy Kush by Green Bodhi. I left off with the thriving seedling growth of the TK#4xHK, even through the bad PH imbalance. The TK#4xHK was ready for transplant. As mentioned in Grow Journal 21, I’m obsessed and fascinated with the symmetrical growth of this plant. The branches alternate back and forth so no two branches were located directly above the other, and the stacking seemed to be spaced unevenly apart. Though the leaves were a little lighter because of the PH imbalance, the roots were healthy and ready for transplant.

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Once transplanted, the TK#4xHK fan leaves darkened to a healthier green and grew larger than my hands within a couple weeks. From the start of vegetation, the TK#4xHK outgrew the other four plants in the tent: Jillybean by MzJill Genetics, PuTang by Mass Medical Strains, Peanut Butter Cookies by Tastebudz, Strawberry Cough by Kyle Kushman (Homegrown Cannabis Co.). The second tallest plant was PuTang.
For this second grow, I wanted to top the taller plants earlier but was out of town and waited a week later than expected. Another aspect of this second grow I wanted to change from my first grow was my technique in low stress training. The first grow, I used coated wires to bend the branches. This grow, I wanted to achieve the same effects by continuous pinching and bending the branches with my own fingers.

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A few days after topping the TK#4xHK, I began low stress training the plants. As long as I trained a day after watering, the TK#4xHK branches were extremely malleable. I massaged the branches to bend outward. Where I desired a more dramatic outward bend, I pinched the branch enough to fold it over a bit. Within a couple days, the branches developed knots, and the tip of the branch again started reaching for my light.
Though I did pretty well with the branches, I accidentally cracked the trunk where the two major stems diverged. The crack was nearly and inch long. I secured the top of the trunk with duct tape and left those two main branches alone for a few days.

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I also used the Kyle Kushman’s “Chiropractics” techniques. I delicately grasped each branch with my index and thumb and pinched with the bottom grip and twisted with the top grip. I “snapped” each branch in opposite directions from bottom to the top.
Other than those adjustments, during this grow, I tried not to helicopter parent my plants like I did during my first. The fan leaves on the TK#4xHK were fat and a healthy dark green. The branches stretched and stretched. As with most of this second grow, I was behind flipping my plants by about a week. Even with the low stress training, I knew the TK#4xHK had the potential to outgrow my 4×4 tent.

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The TK#4xHK sucked up nearly twice the water as the other four plants, and from early on to late in veg, especially when low stress straining the branches, a light stem rub was delivered pungent kush, skunk, and menthol aromas.
Stay tuned for Grow Journal 27: Jillybean by MzJill Genetics.
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