60-day variety
A cultivar that finishes flower in approximately 60 days from flip.
AJ guesses the Branson's Royal Revenge phenos are 60-day varieties based on their current fill and stretch behaviour.
ep 025
🌸 Flower
Flip to flower, flower development, bud formation, daily review
103 terms
alien cush look
Visual descriptor for dense chunky calyxes noduling out along a cola, reminiscent of Alien Kush genetics.
Jeremy uses 'that alien cush look' to describe the back Halitosis number 12 stacking pattern.
ep 035
Anthocyanin
The purple pigment cannabis plants produce instead of chlorophyll — genetics plus environmental triggers (cold, maybe pests, maybe light) drive expression.
Jeremy defines anthocyanin on camera and notes ongoing debate about whether it's a light response or a pest defense response. Clear that it's genetic because in the same environment some plants express and some don't. Colder temperature also pushes more purple.
ep 028, ep 037
Banana (nanner)
A stamen-like male organ that emerges directly from a flower cluster on a hermaphrodite plant and can release pollen without forming a full pollen sac.
Found on both Halitosis and Branson's Royal Revenge. Host says Chem D is notorious for throwing bananas late indoors — it is accepted as part of the genetics.
ep 027
bloom booster
A conventional (often synthetic or hydroponic) flowering fertilizer designed to drive bud growth, typically high in phosphorus and potassium and applied every feeding.
Jeremy contrasts BuildABloom with bloom boosters — he doesn't want a hit-every-time bloom booster paired with CalMag and GoHydro, he wants a living soil complement used sparingly.
ep 024
Branson's Royal
The other cultivar in the tent — fatter hairs, swollen teardrop-shaped calyxes, has long valley genetics and a fuel punch despite heavy purple coloring.
Jeremy expects branson's to finish faster than halitosis. The swollen calyx shape is the round teardrop at the base of each hair. Jeremy thinks branson's breaks the rule that purple strains lack potency.
ep 028
broad leaf cannabis
Indica-leaning cannabis varieties with wider leaflets that typically finish earlier than narrow-leaf varieties.
Jeremy contrasts broad-leaf with narrow-leaf finishing times to explain why he has to make one harvest decision across differently-maturing genetics.
ep 037
Bud set
The early flower stage where pistils and calyxes begin forming recognisable flower structures.
AJ says the very long thin hairs on day 22 of flower indicate good bud set is underway.
ep 026
Calyx
The bract-like structure at the base of each pistil hair where a seed could form — shape (round teardrop vs tighter) is a cultivar signature.
Jeremy explains calyx morphology as one of the things to build a mental catalog of across genetics — fatter hairs + swollen calyxes vs longer hairs + tighter small calyxes are two diagnostic shapes.
ep 027, ep 028
Cannibalization in a no-till bed
When one pheno stretches aggressively in a shared container and dwarfs or shades its neighbors, artificially reducing their yield and flower development.
Branson's #9 and Branson's #1 were both cannibalized in the 3x3 by the Halitosis stretchers, leaving visible pockets where the flower could have filled in but did not.
ep 041
chem d
Chem Dawg D — a legacy chem line cut with a signature astringent fuel / turpentine / headbandy-sweet profile. Parent of Halitosis.
Jeremy calls Halitosis 'a chem d cross' and describes the fuel profile as signature of anything with chem d in it.
ep 035
Chem D lineage
A cannabis family known for producing vigorous, highly resinous plants but also for reliably throwing bananas late in indoor flower.
Both Halitosis and Branson's Royal Revenge carry Chem in the cross. Host says Chem D is notorious for this behaviour indoors and it is simply accepted with the line.
ep 027
Chem D x I-95 cross
A fuel-forward cross between Chem D (a Chemdog cut) and I-95 — Covert Genetics used this as the basis for several of their keeper cuts including Halitosis.
Jeremy says he started picking up every Covert Genetics pack that had the Chem D / I-95 in it — that fuel cross is why he gravitated to Halitosis as his covert genetics pick.
ep 041
CO2 enrichment
Raising atmospheric CO2 inside a grow room above ambient to boost photosynthesis and plant growth.
Jeremy plans to duct CO2 from a 4x4 mushroom tent outside this room into the grow room and use the Pulse Pro CO2 meter to see if mushroom-sourced CO2 meaningfully boosts plant growth.
ep 022
COB (Chip on Board) light
A compact LED light built as a dense cluster of chips on a single substrate, commonly used over small tents.
Host shows two small Timber COBs lighting the 2x2 side-experiment tent.
ep 027
cobb lighting setup
A fixture built around chip-on-board LED cobs, used in quadrant 1 of this 10x10 tent project.
Jeremy identifies quadrant 1 as running under the cobb lighting setup when he starts his walkthrough.
ep 020
cola
A tight cluster of flowers formed when nugs in close proximity merge together at the top of a plant.
AJ says tight node spacing limits the spacing so nugs grow together which is what gives us those colas.
ep 025
Complex odor profile
A strain's smell composed of multiple distinct notes — fuel, fruit, funk — rather than a single dominant smell.
Jeremy describes the chosen Halitosis Number 8 as having one of the most complex odors, and the Branson's Royal Revenge as a fuel-fruit-funk combo.
ep 042
cookie-shaped leaves
Visual descriptor for small cannabis leaves with 1, 2, or 3 leaflets only — a trait common in cookie-heritage lines.
Jeremy describes the Branson's in the Earth Box: 'the leaves are very small kind of cookie shaped you know singlets and doubles and triples.'
ep 035
Corn silk analogy for pollination
Each pistil hair on a female flower functions like a single corn silk strand — one hair takes pollen down to one ovule and makes one seed.
Jeremy uses this to explain to viewers how they can visually count roughly how many seeds will form — 50 receded hairs means 50 seeds at that site. Because the rest of the tent has zero receded hairs, there are zero seeds elsewhere.
ep 028
crowning
The stage at the end of flower stretch (around day 14) when a plant stops elongating between nodes and begins stacking nodes tightly at the top of each cola.
Some of Jeremy's plants are already starting to crown at day 6 because they barely stretched.
ep 020
cruise control
Jeremy's phrase for the early flower phase when prep work is done and the grower's main job is observation rather than intervention.
He warns that cruise control is exactly when you need to inspect hard so undetected problems don't sneak up on you.
ep 020
Data logger
A device that continuously records environmental readings (temp, humidity, VPD, PAR, CO2) over time for analysis.
Jeremy recommends 'get a data logger and it'll tell you significantly more allowing you to tailor your environment to get better results' — positioning the Pulse Pro as primarily a logger.
ep 031
day 21 flower cutoff
AJ's rule of thumb that lower defoliation and cleanup should be done before day 21 of flower, not later.
He wouldn't really like to clean them up any anytime past about day 21.
ep 025
day 52 of flower
Fifty-two days after the flip to 12/12 photoperiod — in this grow, three days into week eight of flower.
Jeremy opens the video stating day 52 of flower, video 28 in the series, and three days into week eight. He uses this as the anchor for his finish-estimate conversation later in the episode.
ep 035
day 6 of flower
Day 6 after the flip from 18/6 veg lighting to 12/12 flower lighting — early in the stretch phase where growth rates are high and trichomes have not yet started forming.
Jeremy frames day 6 as about halfway through the stretch, a good time for the second scrog layer decision and a relaxed inspection day.
ep 020
educational run
A grow explicitly done to learn cultivar behaviour and pick keepers rather than maximise yield.
AJ frames the 10x10 as an educational run where uneven canopy is acceptable because the goal is to learn the genetics and hunt keepers.
ep 025
Entourage effect
The synergistic interaction between terpenes, cannabinoids and other minor compounds that defines the felt experience of a cultivar beyond just THC.
Jeremy argues entourage effect, flavour and burn quality are more important than raw THC potency, and criticises dispensaries for selling cannabis like everclear.
ep 028, ep 029
Fan vortex
The swirling air pattern created when exhaust pulls air across a tent while an internal fan pushes air back the other way — the collision zone hits one specific canopy spot repeatedly.
Jeremy's theory is the pollination entered via the light leak but spread through the fan-created air vortex, which is also why the same cluster of leaves showed wind burn from being brushed repeatedly.
ep 028
final canopy height
The approximate height at which the plants will stop stretching vertically and set in for the rest of flower — they may still gain a couple inches as buds develop, but vertical growth effectively stops.
Jeremy predicts final canopy height will be at the top of the bamboo poles within about five more days from day 10.
ep 024
firing hairs
Pistils that are actively thick, long, and dramatically pushing out of the calyxes — described as 'firing' out of nodules.
Jeremy says Branson's number 8 has the most unique hairs in the room: 'they're just firing and they're like a lot thicker hairs rotating coming out of each little nodule.'
ep 035
flip to flower
The moment a grower switches the light schedule from 18 hours on / 6 off to 12 hours on / 12 off to induce flowering in photoperiod cannabis.
Jeremy is doing it today — he sets the Niwa controller to 12/12 for the whole 10x10 tent at once. He counts day 1 of flower as the day the clock actually runs 12/12, not the kickoff day.
ep 011, ep 014, ep 015, ep 017, ep 022
flower stretch
The first two weeks of flower during which a cannabis plant roughly doubles in size in both shoot and root mass.
Jeremy says it repeatedly — plants double in size during the first two weeks, which is why he top dresses before the flip to give roots fresh compost to stretch into.
ep 017
fox tail
New stacked flower growth pushing out of the top of an otherwise mature bud, usually caused by excessive light intensity or heat stress late in flower.
Jeremy dimmed the lights specifically because narrow-leaf plants near strong lights kept stacking new fox tails instead of finishing. Fox-tailing stacks newer trichomes against older ones and makes the harvest window awkward.
ep 037
Foxtailing
Abnormal flower growth where new bud tissue extends out of existing calyxes — commonly triggered by too much nitrogen late or by heat stress.
Jeremy uses this to describe Halitosis number 1 — 'they want to just keep stacking on these Halitosis especially in the Earth Boxes underneath these cobs.' He sees it as a late-flower trait of this cut.
ep 028, ep 035
Frost (trichome frost)
The visible resin / trichome coverage on cannabis flowers; Jeremy felt metal halide produced more frost than HPS alone during flower.
Used as a qualitative subjective flower quality indicator
ep 004
fuel plus fruit cross
Jeremy's personal favorite terpene archetype — a chem/fuel base that also carries a fruit top note, combining mouth-coating fuel with a sweet finish.
'That's like my favorite when you can cross the fuel that i always always want because it coats your mouth with a little bit of that fruit.'
ep 035
Full-spectrum PAR meter
A PAR meter calibrated to read across the full light spectrum including sunlight, rather than being restricted to grow light wavelengths.
Jeremy notes the Apogee can measure the sun as well as LED grow lights, whereas other meters were built just to read grow lights. Speculates that full-spectrum calibration might be why the Pulse Pro reads lower.
ep 031
GMO funk
The pungent garlic-coffee-onion fuel funk associated with the GMO (Garlic Cookies / Chem Cookies) lineage — a standard fuel descriptor.
Jeremy says Branson's #5 has Long Valley purple with some more GMO-like funk in it — he likens it to loud GMO-adjacent flavour even though the genetics are Branson's Royal Revenge.
ep 035, ep 041, ep 042
golf bally nug shape
Visual descriptor for buds that form rounder, chunkier, more spherical calyxes rather than foxtailed spears.
Jeremy uses 'more golf bally' to contrast Halitosis number 4 against the foxtailing of number 1.
ep 035
grape funk
Terpene descriptor for a grape-forward fruity funk — a rare surprise profile on Branson's Royal Revenge number 5.
Jeremy: 'that's more grape funk that's so interesting... this one has the most grapey odor to it.'
ep 035
Greasiness
The visually wet, oily, resinous quality of a bud high in trichome production — used as a positive indicator of quality even when the plant is smaller than peers.
Jeremy uses the greasiness of Number 8 Halitosis to justify picking it over the taller more dominant Number 2.
ep 042
Headband-like hidden citrus
The buried citrus note under fuel-dominant flavour — characteristic of Headband and some OG / Chem crosses where the citrus reveals itself slowly behind the gas.
Jeremy says Halitosis #8 reminds him of Headband — it has a hidden citrus note not fruity at all, with the citrusness buried underneath the fuel, and the effect is really potent.
ep 041
headbandy sweet
Terpene descriptor for a smoke profile that is fuelly up front and turns into the sweet lingering note associated with Headband cuts.
Jeremy predicts the Halitosis smoke taste: 'i haven't smoked this yet and i get this like head bandy sweetie fuel taste to it.'
ep 035
Hermaphrodite
A female cannabis plant that produces male pollen sacs — unstable genetics, often triggered by stress or a light leak.
Jeremy notes some fire genetics are known to be a little unstable brought indoors — this is why you run through a whole pack of seeds to pick the most stable expressions. Early pollen release is normally a bad bad bad sign but the tent pollination event was traced to environmental cause not plant instability.
ep 028
hermaphrodite (herm)
A cannabis plant showing both female and male flower parts, capable of self-pollination and ruining a flower run if not caught.
Jeremy inspects every female hair site for pollen sacs on new genetics, because an undetected herm can pollinate the entire tent.
ep 020
hermaphrodite / hermie
A plant that throws both male and female flowers — can self-pollinate and seed the rest of the room if not caught.
Jeremy says he hasn't seen any hermaphrodites across the Branson's, credits earlier light-leak issues as the cause of past problems, and says the genetics are holding through strong right now.
ep 035
hermaphrodite trait
A female cannabis plant producing male reproductive parts (bananas or pollen sacs), which can self-pollinate and seed a crop.
AJ explicitly scans each plant in quadrant one for any male part sticking out and sees none.
ep 025
Hermaphrodite traits
Traits where a female cannabis plant throws male reproductive parts (pollen sacs or bananas) in response to genetic predisposition and/or stress.
Identified in both Halitosis and Branson's Royal Revenge at day 27 of flower. Host says they can be purely genetic but are typically brought out by stress, and that photoperiod disruption is the main trigger here.
ep 027
High pressure sodium (HPS)
A legacy high intensity discharge lamp with a redder spectrum used traditionally for flowering cannabis.
Jeremy used to blend HPS and MH to get an overlapping spectrum
ep 004
intersex traits
The tendency of a cannabis plant to produce some male flower parts on an otherwise female plant, often triggered by stress or genetic lineage.
Jeremy warns that genetics with a lineage prone to intersex traits need weekly checking through flower.
ep 020
Larf
Small popcorn-sized buds from underneath the canopy screen — lower quality than top colas but still usable for jars, trim runs, or hash.
Jeremy says how much larf you keep in the jar depends on genetics and canopy management, and many growers use the Cannabrush only on their larf because it speeds up popcorn processing so dramatically.
ep 028, ep 041
leafy variety
A cultivar phenotype expressing extra fan leaves that obscure flower sites and may justify more defoliation.
AJ describes Branson's Royal Revenge as a little bit leafier, bushier variety than the Halitosis next door.
ep 025
let the plant tell you
Living-soil finish philosophy — rather than pick a harvest date first, read the plant (pistils, trichomes, fade) and harvest only when it's actually done.
Jeremy: 'in living soil you just let the plant tell you when' — and if a keeper takes too long for your schedule it's probably not your keeper.
ep 035
Light leak
A small opening letting stray light into the dark cycle of a flowering tent — can trigger pollination issues, hermaphroditism and stress.
A 6-8 inch opening in a back-corner top flap was found by AJ — an overhead warehouse light was on during extra-early and late employee hours, violating the flower dark cycle. Patched with cardboard.
ep 027, ep 028, ep 035
light stealing
When a taller cultivar in a mixed canopy shades a shorter neighbour and reduces its usable PAR.
AJ warns this is more dramatic in a 4x4 than a 10x10 because the larger tent lets shorter plants grab light from multiple angles.
ep 025
loafy lowers
Wispy, small, under-developed lower buds that don't pack density because they sat below prime light.
AJ describes a bag of loafy wispy buds as what you get when you keep lowers — they don't wash or smoke as well as tops.
ep 025
Long Valley wine purple
A specific dark-purple colour expression seen in Long Valley Royal Kush and its descendants — deep wine-toned as opposed to the lighter lilac purples.
Jeremy uses this as the reference for the purple on Branson's #5 — dark like Long Valley wine purple — versus the lighter hue of purple on Branson's #9.
ep 041
Lower defoliation
Removing all leaves and underdeveloped branches below the trellis screen during flower to stage harvest trim work and improve airflow.
Jeremy strips everything that isn't reaching top light. Reasons: airflow, reducing harvest trim burden, and eliminating non-smokeable beaten-up larf that gets crushed against the trellis.
ep 028, ep 030
Male pollen sac
A round reproductive structure on a cannabis plant that will open to release viable pollen, capable of fertilising female flowers and producing seeds.
Host shows one on camera in quadrant one and says it will likely open in the next week and release viable pollen.
ep 027
Max Stomper
A cannabis cultivar previously grown in the quadrant-one Earthbox that delivered 'a phenomenal yield' before the bed was regenerated with cover crop.
Named as the previous harvest in the reused Earthbox
ep 004
mono crop
Filling an area with a single cultivar rather than multiple different genetics — makes comparison between growing techniques much cleaner since the genetic variable is removed.
Jeremy wants to mono crop quadrants with identical clones next cycle so comparisons between quadrant setups aren't muddled by genetic variability.
ep 024
nanner
A banana-shaped pollen sac that appears late in flower on some genetics — an intersex trait rather than a true male part.
Jeremy scans every quadrant looking for nanners during the defoliation pass. Because he doesn't see any, he gains confidence the pollination event is isolated and the run is still going to be great.
ep 020, ep 028
nanner / mannering
A single banana-shaped male anther that appears late in flower on an otherwise female plant — a light hermaphrodite trait that can self-pollinate if unchecked.
Jeremy finds 'a light manner' on Halitosis number 12 and says 'it's the only one i've been able to find something on' — says it's so late it won't be an issue and wouldn't stop him from growing the cut.
ep 035
narrow leaf cannabis
Sativa-leaning cannabis varieties with narrow leaflets that tend to finish later and stack longer under high light than broad-leaf varieties.
Jeremy says narrow-leaf won't finish at the same time as broad-leaf and will keep stacking near strong lights, which is why he dimmed the lights in quadrant two.
ep 037
Niwa
Automated grow-room environmental controller used here to turn a humidifier on and off to hold the drying tent at 60% RH.
Jeremy mentions 'I've started to use the niwa as a third we're not talking about in this video because it does some controlling and we'll probably address that a little more'.
ep 031, ep 040
node spacing
The vertical distance between leaf/branch nodes on a cannabis stem, indicating stretch vigour and finish tightness.
AJ points to four-inch node spacing low on Halitosis #2 and tight spacing up top as the stretch ends — tight spacing translates to merged colas.
ep 025
node stacking
Tight spacing between successive nodes — a sign the plant has finished stretching and is building flower sites densely.
Jeremy says by week 2-3 of flower all the plants will have stopped stretching and will be stacking nodes tightly.
ep 020
Par meter
A sensor that measures Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) — the wavelengths of light plants actually use for photosynthesis.
Jeremy plans to compare the Apogee par meter against the par reading built into the Pulse Pro.
ep 030
Par reading
A measurement of photosynthetically active radiation (400 to 700 nm) intensity using a PAR meter, used to tune light distance and intensity.
Host says Jeremy will most likely take a par reading when he is back tomorrow because quadrant two plants are getting close to the light.
ep 027
Photoperiod disruption
A break in the dark period of a photoperiod-sensitive cannabis plant's 12/12 flower cycle, usually via light leaks or people entering a flower room during lights-off.
Host blames this as the cause of herming. People come in early or stay late at the facility, and disrupting a sensitive flowering plant's dark period triggers a self-preservation response to reproduce.
ep 027
pistils / white hairs
The fine hairs on each calyx — start white, turn amber/brown and recede as the bud ripens. Still-white pistils indicate the plant is still pushing new growth.
Jeremy uses 'still seeing some pushing of white hairs' as his signal that none of the plants are done yet, not even the fastest Halitosis number 12.
ep 035
PPFD (Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density)
PAR readings taken across many points in the footprint of a light rather than a single fixed point, giving an average distribution over the grow area.
Jeremy defines it as 'more like across everywhere instead of one fixed location' — recommends pulling PPFD maps from the light manufacturer's website with a tape measure instead of buying a meter.
ep 031
preemptive defoliation
Removing lower branches and leaves that won't reach the canopy top before they start to yellow and fade — saving the plant the energy cost of maintaining tissue that won't contribute.
Jeremy preempts the yellowing by pulling the lower stuff now rather than letting it crisp out later.
ep 024
preemptive flush
Synthetic-nutrient practice of running plain water through the root zone two weeks before a fixed harvest date to leach out nutrient salts and 'clean' the buds.
Jeremy explicitly rejects this in living soil: 'you don't have to preemptively guess two weeks before your harvest date and flush it and then you've kind of forced your harvest date.'
ep 035
proper terpene expression
The full development of a cultivar's native terpene profile achieved when the plant is healthy and grown in a balanced medium.
AJ frames this as what he is really after and the reason he switched to living soil.
ep 025
Pulse Pro
An environment monitor with phone-app integration that includes a built-in par sensor.
Jeremy is evaluating whether the Pulse Pro's built-in par reading is accurate enough to be a worthwhile part of the unit versus spending separately on an Apogee.
ep 030
quadrant (as a grow layout unit)
A section of the 10x10 tent Jeremy has divided into four experimental zones, each containing a different combination of genetics, container style, and soil recipe for comparative purposes.
Jeremy walks quadrants one, two, and four in this episode (quadrant four is the earth boxes with lettuce, peppers and tomatoes).
ep 024
Quick flip to flower
Flipping the photoperiod to 12/12 sooner than usual when plants are close to filling the container and you want to preserve soil horsepower.
Jeremy says he's going to flip in 'less than a week, I think most 10 days' because the canopy is already tight and he doesn't want to waste the container's horsepower on extra veg.
ep 010
rainbow fade
The late-flower color transition where a plant displays multiple pigment layers — rose, wine, plum, purple, gold — as chlorophyll breaks down and anthocyanins emerge.
Jeremy says Branson's number 5 is 'getting that rainbow fade that long valley is so famous for' — he sees rose, wine, and plum purple.
ep 035, ep 042
Receded hair
A pistil hair that has not just turned color but retracted into the calyx pocket, indicating viable pollen has hit that ovule site.
Jeremy distinguishes normal end-of-flower hair color change from full recession into the pocket. Receded hairs clustered in one tent area flagged the isolated pollination — 50 receded hairs means about 50 seeds at that site.
ep 028
Resin rail
Dense continuous resin coverage along a bud — 'resin railed' describes a nug so coated in trichomes it looks like an alien.
Jeremy's descriptor for AJ Number 5 — thick dense nugs, alien-looking, resin railed, grapey with fuel.
ep 042
Resin rails
Dense ridges of resin heads forming along bract and leaf edges of cannabis flowers, visible as glossy bands of trichomes.
Jeremy repeatedly uses 'resin rails' and 'resin railed' across multiple plants (Halitosis 4, Branson's 5) as his shorthand for obviously frosty buds.
ep 031, ep 035
rounding out the end of stretch
The transition moment near the end of the stretch phase where internodes stop jumping apart and plants begin stacking flower sites and filling in the canopy.
Jeremy uses this phrase on day 10 to mark the moment when vertical growth is hitting a wall and the plants start filling themselves in.
ep 024
scoping trichomes
Using a jeweler's loupe or digital microscope to inspect trichome maturity — clear vs cloudy vs amber — to decide harvest timing.
Jeremy says 'i could start scoping the trichomes and showing you what that looks like but i like to see a little bit more finish on there because it's still stacking weight.'
ep 035
Senescence
The end-of-life fade phase of an annual plant where leaves change colour (purples on greens, yellows, rust) as the plant winds down after producing flower or seed.
Jeremy uses senescence to describe the fade he's seeing across all four quadrants at week 9. He explicitly distinguishes it from flushing — in living soil the plant senesces on its own schedule, in hydro you have to force it by cutting nutrients.
ep 030, ep 033, ep 037
side lighting
Supplemental light mounted at the side of the canopy to feed lower or edge branches that the main overhead light can't reach.
Jeremy is willing to leave an edge branch below the scrog because he has side lighting in that quadrant to feed it.
ep 020
Spear vs round flower structure
Bud morphology descriptors — spear being the elongated conical tip shape and round being the more spherical compact shape, usually pheno-specific.
Halitosis #4 leaned round rather than the usual spear shape of the other Halitosis phenos, marking it as a unique-but-not-elevated outlier.
ep 041
Spectral power distribution
A graph showing how light intensity varies across wavelengths of the spectrum for a particular light source.
Jeremy shows the Pulse Pro app: 'this is the spectral power distribution' as one of the views alongside historical readings.
ep 031
stacking
When internodes tighten and flower sites begin filling in close together at the end of stretch — the plant is no longer running up in height and is starting to develop buds.
Plant number 12 in the light soil is described as really starting to stack in quadrant two.
ep 024
stacking weight
Late-flower phase where buds continue to thicken and gain mass even though pistils look mostly done — a reason to hold off on harvesting.
Jeremy's reason for not scoping trichomes yet: 'because it's still stacking weight.'
ep 035
stretch
The two week or so period at the start of flower during which cannabis plants roughly double in height, drink more water, and set the skeleton of the bud structure before stopping vertical growth around day 14 to 16.
Jeremy says on day 10 they're rounding out the end of stretch and expects to hit final canopy height within five more days. He mentions these particular genetics weren't as stretchy as some that go to day 20.
ep 015, ep 022, ep 024, ep 025, ep 027, ep 042
stretch (flower stretch)
The early flower period where cannabis plants rapidly elongate; Jeremy targets a slightly stressed environment (80F / 55% RH) during stretch to drive transpiration and soil feeding.
Jeremy's flower recipe on the Niwa is built around stretch: drop humidity a bit to drive moisture transport, then tighten up as the plant moves deeper into flower.
ep 019
stretch period
The first roughly two weeks after flipping to 12/12 flower photoperiod during which cannabis plants double or triple in height before settling into bud formation.
Jeremy expects the Earth Box plants to drink their entire reservoir every single day during stretch, and sizes everything pre-flip to accommodate double-to-triple growth.
ep 014
stretch phase
The first roughly 14 days after flip to 12/12 when plants elongate significantly — sometimes doubling in height — before settling into flower development.
Jeremy says day 6 is about halfway through the stretch for this grow.
ep 020
Stretcher vs non-stretcher
Phenos that stretch aggressively during early flower vs phenos that stay more compact — the height difference matters when they share a container.
Jeremy says putting a non-stretcher with such a stretcher in the same container is a no-no — the stretcher dwarfs the other and cannibalizes its yield.
ep 041
swollen calyx
A calyx that has fattened and puffed up during late flower — an indicator of bud maturity and finishing.
Jeremy describes the Branson's Royal Revenge buds as having 'a lot more swollen calyx' compared to the Halitosis tight-cluster structure.
ep 035
target PAR range
A specific photosynthetically active radiation intensity band Jeremy aims for as he transitions from veg into flower, achieved by raising or lowering the fixture height.
He has dropped the lights a little this week 'to get into a target par range as we go into flower to make sure we have all the potency we need to get as much yield'.
ep 012
tent extension kit
An add-on kit that raises the height of a Gorilla grow tent to accommodate taller plants.
Jeremy says he has so much headroom that trellis height is not really an issue, especially because the Gorilla tent has that tent extension kit installed.
ep 022
tip burn
Necrosis at leaf tips/edges caused by moisture stress with sodium/phosphorus imbalance, or by excess nutrition in salt-based hydro.
AJ lays out two causes — under-watering with sodium/phosphorus issues giving edge burn, or excess nutrition in salt-based hydro — and notes the living soil plants show none.
ep 020, ep 025
trichome heads
The rounded glandular tops of stalked trichomes where cannabinoids and terpenes accumulate — visible as bulbous caps under close inspection.
Jeremy looks for 'very visible trichome heads' on Halitosis number 4 as an indicator it will wash well for hash.
ep 035
VPD / environment control implication
Jeremy doesn't name VPD in this episode but frames his air flow, exhaust path and fan placement analysis around how environmental factors delivered pollen to one specific spot.
He maps exhaust direction, fan direction and the resulting vortex as a diagnostic tool — this is environment-control thinking applied to contamination tracing.
ep 028
Waxy vs greasy trichomes
Two tactile qualities of trichomes — waxy is superficial and sugary, greasy means the oil glands are breaking and releasing their contents.
Jeremy explains 'sometimes the trichomes they feel a little bit waxy kind of superficial and they're very sugary and sometimes they feel like you've actually breaking oil glands and they're really greasy'.
ep 031