First time growing; no.

First time with this particular strain; no.

The plant's literally doing the same thing all of it's distant sisters from the two previous grows did, except the two previous grows didn't involve the amount of HST I performed on this plant. Not only that, I didn't bother topping either of the previous females from said grows. The buds are coming in at the same rate, same density, etc. The internodal stretch was almost exactly the same. The yield on the previous grows was just over a quarter pound with the first plant, and right at a quarter with the second. The one thing I won't be able to determine until harvest and cure is the potency.

The 'strain', as I mentioned, is little more than another Sativa dominant Mexican variant as this is nothing more than an experiment with a yield. I'd never intend stressing, say.. a Jack Herer IBL, nor any IBL, F1 or any half way decent F2 for that matter. Frankly, the one surprising thing about this grow is that this plant hasn't bitch slapped me for the shit I put it through -- the Miracle-Gro soil; the High Stress Training; the lock-out!

Now, I may not have my dates right, but the plant I'm growing now is just over 80 days old, and about 6.1 weeks into flowering. Just under three feet tall, that's two gallon pot included [ I thought I had a thread with pictures.. ]. Stress in any shape or form can't be attributed to any single cause as evidence of anything the HST and FIMing may have done, stress wise, is buried beneath lock-out damage. The soil had very low soil pH for an indeterminable amount of time, which is more likely to stress it than anything I can think of aside from a very high pH.

One shoot was damaged a few weeks ago -- a snap in the stem a foot from the top -- and it healed rather well granted that it's top bud is behind the other shoots', size wise. Being that it's a Sativa dominant, 6.1 weeks of flowering is hardly the end of it, and with the bud production I see so far it's not too hard to get a visual perspective of it's final mass, and that's being a pessimist in mind.

I will honestly admit that the plant experienced a stunt in growth after the initial FIM, which lasted three days until it could replace the missing top. In this time period, two other shoots from the node below had a chance to catch up, and matched the 'top' of the plant in growth vigor as the plant progressed in it's life. I then decided to target the new shoots -- the two that grew in at the second node. They were just topped, then the plant was allowed to recuperate and wouldn't see any 'stress' until I decided to start bending it's stalk.

The results are below. This picture was taken two days before I decided to leech the soil. Anyway, without further ado..

I give thee -- Crackhead!