Week 16
This is our final week guys!
The buds don't seem to be putting on any extra weight and things have slowed right now... except for the smell!
Very strong smelling, very deep and complex aroma, very pleasant but stinks up the whole house when the tent is open. We're happy that our carbon filter is doing a great job.
We're letting the pots dry out and then we'll be giving these girls 48hrs of darkness, before chopping and hanging the whole plants.
We're seeing how we could have probably improved the bud growth with a better watering & feeding schedule but we're still happy that the buds are dense, uniform and very frosty.
Day 106 (day 46 of flower):
- nothing to report!
Day 107 (day 47 of flower):
- removed a few more dead leaves from both plants
- Plant #1 looks ready to chop, Plant #2 is not far behind.
Day 108 (day 48 of flower):
- today we start 48hrs of darkness in preparation for chopping.
- temperatures kept between 66F - 72F
- both pots are very dry and both plants are starting to show signs of under-watering.
Day 109 (day 49 of flower):
- darkness
- temp: 67F - 69F
Day 110 (day 50 of flower):
- darkness
- removed all dead leaves and most of the larger wilted fan leaves.
Day 111 (day 51 of flower):
- darkness
- trimmed Plant #1 while still in the pot. Plant #2 will be done tomorrow.
- temp: 65F
- RH: 60%
Day 112 (day 52 of flower):
- darkness
- trimmed Plant #2 while still in the pot.
- chopped and hung both plants.
- turned off circulation fans. AC Infinity exhaust fan set to low speed.
@timbarin, so far we've only used it the one day, for about 2-3hrs during the warmest part of the afternoon. When the outside temps are above 10C, and with our light at 90% intensity, the tent would reach 84F, instead of the 78F that we're aiming for.
@MrHightimes, Ya, it's kind of weird because for the first few months that we had that pH meter, it needed calibration almost every week! We never knew if we could trust it... but since then, it seems to have stabilized and we haven't had to calibrate it for months. We check it with pH reference solution every few weeks and it's been spot on. We'd love to upgrade to the Blue Labs meter but it isn't necessary quite yet. The only complaint that we might have is that it takes a couple of minutes to get a true reading, whereas the TDS meter we have gives you accurate readings in just seconds.
nice grows! can you tell me how satisfied you are with the AC INFINITI T6? have you used other brands and how dos it compare? I am eyeing one now for the controls set up features, does it clear humidity? heat? and how quiet is it?
thank you for your feedback!
@Stonyways, Hi, we've been really happy with the Cloudline T6 fan. It works very well and has programmable settings. We currently have it set to turn on any time the temperature reaches 81F or any time the humidity exceeds 61%. We're glad we got the 6" version instead of the 4" version, since we can run the fan at lower speeds, which means it's very quiet. It's actually much quieter than our little oscillating fan! It's quite powerful and has no problem managing heat and humidity in our little tent. I think you could easily put this in a 4x4 or 6x6 tent and it would work just as well.
As the female half of "VanCplGrows", i don't have a lot of experience with other fans so i can't really compare it to anything but it does everything that we want and it does it well!
@timbarin, Thanks brother! We're a bit slow with our replies this week but we are happy to be back and happy to have ya following along on our latest grow. Cheers!
@Beachbudz, Absolutely! They may not be the biggest plants for 14 weeks but it's been a great learning process and we sort of prefer the leisurely schedule compared to the autoflowers we were growing before... which always seemed like a race against time, especially if you run into any problems like deficiencies or other. This has been a very comfortable grow for us. 👍