StuG's 00 Seeds Bank Northern Lights

02.06.2021 - Day 43 from seed. Flipped the girls last night at start of week 7. The LST has got me as level a canopy as I wanted now and the plant was developing bud sites and is very strong. They're all within 30mm of each other which is the best I have managed so far, this being my 6th grow. Something I don't think I thought of before was when to start feeding bloom supplements but I fed the girls with Grow, Fish-Mix and Bloom last night and added a small amount of calmag and White Shark, too. Just to kick 'em off as well as possible. Not much else to report really - these have been super-stable in veg and easy to grow... so far!! Oh, and there is something else - something I thought was my fault but over the last 3 grows I've come to believe that there's little to nothing I can do about it and that is poxy gnats! For the first 3 runs, I had them in the soil and whilst they did not attack roots and the infestation was minimal, it was a nuisance all the same with the things buzzing around. I use the sticky tape fly catchers and they work brilliantly - 2 of them in the tent and plenty of dry cycles seems to keep them in check and, when the soil is dry I rake it quite deeply with my fingers to get them to fly out. Never spotted any larvae though, thinking about it, but anyway, where was I... oh yeah, so, I ALWAYS sterilise the tent between grows, clean all the fans, the light, wash the filter sleeve etc. etc. etc but I still get fucking gnats, and it dawned on me that only time I did not get them is when I ran out of All-Mix and used Miracle Grow for a couple of Bubba Kush plants. No gnats. So, this grow, I'm back to All-Mix, have filters over the intake, had a sterilised tent to start with and gnats within 4 or 5 days. It HAS to be the BioBizz All-Mix. I hear it's sterilised so, perhaps it's due to storage, but OK, I bought 6 bags from 3 different sellers. Still gnats, in all of the grows using it. No idea why I'm writing this on flowering week 1 and not directly to BioBizz, but I will, so what's others experiences with this medium? I really am not an over-watering person, and if anything keep them on the dry side unless just after watering which is every two days. This grow is now at 7 weeks and I have counted ~65 gnat bodies on the traps so far. I need a lie down Day 44 - 2nd full day of flowering: Just LOOK at that stretch over 24 hours from pic 2 to pic 4! I am rotating plants and positions so the pictures will never be of the same pot/rotation twice unless by pure chance. But yeah, go girls - reach for the lights! :D