Sweet Seeds Femme Fatales

Flowering (update 21 March) I have a few quick pictures I took of each plant today, as the plants approach harvest. Cream Caramel Auto is looking nice and chunky now. The leaves at the top are scabby but they are still lush lower down. Ice Cool Auto is a smaller plant but the buds look nice and dense now too. Like Cream Caramel Auto, the leaves at the top look faded and unhealthy, but there’s more green lower down, and some nice red now. Gorilla Girl XL Auto has faded fast over the past few days, with very rapid degradation of leaves at the top of the plant. Gorilla Girl XL Auto has stayed in the tent under the timelapse camera, whilst I have been continuing to swap the three others round, so two are in at a time whilst the third has a half-day break. I decided it is time to take the Dark Devil Auto out for good. On Friday (66 days since she sprouted) I flushed her with tapwater (EC 0.4, pH’d to 6.0) instead of the usual nutrient solution. I used plenty, until I had several litres of runoff. She was in the tent for half the light cycle (i.e. 10 hours), and in the dark next to the tent for the other half. I did the same thing on Saturday, flushed her again and gave her 10 hours of light. I don’t have a chance to do anything towards harvesting her tonight, hopefully tomorrow, but I am leaving her out of the tent for good now and haven’t watered again today. Where the buds are getting heavy, the thinner stems are bending over so I added braces to Dark Devil Auto and Gorilla Girl XL Auto to anchor them. They will all be flushed and harvested very soon, probably later on this week. I cannot keep them going any longer with the state they are in, really. They are all practically done in any case. The environment has remained between 21°C and 24°C at the canopy since my last update, and up to 26°C at the top of the tent. The humidity has been between 37% and 47%. I have had some problems this weekend. First I smashed the probe on my new pH pen putting the lid on wonky. :doh:Then my main camera lens (the Olympus 14-42mm kit lens that came with the camera) randomly malfunctioned – it works zoomed out at 14mm, but when I pull the ring to zoom in it makes a strange noise and the camera gives an error. :ouch: And finally I have noticed that my coco is now infested with springtails – where do they come from?? :frown: These things are all annoying but I can work around them, and there is only a small way to the finish line now. Thank you for looking! Flowering (final update 25 March) I switched the oil filled radiator off and pushed this behind the tent, and I also switched the underfloor heating off when I hung Dark Devil up on 24 March. The room has been staying at 19-20°C for the past 24 hours, with humidity 36-43%. That’s a bit drier than ideal perhaps but hopefully will help avoid budrot. From Sunday to Wednesday the temperature in the tent was between 21°C and 24°C at the canopy, and in the past 24 hours without the additional heating it has dropped to between 19°C and 21°C. Humidity had been between 35% and 46% before I switched the heating off, and today was slightly higher, as might be expected with lower temperatures, reaching a top reading of 49%.