First try 7-2-2021

Week 7 ends with a large number of small buds with lovely white pistils but tiny, even on the oldest buds. I’m talking about 1 cm diameter per bud. Oldest are 2 weeks old but only .25 cm larger than the rest. She keeps pumping out new buds this week, so I cut out some undergrowth fan leaves and hopelessly buried buds low down the stems. What a bush hog she is now! Full of life, but I note the trichomes atre white/cloudy o most blooms so I have a question below foe any experienced Barney Farms Pineapple Express auto growers out ther as to whether this bud set pattern of many tiny blooms is normal for this strain, I can’t seem to find a reference to this pattern in existing posts. I do see notes from suppliers suggesting 8 week to bloom period for this speedy Pineapple Express auto flower strain, but nothing about the time to full harvest. I had to go light for a week on the nuts week before last with a nute flush due to experiment with a rhizome spray that seemed to overwhelm her and caused some leaf stress, so I figure she’s perhaps a bit slow to develop blooms fully although I am a week ahead on the 8 week bloom period. So should I expect these buds to continue growing and let her hang out for a couple more weeks and wait patiently for bloom gRowth, before any thought of pre-harvest flush? I.e., will these buds get bigger, or should is settle for the diamonds that are perfect but smaller than most? I will repeat this question below. Another issue I ran across involves two crap outs on the ph meters I am using. Both sourced from China but no brand names evident, although identical models are sold via Amazon with full branding. The use/storage instructions on both are in Chinglish. No notes there on what to do if the re-calibrations don’t take, or any warnings on avoiding dry out of the sensor, but later reading on other products suggests that can cause the rambling read outs that don’t calm down after 1 or 2 minutes and recalibration fails. Range runs from 5.2 to 10.8 and sometimes higher on these gauges. Then the high end meter zeroed out and won’t respond to re-calibrations. The cheap one responded after 24 hours sitting in a bath of 4.0 ph buffer solution. It now lets me calibrate three levels, 9.1, 6.86, and 4.0 +/- .3 so the range slipping is less and maybe enough to rely on it until a proper US brand replacement can be delivered. The expensive meter (now toast) looks exactly like a Vivosun 4 in one and instructions claim it has a 3 year warranty, but no contact details or even a company name to contact to get support or refund. This is primarily posted as a warning to those who might think a bargain price is worth it so after plunking down $85.00 bucks for a useless unit 3 weeks in use with religious water rinsing and cap replacement, it is now a write off.