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No more pictures of the senior pruning supervisor or management, plants are getting sticky so they are banned from the tent room.
Another no-drama week from Bush Jack. Which is good because my other plant is a drama queen and took most of my attention.
Res change on day 65 (2 weeks from last one). It was still quite stable, I had just started to noticed EC trending a little higher and there was no reason to push it any longer. Cutting of silicic acid in next res.
Vertical growth slowed down after the defoliation, grew back a nice thick canopy over the week which I'm starting to prune again. The top is staying nice and level at about 22"x21" (53x56cm)
Everything, even the fan leaves, are starting to get covered in trichomes, this is going to be one sticky plant. Resin has a really nice dense smell, super spicy, lemony, woody and a little flowery, I can't wait.
She's a crazy pheno though, she's so afraid of heights that instead of growing any taller, she grew a big fat flower on a fan leaf that is caked in trichomes... wonder how many of those we'll see.
Estimating a DLI ~34mol, she's telling me I can push harder so over the next few days I'm going to do just that.
This plump lil flower growing on a fan leaf is getting picked off and smoked when I see the first amber trichs, should I put it directly in a small jar with a 2way humidity pack?
Trichomes seem to be aging faster than on normal inflorescence, touch slower than the ones on fans.
Looking nice, I thought I was looking at one of my own grows! You did the right thing by not panicking at a bit of older leaf die off, also I think the early topping is the smart move for a healthy plant. She'll always tend to be more bushy and stocky in hydro, but you get a better branch structure by topping at the third node.
@Freddd, agreed on the bullshit in the community, you want to have a 2400% markup from ingredients just start a cannabis nutrient line with a stupid name.
Do people really think that first shot looks better? I do see shots like that too but figure they just didn't care when they took it, can't make out any detail because the highlights are all blown out from the undiffused flash on the trichs.
@Absurd, also there is much bullshitting going on in the weed community, done through photos. For example I have just uploaded to more photos to Lemon Pie, take a look at the last two, the final shot show 3 pretty nice looking colas, but the shot before them is the same colas shot at the same time. One is shot on my new iPhone with standard lens and colour correction done with Camera M, and the other is shot on a D70 with a moderate tele and auto flash. The ones shot with the flash look completely and totally different, they look way more packed, but it's all an optical illusion the correct shot is the one on the iPhone, but if I had to put them bot up in a cola competition I'd use the shot that is less accurate but looks way better.
@Freddd, as far as I understand you got it right, all you want are the gland heads, not even the stalks, so the whole goal for the best hash would be as little friction as possible of the plant matter so it doesn't break into pieces small enough to fit through the final filtering screen. Frenchy goes on about letting almost all of the ice melt so there's just a tiny bit left to hammer the plant when he turns on the washer to agitate.
That's why I freaked out at first at that dry ice video because it looked like he was really going at it with super dry crumbly plant, thought it was going to turn into the kief I get out of my grinder.
That said, I agree his results look WAY good enough to justify saving a shit ton of time and effort doing the cold water Frenchy method. 500% more work to get that extra last 5% of quality kinda thing 😄
@Verbalist, oh yeah, whole life cycle is endlessly fascinating but I agree. 👍
Just learning how to train plants so I'm in there all the time right now checking up, trying to imagine how their structure is going to turn out.
@Absurd, ikr the conditions hella different and whole different strains. 😅
But the thing was its nice to compare someone elses proggy to your own which is basicly at the same stage - at least close to each other.
Even tho yours probs going to mature faster cuz u growing in hydro.
Anyway both on early stage/pre-flowering stage right now which is IMO the most interesting part. You start to get the picture what kind of ladies u pull out 😎
@Verbalist, Thank you! I've been doing the same thing looking at all the other black jack and hydro grows. I guess just keep in mind we're growing different genetics in 100% different conditions 😛 You got some real nice growth with that veg light in soil, one of these days I need to try some northern lights, hear nothing but good things.
Hoping for continued good health to all our ladies! 👊
@Freddd, thanks bud!
She seems to be taking quite well to the bigger lollipop/defol I did this week(8) too, can only imagine what kind of upside down head of lettuce this would look like without all the pruning.
@ManicMiner, thank you so much! Have to give most of the credit to genetics though. This pheno grew just right for training in a bubbler bucket without trellising, see my other plant for a horror show of training 😆
Ooof, I'm chopping today so counting from 12/12 I'm at the end of week 13 of flower and it's only ~80-90% cloudy 😑 think sweet seeds says 9 weeks on this one.
Coming along well, a bit of leaf stress is not a big deal at the top. I agree in turning the lights down, or even better putting them further away if possible instead. I am finding an improvement since I've raised my pH, used to keep it around 5.7 to 6, but now I'm in the range of 6-6.2
@Absurd, yes, both my seedsman and seedsman#2 grows have been getting an average higher pH, I too hesitated for ages, I've heard some rational explanation why it's 6.5 in soil but 5.8 in hydro, but while 5.8 won't harm them, neither will 6.3 and higher is better if it doesn't harm the plant, and it doesn't. With the light, I go by my cheap lux meter now. 50k LUX for flowering is fine, and also on both my grows I have kept the lights at a decent distance, especially so with the QB96 because it's 185W and compact, with a flat panel light 14" would be fine.
@Freddd, ~33cm high seems to be nice even canopy coverage (~ 60cm x 50cm) with these panels, I know they pump more spicy photons in the direct center but seems like a win if I can get similar dli to raising them, but with less electricity and heat.
I keep thinking I want to try >pH 6 with these, my purple haze responded well to that late in flower, and now it would help me drop the P concentration which would be nice.
Certainly worth a shot if this plant keeps getting that kind of necrosis, but that could have been a few other things.
Are you seeing improvement on all your plants? or was that how you finished the lemon pie?
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