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Day 85). You can actually see the buds now, especially on top. Taking pictures with the lights out and flash on really let's you see what you got. Will do that more often. Thanks! @Richa1212! Yesterday's trichomes check much the same. No amber, just clear and cloudy mix. This week's feed ups the PK. Might be final week of feeding. Day 86). Harvest and Drying Strategy: Decided yesterday I will do whole plant drying. Because the scrog net can't be removed without cutting and ends up being a great tool for hanging the whole plant in the dry tent. Just cut the whole thing down at the very base, grab the trunk, turn the plant upside down and clip the net to the poles. I'll use a hook from the crossbar to the trunk of the plant for more weight support as to not stretch the net too much or have it pulled down by the weight. Leaning towards doing a small amount of pre-harvest wet trimming of the larger leaves, in order to assist air circulation in the tent to prevent mold and rot. Though I'm also concerned with destroying trichomes by handling the plant too much. So I think any pre-harvest defoliation should be limited and very carefully done. I'm thinking just cut the large leaves in half but leave the stems. Basically, just make any large leaves smaller. It doesn't matter where you cut a leaf at harvest like when you are growing, right? Will start setting up dry tent today, because I want to start doing temperature tests. Can't do humidity tests because my apartment is assisting a flowering process at a set (too low) humidity. Need to do light tests as well. And ultimately, it needs to be cat-proofed - this is what concerns me the most. lol 😺. Bought a 24 inch square pillow to put on top. Compromise. I flipped the plant around 180 in the tent. Good thing I did. More tomorrow. Day 87) I had married my mind to the idea that a scrogged plant couldn't ever be moved. I hope I didn't pay a price for that. So now the main momma cola is on the opposite side - near the tent pole that is closest to the tent opening (the one closest to you to the left in most of the pics). Hadn't seen that half of the plant in, like, 8 weeks? Wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good. To shorten the story, had a relaxing time - listening to indie tracks while up on Wedding Cake - while defoliating that side of the plant. Lots of work needed to be done, but now she looks great with lots of air between the buds and some more light penetration to the buds I'm trying to fatten now. I did discover, however, that certain buds had been pushed up against the mylar the whole time - not getting enough light and getting humid together. Looked around for mold and rot - I don't think I found any but I will post a pic to the Question forum later. But I did find PINK buds? Huh? If those aren't sick buds, this plant/strain is truly amazing. I like that I need to water from the exact opposite angle now. I can already see the topsoil (topcoco? lol) rearranging itself to the new attack angle. I wonder if that's happening underneath as well - unlocking new channels and salt accumulations? From now on it will be my practice to spin around the scrog on a weekly or so basis if LST doesn't encumber the move. She's a small enough scrog that you can easily do that - one advantage of doing a mini-scrog. (The only one?) So I did trich check on the main cola and .... more cloudy than the buds I've been checking up to now, but no amber anywhere and it still looks pretty glassy. But look at her... How much more time can she need? She's looking a bit chunky now. Will check trichs again later. Day 88) Looks like all defoliating and training of this plant is over. Nothing else to do. Started LST as a seedling, ended defoliation in flower, and this honeybadger of a strain handled all of it well. But maybe all the stress is why this is taking so long? No choice. I was threading a needle. Tough action had to be taken. Cloudy trich heads are visible around, but she's still looking pretty glassy. I can't believe she still needs time. Her pistils are pretty orange now and starting to curl. Will look into whether trichome development can have issues sometimes. Happy Growing! Day 90) Good news. I've started figuring out how to use the 60x magnification lens on my loupe. And in so doing, I've discovered that about 80 or maybe even as high as 90% of the trichs are in cloudy mode. Few milky (more are clear than there are milky though). And I saw one amber trich on a bud. And that's a personal milestone. That's my first amber trich on a bud. So.... Now we have a rough schedule. I read that when you get to strongly cloudy, you are within two weeks away from ambering. So my rough schedule now is to keep feeding for another week or so - aiming to leave about 5 or 6 days of flushing (this is coco, not soil). Not sure if I will start tapering ECs (why is that necessary if you're gonna starve her eventually?) The defoliations I recently did should allow lots of light and air to get to the lower buds of the plant, cuz honestly I think she's more pistils than bud atm, we need a little more. Day 96 to begin flush. Around Day 102 harvest I'm guessing. Let's see how this goes. Happy Growing and Harvesting and Drying and Curing! 😁👍 Day 91: Just wanted to say that although I got a big bag of burned and ugly buds at the moment, I still think she's beautiful. When you get up close and look at the buds (past all the burnt and dried stuff), she's really beautiful. My goal was just to have something to harvest so that I could learn as much as I could. It's looking possible. It's taking much longer than I expected (twice as long almost). But ok. The lessons were the point. Someday I'll have a huge tent with huge plants with huge buds. Right now, it all starts with a 2x2x3 little tent. Not trying to win beauty pageants right now. That's why I take so many pictures from far away. Up close - not so pretty. She seems to be foxtailing a bit. I'm not very concerned. More bud is more bud. 😎 LOL. Checked trichs again this morning. The light or potassium burned sugar leaves are showing about 10% amber, but the buds look almost 100% cloudy (maybe 90%). I've learned I need 60x mag or I can't really see them. Since I only really learned how to do this two days ago, I'm not sure if the plant needs two weeks or two days. Will use the data the sugar leaves are giving me to get an idea. The buds are frosty. You can almost see that the trichs are cloudy with the naked eye. Posted a macro picture yesterday that I think shows that. Sucks not being sure how much time you got left, but this is how you learn, right? With my 2nd grow, I'll be good/decent at this from the get-go. I probably have two days of feed left before I have to make more. I should prolly split the difference and just start flush in 2-3 days when this feed finishes, and then harvest in 8-9 days. That way I'm either only a few days too late or too early, I reckon, if I get it wrong. If I plan for two weeks to harvest, I could seriously over shoot this or leave her unflushed. And I do believe in flushing, cuz to me, she smells like nutes. I want that out of there. And this is supposed to be a racier strain, though I'm not crazy about too racy. Like I know that I don't want to harvest her today. She's prolly near the peak on either side, and no.. I want to chill her out a bit. So maybe flush day 93, harvest day 99? Stay tuned... New week tomorrow.. Happy Growing! (Check out my YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLdjlvS0mK9Pu3pkumUu-w)