1) Fast Buds / Green Crack Auto / Micro

WEEK 14: THE FINAL WEEK (prolly) Day 92: She looks ready to me this morning. She's standing there pretty with her colas (fat) and colettes (skinny). I'm pretty sure it's time. Except for the new pistils coming out of few foxtails appearing, almost all her pistils are orange and curled back a good bit now, I'm ignoring the foxtails like they aren't there. They won't factor into any decisions except making me shorten the day cycle (read below) to try to prevent re-vegging. So she's getting 0.7 EC feed at 6.1+ until I run out which will be either tonight or first feed tomorrow. I'm also turning her 90 degrees every day, so that when I water it averages out evenly around the pot for these flushes. (I think I might try to do this for all feedings from now. It's just good pot/salt buildup management.) I will check trichs again tonight to see where I am, and unless I see lots of clear trichs and that makes me think there's another week of feed here necessary, which I doubt will happen, tomorrow will begin the flush period, (Check out my YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLdjlvS0mK9Pu3pkumUu-w.) Nothing but FloraKleen at 7.0 ph till she's done in about 6 days or less, depending on trichs. Will also be shortening her day time by an hour every day, She's should be at 12 hours sun by harvest, (I can finally wake up when I want to! Hooray!) And finally... ice cubes. Yeah. Might try it. Why not? Have a great grow day! Day 92 Later:) Just checked trichs and saw they were all cloudy now, some quite cloudy, and a tiny handful that were about to turn amber. So the flush began immediately. Fed her a half-gallon of FloraKleen water. Will do so three times a day until her runoff EC is 200 or under for two or three days as prescribed by MJ Coco of CocoforCannabis. No more feedings. Bring in the closer to pitch the ninth... FloraKleen. LOL This is fun. 😂 Day 93) Flush runoff EC this morning was down to 0.7. Hopefully we'll be closer to 0.3 by tonight. Dry tent was put in place last night - to give my cat a few days to get used to it. He's a good smart little cat, so I don't really expect many problems. I'm using the iPower 2x2x3 tent to dry. I didn't think it was a better candidate as a grow tent than the CoolGrows, but it should be a very good dry tent. It's quite light restrictive. It doesn't even have a viewing window. And most importantly, the side closest to the window (sunlight) has no ports/openings. Very easy to assemble and disassemble as well. Airflow should be good, exhausting air from the port at the top, intake of air through the flaps at the bottom - nice upward liminal air movement. I've learned that if you add fans to a tent this small, you can easily run into problems - it's only 12 cubic feet so you can easily have too much air movement. So that's prolly gonna be it for air circulation. Happy Growing, Drying and Curing!!! Have a great one! Day 94) Runoff EC came in at 0.35 this morning so moving well on the right track. Hopefully we'll hit 0.2 soon and be on track for harvest late on Day 96. Just bought a big boy humidifier for my apartment. Just like my purchase of a large dehumidifier a couple months back, I expect this machine will provide benefits beyond the scope of growing, because I frequently need to use expensive electric heaters in the winter. Raising humidity should ameliorate this need at a lower energy cost. Should help me have greater control over my grows as well. Checked trichs on a different side of the plant this morning. Same result as last time. All cloudy with few yellowed on the way to amber. Even the lower buds out of direct light are mostly cloudy. We can't be terribly off pace. Right? And btw, the buds are still growing. Beginning to see a very small amount of yellowing in the lower parts under the canopy. Really looking like Day 96-98 will be harvest time. Have a great day! Day 95) We're at 0.2 EC. She's just getting plain water now. I spritz the outside of the pot with FloraKleen water to soften the deposits there. But that's it. OK... So let's sum up what I want to differently with my next grow(s). 1) There won't be a diary of my next grow for a while, if at all: Many changes coming to my life soon. I want to include this hobby badly in it. But I need to assess where I can fit it in the chaos, Will definitely try, But 3 months is a long time, and I can't promise I won't abort the next grow in the middle of it, and I don't want to start a diary I can't guarantee will be finished. Just being honest and fair. Believe me. I want to do this. I'll try to be back as soon as possible. My next attempt at a grow will be Barney's Farms Wedding Cake. I just had some here and I really like that strain. I'd really like to have some more, so.. 2) Feeding: My feed strategy that I got from GWE and CC4C worked very well during seedling and veg. No calmag/burn issues. But my flower strategy (I deviated from GWE and CC4C) might need work. What if it WAS a potassium deficiency and not light burn? Been watching Perfect Gardens on YouTube, He explains how Calcium during flower might be a bit of a problem, but unfortunately it comes married with Magnesium, which you need. But you can watch the video. 3) Lighting: I miscalculated where I was in the veg/flower transition so I think I brought out the flowering lamp too early. Will wait till I'm certain the stretch has been happening for a few days before I bring out the red spectrum next time. No point growing stems instead of buds and giving your plant light burn. I'm excited about an idea I have for getting the lamp to go an inch or two higher. But I'm also thinking about ways to make the plant go lower, which leads me to... 4) Topping: I'm real proud that I never topped this girl. I abused that main stem in every way possible, but I never chopped her head off. I'd rather be abused than decapitated. Right? But my next grow I WILL do some topping because it's something I need to experience, and because it may help me grow slightly larger strains in this tent, or at least have an easier time with the training and scrogging of plants (read above about chaos). 5) Minor things: Find a shorter 2 gallon pot. Think about automatic watering/feeding. Other than that, I love that I decided to do this crazy thing. Oh I forgot about one guy to thank,, CannaMink on YouTube, If I don't see his video about trying to grow weed in an AeroGarden, I never go looking for Nebula Haze's blog, cuz my first idea was to do that.. In an AeroGarden. Thank you, Nebula Haze!! 😬😁😜😝👍👊 Day 96). Been running the dry tent to learn how to drive it. Right now she's running both too hot and too dry. If I try to reduce temp with the AC, she gets drier. If I put a humidifier in the tent she'll be too wet unless I run the exhaust at high level - now negative pressure might be too high. Unfortunately, the beginning of this dry will be spent experimenting and adjusting , so I'm not expecting great results. But I'm a rook, so why would I expect great results. Better to expect mistakes and having something to learn from them. The lesson may simply end up being, don't be trying to dry weed when the AC is necessary to reduce temperature. Easier to raise humidity when it's cold and dry? Skip summer grows? We'll see how it goes. She's prolly going down tomorrow night. Day 97. Morning of Day 98 the latest.Yellowing is progressing around the plant.Makes me little bit sad to see her like that. But I still can't wait to vape her. LOL. Have a great grow day! Day 97). Mint Chocolate Chip is great. Too bad is doesn't come in a short auto. She's not that yellow and those buds keep getting scrumptiously thick on top. Was thinking I'd chop her tonight, but kinda wavering on that now. I'll check her trichs later and make a decision. Maybe it's worth waiting a day or two more? Waiting for the humidifier to arrive before I chop her. Should be here later today. So nothing happens til then. I won't chop until I am sure the environment is right for drying. Have a great grow day! Day 97 Later:) I checked the trichs and they were all juicy everywhere up and down. About 5% were turning amber. Leaves were yellowing. She's recommended to be harvested at most frosty, so I thought it was time. I brought out the saw. And no scissors would have cut it, btw. Glad I bought that saw. She would have been highly insulted if I walked up to her with scissors - after all we've been through? It took a few violent minutes, but it was done. In a twist of events, I decided to just hang her in the tent she grew up in. It's just that I already know how to drive that tent in terms of environment. I know what influences it. I can control it. So I also decided to turn the iPower into a seedling tent for now, while I get to know the dynamics of that tent in that location. Why risk the grow to a new location? Risk the seedling instead. I have more than one of that seed anyway. Never mind that I won't have to move the carbon filter anywhere. Then, when the drying is over, I'll move that pot and plant into the grow tent that is currently a dry tent. So that's all she wrote... Tomorrow a new week! I think. How does this all work now? I'm not wet weighing.. Just sayin. The whole plant is in the tent upside down. How would I even do that? 😄 Post Notes: When she was yellowing during the flush, many of the "light burn" symptoms got worse quickly. Leads me to think that it wasn't light burn maybe? More later. 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