Purple Quest Candidate #7

As planned since day 1, flowering starting on week 9, after growing for 8 weeks. The show is really starting now 🤩 🔮 EXPECTATIONS FOR THE FLOWERING PERIOD 🔮 ---------------------------------------------------------- As some of you noticed, I'm keeping the name of this genetic a secret :) Depending of the results, I'll break that secret at harvest! What I can say for now: - This strain have Mendocino parents. I'm still thinking that this is the origine of the taste I'm looking for. Of course, other genetics may have the taste I'm looking for, but I believe that a well stabilized Mendocino with great selection work, should be the best candidate. It was the goal of the breeder of this genetic. And I've decided to grow 4 plants, so I will not question again the potential of mendo. I'm verry excited to meet my good old friend, the best taste I ever seen in cannabis. Something unique... - The flowering should be short: arround 60 days. So I expect an harvest in the first half of December. So first joints arround Christmas, isn't it perfect :D - Indica dominant. Of course. As always when you target taste :D She tend to grow medium size, with lot of lower branches. The applied main-lining will help to get nice buds on thoses ;) I've noticed that the plants were already showing lot of pistils on week 8, before changing the light schedule. Two potentials explainations : I should have transplanted later, because roots maybe reached bottom of the pot. This is known to act on flowering triggering. The second alternative explaination may be that this strain is simply faster than the previous regular strains I've grown. So, note to myself: I must try to start flowering at week 8 next time (If she's the strain I'm looking for, I may grow it again and again and again ^^) 4 plants, 16L pots.... I think I may get like 300g. But to be honnest, I don't really care. I WANT THE TASTE! 🛠️ FEEDING & PH ADJUSTMENT 🛠️ --------------------------------------- The feeding have changed. The quantity of nutrients added to the water is impacting a lot the final PH. But I'm not checking PH at each time. I'm doing it ONE time, when the feeding recipe change. I use PH-down from Biobizz until I get the perfect PH. And then I keep adding the same amount of PH-down at each feeding. I'm using tape water, and the PH isn't really changing (0.2 variation maximum on the last 5 years. I got those data by checking water analysis done by authorities). I decided to recalibrate my PH pen, to be sure I was not going to do mistakes! And I double checked with PH paper! On the end, I'm adding 5 drops of ph-down in 1.25L. I'll have to redo this again at 3th week of flowering since I'll increase nutrients dosages. I'm still following Biobizz recommandations for Light-mix. Even If I'm using all-mix. (Because this soil already been used with previous grow) 🔎 PLANTS OBSERVATIONS & UPKEEP 🔎 ---------------------------------------------- Update about "The Ugly" : Well people, I belive she is going to be a nice plant :D She's showing a decent amount of budsites, and she's verry vigorous. She have grown A LOT of leaves, way more than the 3 others plants. So I had to perform an intensive defoliation to let light get through it. I've cut some branches too, because they were malformed: ugly leaves, twisted, facing unlogical directions, and showing almost no pistils. She's definitly the good news of the week 💜 I performed defoliation on every plants this week. This is verry important at this stage, since the plants are stretching. I ***BELIEVE*** that a node that don't get enough light at this stage, will not provide good results later on. I really think that defoliation at this stage is a key to nice harvest. I'll not perform that much defoliation after that, since most apex and branches will have grow and reached light :) No distinctive smell for now. It's the regular smell of cannabis plant that my nose recognize. It's just the smell of the plant sweeting, buds sites doesn't smell anything at this stage, and that's normal. 🦋 BUGS!??? 🦋 ------------------ I found one caterpillar on the Ugly. The same kind than the one I found during week 4 or 5. They were probably brother/sister. This one was longer, more mature. Luckilly it's a really small one, that doesn't eat that much. It did some holes on lower leaves, that got defoliated anyway. It damaged like 4-5 leaves, eating like 1% of each... Plants didn't noticed it I'm sure :D I did some research, and I believe it come from moths, the kind I saw in grow room during the firsts weeks of the grow. Only one plant been eated, and the damage are so small that I'm not worried. And there is no moths since weeks, simply because the weather is really cold and I don't keep every windows open anymore :) By the way, I haven't seen thrips during my last check... .I'm sad 😥 Was too easy 😥 R.I.P Thrips. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 Thanks for reading 😊 Please tell me what you think about the pictures :) I'm trying to show as much details as I can, but maybe you guys will have good recommandations :) Bye, see you next week! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 EDIT Day +1 : I checked weather for the upcoming days. There will be 7 days of bad weather with rain. Air humidity is going to be 70-90% for like a week starting from tomorrow. SO... I'm opening every windows NOW since outside air is at 30-40% air humidity. I'm stocking as much as dry air I can, to avoid humidity raise in the grow room in the next days :)