Blueberry Muffins - Mars Hydro FC4800

Blueberry Muffins by The Humboldt Seed Company (Not the knock-off "HSO" brand riding their coattails, LOL) FD: 47 Harvesting tonight... they'll get darkness all day. Will be 24+ hours of darkness at time of harvest.. This is last update until the crop is dried and ready for curing. Due to issue in garden and amazingly developed flowers on 47th day of 12/12 schedule, I am going to be harvesting all my plants, including Blackcherry Pie F5. Nearly all the plants have retracted pistils - some aren't even visible anymore and some are a bit too hairy for my liking. Extenuating circumstances are focring my hand, but it's only a few days early at most for a few of the plants... and with a couple plants i probably should have harvested them a couple days ago. Most of them have significantly slowed water uptake as of last 2-3 days, too. The 2 or 3 that need a few more days are still chugging away, though. I don't know what i did differently, but i had crazy fast development all over. At just over 6.5 weeks plants are nice and plump, dense nugs and i see some amber in trichomes. It's quite a bit warmer than my previous runs over last 3 years. There is some serious light in the tent, too -- high efficacy lights, but i've always been pushing that boundary given little environmental control. However, there is a lot more 'side' lighting and more space between plants. Maybe this is part of that? While i still provide similar DLI to canopy, i'm providing signifcantly more photons to the plant as a whole. More photons flying around in a larger space... bouncing here and there and getting better penetration from all angles underneath the canopy. If this is the result from that, i really like it. Fwiw, blueberry muffins, which is supposed to be a 45-day bloom isn't even the most developed plant in the room. Plants listed as 9-weeks are done.. not drinking, dense, pistils barely visible etc etc... Except for the severely stunted, the yield relative to size of plant is seemingly "normal" too. One muffin pheno is ready by 45ish days, but one needs 2-3 more days, preferably.. but is 'ripe enough,' otherwise. In regard to Blueberry Muffin, specifically -- This was one of the stronger resistant plants. Even when situated next to an infected plant, it took until the last few days to see a hint of WPM on it. I've removed a few leaves and will harvest 1 of the plants a couple days early to avoid any further infection. Yield looks at least average relative to size of plant. Fairly dense nugs regardless of top cola or lower bud. I will lolipop a bit more next time, but even so there is very little larf on this plant, if at all. i barely put any effort into it after topping them. the canopy remained faily even and it filled out nicely. Great structure, great smells right now... If dry and cure goes well, i believe i am going to like this plant a lot. I took clones and this will not be lost. May need to revege 1 plant from which all the clones failed for a little breeding over the summer. Overall, i wouldn't judge the plants in these 4 coinciding diaries by my results. Who knows what kind of ramifications i had from stunting the plants with too much light for too long in vege before i reacted. The resistance of the plants though... there are clearly some weaker plants in the bunch, this is one of them. You look at it sideways and it picks up some WPM spots. Other plants directly next to it and downwind from it are only recently showing hints of spots on some fan leaves after weeks of potential exposure. The severely stunted plants that did not grow out of it (crystal candy and purple shot included) are difficult to assess in this regard. The amount of foliage and congestion is too big of a factor for wpm. Other strains with no excuse on the other hand... they also exhibit signs of genetic depression with a 1:1 correlation in a small sample. Some of these fancy plants are just inbred AF. Probably why they have poor resistance. Can't inbreed an "outcrossing" plant so much without major negative repercussions in as few as 3 generations or even 1. The "next" run is looking great. I have not damaged them and they are on pace to fill the space with ease. I've been compiling a "Best Practices / SOP" manual as i go through the stages of the Winter-2 run. I've always been fairly systematic when approaching what to do in bloom phase, but i've never respected the intracies vege phase as much. I am looking to correct this mistake with a more systematic approach from seed -to-harvest that can evolve more efficiently than relying on my memory and decentralized notes. I've outlined best practices for each of my lights relative to seedlings, early vege, vege and bloom. This should avoid the stupid mistake of stunting my plants as severely as crystal candy, purple shot, et al. Come next winter, i won't have to rely on habits or memory. I will have an outline to quickly regain them. ______________________________________________________ This diary is sponsored by Mars Hydro. Check out Mars Hydro instagram and GD profiles: marshydro_aliexpress on Instagram - follow link through their GD profile as these can change due to IG rules. @marshydroled on GrowDiaries