2) Barney's / Wedding Cake Auto / Micro

As the week began, I raised EC input to 1.2, which means a range of 1.15 to 1.25, really. Runoff ECs were still staying stable as compared to input. Was very happy about this result. Major goal of the grow seemed to have been achieved. Tempted to lower the lamp from 15 inches to something like 13, but I'm a cat owner. And I've learned over the years that when a skittish-by-nature animal looks relaxed and happy, you're doing a wonderful job already. She/He doesn't need a new cat bed. He/She is fine. Maybe you're just bored? So I left it where it was. Plus, the previous grow ended with the lamp at 10 inches. Continuing with the theme of the grow, it was better to just continue with the lamp-at-15-inches experiment? Learned on Day 73 that it's a good idea to have more than one ph pen and more than one ppm pen. Cuz if one breaks on ya... (and my understanding is that getting one of these to last more than a year is a small miracle?). It's also a good idea to have the good old vial/blue dye method of ph reading in a bucket somewhere, in case you need it. Needed it that day at 5am. Kinda sucked. Otherwise, no significant signs of heat stress or light stress. Was thinking that lowering light schedule to 14 hours prolly wasn't necessary. Buds were still rapidly growing and looking frosty and beautiful! 😁👍 Was really enjoying looking at her these days. And I'm sure you've the noticed the same thing that I slowly have - that cannabis is a beautifully strange plant and it is spectacularly awesome to be in her presence with the tent door open. Pictures never really do it full justice, right? I sometimes feel like it would be awesome to spend the whole day just looking at her with the tent door open, letting her stink up my apartment. Except that would be incredibly foolish. All this science goes into making a tiny and natural work of art that also gets you perfectly high. I would recommend this hobby to anyone with the time to do it. Tis a privilege and honor to do this and to have a community of fellow growers on this awesome website to share the experience with. 😌😊😁 Towards the end of the week, it was a delight to see that most of the pistils around the plant had turned orange/red. The white pistils on the buds on the lower nodes of the plant were now staring to off-white/beige and curl back. Checked trichs on Day 76 and there were many many plastic looking cloudy trichs everywhere I checked, but standing straight up mostly. No amber anywhere. Few yellowing trichs on sugar leaves. So it was looking like we were entering end game. Some places around these buds were extra frosty. Looked like sugar everywhere - a noted characteristic of the strain. These buds were clearly more healthy looking than my first grow, so it looked like the ultimate objective of the grow was being achieved - which would make it 2 for 2 on achieving the ultimate goal of a grow. (First grow only had a survival/reach-harvest objective. The yield I achieved was just a great unexpected, possibly even lucky, benefit.) So I was thinking at the end of this week that harvest wouldn't be around Day 84 as I thought at the end of the prior week, but around Day 90. So there was prolly only one more week of feeding this plant before I started a 5 to 7 day flush. Have a great grow day!