Pretty standard late flower week. Some pretty colors are coming in now that I’m pulling back on the feed and getting ready to flush. I’ll be starting a flush on 4/28 and harvesting on 5/1. This will be about 68 days of bloom time. This plant is so stinky my carbon filter can’t keep up.
I’m pretty disappointed in how this plant has not filled out. The buds are all skinny and airy. They look super dank but it just never filled out like I hoped it would. I’m reasonably sure I’ve just been very unlucky with the last two phenotypes I’ve had from HSO. I actually read about someone else who got a similar pheno. It is possible there is something I could do better that might be affecting yield. More on that below.
Next grow I will be making some changes. First, I’ll take my existing buckets and convert them to a waterfall RDWC system. Second, I’ll be switching to an LED to bring my flowering temperatures down. The 600w HPS puts out too much heat for DWC in my setup. And third, I’ll be building out a gravity fed top off reservoir so I can make this very lazy work. I’ve had to top off almost every day during bloom and sometimes she drank almost a gallon each day. Makes it tough to leave town the way things are right now.
If all goes well with the bucket RDWC I will take it a step further in future grows and do it right with some larger tote containers and bigger undercurrent returns.
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