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Continuing tying down the highest growth tips to create more even vegetation. Honestly, we could start flowering now, but more growth will help. Still have not added fertilizer, need to do that. Water might need to kick up a tick, too.
Kicked the plants into 12/12 for flowering last week. Still a few moths in the tent, but there aren't any more than there were before. Let's see how much the girls grow during the stretch!
Two of the plants have gone for a total stretch - they sprouted apx 6" in a week. Another is also stretching, though a bit less. And the orange tangie is still much more bushy than stretched. Rotated them 180 again to make sure all sides get light.
Added a pan of water to the tent because humidity was hanging in the low 30s. It seems to be back up around 50% now.
Still looking for signs of flowering - there are some white tendrils now, but no real flowers yet. Had to raise the lights twice in the past week.
Added a PVC trellis sort of arrangement so we can tie down the really tall nodes away from the center of the environment. Flowering is progressing, but it seems slow. Plants are healthy and happy, tjough.
Starting the fourth week of flowering. Gave a little more fertilizer (one small capful each, maybe 1tsp?). Lots of bud sites are growing...but we're impatient. Want more progress!
Finished week 5 of flowering, starting week 6. Impatience is running high as the flowers slowly mature. It feels so slow...
There are small black little flies in the tent...I hope to god they're not spider mites. We see some dead ones in the pan of water I use to keep the air moist and we hung a fly catching sticky paper - it has a bunch. Kind of a race against time now, it feels like.
Finished week six of flowering. Slowing inching closer. The bugs seems to be fungus gnats - I dried the plants out (two days without water) and added diatomaceous earth, too. That should knock them back enough so they don't go out of control before we harvest. Next time, we will do a better job sealing the fan intake so that we don't get this problem.
Smell is definitely much stronger. Caught whiffs of it from my bedroom - two flights of stairs and a full house-length away. Also need to add a filter and exhaust fan for next cycle.
Bugs are gone (or beaten back so they're not longer apparent). White pistils are no longer formed, lots of amber ones, and I think we're in the harvestable window. Woohoo!
Harvested! Four plants, 2.1lbs total weight (wet). Hanging to dry now. Trimming took us five and a half hours (on a nice, sunny day on the back deck). Smelled to high heaven. The two black jack plants were the stars. Nicely ripe, good weight, easy trim. Sour Diesel lost two large buds due to some kind of dry bud rot, but the others were OK. Sour Tangie smelled amazing but was too leafy (probably needed a couple more weeks of growth).
It was the dead bud on top of the sour diesel that kicked us into harvesting now - that plant was distressed and needed to be taken. We made the call to go for it with all four because spare time in the next two weeks was going to be hard to get.
Lesson 1: The plants had too much water in them - next time we should dial that down. Probably also allowed gnats to grow more freely.
Lesson 2: Don't grow four different strains. Pick one and all the plants should grow at the same rate (Sour Tangie - the plant the the highest potential - was a slower grower and flowerer than the rest).
Lesson 3: TRIM OFF ALL BUT THE BUDS YOU WANT TO KEEP. Way too much popcorn flower that was too small to be of any use. Undercanopy management is huge.
Room set up, lights on at 18hours vegetative. Watering is still by hand...the hose leaked last night and tried to flood us out. Need a temp and humidity probe in the tent (ordered from Amazon). Also will need to get fan running this week.
Hi there, nice plants! No, spider mites are red and they don't fly, often come in draught (when buds are close to harvest indoors when we cut the humidity low), they're nasty. I don't know if what you have is what I think, but I think of fungus gnats. They come in when overwatering soil. They like humidity and temps around 75F, and don't like heat, reproduce in soil. There are many ways of getting rid of them, look up on forums. Good luck with those ladies!
@@SeedLover, Yah, pretty sure they're fungus gnats. Added diatomaceous earth and gave the plants two days without water to dry them out. They are not in the bugs, so...yay.
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