zSkittlez - Only One Left

After the disappointing loss of the remaining 2/3 of the grow, I am able to increase attention on the remaining topped plant, JellyBean. I have been scanning JellyBean every day for any signs of maleness, as all 4 of the seeds came from the same lot. What a great time to talk about what happened. So I discovered male pollen sacks forming on the inner joints, unfortunately a couple already opened with flowers. on the initial find, I sacrificed a couple major branches on StringBean and kept monitoring. The following day, more spots were cited and I determined we needed to pull the plant immediately to prevent further pollination. This gave me a good time to inspect LimaBean, the untopped plant, which was really going well. LimaBean also was full of male pollen sack and I pulled that plant as well. Those plants were very stable since day 1, with the only adversity that may have stressed being some lower then expected temps, but I have seen worse in other grows with no adverse impact. We will continue to push JellyBean to her limit to save the yield, and I have nervously been checking her daily and fear the worse over this next month. JellyBean is doing great, beautiful white root ball, and a sizeable plant with 8 decent branches, that are starting to fill in at the top. Very easy to maintain, drinking about 2 gal/ week... ph stays around 5.8 ... TDS 1450, gonna start taking it up to 2000. No real concerns, have plenty of space to spread her out and grow some great branches and pick up some lower popcorn, boost that yield. Been doing some clearing off the lower stalks, to emphasize growth on the flowers. And we also have frosting now on the main buds, these guys are going to explode over the next 3 weeks. Days since germination 59 and Day 32 of Flowering (Target 90 Days)... one month left! ******************************************** Midweek update at 9 weeks since germination, with 4 weeks left (target 90 days) -- Pure Flowering Mode Flowers continue to fill and fatten, lower leaves are sagging a bit and im sure it is due to high water level in the bucket. I added another bubbler to the bucket and intentionally keeping the levels high to slow upward growth and it has worked. Will back away from the water level, leaving an inch below basket for a week to see if leaves look a little better. Biggest change in 4 days in the FROSTING and smell. Wonderful citrus/fruity smell, no escaping the chamber, but the tops are becoming very frosty and pungent.