3) Barney's / Wedding Cake Auto / Micro

When the week began, I was feeling good about my decision to delay the flush one more week.. Thanks to all the pictures and videos on GrowDiaries, YouTube and many other places around the metaverse (😂), I'd acquired an almost subconscious feel now for what a completed bud should look like, and mine just still weren't there. And that was a good thing cuz some of these buds were getting super chunky up top. Nonetheless, I was seeing some curling in of the red hairs on the tops of a small number of the colas - like 2 or 3 - at this point. The lower buds were filling out well too - firm and thick to the touch, but that's where I got my biggest indicator that the plant wasn't finished. Many white straight out pistils there, though the majority were red and curly and obviously also sticking out. Springtime was beginning to bloom now. It was confirming something for me. Again, a larger plant needs to go higher in the tent, but the higher in the tent you go, the hotter it wll be there. Now that outside temps were rising, apartment/tent temps were rising. So it made the canopy hotter at the worst time - the end of flower. To counteract this, I would reduce the light schedule to 14/10.Thinking I'd rather have smaller buds than ruined buds. Also, had to bring out the dehumidifier to keep RH inside the tent down. But grateful she wasn't showing major signs of stress. As for the foxtailing I was talking about the prior week, still wasn't really sure that was what I was looking at. But if it was, it wasn't bad.If it was happening, only, like, 3 colas were being affected at all with it. Not a plant-wide problem. And if it was, what could I do about it? So why should I really care? I wasn't worried about re-vegging at this point. The smell when opening the tent was pretty strong now. Seemed there was a lot of weed in there now. She was frosty, but not as frosty as the last grow. I think this was a different phenotype of the same strain, because the two plants were different in several ways - bud color and shape, leaf shape and size, trichome density. She smelled the same though. Exactly the same great familiar smell. On Day 94, I finally got around to whipping out the loupe and taking a look at her jewelry. Shiny and standing up everywhere. Very little amber. Some mix of cloudy and clear. Same conclusion. If she was in the harvest window, it was still early in the harvest window. By Day 97, I was starting to feel more encouraged that I was on the right timeline. More visible sugar-donut-like frost on the buds now. The orange hairs around the plant were starting to curl in now, revealing more bud underneath. There were very few white hairs around the plant. A handful white foxtaily offshoots on the sides of the biggest buds, but again, not paying attention to those too hard. 97% of the plant was on the right schedule. So I decided I would start the flush soon. My first two grows, I was excited about harvesting. With this my third grow, I was more dreading trimming, so I was kinda dreading harvest a bit. 😂 If It wasn't for the fact that i needed to clear out this tent for my next grow which was already underway amd growing fast (FB/Lemon Pie Auto), I'd prolly waited two more weeks, just because I didn't wanna trim it. 😂 Day 105 target harvest date was still in effect. Hope that was fun, interesting, or helpful for you. Thanks for reading. Have a great grow day! Check out my YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLdjlvS0mK9Pu3pkumUu-w