3) Barney's / Wedding Cake Auto / Micro

THE FINAL WEEK (prollly): My my, the smell that would come out of this tent as this week began. Wow. It entered your nostrils hard, in a too-aggressive fashion. Smelled like there was a good deal of the good stuff in there. Took my first lights-out videos and pictures on the final night of the prior week. You can see them in Week 14 of this diary. I like when I finally do this because that's when I can really get a sense for what she really looks like as compared to most weed porn you see online in general. 😄 I was, again, encouraged by what I saw.Some buds were overflowing with growth, but most were pretty much just good solid nugs - and we still had one more week to go. The final feed would occur on the morning of Day 99 - 6.1 ph at an EC of 1000. From then on, she would get a half gallon of pure non-ph-adjusted water with 2.5ml of FloraKleen twice a day. Once runoff ECs were under 300, no more FloraKleen and just the water. Red hairs definitely curling in now. She could have been cut down on Day 99, but as the advice goes - when you think you can cut her down, wait one more week. So that's what I planned to do. Was aiming to cut her down on Day 105 - the last day of Week 15. Additionally, since my next grow was fast approaching, and she needed to be under the flowering lamp by some date, I really couldn't go past this date, anyway. I had a little bit of regret about this by the end of Day 102. I whipped out the old loupe again and saw varied results around the plant, but most of the heads were firmly cloudy. Some 5% were amber. Many were clear, Got the impression that going to day 112 could be done and would make this plant an utter monster. But we'll never know. Oh well. This plant set my record for largest bud. There was definitely some substance to many of these buds - even to some of those under the canopy. Many there were more than an inch in diameter. Some up top were close to three inch diameter buds. These were probably the best buds I'd grown yet, and it had me thinking that I may have ended my first grow a bit too soon, because those buds did not look like this. That plant was under duress, though, so I ended her misery early, I guess.. 😂 Also started doing a little pre-trim for harvest on Day 102. I removed single leaves that were more than two inches long, as a rule, around the plant. It really allowed me to see her naked. She was looking like a good yielder. Couldn't wait to weigh (not to trim). 😁 Day 105 arrived, and I gave her a look over. Super chunky buds everywhere, up and down the plant. Even down low in the dark parts of the plant. As for the trichome reading way of doing things, I was still not confident in it as a gauge, yet. It made sense as a strategy to me, don't get me wrong. The main problem was knowing where on the bud to look, and I was still not sure if sugar leaves should count and stuff like that. But anyway, it looked like the vast majority of trichomes were cloudy now. I saw amber trichs, but I wasn't sure those weren't on sugar leaves. (But I keep frosty sugar leaves, why not? So should I count them? (sigh) Never mind. I'll focus on the pistils... ) Only places where white pistils were visible were in the very very underlying parts of the plant where I was more surprised there was any bud growth at all, and even more surprised about how good the growth was. The red hairs were mostly curled in now. So I was happy with the results from that perspective. Again, I thought she could have gone one more week, but I had pressure from my next grow, so harvesting on Day 105 would be the best idea. Next time, we'll do slightly better? 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