Lemonchello Haze

I decided to skip an intermediate stage of repotting and go straight to a 2 gallon pot for the period between now and when I move my plants outdoors and put them in their final fabric pots - somewhere around the summer solstice... or about 4 weeks or so. During this period they'll be inside my tent under KIND K3 LED lighting.

Veg mode is starting to kick in nicely now. I've been keeping my girls fairly dry... giving them just enough Azospirillum infused water to keep the area around the base of the plant wet. Don't wanna drown the developing root system. Babies don't drink that much.

Things are really starting to move along in veg land. I'll have to study my past grows to see when I should be topping these plants for the first time - but this week is a likely candidate for the initial snip. All my summer photoperiod girls were topped above the 4th node on June 1.

There's some serious secondary growth going on after the initial topping last week. All the girls have recovered nicely and are well on their way. There are enough roots visible at the bottom of these pots that we could transplant at any time... but I'm probably going to wait one week until after some major electrical work is completed on my home.

Well... this is graduation day for all my outdoor girls. Yesterday they spent their first full day in the sun (minus a couple hours shade mid-day)... and today they were repotted into their final 10 gallon outdoor fabric containers. They've been outdoors full-time for about 72 hours now, so they've had a nice acclimation period (I avoided moving them outdoors last week when we had a couple 90 degree days).

The girls have only been outside for a week now but we just had our first HOT spell. Yesterday, the summer solstice, we breached 100 degrees for a few hours... so I just stayed inside all day. The girls handled it surprisingly well. They still don't drink that much because a week ago they were in 2 gallon containers and the roots haven't filled in all that space yet, but they're working on it. Things are expected to be a bit more seasonal the next week or so.

This week was hotter than normal. 4+ days over 80 degrees. Gonna cool down significantly this week. Did some undercarriage pruning on all plants this week.

This was one of my plants that DIDN'T sustain wind damage today. Maybe because she's the smallest. I expect these girls to start flowering within a couple weeks.

We're just coming out of a short hot spell where we got close to 90 for a few days. Now we've settled back into a more seasonal upper 70's with regular morning fog. Nobody is flowering yet... but we're not far away. Picked up another 6" in height this week. Things are moving along.

We're in a fairly steady weather cycle now with minimal fog in the morning and temps getting a bit hotter than forecasted to... a couple days in the mid-80's this week. All the girls are up to about 1.5 gallons of fluid a day. I've done minimal pruning this summer. Nobody is flowering just yet... but soon.

I had to double-check the height on my Haze baby because it appears she grew 12" last week and she had been and probably still is the smallest girl on the patio. I'm declaring her as flowering now although she's at least a half week behind my pair of Acapulco Gold's which are more obviously flowering now.

Ever thing is going along nicely. A moderate weather week with only a couple days in the 80's. A buddy of mine is coming over to water my plants while I bug out for a few days for a wedding on the east coast.. so I can see what humidity feels like again.

I'm a day late updating my diaries because I was back on the east coast last weekend for the wedding of my niece in Newport, Rhode Island. Had a buddy watering my babies while I was gone. A LOT hotter back east than where I've been living in central California.

Things got seriously hot yesterday, close to 100 degrees in an otherwise reasonably cool summer. All my girls have been getting by on 1.5 gallons per day of fluid. In general I'm using a heavier nutrient load than pervious years... which had been in the range of 50% of recommended - now I'm closer to 75%.

Things are moving along well. Temps haven't been too hot, although we were in the mid-80's today. Should be a bit cooler for the next week, which is ideal. Gave all the girls a probable final pruning to remove those internal shoots that will never really develop.

Things have been moving along nicely, but we're about to enter a moderate heat wave of like 4 days over 90 degrees and approaching 100. One of my Acapulco Golds is really frosty and ready for harvest and I'll probably flush her this week and harvest her Saturday before the heat sets in. This Haze seems to be one of the last that I'll be harvesting this year, as she seems to have the least mature trichomes. She seems happy enough - we'll see how she handles the heat wave this week.

For whatever reason this girl seems to be the strangler of the group in terms of ripening. Not that I'm in a rush or anything. Just observing. In any event I'm going to schedule pulling the plug on her in about a week - after I finish harvesting Acapulco Gold #2 which is probably 3 or 4 days. This intense heat wave we've been in has advanced the ripening process IMO. Just making sure to keep the girls hydrated and in this case under an umbrella for the worst part of the heat wave.

The temps have suddenly turned fall-like so this girl will need some time to dry before we can go any further.