8/6/22
My wife was away on vacation with her best friend visiting her friend’s family in Peru 🇵🇪 for 3 weeks. She got back in between feeding days for my plants. Needless to say, life got in the way again and all of my ladies took a back seat for a couple of days. 🤷♂️
At this stage (the flush), I wasn’t too worried about Jackie. She’s been awesome this entire grow, and going a day longer without getting fed didn’t really matter at all. In fact, she looks better now than she ever has.
I mixed another gallon of fresh water with the appropriate amount of pH DOWN to in order to feed my lady. The initial pH was 7.5. I added 0.4 ml of pH DOWN which adjusted the pH to 6.5.
I gave her 10 cups of water today because she had gone an extra day without, but she really didn’t need it. She gave a lot of it back as runoff. Her runoff pH was 5.6.
Her tent was 85.9F, with humidity at 48%.
Jackie has deepened the color I mentioned toward the end of last week, and her trichomes are looking crusty in a beautiful way. This is a wonderful plant, and she should be ready for harvest in about a week.
She’s completely changed my opinion on auto-period plants, and cutting her up is going to be bittersweet, but that’s what I’m growing her for. Happy growing everyone!
8/8/22
Today is a somewhat weird day in that it’s the normal feeding day for my plants, but I ran out of some important nutrients the other day which make it impossible to feed anything today except Jackie.
Jackie is getting pure, properly pH’ed water, and that I have plenty of!
Jackie received a half a gallon of water today with a pH of 6.5. Her runoff, which was plentiful, was 5.7. Very nice for this stage in her life. It’s shows, or at least I hope it does, that she has a good, nourishing root environment. She looks, and smells fantastic!
Her tent was 85.1F, and humidity is at 52%.
I took her outside today because I wanted to see what she looked like in direct sunlight. I took pictures of her for your viewing pleasure.
If you look through the screen door, you’ll get a good look at our little (not really little) dogs. Anya is a pit bull, and Demitri, who’s more shy, is a boxer.
Anya always loved to be around and to sniff my babies whenever she gets the chance. She’s a lot like me in that regard, but other than that, she’s definitely my wife’s dog.
Happy growing everyone!
8/11/22
Jackie is definitely exhibiting some purple hues that are lovely to gaze at! Her flowers are wonderfully covered in trichomes and glisten in the light. Still the best plant in my garden, at least this time around.
Jackie is continuing with the flush and is actually near the end of her scheduled life. Exotic Seed Company says it should be 12 weeks, seed to harvest, and we’re almost done with week 12! Depending on a few things, today may have been her last feeding till I let her dry up to harvest. We’ll have to see come Saturday.
Today she took another half gallon of fresh, properly pH’ed water. The initial pH was 7.5, to which I added 0.4 ml of pH DOWN which adjusted the pH to 6.3.
Jackie gave back plenty of runoff with a pH of 5.8. Her tent was 82.6F, with humidity at 52%.
We’re so close to the end that I believe I’m going to miss Jackie once she’s harvested. That’ll be a first. Happy growing everyone!
@Exotic_Seed,
I’ve been trying to contact you, but my attempts have gone unanswered. Please let me know how and where you would like me to contact you.
@Exotic_Seed,
Thank you for checking back in. I always wondered how other growers diaries were “approved by” the seed bank.
I guess one just needs to do a good job and the rest handles itself. I’m glad that you all approve.
Stay tuned though! My next grow season is going to be:
Strawberry Cola - auto &
Purple Monkey - auto.