6/12-BLOOM WEEK #7 (June 19-25)
6/20-Leaves are really starting to get yellow now. Almost all the white pistols have turned red. Trichomes are turning cloudy although no amber yet. Rotated pot around to get light to some new places. Keeping an eye on the tallest branches for amber. I need to get these cut down first and give the rest of the buds a chance to soak up more light. Once these branches are harvested I can lower the lights down and get more light on the remaining buds which is alot.
6/22-Did some defoliation to get rid of leaves that were blocking light to lower buds. Very first hints of amber trichomes appearing. I think we have another week to 10 days left before harvest but this time around I'm going to be patient until I see alot more yellow leaves and at least 30-40% amber trichomes.
6/23-Leaves are turning yellow. Trichomes are all cloudy now and some are slowly turning amber. Started flushing the plant with Flawless Finish. First flush reduced ppm from 1,260 to 1,000. Changed the watering schedule to 2X daily instead of 3 but added a few seconds on to each cycle which will run about 2 gallons a day on the plant. Harvest is coming soon. I'm thinking 7-8 ounces is what I'm going to get based on recent harvests with Mango Smile and Forum Stomper which netted 5-6 oz per plant and neither of them were nearly as big nor had as many bud sites as this baby.
6/24-2nd flush reduced ppm to 450 and third flush reduced it to 300 ppm. This morning early I chopped down the 6 biggest and tallest branches. All of the trichomes were cloudy with hints of amber starting to show. The buds were all very dense (almost like golf balls). The wet weight (net after trim and container) was 293 grams. The buds were huge and very, very sticky. Even with these large branches gone the plant still looks large and full. I lowered the lights down to 14 inches and now the PPFd is between 1,000 near the top of the plant and 600 ish towards the bottom. I'll monitor the other buds each day this week and remove branches as they are ready working my way down to the lowest buds. I'm sticking with my prediction of 7-8 oz when all is said and done.
I'll include the numbers from 1st cut next week when I expect that the whole plant will be harvested by then.
@renbuds, doing pretty well. One plant is super vigorous and already showing pretty colors. The other three are taller are a little slower to stacking and showing colors. Check out my diary I update it almost daily
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