Green Gelato R4 Auto in a 4x4

Week 6 started July 31, 2022 August 2, 2022 Been a few days. Both plants are flowering, right on time. I have checked a lot of other grows with this strain, and considering home growing capabilities vs a professional grow room, my flowering time seems later than spec, by about a week... but right on time compared with other grows out there. #5 and #8 are the only ones I kept. #5 is greener and one of the best specimens I have grown, considering my feeble lights. Look back to the day zero pics in the germination week, #5 and #8 were side by side during veg and at the hot spot of the light. Something to think about there... One more thing. I have other stuff vegging right now, and I have a four day trip coming up... so I am waiting til later flower to turn the blurples and uv on. It is just too hectic for veg to turn those on, much better results with just the full spectrum COBs == even if I wasn't I would still prolly wait. The full power with both channels on is just a lot of light for veg. and the wrong kind IMHO on these COB lights. I have two COBs totaling 850 watts, without the blurples on, I am burning like 380 watts right now according to the killawatt thing The last feeds before flowering were pretty heavy, in the 400+ range (remember this is soil) and I amended the soil too with Gaia Green Bloom, worm castings. I have _dropped_ my feed back down as I was getting the tiniest bit of nute burn on just a few fan leaves. Seems like under 300 is perfect for this soil/grow, its at 240 now. She has all the stuff she needs in the soil, so its just weak feed of Flora Nova Bloom, and one more round of adding dry amendments later. I am _mostly_ organic here, not perfect. Defol was no joke, but not compared to photos I run, it was an order of magnitude less. So far so good, but pretty sure I could have vegged these way more successfully had my env been better early. But I need to remember that I actually buried about 3 to 4 inches of the stalk when I re-potted (like a tomato) We'll see.