I live from weekend to weekend, so during the week I mostly water, or if I no longer have the strength, sometimes I skip watering. But now I try not to relax too much - there is an active flowering, the plant needs food.
Meanwhile, half of the flowering has already passed, so today I took care of optimizing and modifying the space.
First of all, I raised the lamp to the maximum height. That's it, now the tops of the plant should not burn out, otherwise I missed a moment here during the week and, hello, the white tops - chlorophyll burned out. In the process, the fan for blowing was touched and it successfully collapsed down, burying a couple of side shoots under it. In general, nothing terrible, but one of the shoots had to be splinted with toothpicks and duct tape.
The second action was defoliation. Yes, finally the hands got to the scissors and gave the lower parts of the plant the desired light instead of the usual twilight. During the haircut, I was once again convinced of the truthfulness of the description of the variety in terms of smell, since in addition to the classic smell, the notes of metal are very noticeable (something similar if you hold your hand on steel and then smell it). On the other hand, the promised lemon shade does not smell yet, and it does not matter much, because the smell of metal from the buds is already something new.
Third, after I cut the leaves, sniffed my hands and was convinced of the aggressiveness of the smell, I still brought a carbon filter. In general, it is possible without it, but some background smell is already slightly in the air, I will not wait for it to become stronger. Since the lamp is hanging near the ceiling of the awning, I have already habitually brought the entire ventilation system outside.
Fourth, my tent is not large in size, so 150 watts of LED over the tops in the summer created a hellish inferno. When the temperature one day jumped to 30 in the evening (and 34 in the tent at the tops), I turned off the boosters and sent the idea for recycling. The result was the placement of boosters in the lower half of the tent to the light of the bottoms. That's it, now I have surrounded the Star from all sides with light, I wonder what will come of it.
And fifth, I tied up all the shoots again, because the tops are swelling actively and already need support. When you have free time and your hands are itching, it's time for innovation. This time, the whole point came down to the creation of some kind of a ScrOG, which now performs the following functions:
1. Support of the plant frame, since the thickest stems have already begun to move into diagonal growth due to swelling inflorescences;
2. The distribution of shoots is more or less evenly throughout the horizontal space, so that the light now reaches all the shoots, even taking into account the fact that the leaves will grow back (although in the second half of flowering, the build-up of the green mass is much slower than at the same pre-flowering);
3. Harvest will be in the fall, so I already assume high humidity and it will be much better to have free space between the buds than one stuck brick, which attracts mold with its mass and windability. Fixing in cells, I think, will perfectly cope with this task.
Finally, the next intriguing stage has begun - the swelling of the inflorescences, you can already start swallowing, licking and pumping the Star with phosphorus and potassium to form fat rockets. At least I hope that they will be fat, because I did everything I could, and there are prerequisites, since the shoots are already getting heavy from the mass of swelling inflorescences.
Ok now that's interesting too. I'm learning . Alot here . Lol .
But gotta ask , I saw some red lights. Is that something u have one 24hrs or with the light cycle? Honestly never seen it so donno what I'd even have to Google to learn about it ..
Appreciate your insight and these diaries are golden. Thx for sharing
@Grow4Releaf,Thank you, it's a pleasure. Do you mean separate booster line with 660 nm diodes or do you mean red diodes on the upper lamp?
If there are red diodes that illuminate the tent in red while the main light is not on, these are far red diodes that simulate dawn and sunset to accelerate the transition of the plant from the daytime to the night phase and vice versa. The first two weeks work all day, then until the end of the cycle for half an hour at the end and beginning of the day, 15 minutes of which falls on the period before / after switching on / off the main light.