Her buds are bulking up just fine. Alot of the lower fan leaves are dying off but leaves towards the top are nice and healthy. As you can see many of the leaves have now turned purple including the sugar leaves. The buds are starting to really frost up and display wonderful colors. About half of the pistils have turned orange but she continues to put off newer pistils which is a sign she still has some time left before harvest.
Outside temperatures have dropped rapidly in the last week. I'm getting around 73-74f during lights on and about 63f lights off. I'm also getting very low humidity during lights on at around 33% RH. Not too sure if this is cause for concern as I've always had an issue with too much humidity in late flower.
I've purchased a whole new tent and equipment (AC Infinity 3x3, Mars Hydro FC-E3000, Controller 69 etc) which I will be using as my flower tent. I want to move the Mephisto's Wedding to the new tent (and start up 2 photoperiods in the old veg tent) but I am not sure how feasible it is. It will probably be easy considering the SCROG net isn't really doing anything except supporting the buds and holding tucked fan leaves beneath it so hopefully moving it isn't an issue.
I fed her dry amendments this week in response to the yellowing and dying leaves at the bottom. I think its been around 3 weeks since the last top dress and compost tea so it was about time for me to feed anyway. I will be feeding her a compost tea tomorrow (3 gallon bucket, 2 cups of castings, i tbsp of Kelp meal, 1 tbsp of All Purpose, 1 tbsp of molasses).
I only expect her to yield around 2 ounces from the look of her. Not the biggest auto yield but its within the expected range Mephisto states on their webpage. I guess it all depends on how fat the colas get until around 74-86 days. Who knows, she might be dense AF and give me a better yield than I expect. Its good to be cautiously optimistic and set realistic goal though.
See you all in the next 3-4 weeks for the last stretch :D.
@Civicgrows, Thanks its been a blast growing her so far. Definitely the most colorful plant I've grown and I'm hoping she tastes/feels as good as she looks!
@Civicgrows, Thanks man! If the Barney's Wedding is anything like the Mephisto's Wedding (looks great btw) then you wont be disappointed. Good luck with the final weeks of your grow homie!
Beautiful job (with the grow and the notes)! I’m in day 16 of my Mephisto’s Wedding run. On your advice I went with a lighter soil (straight Happy Frog rather than mixing in Ocean Forest). No signs of N toxicity and everything running smoothly. Good lookin’ out!
I’m in the first few days of my Mephisto’s Wedding grow. (Just put the seed/radicles into soil about 6 hrs ago). Awesome journaling and photos. I got a feeling your dairy’s going to prove invaluable over the next ten weeks. Judging from your diary, looks like I have some amazing plants to look forward to!! Super excited. Thanks for the guidance.
@Professor_Shaman, Thanks I appreciate it :D. One of the reasons I've started diaries is to help other growers navigate different genetics and growing practices, even if it means showing people my mistakes! As long as you can learn one thing from my diary I would say my job is done but its my true hope that I can give you everything you need to absolutely nail it.
After she's dry I'll post the harvest. In it I'm going to detail what I did wrong, what I did right, and how I would grow the Mephisto's Wedding next time. I hope you're looking forward to it as much as me because I can already tell she's going to knock it out of the park 😀.
Hey, thanks for your journal. Was looking for some information on other Wedding grows, because mine is so stocky but yours confirmed that I am doing the right thing with the heavy early LST. Can you take a look and let me know what you think?
Thanks!!
@WulfBlud, Nice progress on your wedding :D. Most of the bottom nugs were actually pretty frosty. Not as dense as the top but dense enough that I kept a good 80% of them. I personally would not lollypop especially since it looks like you've got good light exposure to the whole plant from your LST and defoliation work.
Looking forward to seeing her bulk up 😀.
@Gold1, Thanks for the feedback, this is the first plant I went staright to the autopot instead of starting the seed in a solo cup so I definitely think that helped get it on track early.
LST was really difficult but I just trained it very lightly every day and it is stretching a bit but I am a little worried the LST may have slowed the stretch and the light penetration is so good that it doesn't want to reach at all. I havent really had such a short plant but we shall see how it does.
@gold1 Do you think lollypopping the plant at all, or even partially for the top two bud sites per branch? How were your yields on the lower nodes and did you trim that away?
I really appreciate your response! I'll be uploading some new pictures today!
@WulfBlud, No problem friend. Glad my diary was of some use to you 😀.
Looking at your Wedding on days 39-41 and you are absolutely killing it! Great LST with what looks like good light penetration to the nodes. It also seems like your plant was able to get in an extra week or two of veg growth before flowering compared to mine. It looks much larger and you should expect a larger yield than I got, especially since you've done a good amount of training on the plant. As for the health of the plant, it looks very good and I don't see any issues with it.
Looking really good so far and you should be good for the rest of your grow 👍. Can't wait to see harvest and I promise you that you will absolutely love the result. Good luck and happy growing my friend.
@Bastardchild, Thanks! You won't be disappointed, the Meph Wedding is incredible and I find myself wanting to grow another one now that I'm down to my last few nugs. Good luck with your grow my friend!