1st grow - Grandmommy Purple - *Now DWC*

2/19-2/25 Week 9 2/23 - Well, we have made it. I think that later today will be harvest right before lights come on. Today is day 66 flower. Total of 165 days growing, LOL. This week was pretty laid back for me. I knew they were getting close and I didn't know how long they would take so I didn't really mix up a new batch of nutrients. I, while monitoring trichomes, was watching the water level drop as well. When it looked like they wouldn't be done by the start of the new week and when I change the reservoirs, I basically just mixed up 8 gallons of nutes to distribute between the 4 plants while they finished up. I didn't go for a flush and I am not doing 48 hours of dark. Plant D's roots are making an awesome recovery... I haven't really been taking too many photos of the roots, but I will get a bunch when I harvest. Really though, I can't wait to look under the hood on these roots to see what's really going on. I am concerned about the amount of dead leaf material though. I'm not sure how I feel about smoking that. I don't like combustion anyways, but I am also concerned about washing or processing the buds with the dead messed up leaves. The dead leaves are very brittle, so we will see when I am cutting branches how removal of the dead stuff goes. I think I should remove all that dead stuff before drying and or freezing. The smell of this weed is, well, really freaking weird. I mean there is the tent smell and then there is the smell when you touch the plant. The tent smell is almost offensive and smells like weed and like sour milk or cream or something. I get weird notes of like mocha toffee that mixes with the sour milk and weed smell. It's odd. But then when you touch something, the smell is really hard to describe. It's a very pungent weed/marijuana smell. I am pretty sure the "weed" smell is coming form the prominent terpene, Myrcene. To be honest, I have no real idea if the plant is ready or not. I am just guessing at what I think is right. The micro shots I took seem to show a lot of cloudy trichomes and amber has been popping up as well. I am wanting a solid balance, so I am not too worried about many amber trichomes. I just don't want ambers to be the majority. I think we are in a good place for harvest. I want to ask people but they will tell me 2 more weeks and to boof it. lolololol. Really, I thought the plants were ready a day or two ago and I waited a little more. Today, as the last day, I am making it a cooler day, temp wise and the plants are getting 69-70f degree air. For some reason I am thinking the cooler temps might push just a little more out of the plants as they work to protect from the fall temps. I also increased the light to max for the day. I had been increasing it very minutely on a daily basis since I drastically reduced it 2 weeks ago to help stop light burn in the root rot plants. Either way, today is a high intensity light and cool weather day for the plants, and their last day left. I guess the way the harvest update works is that I will update with a harvest after I dry the plants. Since I shouldn't just update with harvest and then update the harvest week with more pictures and information about post harvest processes. So this will probably be the last update for a few weeks. This way I can fully document the harvest, the drying process, the fresh frozen process, the washing result of the fresh frozen while I wait for the plants to dry, the pressing of bubble hash into rosin, and the final dry weight. It will be hard to get the real weight because, like I said before, I plan on committing Plant B and D, completely , to fresh frozen bubble hash making. So I won't be able to get dry weight on this. I will try and get a total wet weight, but I won't try all that hard. I will be closely documenting the weight information of the plants I do dry and cure. So there will be dried flower weight. Anyways, very exciting stuff. I am looking forward to sharing the next update with you all as I am going to be having a very interesting next couple of weeks.