5) FastBuds / Green Crack Auto - 2nd Try

As the week began, I found myself reflective of what I'd learned during this grow. Cuz every grow I've done so far has taught me something. So I'd like to share what I was thinking I'd learned by Day 85. I definitely learned that the right level for room humidity (not tent) in order to be able to well control the environment inside the tent is 35% humidity. And my dehumidifier can puppy down to those levels, so that was reassuring. I'd also learned that you can get potassium lockout by giving feedings with a ph above 6.2 too much. So it's in bold print next to my feeding schedule now. Ph levels would be well controlled since then. And I learned once again that the growers' community is as great a community as I'd always found it to be. Thanks everyone for their help and support. So I'd responded by giving her 5.8 to 6.1 EC feeds since this determination. And if judging by how many new and non-foxtailed white pistils were visible by around Day 89, it looked like she was still growing and responding well. I mean, most of the plant's foliage was still nice and green. She might have been eating less, but she wasn't starving. So if she was still throwing up healthy white pistils and wanting to grow buds, she must have still been pretty happy as a plant. Checked trichs again around Day 89. Lots of cloudy around. Clear trichs weren't hard to find tho. Seemed she was peaking. This is about where I harvested my 1st grow ever and attempt at Green Crack Auto. I would later think I harvested that one one to two weeks too early at least. => On Day 89, it was looking like Day 98 minimum - not Day 91 at all. And this is why NOT flushing, in my opinion, is better, especially with coco coir that is only a 6 day flush max. I think flushing is a good way to be forced to harvest your plant earlier than you'd like, and the whole theory about making the buds use up all the excess this and that.... Bullshit. I just don't think science works like that. If it did, you could give yourself a bigger "arm" by not eating for three weeks, because in response to your near death, your body is going to prioritize the growth of your "arm." Talk about reasons to justify plant anorexia. I stop feeding her three days before harvest cuz the pot should have enough for her to eat, but I don't flush. If I had started to flush around Day 86, I'd have regretted it because I would have been forced to harvest this plant too early. The seed companies were going to have to wait for me to reorder more seeds. Patience is a virtue. Let's Feed The Virtue! (not the seed companies). And by Day 91, even more patience would be necessary because I was thinking Day 103 to 105 was the most likely harvest window. At this point, most of the white pistils were curling in - very few straight white pistils around. Trichs were clear to cloudy - but mostly cloudy. I was just feeling like she still had more potential. I raised the lighting schedule to 17 hours from 16 because I realized that my DLI had been off course for weeks because I had it set to 98 days instead of 105. I don't think this makes a massive difference. Heck I'm not even sure that any of this "DLI curve" thing means anything - and don't let me get existential on you. 😂 But she seemed hungry, so I simply fed her some more light. She was smelling like a dead skunk in the night and she was getting ugly chunky now. I was so excited!! 😜😝😎😏 Have a great grow day! 😎✌️