Sweet Cheese

Day 56: Fed her 2 tsp/gal FF BB, 2 tsp/gal FF GB, 3 tsp/gal FF TB. Her two bottom-most branches were short and never going to grow out of the shadows no matter the LST I do this late in the game, so they were chopped off. Their colas were barely visible and nothing like the others, so no loss, only more energy for other bud sites, especially since she has proven to recover from pruning very quickly, even in flower. Side note: I have always considered defoliation to be a less serious form of pruning; that is, defoliation is usually only removing leaves, and not branches. That is my usual interpretation of the word, with pruning meaning to take off whole branches. However, GD seems to think otherwise, and throws everything into the defoliation category, so rather than add a new custom method, I'll go with their definition I guess, and just note here that branches were pruned, not leaves. Day 57: Ok, I seem to have my nutrient levels under control now. It took her all week to drink the one feeding she received last week, and I watered her for the first time last night, letting a bit runoff, with a slightly modified nutrient recipe, and she is completely dry alreeady...in less than 24 hours. I only fed her half the amount of water I have been, but whatever the reason, she liked it. Time to start feeding her and see what she does! Could this be a late stretch? Even when she wasn't drinking her pistils were multiplying and growing larger. Anyway, we'll see how she likes an equal dose tomorrow morning (I like to give the roots a chance to dry out and search around looking for moisture). Day 58: Fed her 2 tsp/gal FF BB, 2 tsp/gal FF GB, 3 tsp/gal FF TB. Day 59: Her buds are growing increasingly larger, and sugar is starting to form. According to my calculations, she will be ready to harvest somewhere within the 84-97 day mark. We have a while to go yet, but things are looking pretty impressive already for a light with a sharp falloff curve only able to give the canopy proper lighting in a 1x1ft area. Day 60: She finally became too tall for the light. I'm seeing slight tip burn on the top-most cola's leaves. No problem...she's actually raised above the runoff tray, so I'll just remove those 6 inches for now. Day 63: The tip burn is increasing, and was not due to being too close to the light. It was an abundance of nitrogen toxicity. I flushed the nutrients from the medium with pH'd 6.1 tap water.