Skywalker and Glue Autos

April 4, 2023 Skywalker OG: Day 74 Wedding Glue: Day 67 This week we are focusing on water and flowering. Skywalker OG is in the final stage of her life. She's getting some orange pistils. Covered in trichomes. And heavy. She got a top plain watering today. Kind of like a flush, but I'm in living soil so more like runoff. So she should be good for the next few days. I'm guessing about a week before I need to start checking trichomes. Maybe a bit less. Wedding Glue is also looking great. She's holding her water quite well. And I absolutely had to snip some leaves off. She is just so bushy. Only mature leaves that were covering buds. So like 20 leaves. Smh. So many leaves and so many buds. I'll have to work on that more. She has a wonderful sweet smell. Buds are looking great! Trichomes are much more prominent now. She stacked about a half inch over the past couple of days. I hope for some more stacking. It looks like it will happen. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.1° RH: 54.2% (super high humidity today.) VPD: 1.25 kPa April 5, 2023 Not much to report today. Skywalker OG is still blooming big fat flowers. Pistils are turning orange now. She's also taking in less water. Wedding Glue is taking a decent amount of water. About a half gallon yesterday. I'm going to leave her for now and let the moisture in the soil drop a bit. Her buds are building at a steady pace. She already has a fairly strong smell. Sickly sweet. Pungent. Trichome production just kicked into high gear on her. A great sign for some frosty nugs. I am a bit concerned with how bushy she still is. She needs more open space. Definitely not enough for all her bud sites. I ended up clipping off some of the mature leaves that were sitting on top of a bud or another leaf. More bud focused though. I have. Ton of air flow in the tent, so I'm not too worried about moisture so much as light penetration to the lower buds. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.7° RH: 56.1% (very muggy day) VPD: 1.17 kPa April 6, 2023 It's still very humid today. I have another dehumidifier coming today as well. For the main room. (bedroom) Skywalker OG is just getting heavier and heavier. I'm also starting to see some purple. Purple fade? I don't think Skywalker OG is a purple strain. She needs no watering and is definitely slowing down on intake as well. Skywalker OG leveled out at 45% soil moisture. So did Wedding Glue actually. Interesting. They are different soil types. I guess cannabis likes 40% to 45%. Wedding Glue had some more leaves removed today. I'm slowly chipping away at her jungle of foliage. I only have one more side to look through. She is looking much better now, but still needs that one side and she will be perfect. She got a reservoir refill today as well. She has also started 5 ml/gal Fox Farm Tiger Bloom. Advanced Nutrients is up to 6 ml/gal. She's getting frosty too. Lots of trichomes and spreading to the fan leaves. Very excited. I wonder if she will turn purple. She is a purple strain after all. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.5° RH: 61.2% (very humid) VPD: 1.07 kPa April 7, 2023 Skywalker OG is getting super fat and looks really dense. Another 6 days. She's going to end up beastly. Less water intake. A couple more orange pistils. Wedding Glue is getting plump buds. They look dense and covered in pistils. Trichomes just burst into existence as well. She's covered. Water intake is steady. Smell is very sweet. So nice. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.5° RH: 55.7% VPD: 1.22 kPa April 8, 2023 Both ladies got a reservoir refill today. I added 6 ml cal/mag with Skywalker OG. So hopefully that clears up any possible issues. I can't tell if she adjusted out of that deficiency. Skywalker OG is heavy. Really heavy. I moved her pot just a tiny bit and the whole plant swayed enough to give a sense of her total weight and she is heavy. I wanna say a 3 lb plant? Maybe a little less, but she is in balance with a 5 lb container. Maybe 6 lb. Either way, this is going to be a wonderful harvest. I'm also starting to see a bit more purple in the buds. Very nice. Super frosty too. An interesting observation I had today was the pistils. The lower pistils started turning orange before the top. I mean, if that's the case, then wouldn't the lower buds now be just as potents and possibly as dense as the top colas? Every bud sites is now getting orange, but there are certainly more as you go down the plant. Odd. Wedding Glue is looking great as well. Her buds are getting fatter and trichome production is vigorous to say the least. I had to snip a few more leaves today. They were covering more bud sites. I'll check again tomorrow and maybe have to snip a few more. But I'm not taking more than a few each day if I have to. The leaves move around based on the light, so they cover and uncover buds. Plus, more airflow isn't a bad thing. An interesting observation with her as well. She is in 50/50 Fox Farm Ocean Forest and Happy Frog. I think having the Advanced Nutrients the whole grow helped keep her going. I'm not sure how much the soil has left of nutrients. No deficiencies or issues at all. Just short. I wonder how she will react to the Tiger Bloom I just started. Oh! And because this isn't living soil, I might get some nice colorful fade when I flush her. Sweet. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.2° RH: 53% VPD: 1.28 kPa April 9, 2023 FROST! Holy trichomes, Batman! Skywalker OG is covered top to bottom in trichomes. Sticky, smelly, beautiful trichomes! She's slowing her water intake even more. Buds are getting bigger still. Flowers are more prominent. Seeing a bit more purple. I also discovered the cal mag issue was not stopped at first. I think it's fixed now, but it did get to the lowest node eventually. She got a 6 ml dose of cal mg yesterday. So that should do it. She has like 5 days left. I don't want her to have anymore stress at all. I'd also like to point out that I rotate each plant a quarter everyday, so they get equal amounts of light on all sides. Wedding Glue is also getting super frosty. I pulled a couple leaves off her today. She's thirsty. Bud production is looking fantastic. I'm still concerned about how dense she is. But I really don't want to defoliate again. Maybe the last week or so of flower? Last few days? I dunno. She's already finishing up week 3 of flower. I'd rather her focus on bud production than stress from defoliation. Maybe the way to go is to pull a few leaves a day from specific locations. I'll also make sure to pull only mature leaves. The ones with the purple stems. I still have good airflow, so I'm not concerned too much. But condensation between the leaves is still a possibility. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.7° RH: 50.9% VPD: 1.31 kPa April 10, 2023 Today, I snipped off more mature leaves on top of Wedding Glue. Just the ones overshadowing the canopy. Some that weren't getting light and a couple in the canopy. She still needs more leaves off, but she's getting close to the end of the window. Maybe one more trimming tomorrow then that's it. Just to get the rest of the big top leaves doing more harm than good. These buds are getting big pretty quickly. I'm hoping for more density so I can clip more leaves for space. She is super smelly and sticky. I may run a flush this week. Her reservoir is almost dried up, so I'm just waiting for the container to dry out to around 20%. Skywalker OG is just amazing. She's not going to get a "flush" because I'm using living soil, but I plan on dumping a full gallon of water from the top when she dries up. Most will drain to the reservoir and hopefully pull some of the synthetic nutrients out. She's nearly done. Another 4 or 5 days maybe? Very excited for the harvest results. The whole plant has a decent amount of weight to her. Top heavy and nearly counter balancing the 50% moisture filled soil. Like 6 lbs. A very good sign. One or 2 of the middle branches are starting to get weighed down. I expect her to tighten up over the next couple of days. She has a massively heavy scent. It's wonderful. I can't really tell the true smell with the Wedding Glue in there as well. But they both smell wonderful. Skywalker is super super sticky. She is covered and I mean covered in trichomes. Some of the lower buds are so dense in trichomes, the buds almost look white. I'm definitely gonna grow this again and again. Love me a Skywalker. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.9° RH: 50.3% VPD: 1.34 kPa