Skywalker and Glue Autos

April 11, 2023 Skywalker OG: Day 81 Wedding Glue: Day 74 This week we focus on Skywalker OG. She's heavy and her pistils are starting to turn a bit faster now. Trichomes are still mostly clear. No big deal. She still has about 4 or 5 days left to go. Skywalker OG is looking great! She is super top heavy and over night packed on a whole bunch more trichomes. Every bud is super frosty and will only get more so as the trichomes change to cloudy. She's not quite ready for her final watering, but should be ready tomorrow. I'll be running plain water top feed one gallon. Hopefully it will clear out some of the tiger bloom salts if there's any. She looks amazing. Nice powerful scent. Pungent and super gassy. Wedding Glue is also looking fantastic! Her tops are already super thick and dense. She has an extremely strong scent. Overwhelmingly strong. AWESOMESAUCE! She's still super dense and still needs a few leaves removed here and there. I'll be focusing on that with her this week. Her reservoir was bone dry this morning, so I filled her up with 1 gallon. One thing I'd like to point out is that she is a super long grow for a 63 to 70 day plant. Oh well. Looks like I don't need to worry about days in the grow anymore. However, I am focused on how many days of flower she has. That's the only thing helping me know when she will be ready. I say 3 weeks maybe 4. And with the size and shape of her buds, I can tell she will be a beast. Oh yah, she is STICKY to say the least. I can't even get in there to trim leaves without brushing a leaf filled with trichomes. Lol. It's a wonderful thing. As for coming up in the coming weeks, I won't be flushing until the last week of flower. Then I leave her be until harvest day. It's especially recommended by Fast Buds in their description. I also read it somewhere else. Wedding Glue: 1 gallon mix day 1. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.1° RH: 50.3% VPD: 1.35 kPa April 12, 2023 Skywalker OG is just about there. She has about 50% orange pistils. Trichomes are a mix of cloudy and clear. About 50/50. Not seeing any amber yet. But she still has days to go. I also dumped a gallon plain water on her, pulled the wicking system and let the excess water drain out of the soil so all it has left is what's in the soil. Should be a few days to dry out then the 48 hour dark period and finally harvest. So a grand total of 5 more days I guess? Wedding Glue got crazy dense with bud. It feels like overnight her buds doubled is mass. Her branches have huge colas all over the place. 4 branches have 3 massive tops each. The top is getting pretty big as well. I'm feeling really good about this plant now. She seems to be enjoying her tiger bloom considering the size of these buds. Day 2 Wedding Glue reservoir. Just over 0.25 gallons. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.5° RH: 53.7% VPD: 1.28 kPa April 13, 2023 Today I'm seeing a bit more orange pistils on Skywalker OG. I also found like 4 amber trichomes. She's definitely almost there. She is still emptying her soil moisture. I believe I am on point with 3 days left of water for her, now 2. I think she may have a day or 2 more of fattening those buds up. The pistils may be orange, but they're still sticking out. Just a few more days. Wedding Glue is looking amazing. She is super frosty and sticky. She smells wonderful. I'm still chipping away at her foliage. She's at day 21 in flower, so I'm going to slow down on defoliation and focus on just those leaves super impeding other growth. She's getting really fat buds as well. It's very exciting to watch. So far I've managed to keep the tops open to the light, but the lower branches are essentially overwhelmed by dense foliage. I'm carefully sifting the leaves to find the bud sites that can be opened up. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.6° RH: 55.7% VPD: 1.27 kPa April 14, 2023 Wedding Glue got a refill today. A full gallon with a little under half going into the top soil and the rest in the reservoir. There's also been some major bud growth with her now. Super noticable from yesterday. Skywalker OG is still working on her final watering. She's taking a bit longer than I expected. I'd say another 2 or 3 days before she is dried out. She must have put some more weight on last night, because today she is starting to lean a bit. Looks like the bud weight is finally overwhelming her. The lesson learned here is top dress every few weeks. Anyway, she has a lot of cloudy trichomes now. Still very few amber trichomes. Super dense buds. No fade of the leaves though. Just the damaged ones from the calcium issue. I wonder why I never get a fade. Is it the living soil? Am I doing something wrong? I should look into this. If anyone is reading this, leave a comment with what you think. In other matters, the smell of these 2 ladies is overwhelming. Not in a bad way, but too much smell gets out of the tent when it's opened even for a minute. It's great, but I can't let it escape. Lol. So that's a great thing! Dankness. Grow System Environment: Temp: 76.3° RH: 55.5% VPD: 1.34 April 15, 2023 I ordered the flowering nutrients from Advanced Nutrients today. They will be here tomorrow. Nirvana Bud Candy Big Bud Overdrive Flawless Finish Wedding Glue will be getting those and I'm stopping the tiger bloom. So her next watering will start at the lowest dose of all the new nutrients needed for this week her flowering. Let's hope she doesn't get overdosed. She's in fox farm, so this should be perfect for her. She has even fatter buds. More and more trichomes. She also looks extremely happy and healthy. Not a single thing wrong with her. With these new nutrients, let's hope those buds get so big they take over the entire plant. Skywalker OG is getting pretty light. I think tomorrow, she will be dry enough to go in the dark tent. She isn't entirely done ripening those trichomes, but I am guessing that is what the dark period is for. Plus I'm giving her an extra day from before. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.4° RH: 57.4% VPD: 1.21 kPa April 16, 2023 Wedding Glue looks absolutely amazing! Bud development is picking up. The nutrients I ordered yesterday will be here today and just in time. She just dried out her reservoir. She'll get a full reservoir refill. There are a few lower leaves that are just too low from the canopy and are potentially blocking air flow. Skywalker OG is taking a bit longer than I expected. She doesn't have amber trichomes yet. She is nearly dried out as well. She can go another day I think. Then 48 hours of dark. I hope I'm not too early with her final stage of growth. She is really starting to lean and pull at the roots more. She is definitely top heavy. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.6° RH: 56.8% VPD: 1.19 kPa Update: I was looking through the trichomes on Skywalker OG. Almost all of them are cloudy. I also looked back over the past few weeks. There are trichomes that should be turning amber any day. So I put her in the dark tent for 48 hours. That should hopefully assist in trichome maturation. If I'm wrong, a 3rd day in the dark won't hurt. April 17, 2023 Quick update on Skywalker OG. She's in the dark until tomorrow night then the chop. She's fine and dandy in the tent. Humidity is a bit high in my opinion, but it's raining today. I put a dehumidifier in to combat the lower temp and high humidity. 66° and 54% humidity. Hopefully it drops down. Soil is nearly dried out. Very light, but can still feel moisture around the fabric. I believe this plant will be around 3 lbs? 4.2 ounces dried, trimmed and cured. That's my guess. The most amazing part of this is the size of the plant with the container. It's nearly 4 feet tall. The tent is 4 feet tall. Hahahaha! There will be more room when she gets the chop. Wedding Glue is looking and smelling fantastic! Buds are getting fatter and she doesn't seem to be upset with the new nutrients. She's also much happier with being lower to the ground with a wider light spread. I turned the light up to 70% and have it at 26" from the canopy. I'd like it a bit higher, but I don't want to increase the heat too much in there. I may do that though and increase the light to 80%. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.9° RH: 53.4% VPD: 1.35 kPa Quick Update: I decided to lift the plants in the grow tent 2 inches and raised the grow light to 27" above canopy and 90% intensity. DLI is between 38 and 45.