Dear diary,
Week 10 marks week 2 of flower completed, and sadly one plants of the other strain in the tent went hermaphrodite, the one that had been showing leaf mutations since veg.
Absolute punch to the gut as otherwise everything was looking as awesome as it could have been.
Not much to be done aside from removing the affected plant to avoid it messing up the rest and try and recover some yield by keeping more smaller offshoots or something on the day 21 defoliation.
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⏰ Day 74:
In the evening, the plants were fed with a solution of 1.66ms at a pH of 6.0.
⏰ Day 75:
Feeding was done with a solution strength of 1.64ms and a pH of 5.8.
At this stage, I am allowing the plants to stretch, only applying minor LST techniques to ensure all the tops receive adequate light.
⏰ Day 76:
During the evening feeding, I provided a solution with a strength of 1.64ms and a pH of 5.8.
The temperature ranges from 20-19.5°C at night and 24-25°C during the day. The relative humidity (RH) levels fall within the range of 58-64%.
⏰ Day 77:
I fed the plants with a solution of 1.67ms at a pH of 5.6.
I can see pistils on all plants, confirming their transition into the flowering stage. They are overall displaying healthy growth and have nearly doubled in size since the flip 12 days ago.
⏰ Day 78:
Feeding was conducted in the evening as normal using a solution strength of 1.67ms and a pH of 5.8.
Unfortunately, one of the plants of the other strain experienced hermaphroditism, with both sacks and nanners appearing…
Considering the odd mutations on her leaves, I was worried this might happen due to genetic factors as otherwise nothing has happened that would explain it going hermie.
To compensate for the loss of that plant, I performed a series of LST on the remaining three plants, spreading out the remaining tops and allowing more secondary growth to receive light.
Notably, the mutations only became apparent after the selection process, so in the next run, I will consider transplanting all six seedlings initially and making a decision before the final transplant into the 20l pots instead.
⏰ Day 79:
Evening feeding was administered with a solution strength of 1.68ms and a pH of 5.6.
I continued to perform LST to ensure optimal spreading of the trained tops. Most of the available space has been filled, and I anticipate that only minor training will be required for another day before allowing the plants to grow undisturbed in the final week before the strip.
After removing the other plant, the lights-off temperatures range from 19-20°C, and the RH levels are between 53-60%. During the lights-on period, temperatures range from 23-24°C, with RH levels at 58-62%.
⏰ Day 80:
Feeding was done with a solution of 1.68ms and a pH of 5.7.
I performed minimal LST, allowing the plants to grow for a few days as the budsites start to develop.
Fantastic work! I'm a newbee. One question. Day 139 reads:- WC #3: 95% cloudy, 4% amber, 1% clear. And Day 142:- 99% cloudy - so would that be 1% amber? Thanks and well done.
@Xilpa, thanks man! This was just my 2nd grow as well so I would put myself in the newbee category as well to be fair haha
But yeah so by day 142, they were about 99% cloudy with 1% amber.
I do understand that it can sound a bit weird as I had 4% amber in a previous day, but it’s as the previous days I was just looking at the tops, and for the last check I gave a estimate more looking across the entire plant. So the very tops were probably at 5-10% amber, but at the bottom it was basically 0, so averaged out to about 99% cloudy.
I otherwise just focus on getting rid of almost all the clear, and I have a tolerance for about 10-15% max of amber, so I cut when either:
1. Less than 1% clear or
2. Over 90% cloudly and 10-15% amber.