The finish line is in sight now albeit a week or two away. This Epsilon F1 has progressed at a rapid pace and with extreme vigour. All through the grow she has not missed a beat.
The pistils have quickly began to turn orange and the buds are really swelling up.
The trichomes are still mostly clear and glassy but given the rapid rate of change of this F1 variety I wouldn't be surprised to see a brown trichome appear in the next 7 days or so. At that point she will be cut down.
She is thirsty too right now so I've upped the water and tried to keep the input EC between 1.5 and 1.7 (750ppm to 850ppm)
Run off ppm was gradually rising to over 1100/EC 2.3. I did a light flush with just water at suitable pH to help bring the ppm down. Now I've raised the volume of input water to 3L per 24 hours which will hopefully keep the run off closer to the input and stop an excessive build up of salts. She gets 2L of feed in the morning and a further liter late in the day with the run off sucked up and measured each time.
Nutrient mix this week:
Hybrids: 0.4 g/L
Booster: 0.6 g/L
I'm on the cusp of starting final flush but may wait until the triches are getting cloudy.
@NegotiatedBubble, Thanks. I was tapering off the nutrients gradually but the plant is way ahead of me and changing so quickly that I started flushing proper today.
Looking good pal! Just been catching up on U.K. 420 and see you said you had a diary on the go over hear. My next grow is RQS Apollo F1. I will follow along ✌️
Loving the great notes - keep it up!
If you have been reasonable with the feeding, then you can just gradually reduce the nutrient strength. I just switched to the Pour-Through method for monitoring feeding. Result? I was absolutely overfeeding and have been flushing like crazy.
@NegotiatedBubble, Thanks. I was tapering off the nutrients gradually but the plant is way ahead of me and changing so quickly that I started flushing proper today.
95cm!!! I have come to this to try to get some idea what to expect from my current run. All 6 have exceeded 70cm one has exceeded 1m and they are 28 days old.