Zkittlez Autoflower

July 26, 2023 Day 78 Zkittlez One: Height: 35" Light Distance: 9.5" DLI: 43 mol/m²/d Zkittlez Two: Height: 31" Light Distance: 12" DLI: 40 mol/m²/d This week is a major focus on nutrients and ensuring proper watering. I've dropped the Nirvana (tasty terpenes) out completely. Cal/mag will stay reduced down to 2 ml/gal. I've also lowered the light intensity to 40% as the DLI was closer to 50 mol/m²/d. It did however cause Zkittlez Two to drop to 40 mol/m²/d and much lower at the branches. Not much to do about it now. Zkittlez One is the focus of this grow now. I won't neglect Zkittlez Two, but she is nearly done and the lower DLI should help with trichome production? I think? Zkittlez One is getting really frosty. She looks great! Her buds are really starting to swell. I don't think there will be much more stacking. Although I did notice today that they are growing the same way as Zkittlez Two. So as I said in the beginning of flowering. Zkittlez Two will be a good example of what's to come. And I would say it's impressive. 2 to 3 more weeks on this lady. Based on the maturity of her buds, it makes sense to see a 97 day grow. She also got a half gallon top watering as well. She is cruising through water and nutrients like mad. Her reservoir is taking a bit longer to empty due to the top watering, but it's still cruising through that too. Such beauty. Such grace. Such sticky goodness. Zkittlez Two is about 2 weeks away from harvest. I'd say she will be ready on day 90. But as said before, she will be chopped when Zkittlez One is ready for harvest. She needs no water today, but she is starting to get a little more thirsty. I'm assuming this is the last ditch effort to take in as much as she can before the last leg of her journey. I'm guessing next week, her water intake will crawl down to a trickle. I think that will be the time to start the flushing and finishing process. I might keep the nutrients up for another week and on week 13, start flushing. I guess it all depends on what Zkittlez One looks like. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.3° RH: 61.8% VPD: 1.09 kPa July 27, 2023 Zkittlez One is looking good. Unfortunately, I think the nitrogen toxicity got a little out of hand. It's still progressing, or at least not fixed yet. I guess it's a waiting game for now. She still looks great! And her buds are getting fat and frosty. I think that once the toxicity is gone, I'll see a major pickup in trichome production. And probably more swelling too. I gave her a half gallon top feed. The reservoir is still pretty full, so no need there. I think for the next week, I'll add a half gallon when she gets down to 35% moisture. Zkittlez Two is just doing her thing. No water needed. Just the daily quarter turn. I won't be checking trichomes for at least another week on her. I can tell there's just no point yet. Plus these are sativa's, so I expect the flowering period to take a bit longer. The buds are starting to get dense and hard now. I can only guess that they will keep putting on weight in the days to come. Bud structure is that pointy tip look I said in a previous week. However, now that the buds have swelled up some. Everything is connecting and looking less airy and more solid. She smells great! Kind of a gassy sickly sweet aroma. Pungent would be a good descriptor. However, with another strain in the tent that I believe is more powerful, it's hard to really tell what I'm smelling. Good problems to have. Am I right?! The main trunk is just a massive cola. Quite impressive. The largest side branch is also a big cola. The other 3 branches have colas, but they don't really compare. Although, if you look at this week's close up pic, you'll notice how chaotic the cola is. The buds protrude everywhere making it look like a mace with spikes. I also feel like she will be super easy to trim. The sugar leaves are pretty big, so they shouldn't be a problem. I've also found that the fan leaves snap off very easily right at the base. This is the case with both plants. I wonder if there's a thing about that. Or it's another sign of nitrogen toxicity. I'll ask that question today. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.2° RH: 62.6% VPD: 1.06 kPa July 28, 2023 Zkittlez One looks really great! Lots of frost now. Tons of fattening buds. It's like paradise. The environment in the tent is absolutely insane. I'm stuck at 60% RH. I'd like it lower to around 55% RH. Happily I have a new air conditioner coming in a few days. She is chugging the water to a point where I may have to top feed another half gallon today. Maybe an afternoon watering. I checked the roots as well. They look pretty good. The wicks are really dark though. I'm going to clean it up when I completely stop nutrients next week. Zkittlez Two looks good. Her pistils are almost all orange, but she's definitely not ready. She's good on water and has some more filling out to do and much more cloudy trichomes. Other than that, she is on her way to be a nice little harvest. I'm still thinking 2 oz, but the buds aren't that dense, so it may be less. We shall see. Grow System Environment: Temp: 75.8° RH: 59.9% VPD: 1.19 kPa July 29, 2023 Zkittlez One needed another half gallon top feed today and got a reservoir refill as well. This should be the last reservoir refill before flushing. She's looking great and getting super strong in her aroma. Wonderful! Buds are still bulking up of course. I'd still say another 2 and a half weeks left to go for her. Zkittlez Two is just doing her thing getting heavier and more orange pistils. Her buds still haven't swollen up completely yet. So that's a thing, but she still has a week or 2 left. No watering today, I took one leaf off that looked at me wrong. So it's gone. Boom. That's it for this lady today. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.8° RH: 60% VPD: 1.15 kPa July 30, 2023 Zkittlez One looks like she will be done in 2 to 3 weeks. She's definitely not going to be done in 8 days. Definitely more time. She will definitely need a to feeding tonight, but I'm going to hold off for the day. I want to see if she will take more from the reservoir before it gets too stagnant. So tomorrow morning I'll see how the reservoir is and how her soil moisture is. Hopefully it stays steady. If not, she gets a gallon top feed. Other than that, I found a couple leaves that were starting to die out and fade away. They came off mostly because they were way under the canopy and getting no light. But the sign of slight fade is very promising. I'm not sure when the fade is actually supposed to start. Is it the last week? Last 2? Either way, I think I've only had 1 plant that had a fade. I'm not sure why, but I'm thinking it's always been too much nitrogen. I wonder. I'll see with the other strain as I'm not using any nutrients. Just the living soil. Zkittlez Two is looking pretty good. Kinda? I've noticed the buds are starting to push out from the colas. Could be good or bad? Mutation? She's a week or 2 ahead of Zkittlez One. Her pistils are almost all orange. I also checked the trichomes today and there's a ton of clear. And no amber. So she still has time left. I'm thinking if this is a mutation or light stress, I'm should wait for more amber trichomes than normal. Like 25%. I read that somewhere. That's if it's foxtailing. If not, then oh well. It'll be a heady sedative. Anyway, it's going to really show me what to expect, but maybe not. We shall see. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.6° RH: 63% VPD: 1.06 kPa July 31, 2023 Zkittlez One needed a full gallon top feed today. No runoff or anything. A little bit of dripping, but that's it. The wicking system isn't really active again, but I think these a build up of nutrients on the wicks. They may need to be rinsed before the reservoir finishes up. My only concern is disturbing the roots at such a crucial time in the grow. They have grown right into the wicks. Maybe I should just leave it alone and when I start flushing it will clear up. I'll just use warm water when filling the reservoir. Her buds are looking wonderful! She is getting super frosty with more and more trichomes piling on. She's sticky and smells wonderful. I have been looking under the canopy and am seeing a lot of smaller buds and a whole lot of popcorn buds. I should have done a better job at cleaning her up. Zkittlez Two is still fattening up. I think. It could be the angle of the picture, but it looks bigger to me. Fatter and fuller. She has a wonderful aroma, gassy and sweet, but more noticable in the gas. A full reservoir refill today. Still no need for top watering. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.5° RH: 63.1% VPD: 1.05 kPa August 1, 2023 Today is the last day of the week for these ladies. This upcoming week will be all flush based and lots of tender loving care. Zkittlez One is looking great! Her buds are starting to put on significant weight. A couple branches are already starting to lean. Nothing to worry about. They are all braced somehow. I'm going to guess that she still has a couple weeks left at least. Unless she suddenly decides to bulk and mature in the next week or so. Haha. Nope. So 2 to 3 weeks. Easy. Zkittlez Two is getting fatter and heavier. I've decided that's why the buds are popping out the sides of the colas. (Really I'm just telling myself that so I don't feel bad.) No water needed. No adjustments needed. Just the quarter turn. Her trichomes are mostly cloudy with still a decent amount of clear and no amber that I can see. Still a good week left, maybe longer. Hopefully a little longer. I really want to harvest both plants at the same time. But I may end up harvesting earlier than the other. Grow System Environment: Temp: 74.1° RH: 63.4% VPD: 1.03 kPa