Week 2:
Okay, so some of the first pics are from the end of week 1, day 7.
Anyways, it was so dark under the canopy and full of foliage, so I had to clear out the overgrowth.
Lots of pictures this week, don't count on this being the norm, I'm just avoiding another part of my life currently.
Light Intensity: Start-of-week 800 PPFD, Mid-week 1000 PPFD, End-of-week 1200 PPFD.
NBP2 is starting to drink. But she looks to be a good 4-7 days behind NBP1 right now. Not much else going on after the defol. I will likely do some light lollipoping on day 20-ish flower and send it from there.
I gave a full feeding on Flower Day 12, as they are still praying hard and stretching that scrog net to its limits. The earthboxes are now mounded to the point that I have to be careful when watering in my topdressing. I feel like my first grow I didn't feed enough ahead of time. I also didn't have the watermelon liquid ferment or the Kashi BLOOM so that may help hasten the breakdown of topdressing.
Gave both gals 2 gallons of fresh water into their reservoirs as well. Hopefully they are getting onto the same water schedule now.
Whole bunch of these guys living on my soil (BuildaSoil 3.0, second run - re-amended).
They aren't messing with the stalk or plants, can't see the roots obviously though.
I hope and assume some kind of predator mite but there are a metric buttload of these little bastards.
OH those are hypoaspis miles :) AKA Stratiolaelaps scimitus. These are predator mites! They feed on the bad bugs like spider mites, root aphids, and fungus gnats. Its a strong indication that you have a healthy echo system going. Some people even pay to have these bugs placed in their gardens.
One plant's fan leaves are building trichomes, but it has more fan leaves than the other plant & they are needing to be tucked daily.
Both plants never had issues with the previous defoliating. 3-4 wks left before chop day.
So, would you defoliate one last time?
If you wanna know for sure, pluck one off and split it open- male pollen sac will have 5 or so banana shape anthers inside there. Female bracts will just be empty basically with sometimes a tiny little ball which is the ovule
@Ezzjaybruh, Thanks for the follow-up, I appreciate it. I think I just panicked a bit since It took me 5 minutes before I found another one like it. But I appreciate the info for the future.
Though I may check it this weekend anyways, impulsive tendencies over here.
Try Grove bags for curing my man, they're fool proof. I used them for the first time and curing was so easy. No need to burp, just stays at 58-62%. Your plants look great brother, nice work on them!