Week 3 Flower:
PPFD: 900-1100, upper canopy
Leaf temp is 80F at the hottest/tallest bud.
EB's are overflowing, and my mister is busted so watering amendments in has become tedious and messy.
Added Buildaflower, wetted in with saponin/B6/buildabloom/coconut water, 1/2 gallon each.
NBP2 is still the slower drinker but she started to stretch the last day of this week so I have no idea what it's going to do. Filling NBP1's reservoir every other day like clockwork. NBP2's is like 1.5-2 days in between right now.
I defoliated heavily, lollipped also (I think it qualifies as lollipopping) on day 20, right after the pictures for day 20 were taken. I was super nervous to cut away too much on my first grow. It was a jungle and I had so much popcorn because of that, but not this time. Left at least 1, usually 2 of the top fan leaves, and any outer lower fan leaves that are not blocking any other buds. There are still a few fan leaves here and there that are going to be in the way, but I will tuck or pluck them later. Soft plan to defoliate once more, if necessary, around day 40.
I feel good about this though. My only worry is running out of food, but I fed these beds heavily. So as long as I keep up with watering in buildabloom and mounding what more I can, I think I should be alright. I have the setup for a quick compost tea so that is always an option, this soil will need to be refreshed anyways after this run.
Hopefully it's smooth sailing now, I will be watching closely for deficiencies and will consider tossing up another net for support if they start stacking weight.
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!