UPDATE Dec. 14:
Chopped and Hung. I almost dropped NBP2 when the smell hit me. No shit, sweet tarts. Strongest smell of just bright sweet maybe a little sour. Jesus. Its amazing.
NBP1 has that smell but it's secondary to this really beautiful floral scent. Like from those kinds of flowers fancy restaurants put on your food to eat.
My mouth was literally watering. I'm praying I don't screw up this dry and cure. Wish me luck. (I'll do the harvest week and smoke report all at once, I hate how they have it set up. So maybe 1 - 2 months before the next update)
Original Entry Below:
Flower Week 8:
๐ก Raised about 6" over a few days, overall PPFD lowered by about 10% (verified via lux meter)
๐ฝ๏ธ Topdress: None this week
๐ฟ Top watered 1/3 gallon 1x each: Light mix of saponin, BuildaBloom, big 6, & coconut water
๐ง Earthbox reservoirs filled when dry, 2 gallons cold tap
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Notes:
Simple week, no top dressings and only a light soil drench of the listed water soluble amendments.
Lights were raised a bit which dropped PPFD a touch (960-650) to reduce leaf temp, less stress on the plant these last two weeks is the plan. I noticed the water uptake just started to slow on NBP1. Related? Maybe, NBP2 still on the "every other day" cycle still.
The main colas really started to fatten up overnight, at least more noticable than I have seen so far. Going to just go day by day, as I have been.
Won't be ready for Christmas at this point anyways, so I am going to finish this correctly.
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!