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📆 Week 10, 14-20 December 2023 14 December - Did a significant defoliation of older, damaged, and large leaves that shaded buding sites. This opened up the plant for newer leaves to receive direct light energy and allow flowers to mature evenly. Although she may look like growth is slow, in fact what she is doing is quite the opposite at this stage. Mass production of flower. 15 December - Found blue/purple color streaks filtering into trichomes (see pictures) from the outer leaves. An indication that certain terpenes/cannabinoids will be made. The pictures are an excellent close up example of the upperleaf surface (not from the bud) covered with silicone, maturing trichome heads - milky in color, volitile, changing, eventually cut off the bud and discarded. This can be used for other products if a good enough quality. 17 December - Handed off operations to trusted growmie apprentice and fellow enthusiast. I’m traveling for Christmas, will be out of vicinity for 10 days. 20 December - Yes this is an unpleasant situation for any grower, to rely soley on someone else to tend to your plant(s) in your absence. If your lucky enough to find yourself in this situation. Worse yet, what if you cannot? Just how automated are you? I can leave 24hrs without intervention, 36hrs tops before a depleted loss of water. After 48hrs irrecoverable damage. Not very long. For someone to dedicate any length of time to “your” grow, well - is a good friend in weed! 📑 These plants grow for 3-6 months or more. What do you do if your not set up for extended absences? Lets face it, unexpected things can happen that we are not prepared for. It is then growers become very inventive. The Einstein comes out of everyone to save that plant. As much as I enjoy cannabis, there is always one thing I keep in mind, this plant is here to relieve stress, not to produce or increase it. When it beomes stressful to grow I must reapproach what I am doing, rethink, and talk it out. Dont let your serenity become something else. Here is a true oxymoron, cannabis is the easiest and most difficult plant you will ever grow. If all goes well, I have this small production planned out accordingly. This is my back up scenario in real time. There will be a sort of practicum my grower will handle with daily checks and watering, a separate nutrient specialist for the solution change, and a photographer lined up for a few days. It’s a colaboration of professionals in which I find myself very fortunate to be part of. I trust next weeks update will be as good as any other week I have posted this far. If it does not, there are more seeds to crack, more time to grow, another diary to start, with no one but myself to blame. It will not be taken too hard. Christmas with family was worth it all. The secret stash is tucked away in storage, all is good. I don’t want to sound insensitive to growing pains and struggles. For the personal grower, especially those whose livelihood is in its cultivation, they are real. I’m just talking common sense approaches for those dabbling in growing your own personal smoke. If you grow for any reason, I highly recommend you have a viable and tested backup plan in the event of any system failure, the worst being in your absence. 🍽️ Nutrient change on 14 December 🐲 Feeding schedule updated 14 December 🌊 Using reverse osmosis water with EC/TDS at 0 🐉 Nutrient Solution EC 1.8 at 65 degrees F 💡 Light power at 75% That is it for this week. Thanks for the look, read and stopping by.