12/26 Day 23 of veg. I did a function test today of the autopots to make sure they are calling for water appropriately. I came across the same issue I had last run though, with the pots closest to the door staying full the entire time. I originally thought this was a valve issue but to get a repeat with a different valve in the same spot didn’t make much sense. I looked around my room and found some things to shove under the pots to get them closer to level and now it’s much closer to operating properly. I never thought about the pots really needing to be level before and this obviously has a dramatic effect on the plants so I’m glad I found and fixed it.
12/28 Day 25 of veg. They have finally grown up enough to start some training. Each was topped and the lowest node was trimmed off, leaving 4 nodes per plant for 8 tops per plant.
12/29 Day 26 of veg. I did some light defoliation to uncover the tops and to get some better airflow.
12/31 Day 28 of veg. I just got in a pack of LST clips and decided to try them out with all 4. I also defoliated some of the large fan leaves and ensured no leaves were stacking on each other. Light adjusted to 21.4 DLI / 330 PAR.
@Dmars,
I’ve got 8 jelly breath clones that I’m going to run as a big group in the future. When it come close to finishing, I’ll flush 4 and continue to feed 4 and see which mature first 😸💁♂️🤷♂️ fuck knows what it’ll prove cos everyone’s set up and environment is different 🤦♂️
@PersonalSmok3s, I can't really figure out a good way to take pics of trichomes, but looking with my loupe I'd say both are around 75% cloudy, 20% clear, and a very small 5% amber. I think 1 or maybe 2 more weeks max would be the best finish time considering. Granted if I started flushing earlier I'd be closer to chop time, which probably would have been better for keeping the PM at bay since it's only now starting to flare up again. But lots of reputable people think flushing makes no difference anyways, so this is more like splitting the difference between both schools of thought.
@PapaNugs, The best way I can describe it so far is something like sweet berries. Really looking forward to how it evolves throughout the grow, I'm digging it.