3/13 Day 65 of flower. While the PM hasn’t really exploded throughout the tent, I did find a big patch of it in a hard to spot area on the tall pheno. I removed it all, but I think this is the sign that we can’t go much longer. I decided to jump start the flush process by diluting the reservoir with plain RO water to get the EC down from 1.0 to .6. I’ll leave it like that for a couple days, then dilute down further as much as I can. As much as it sucks not finishing to 100% I do think it’s pretty damn close, maybe 1-2 weeks away. I clipped a small test bud off a few days ago and gave it a speed dry just to test it out and it was the highest I’ve been in ages, so at least the potency will be there. I lowered the light from 75% power to the next hash below it, and I’ll lower it again in a couple days.
3/14 Chop down day. It’s earlier than I would have liked, but after discovering more patches of PM I decided it just wasn’t worth it spreading anymore. I already had a quick sample a few days back that told me the potency is all there, so no real harm in ending now. Interesting thing though is that after going through both plants completely the short pheno had zero PM on it anywhere, it was all on just the tall pheno. Maybe that was just a particularly disease prone pheno while the short one was resistant? I’m not sure but it is a little confusing since my humidity was always on the low side and I had multiple fans running. Oh well, on to drying.
@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.