I thought this was going to be the final week, but advice I got told me to keep going, so we are still going and actually glad I did after seeing the results. I just trimmed any leaves that looked like they are dead or dying and kept feeding. I flushed on the last watering of the week prior, anticipating this would be my final week, but resumed feeding in the middle of the week. That set me up for a Sunday feeding for the following week.
My portable AC automation has become completely unreliable. It doesn't trigger at all at the set temperature points. I get alerts during the day, so it's not a huge deal then as I can get in front of it, but overnight it's now an issue. I woke up to 85F in the tent one morning. I'm bypassing automation entirely and just using regular temperature settings. The downside to this option is it always runs the fan periodically in this mode, so it uses more electricity. I'll have to live with the trade-off for now.
Given that I was anticipating chopping mid-week, I didn't take pictures as much, so missed a few days during the week. Otherwise, things look as expected I think.
So it was pointed out to me that while my phone has a macro lense, I was using it wrong, so now I have better pictures of trichomes for the this week once it is over.
All good things come to an end! This next week will be the final one for this girl. It's been fun, can't wait to do it again! But ready for harvest until then.
So it was pointed out to me that while my phone has a macro lense, I was using it wrong, so now I have better pictures of trichomes for the this week once it is over.
It's a waiting game of is she ready now I guess? I'm hoping the temperature issue didn't cause anything major. It was about an hour before I noticed. The leaf colors are kinda of concern for me, but the rest of the plants looks okay otherwise. Trichomes are mostly cloudy I think 🤔. It's honestly hard for me to tell.
Slight discoloration in the leaves, which I'm attributing to overfeeding Open Sesame and Beastie Blooms. No other issues observed so far. Some lower leaves have fallen off here and there, not no major issues that I've seen.
Intake fan and filter were added, have AC exhausting outside rather than into another room. Next week I will be exhausting the tent outside the room as well. VPD is now dialed in to the range I set and never gets outside of it. The AC automation isn't working properly and I have a request in to that company, but in the meantime, I have alerts tell me when the temperature gets too high, then I manually turn on the AC and automations work for a day afterwards.
She's growing out more than up. Going to install an intake fan and get it going with the exhaust fan, as well as exhausting outside instead of in the room the grow tent is in. I will probably move the dehumidifier to this room when that is done since I'll (in theory) be able to use that room better to regulate grow tent conditions.
Humidity has been going up during lights out, humidifier is on the way. It only gets down to about 65 at the lowest at night, but the 5-10 degree or so drop is enough to make the humidity shoot up, which in turn throws the VPD off. Hopefully the dehumidifier resolves it. Will update at the end of this week.