monday again, starting week 6 of flower with these 2 phenotypes of dark horse genetics' "undercaker", which is a cross of their "strawberry shortcake" with their "savage hulk" strains. these past couple of days both of these ladies have really started to come into their own and compete for domination of the airspace with their sultry perfumes, i stopped short of calling the smell "strong" in the form for this week as that would be the maximum and i need a more granular choice. anyways, pheno #1 started really pumping out intense "unripe strawberry" aromas mid-week and soon after pheno #2 had some red hairs starting to show here and there and emitting a persistent "og kush funk" that seems to settle like a miasma always in this entire room with only the sharpest tinges getting cut out with the carbon filter, pheno #1 commands your attention only when nearby and does so stronglly, but pheno #2 while not as loud up close maintains a ubiquitous presence in the house. i have added a dehumidifier set to 50% rh as i had a couple of nights and days for that matter get over 70% and with me being hands-off with the defoliation i feel like i need to be on top of the humidity and air circulation doubly so. horizontal growth is all but non-existent and every bud-site is pretty much buckled up for the ride on into harvest. they have started drinking a gallon each day, my mix is masterblend 4g/gal, calcium-nitrate 2g/gal, magnesium-sulfate 1g/gal, adv. nutrients cal mag xtra 8ml/gal. i just combined the calmag with the normal nutrients and ph it to 6.3-5 and its about 2.1-2.2 ec. like i say, they are drinking a gallon each every day spaced out into 3 feedings and im getting absolutely zero runoff which tells me the rootball has completely filled the medium, which is both good and bad at this stage i guess, they are in peak health so i feel like 3 or 4 more weeks won't be enough time to cause any lock-outs, especially when they drink up the nutes so fast, i keep fighting the urge to clean up the underskirts of the plants but aside from a couple of yellowing, dried up leaves in zero light locations everything is lush with only a slight tip-burn starting to show since i increased the ec and was expected. as any farmer is wont to do of an evening with harvest around the corner, i have begun casting hopes onto my plants and imagine a miraculous harvest of super s-tier boutique cannabis, i kid...slightly. anyways, my mood and outlook have improved this week as pertains to these genetics, i'll check back next monday -weewilly
@Hempface86, same thing happened with "king's banner f2" from this same genetics company, and needless to say it was also straight fire herb, aside from the "gamma berries" ive tried from dark horse, they have all been top-shelf kind bud. cheers!
a final thought: from this run i can honestly say that yields were in line with those from previous scrog-type runs and resulted in less larf and more nugs, i feel, because they were just left alone to set bud early and start stacking without being weaved into a trellis net, i kept good airflow to the underskirts so my hand's off approach to defoliation of only removing visibly dead leaves had no adverse side effects. at the end of the day this marshydro sp-250 pulling 300 watts from the wall can only flower out 9-12 ounces regardless of training methods...i knew that light was the prime element in a grow but confirmation is always nice to have.