Divine Seeds Contest: Auto Opium (and probably my last grow)

Returning on day 47 (their evening), I could find the ladies suffering from thirst to a certain degree. I hastily prepared 1 l of fertilised water (just HPE) for each of them and day 48 found them to be in top shape again. Anyway, I consider buying a watering system to avoid such a situation in the future. Another thing that first shocked me was what at first sight looked like some white mold on their top leaves but turned out to be their very intensive sugar leaf production instead. 😅 Buds started to smell. Very sweet but with some deep intensity. Very nice in any case. Day 49: Gave them another round of fertilised water, this time with a pure Hesi Bloom setup, and while buds are growing nicely (and I think they even made another cm in height, let’s check next morning), ladies are starting to throw their lowest leaves. Which is to be expected in this stage, but maybe I should add a few drops of HPE again next time. It’s still a sign of internal resource management that should not exceed a certain limit in optimum conditions, I guess. Day 50: Yes, 87.5 cm! I removed some of the lowest leaves and hopeless buds and will give them another round of water again. Yikes, they are getting thirsty! Day 51: Weather made the tent atmosphere quite dry, so I misted twice and could see in the timelapse video how well they reacted to being watered. Sadly, big blower was active too often, so the video has an epilepsy warning on it and I can again only show start and end of day pictures. Anyway, the pistils are turning to a very vivid honey-like color. They are maturing, no doubt … At the end of day 52 (and another week), top cola is now at 88 cm height. The pistols that looked rather honey-like yesterday turn into a very lively orange instead, but too early to check them. Not longer than 2 weeks, I guess. I installed a simple drop watering system, only driven by physics, which has a 47 l tank that will surely keep the ladies alive if I should be away for 2 or 3 days sometimes. Maybe I should invest in some additional outlets to avoid watering just one spot, but currently I can always add a bit of water manually.