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

Day 73, end of September, starts their week before the last. Once they emptied their tank I’ll flush them with pure water. Increasing number of orange pistils and the snow-covered look of lady #2’s buds tell me I should check the trichomes regularly now. Day 76, October 1st. Almost overnight most buds have turned into that vivid deep violet you see on the pictures. I still wonder how alive the ladies still are, regarding their fan leaves. I installed an oscillating clip fan now additionally which I had to install in the upper third of the tent, blowing downwards. It now lifts the measured leaf temperature a bit which currently is excellent, bringing VPS into optimum range. On the end of day 76, outside humidity was high again and so was becoming inside too. I finally lollipopped the ladies more, carefully removing fan leaves which could stop air flow. Not too carefully obviously as I incidentally broke a minor bud around 5 cm height which is now drying for a first consumption test. Looks like I was successful, see 12 hour changes. The jagged inside humidity now because of the oscillating fan whirling through the center of the colas. Whatever the CO2 meter might be reading, regarding its strange stair case look, but it is interesting to see that while VPD was in optimum, CO2 and TVOC movement where also most lively. For my indoor plants, a 60 W Sansi winged LED arrived which makes it possible to remove the 30 W winged model inside the tent which was only being used for sunrise and -set and which on images looks quite flickery by the 40 W "bulb" model that does not do so. I will use it to add some extra light during their days for some more terpene production. We will shortly enter high stress phase … Day 79, and end of another week. Not much to report except for the Raspi sensor setup has gone out of communication once again. Nothing to worry about, except for the reason. Think I’ll again have to disable it until I find it magically being back in order again. I am still unsure if I should continue the bloom phase even more. Lady #2’s buds look amazing, and many of the net layer have turned purple too. Still I see new growth on them, leaf color is very much alive still and and microscope did not look much different than last week. But some inner feeling is getting louder telling me it’s time to start their last week. First by just feeding pure water of course. Let’s see …