First Grow (Laughing Buddha) 315w x 2cmh

SOOOOO TONIGHTS THE NIGHT!!!!! gonna give them their 12 hours of dark and they chopped!!!!!! @Ganjagrandaddy @TheBudWhisperer @DeaneR @NomNom @Cultus @barneys

jas to be long and slow , u cut at all and trimmed once totally dried. Jave given a longer explaination of it in a previous message and it works amazing for me. pain in the ass trimming those little sugar leaves out of tight bud at their base but those little sugary gifts will make amazing Hash now. Am bubble bucketting all trim from some amazing strains from crop too. gritty and covered in thc from the slow dry. The Buddha is amazing to smoke johnny . has to be one of my all time favourites over past 15 years , its that nice. The stone is so noticable and i have been smoking weed solely 35 years like cigarettes. Still wobdled me.lol You will be so impressed by the quality and your s look great now to. They will swell now so if you have any Finishing products to boost girth , nows the time to go for it. Great job mate Wish Grow Diaries had a p.o address for us to gift samples to other growers and a way to get it to them. We go through each others grows and get to watch these ladies all get harvested , then have to read how great it smokes....... takes the piss. lol

They are looking beautiful now. close to their max potential now. One of the tastiest buds i have grown to date and nice stone too. The trichs is the only real way to tell. it tends to go quickly once you start to notice the burnt amber colour cast through a loupe ,if that makes sense. I saw lots of cloudy trichs and not too many clear left with no amber signs , a couple of days later i noticed a slight amber hue through the loupe but couldnt pinpoint any amber trichs anywhere. Her pistils were orange all over the girls so thought it was that at first but a few more days passed and i clearly saw amber clusters popping up. Perfect time in my opinion. Flushing doesnt make a lot of sense to me or the stuff i have scoured over. I do not flush at all ( unless a major issue happens) but in the last planned res change , i start adding water only. This was the last week of my grow. Remocing needed nutes at the most needed ti.e is crazy and only happens because commercially it saves 2 weeks of Nutrients on a huge scale. This saving outweighs the added growth ect for their huge operations. For us small fry the financial saving is not much but the extra yield loss is. The whole success of flavour/ potency is down to the dry and the cure , nothing to do with flushing or not. rush dried weed is ruined by harshness and remaining nutes , weed that is dried slowly over a longer period (10 days+ for me) and has not had ANY cuts to the plant at all before being hung intact , is not harsh or difficult to burn. Curing for a week after this improves the flavours/potency/smell to its ideal. The plant drying intact and slowly allows it to send any remaining stored nutes into bud saving and protection. She will do it until she can no longer transport fluid through her system as it is all dried up and gone. This works for me and has given me top shelf buds from my last crop. Has been so popular i only have my own percy left !!! Th dark before harvest thing is a myth like women having something called a clintumus that makes them kinder to us in my opinion. have tried it but not seen any difference. Dry trimming is a pain in the ass too but any leaf left can create harshness, even those sugary sugar leaves. snip them out for hash.

looking tip top in here these have swelled like crazy already your gonna be in for a nice harvest 👍👍

Looks clean and very healthy dude👍. Nicely done! She looks to be set up perfectly for the bulk👌

Johnny! Ur on fire buddy - she looks great.👌 Think most of what you want answer to is covered in the comments but there’s 200 of em and I’m already daunted by the awesomeness of those buds👍Lol. Agree with the guys above - ph’d Water is all good. She’s starting the fade and lookn great. 2 weeks is more than enough flush time in coco and u can def. get by with only 1 week if you want. No worries there as the medium doesn’t retain residual nutes the way soil does. As for harvest - dry tent and oscillating fan is a good idea - keeping light airflow around the buds definitely helps avoid moisture issues and bud rot I do treat this as environment dependent though and won’t use a fan if humidity is extremely low (like my basement is).. lots of options for the trim - I’ve found wet trimming to be the easiest “once and done” prior to dry and cure but lots of guys will dry trim the sugars absolutely. This has been an awesome follow dude - I’m looking forward to seeing the end of it👍😎

do you mean actual trichromes or hairs on the plant mate. can be worlds apart in ripening terms

Holy crap dude - if this girl has 4 more weeks then u might need some yo-yos cuz they’re gonna be falling over due to weight!👍. U can definitely expect them to plump out more (this can be visibly obvious even in the last 2 weeks of flower) and hopefully it stays smooth sailing. And outdoor season is almost here! My fave time of year! Autos will still achieve good results outside as long as you have solid sun exposure. It’s a good idea to do early veg. Indoors while they’re fragile and I generally do the same. Only sugggestion I’d make is to go with an amended soil medium outdoors as opposed to coco. Specifically (and this is just what I’ve found works best) equal parts high quality soil mix, compost and perlite. U could add in coco too if it suits ur fancy but when outside I prefer a little more water retention (for potential vacations with minimal rain in my absence). The nutrient content of the medium itself will save on synthetics through a good chunk of veg. Time and is an excellent, low maintenance way to let nature take its course. I big it up with 10-15gal. Smart Pots which grows huge plants too. That said, if ur growing in the ground then u need not worry about any of this. Good luck dude - indoor is fun but nothing beats the power of the sun👍😎👊

looking great man nice work as for the ones with more white hairs do u mean the bud pictured next to the orange clipper if so thats called foxtail and its where the plant at that point is receiving too much light or in some cases wind some strains do it more than others naturally as for flushing i normally run 10l through if using a 20l pot on first day of flush and then feed plain phd water once its dried a little untill harvest iv tried different methods full flush with say 50l and 10l every 2 days and just water all the way as normal and found the first method to give a better finished product as u dont drown the roots as you would with 50l and with water just feeding as normal e.c dosnt get as low as it could do

Very impressive growth this week! those sugar leaves are just popping out! How high of humidity are you talking about? I would say just increase air flow over adding a dehumidifier, and you have already done that👍

Hey johhny. these are beauties mate. Regards flushing ,I dont do it at all. Estimates for the last week tend to be done from the trich colours mainly. Its more of a ripening period really. By flushing you force her to cannabalize way too early. She will do exactly the same thing properly during the slow dry . Flushing is an industrial method used to save 2 weeks worth of nutrients , which for commercial farmers would be a huge save , for a slight yield loss. For us on small scales then there is very little saving and an oz or two matters on our yields. You cant remove nutes with ANY product or flushing amd any stores within the plant will stay there until used up ( slow dry uncut plant retains terpenes )or forced to evaporate( faster drying , trimmed wet ,locked in chlorophyll, etc..) The last suspected week for me is mostly milky trichs then i will only use water to top up my res ,so slowly signals the end to the plant as food source starts to diminish , she will then begin her survival mode for the slow dry. Once we remove light from them they know their end is close so will start to use all the stored nutes from their leaves by conversion. This NEEDS an active transport system to be sent to her buds so ALL of the pathways and systems need to be active. mobile nutes will continue to feed the buds as she uses all of the chlorophyll in the leaves up. She will keep this going until all the moisture has gone from her leaves, branches , and finally the buds. Rhis is why snappable branch is the key moment to trim ALL remaining leaves off. The sugar leaves can also retain some chlorophyll , risking harshness on smoking , so they come off at their base too. Trimming dry can be a pain but a lot of the leaves fall away too so no worse than wet trim really. . Drying in a dark enclosed space with a cool temp and good air exchange ( not blowing through but slow exchange) will retain terpenes and aid with a shorter cure too. works for me perfectly. I am looking at the process of using fridges to dry as this retains so much of the profile of terps and like vegetables, gives better flavour and potency of final product. Hope that all makes some sense. i can ramble a bit. Low and slow is the way to go to avoid smoking hay/alfalfa. good luck mate. you deserve a brilliant end product for all your graft.

Nothing to worry about mate. about 75% brown hairs used to be the standard i went with for Harvest sweet spot before the trichromes knowledge became common. For piece of mind , have a look at a few" week before harvest" weeks in completed diaries for a good reference of this . All going great mate.

Very nice my friend! Really fattening up nicely for you! My girls started getting some burnt tips too but i was at 1700 so i dialed mine back to 1200. Good luck bud!

deffo defol as suggested and thought mate. I thought co2 was more a vegging benefit though and not best for flowering ??.

Wow what an impressive first grow!! Going to be a huge yield. In answer to your question, I’d definitely defoliate if I was you. You’ve got a lot of foliage there that won’t see the light 😀

Just look at the plants.. Just look at them..

The lower you can scrog and still access the pots , the better. These ladies break the 1m mark easily and her stretch is a good 50% at least . for me , i would flip as soon as screen is filled and maybe tuck the 1st week of stretch but let her go after that. 11 weeks building colas is a long time and you could hit height issues if you go vertical too early. They do look amazing mate. love those stems already. They will be beasts. I would use defoliation as you go to. These ladies put out a lot of leaves on those 1m colas. .great job

congratulations on your first harvest bro u put the effort in for sure and a very nice yield 👏👏

Go, go Johhny go!

Way to go Johnny! 👏👏👏. Congratulations on your first grow👍. Have you considered that your plants are showing different Pheno traits within the strain? My first grow was 4 plants that grew and matured quite differently.