Week 13 from seed begins. Both plants continue to fade and the smells are great. My two PH pens died last week after their third calibration. I have the PH test drops from TA and with my fertigation "formula" with FinalPart, it should be able to carry BD until the end.
The flushing/cleaning of Sour Diesel begins. Noted the occasional amber on lower flower sites last week, and last evening noticing a few amber on majority of the photos taken at multiple flower sites on the second level of her canopy. Will FlashClean x 2 days, followed by water to runoff EC less than 200 x48 hours. She is around 86cm, flower sites are dense and covered in frost. She has bulked up nicely, I am really pleased with how she has turned out and glad I waited. Super excited to see how tastes as she looks amazing.
Blue Dream is moving along as more leaves fade and her pistils are ~ 50% orange, trichomes are cloudy and clear. She is bulky and I want to support her branches, but will wait until SD is out of the tent so I can center her under the light and either use the ScrOG net for support or add a few additional supports to her branches.
Plan for the week
1. Clean SD and harvest
2. Monitor trichomes
3. Defoliate lightly
4. Reposition BD in tent once SD is harvested
6. Support BD branches as needed
9-11-2024 Day 85. PH ~6, EC 1120, 2L with great run-off for BD. Switching to daily fertigation for BD. FinalPart day 13. Removed a few leaves off both.
FlashClean 3ml/L x 6L & 4L with tons of run-off from SD. Will FlashClean x2 daily, followed by H2O x2 daily. Day 1.
10-11-2024 Day 86. PH ~6, EC 1120, 4L with great run-off. Can likely back down to 3L tomorrow. FinalPart day 14. Removed a few leaves from BD. Will take some trichome photos this evening, BD is getting heavy and I need to add some additional supports...
FlashClean 3ml/L x3L & with tons of run-off for SD. Day 2, tomorrow only water.
11-11-2024 Day 87. FinalPart day 15; PH ~6, EC 1180, 4L with great run-off from BD. Removed a few leaves. Trichome pictures cloudy with some clear and scattered amber. Getting closer!
SD had 4/10 L with great run-off. Day 1 just water and run-off EC 230.
12-11-2023 Day 88. FinalPart Day 16; PH ~6, EC 1150, 4L with great run-off. Removed a few leaves from BD. Her pistils are ~80% orange.
SD had 3/6L , with run-off EC 160. Smells are so good, kind of floral and sweet. Tomorrow will harvest day for her and I think BD is rapidly finishing as well.
13-11-2024 Day 89. PH ~6, EC 1100, 4L with great run-off. FinalPart day 17. Removed a few leaves from BD. Removed plant stands, adjusted fan, light height to 30cm/100%, centered plant under light and added netting to better support some of her branches.
Trichome pictures cloudy with clear, will work on more pictures now that SD is drying. She just took over the tent...
14-11-2024 Day 90. PH ~6, 1180, 4L with great run-off. FinalPart day 18. Removed ~15 leaves. She does have some foxtailing, likely from the extra Nitrogen, she will do her thing. Flowers are heavy, frosty, sticky and dense. Trichome pictures are mostly from mutiple second level canopy flower sites and one from the side of one of the five large colas. Mostly cloudy, some clear with two amber visibile in picture #2. Would like to see more amber before beginning her flushing/cleaning x 4 days.
15-11-2024 Day 91. PH ~6, EC 1180, 3L with great run-off. FinalPart Day 19. Removed ~10 leaves and adjusted a few LST supports for her colas.
Week 13 draws to a close and finds SD harvested and drying day 2 (15-11-2024). Blue Dream pistils are around 60-80% orange as she pushed out new pistils. Flowers are dense and sticky and heavy as some colas are sagging. Leaves continue to fade.
Plan for Week 14
1. Monitor trichomes
2. Defoliate lightly
3. Flush/Clean Blue Dream - harvest
4. Monitor drying of SD - trim and cure when ready
Beautiful looking plants!😀👏🏽 They looks super healthy and the growth rate is perfect!
Was looking at your dairy since day one, love your detailed explanation!
We share similar grow style🏽
Was wondering how do you like the dualpart series form terra aquatica?, I use their tripart for some time now.. Wondering if it'll be easier to use the 2 part one
Good luck and have fun growing brother 🌱
@1_Plant_Wonder,
Thanks again for your kind works of support, much appreciated as a new grower. These two have been an amazing experice to date!
I have used both the tri-part and dual part coco now on two grows; The 3 vs 2 bottles does simplify the process and I am likely to purchase the dual part coco again when these bottles run out. With my water and autos I run ~40% strength nutrients at ~1200 EC using the dual part coco.
I had also considered the Canna line as they are also a two bottle setup and there are some examples of sucessful plants with Canna.
Been following along with your Purple Punch as it is on the list to grow in the near future...
Take care and enjoy the journey! 😎
Plants looking fantastic!👏🏽
Once most trichomes becomes cloudy, it won't be long before the amber starts to appear, and then flushing, so if you think you're a week /week and a half before that stage, start with final part;)
(Usually terra recommend 10 days of final part before flushing, but with autos everything is faster, so a good week of final part will do to my opinion)
But MY question is, would you continue using Calmag along with finalpart? Or not..? That I truly don't know😅
Good luck! 🍀
@1_Plant_Wonder,
I think the Sour Diesel is ~2wks from finishing based on other diaries with coco/ hydro/similar size. I was thinking FinalPart for 12 days and then 2 day FlashClean followed by ~ 2 days of water flush to run-off EC the # escapes me, but based on cocoforcannibas recommendations.
Good question on the CalMag and FinalPart. Both plants have minor rust spots. TA on the Coco formulas suggest no additional CalMag is needed, and I think FinalPart would be the same. My experience is even buffered coco with a specific coco fertilizer formula still needs CalMag added to any water you use to dilute to get your EC. Now with FinalPart you are basically just feeding bloom nutrients. Would not adding CalMag block some other needed micro nutrient during the final 2 weeks of flower? I don't know, but someone on the forum would perhaps. For now since there is already some signs I was planning to add it to the next feritgation with any water used to dilute to EC. I was thinking I could always fade it over the next week or so.
There are a few trichome pictures of SD at end of week 10. Mostly cloudy and some clear. I will grab some more photos with the USB microscope camera tomorrow. It is a challenge to get good photos..
@Hix57,
Thank you for your kind words. I did not realize how large she was until I removed her tent mate! I need to invite my buddy over to help with the trimming.
