Week 8, concluding the eight week of vegetating:
Hi(gh) Guys,
I’m way behind with my weekly updates, luckily I’m not with my grow. In fact giving my plants some extra time before flowering. I hope I’ll manage to keep temperature down further on the timetable, that’s always a risk growing on the attic. Temperature is too high.
The Honey Cream had a few days to get used to the flowering LED’s, during which I’d lowered the lamp a few times. Then time came to start pony-tailing the upper grow tips to allow the lower ones to grow taller. The grow tips will try to get free from their ropes, so I now started using enough wool to make three windings around the tip. After a day I’d notice some had opened up the points sticking out an catching light anyway. I added a short piece of wool to these cases to ensure they can’t receive anymore.
Now the lower branches can catch much more light and will start growing. If you don’t do this focus will stay onto the top 4 branches and the lower 4 will be too much underdeveloped to use. Now I end up with 8 branches to choose from, and since last time I’d learn that keeping the branches that stay short in spite being allowed to grow to level, so I’ll lose them this time. Those branches produce only very light buds barely weighing 1 or 2 grams dry. And they always disappear behind a larger cola, failing to catch light. But this time the plant decides how many branches it ends up with. I hope this time to end up with an array of thick fat cola’s! Or at least fine-tune this method.
I’m looking forward to see you back and check on the Honey Cream’s progress next week!
;-) Grtz, Budcrack ;-)
@James, what do you think, do the Honey Cream's continue growing bud, and then start smelling strong late in the cycle? Seems that the bud is still growing after 4 weeks of flowering. Grtz, Budcrack ;-)
@Satori_Hanso, thanks! Yeah, this is my best round ever, and the quality is also there. The bud is perfectly looking, feeling and smelling, now if it tastes and works great, than it's a winner! I guess that will be perfect too! Lucky me..😎
@Satori_Hanso, What makes it difficult to awnser is because the Moonwalkers have such a strong smell. The Honey's are a strain like no other i'd had before, and it really cuts the normal cycle with 4 weeks, so the smell is developing late to begin with. But i'd notice that the smell is much more nuanced than the skunky moonwalkers. It really has a caramel like smell, and a good amount of the pheno's have a strong smell if you come close enough. I expect the smell to become strong this week. We'll see! ;-)
@ReinDeer, thanks, after this diary i'm going to explain only the changes i'm making to my M.O. but this diary is now the baseline. Take your advantage from it and thanks!