In House Genetics

That a wrap for week 7. I gave the ladies one feeding with Flower 2(PK fertilizer) from Blue Sky Organics mid week. I hadn't planned on it but they looked a little hungry and they still have a little over 2 weeks to go. They are showing some signs of stress (red striping on the stalks). This is likely for one of two reasons or both.... my room temps ran a little higher than normal as the weather here changed and warmed up a fair bit. That coupled with the added heat from the dehumidifier running regularly now as apposed to intermittently as needed in an effort to bring my humidity down to that 41%-43% range to close out the run. I like to slowly start bringing my humidity down in the closing weeks of flower so the plants uptake more water and nutrients. It also couldve been the distance from my lights to the plants. As I'm running new LEDs I've been playing around with different heights from the canopy to try and find that sweet spot where the plants are getting the most light possible without stressing them out. I cant confidently say with any amount of certainty that it's either room temps or lighting so in an effort to resolve the issue I raised the lights up to 19"-20" above the canopy and adjusted my intake/exhaust fans to get the temps down to 26.5-27.5 degrees Celcius. As mentioned earlier in my diary the Terps in here are very strong and very fuel/gas dominant. It may be hard to see in the pics but the trichome production is ridiculous. I have to glove up just to move shoots around during health checks so I can see into the interior of the plants. When I did my last pruning on these ladies around day 40 I actually had to stop and soak my bonsai scissors after each plant. They got so caked just removing fans leaves that they literally wouldnt function. I'll start checking trichomes in the next few days to see where they're at. I'll post pics in next weeks update.