Day 69 flowering:
So I had a busy week let her go 2 days longer than I wanted however I let her water supply run dry for the last 2 days to increase the resin production.
This plant produced decent size buds all the way across the board with not much small waste buds at all. I have never seen the main stalk producing bud like this before and I believe it is going to dramatically increase the yield.
The 2 small buds that started at the very end, one sprouting straight out of the main stalk where I removed the very first set of leaves from in her early weeks really surprised me and honestly those last 2 seem like they will be the only buds wasted from her.
Keeping in mind there will be some shrinkage I am still satisfied with everything about this plant she is a down right smelly bitch and her smell resembles a Sasquatch that has been sprayed by a skunk. After chopping her I went outside for a smoke and when I came in it reminded me of when my cat got sprayed by a skunk or like I ran it over dissected it and removed the skunk spray glands lol. It is just down right foul and assault s your nose with a slight burn sensation.
I don’t weigh wet bud but I did for the main cola and it weighs 77g the bottom (cola haha) felt just as heavy. She is hanging in my veg tent with the lights out fans on and sitting at 73f and rh is about 60% contemplating doing a speed dry on just one bud I feel like I been waiting way to long to sample this beast but we will see.
Her first clone who is now 8 weeks in is going to put this plant to shame. It was lst’d a little and is a big massive bush. She is gone into the flower tent today. Maybe I will do just a flowering diary for her.
Will update once she is dry and trimmed with the harvest week.
coco is a forgiving medium mate. make an error and it can be instantly flushed away if needs be. I love it as a quick grow throw together too. As long as you keep the ph around 5.8 going in all will be good. It leeches calmag from the plant and nutes so have some handy as your going to hit the most needy bit next. The gnats area pain in the ass but if you cover the surface with decent sand , the larvae get stuck and the adults cant get down to lay eggs. you can also try a 20%milk/80 water in a spray bottle to wet the coco surface and mist the plant with it too. it wont smell or do any damage at all but will kill any soft bodied insects as they breath through a membrane on their backs often and suffocate from the milk deposit. It will go straight through the coco too so no horrible stinky residue
@Ganjagrandaddy, thanks for the advice, yea I’m liking the coco compared to soil I just got the watering down I was still watering like soil up to a few weeks ago. Just waiting on some mesh pots coming today I’m going to try with my clones either way much better with coco.
Yes I been feeding CaMg+ which is organic base for soil but the bottle is almost done I feed usually 4ml per gallon throughout the grow. And will get some CalImagic once this bottle is done.
Adult Gnats I got under control they can’t fly far either to the floor to get squished or on the sticky pads it’s the young ones. I’m going to try the milk idea I recently used 9 parts water to 1 part alcohol and it literally destroyed spider mite population was only a few stragglers left and on another plus side it didn’t kill all my pistils on my flowering plant like insecticidal soap that killed barely any mites just pistils lol. So I totally believe and will try the milk lol thank you.
@Grnhead, thanks bud it’s a fun process found out some cool things along the way. So weird best weed I’ve ever smoked was on vacation in Jamaica called Columbian Gold (some really Skunk bud) and it turns out was one of the parent plants to Skunk No1 small world no wonder I like this particular skunk so much. Can’t wait to see what the lemon adds to it was a smelly one to