White Widow Auto - Double the Trouble

Things are looking up this week. Run off numbers are all matching up with what's going in for the first time all grow. Since every plant is now “properly fed” I turned the light up to full power to see what they can do in their last couple of weeks of life. I was worried they couldn't handle the heat of the light at full power but they seem to be doing ok. My predicted chop date at this point is going to be Feb 15, but I'll let the trichomes dictate when exactly that happens. Right now it doesn't look like they're all going to come down at the same time. I was planning on using my grow tent as my harvest tent this time because of the size of plants 2 and 6, but I'm having doubts I can provide the environment I want to with the volume of the grow tent. With their “sativa traits” those plants are probably going to get chopped a week later anyways, so by that time I should be able to fit them in the harvest tent without worries of mold. I'm having doubts about what's going to happen as far as when the plants are going to be fully mature. Right now everything is a week behind in growth compared to my last grow. Does that mean their trichome production is a week behind too and I need to extend this grow by two weeks compared to my last grow, or are these plants going to be mature on a set date because that's just what their genes dictate? As long as I can get a 5-day flush in I'll be satisfied. I may end up staggering the harvest just depending on when things are ready. I really want to focus on drying slowly this time and see if that improves the taste once it's finished. After doing some reading I'm convinced my flush did what it was supposed to last time and the bad flavor came from drying too quickly. I thought I needed to keep things below 60% RH at all times because one plant developed some mold. What I should have done is kept the RH below 60% for one day and then brought it back to around 60%. With what happened last grow, everything was jarred up for the cure within about 4-5 days, too quick. Everything from last harvest smells amazing but tastes very green. Speaking of flavor, the smells coming from the tent now are a lot less fruity than last grow. Overall I'd say there's more of a GSC terpene profile this time, but there's a lot of nuances between each plant. Plant 7 is without a doubt fruity and tropical, and plant 5 leans that way too but you can pick up some more of the “cookies” terpenes. Not a single plant this grow smells anything like cheese, like one plant did last grow. The plants that are less fruity have “half” of the cheese profile but not the half that actually makes it smell like cheese, is the best way I can describe it. It's like a really earthy and almost cedar-like version of GSC. Before I forget, I also wanted to mention that I think you can possibly smell a sulfur deficiency. Since giving plant 2 epsom salts, its smell has completely changed. It used to smell like overly ripe grapefruit and skunk and that's exactly what the plant that died last grow smelled like. Now it just smells similar to the rest of the plants. I also wanted to mention that at one point I was seriously close to chopping down plant 6 and now its producing extremely sticky buds that actually have me excited. My experience with this plant has been a great lesson for me and taught me that even if things look dire, don't give up and know that the plants will respond when you give them the proper attention and treatment. It won't be a waste of energy, but you'll have to get your hands dirty. I'm still optimistic about where things are going to end up but I'm watching like a hawk for mold.