Flower week 11 - Nutrient regimen(per gallon): 3 ml FloraMicro + 9 ml FloraBloom + 1 ml Floralicious Plus + 0.25 tsp Dry KoolBloom. Solution ph'd (upped) to 5.8.
1/8/2019 (F71) - Fuck me. All this time I assumed Sour Diesel had a 12 week flower, and now after looking up breeder's information on seeds it looks like it's only 10 weeks! The microscope pics in last previous week's entry clued me in to look it up and admit that those were amber trichomes. Going to have to adapt and condense the the last 2 week nutrient schedule into 4 days and chop on 5th day. So it's 1) dry koolbloom 2) dry koolbloom 3) florakleen 4) florakleen 5) chop. No more calmag now and micro dose halved, but probably won't see a proper fade before harvest.
Another thing which I can't blame on genetics, the foxtailing! Finally noticed this one peculiar bud (posted up above) with the side facing the lights growing foxtails with new pistils, while the other side of the bud facing away and towards the side of tent remained unaffected. Growweedeasy site (https://www.growweedeasy.com/keep-getting-new-white-pistils) suggests it's light stress. Lights are currently 8" away from canopy but COB driver isn't turned all to max (last KillAWatt check was 200w out of 275w max). The new pistils fooled me into believing plants had few weeks left. Sorry plants, next grow won't suffer same fate.
Check out the trichome pics of the new growth (point calyx with white pistils), visually they're more appealing than the other pics showing more amber, bc the amber pics look more decayed and maybe burnt looking. Hard to guess the amber trichome percentage overall right now, perhaps 10%? Left plant could come down few days before right one, but both will probably get harvested at same time.
New grow coming soon. Just started germinating a couple autos in peat pellets: Auto Bubble Gum and Auto Cheese Berry by 00 Seeds. New grow diary will start in few days once seeds pop.
1/12/2019 (F75) - Long grow came to an end today. Some of the leaves and buds on left plant are visually darker than right which can probably be traced to the temperature difference between light cycles (~68F night temperature vs ~84F day temperature). Originally, was going to hand the entire plant by their main trunks, but it was buried and didn't want to make a mess. Also, squares on bottom scrog are a bit smaller than top one and I didn't want to cut up the scrog to extract the plants. Current drying condition in tent: 73F and 50% humidity. Both 6" circulation fans were moved to bottom of tent and exhaust fan set to maximum. Colas are touching each other on hanger, but humidity isn't that high and they'll shrink a bit so hopefully not too much cause for concern. Plan is to dry at least a week in tent, and if humidity drops too much I'll turn on the humidifier to extend the dry time.
There's 24 good size colas in the tent and I'm excited to see what final weight will be. Please don't be moldy like last time!
Sorry, messed up the week labeling for HST, LST, scrog, and topping up at top of page so ignore that please. Thanks for reaching the end of this grow with me!