So!!! Some of the buds up top were definitely ready. Ambering out like crazy. I began flushing 3 days ago. But after chatting with someone on here, I decided I would harvest the plant in two stages! The first stage today, where I take the topmost buds, even out the canopy, and perform a small amount of defoliation -- then another harvest sometime in the next 7 days (pref waiting 7 days unless something goes awry). As of today I'm giving them only 0.625ml/gal of MaxiBloom and keeping the rest the same.
Then after more discussion, I decided I'm going to re-veg. I'll leave the bottom third alone on the next harvest and flip to 24/0 for a couple weeks to try to bring them back. Both as an experiment, AND so I can take two clones off plant A when they've re-vegged and ready to flower again! I really like the way plant A grows and the buds it produces, and how early it matures. It's like the perfect phenotype of my favourite strain. I want to grow two more pheno As after I re-veg and flower again!
Plus then I don't have to do anything at the moment to setup for the next grow. Might it fail? Yeah absolutely. But I'll learn a lot either way, and if it goes great, I'll be able to do a couple more rounds of pheno A clones before popping new seeds.
The buds I harvested today have been wet-trimmed and placed in a bucket for water curing. I will change the RO water every morning. The bowl with water in it is to weigh the bag of bud down so they all stay underwater. I covered with foil and placed in the corner of our bedroom where there's very little light. It's around 65F during the day and around 60F at night there -- this spot is where I do all my water curing.
You are the 8 ball kush master! They look perfect. I would say let it run late and harvest at the same time. It looks like this round has the potential to get fatter buds.
@Wicked_Stix, thanks! The clones are lookin nice too, over in their own diary now :P Both clones of plant A, I want the phenotype. May follow your method for making seeds toward the end of summer! Can you do the colloidal silver thing with clones?
@Wicked_Stix, I made them without cannabis, and they tasted great! Shared with the kids and they loved them too. But man, the minute you add cannabis, they taste like total shit. I can't even bring myself to eat them as they make me want to barf and then the after taste lingers :/ so I put them in the deep freeze and am saving them for when I don't have anything else.
@Wicked_Stix thanks,it blows my mind that I can grow them under an LED desk lamp that consumes 13 watts (for the equivalent of a 40 watt incandescent output). LOL. I can tell they are ready to explode in growth though as soon as they go into the tent -- it'll be like 2 weeks in the tent and they will be filled out / ready to flower :P