The Quick One....

UPDATE - SUNDAY - DAY 56 FROM SEED I am going to start flushing today I think. The ladies are looking lovely, with the creamatic looking to be ahead of the easy bud by a week or so. Both look and smell AMAZING. Really starting to look forward to harvesting these ladies now, I am left wondering how much more weight they will put on still. I will probably just start flushing them both due to the fact they are both in the same bed. I suppose I could continue feeding the Easy Bud but I imagine the nutes would leak into the Creamatic Rhizosphere so It makes more sense just to commence flushing them both. I jus wrote the title and it really is incredible that these can grow like this in 56 days. Crazy UPDATE - MONDAY - DAY 57 FROM SEED Today I noticed I had an RQS catalogue so I started looking through it and the guide time to run the two strains i'm running is totally different from what it says on their website and it fits whats going on in my grow perfectly lol. It really explains why I was so confused by the guide time on their website! It says the Royal Creamatic (the strain that is basically ready in my grow) runs for 7-8 weeks after germination. I actually remember choosing it partly for this reason . It also says the Easy Bud is done 8-9 weeks after germination. I think this estimate is a little optimistic or maybe its due to the fact i'm not using LOADS of light. I am going to move my bed to my shower this evening so I can give it a good flush. I have no drainage in my cupboard so I want to give it a good flush quickly because the Royal Cream is actually ready. I would say 85% cloudy, 7.5% clear and the same amber. I am going to give it a good flush tonight with loads of runoff, then put it back in the cupboard for another few days so it soaks up and respires the excess water before I give it 3 days in darkness whist starving them of water. I have read this causes the plants to excrete more oils. I'm sceptical, so I thought I should try it. I have also been reading up on hempy buckets and I really like the idea. This grow has been ridiculously simple, actually almost too simple with the exception of my light breaking during veg, it literally has been set it and forget it apart from opening it up to water every so often. I actually got away with leaving it a week at a time without waterings at times during veg. This may be because I had only 30w of COB lighting when my light broke during veg so everything was slowed down. Either way, with the addition of hempy buckets rather than a bed, I think growing these autos is just so simple. I am really looking forward to converting my cupboard, I am now thinking I am going to go for the 60cm D x 120 w x 150cm H for my flowering chamber and then I can fit in a small veg tent aswell. I am really looking to get a continuous cycle going due to the fact I am bad at rationing and also I cant be doing without due to it being my medication, despite my government not acknowledging this fact! Also if I have a continuous cycle going, I can get away with flowering less plants at once, meaning I need a smaller flowering tent! This also means I can get slightly more appropriate spectrums going in each tent for the first time since I started growing. UPDATE 2 HOURS LATER ok quick update just to say I repotted them because when I took them to the bathoom to flush the bag I was using for a bed basically went all soggy and kind of deformed so the plants almost fell over. Alsp I couldn't get them back to the grow area lol. I figure putting them in pots is ok right at the end of their cycle as i am only flushing now anyway. I think I am going to harvest the Royal Cream in the next few days tbh. I was debaing leaving it in the darkness for 3 days now as I am about to go and stay at my mums for a few days (im allowed even with the corona lockdown as she is my carer for my disabilitys, we checked...). I dunno, ill sleep on it. I added a photo of the repotted plants back in the grow space. UPDATE - THURSDAY - DAY 59 FROM SEED Every time I write the length of time from seed im amazed. I never thought a plant could from full cycle in less than 60 days but if I was desperate for bud I could have harvested that royal creamatic by now but I left flushing a little late and I want good taste and also i'm looking for a strong narcotic effect and I cant see any amber trich's as of present. They are basically all translucent now though so it is ready for the chop. I would rather chop it a couple days late but with a good flush though as obviously this is not something you can go back on and you wouldn't know until it is too late. I don't think it should be as bad with bio-biz than with horticultural salt based fertilisers. Ideally I don't want fuck all In my plants other than water when I chop though. They both smell magnificent - the RC is so sweet, almost sickly sweet, cant smell any creamyness other than just pure sweetness but people have said a lot in comments that the creamyness comes out in the cure, which I cool because it is something to aim for! I need to purchase some mid sized canning jars for storage actually, I wonder if I will be able to find anywhere that sells them when I get my food shopping due to the covid-19 pandemic or as I like to call it - the zombie outbreak.