Day 124 for the two Aurora Indicas. One week of flowering complete, eight weeks of flowering remaining. I can confidently indicate flowering as I am still moving the plants into my garage alcove each night. Because of just lifestyle, this is not with true sun rise and sunset, and often times at my convenient. The plants are getting around 12 hours of light a day.
As the preflowers and flowers bloomed I top dressed the soil with 0-13-1 Gaia Green mineralized phosphate. I watered the amendment in, and then suffered a torrential downpour (that flooded parts of the city) which watered the amendment in much faster than I would have liked.
I had surplus potassium based soap and neem oil solution leftover from preventive work on my veg. tent, so I decided to do some prevent work on the outdoor. For the size of the plant I probably would use much more for an actual pest problem, but I don’t mind a light coating, and the soap is absorbed as a light feeding.
When you mention a hard leaf fade and maintaining nitrogen at the end what is your thinking? I’ve wondered about adding some N during late flowering but I’ve read that make the buds too loose. It feels like I could do more for flowering but I want to stay organic. I haven’t tried aerated compost teas yet so I guess that’s the next thing to try.
I’m at 53N (Edmonton) and I think I will mostly stick with autos as the sunlight fades too quickly in the fall for photoperiods. Frost isn’t the real problem here but lack of sun. Force flowering works but covering or moving plants everyday is a pain in the ass. You were dedicated moving it daily. Good job.