The 5th week has arrived and I'm gonna say it is in flower. It has pretty much tripled in size in the last week and now the calyxs and pistils have started growing. I trimmed a couple of fan leaves just to let more light reach the lower leaves. I'm slowly changing from grow nutes to bloom nutes over the next week. I'm excited to see how she's gonna change over the next week. Yellow spots appeared on older leaves, maybe magnesium deficiency. Regardless of what it is I'd imagine it maybe a build up of salts so flushed her with ph water followed by a feed. Bought a small tent for her as she has outgrown the bucket and unfortunately my design didn't leave me an option to extend the height. The tent is only 40x40x100cm so not huge but still much more room than the bucket. After putting it in the tent the humidity has shot up, I think it's because there is a lack of air flow coming out and it's also beginning to stink. Carbon filter and fan on order hopefully it will fix both issues. She is now sat in her tent carbon filter in cos she really starting to stink now. So much for a low smell strain.
I've read a lot on it and decided not flush but I will take the drying and curing slowly. But to be honest I won't smoke it I will vape it and probably make edibles. I'm done with destroying my lungs.
Beautiful buds. I agree with Jon though. They don't appear to be done. This is the hardest part about the grow in my opinion. Light, soil, water, and nutrients are fairly straightforward, but determining the optimum time to flush then harvest is difficult. I would hold off on flushing for at least this week.
When I think my plant is ready to harvest too early, you can remind me to wait!
@Quexos, Thanks my man it is really hard to judge without the experience under your belt. I think I will wait a week I really want them buds to fatten up.
I'm learning that Space Buckets have their limitations. I'm not at flowering stage, but I'm amazed you have that size plant in your tiny little space bucket. Are you going to finish it outside the space bucket? With all that said, you have one beautiful looking plant.
Great yield on the auto! Any updates on dried weight? I have a couple BMs that are around 65 days old and thought I would be able to harvest by the end of this week but not so sure after comparing their progress to yours. This should be a breat reference guide!
@ChopChopJam, thanks man, got a few more days of drying yet but will update as soon as they are ready. I was aiming for this to be a good reference guide, hence all the photos everyday even when it became tedious work.
Nice Grow! In all I would say that your first grow was a success! You had a few issues, but even experienced growers have some of the same issues in their grows. I would be proud.
I hope my girl turns out as nice!
@Quexos, Thanks man. Yeah I'm very proud of her, just hope it was due to extensive research and not beginners luck and hope my next grow is as successful. I'm pretty sure yours will turn out good.
Just about everyone wants to harvest early; in fact, several harvests deep I myself always think they're done before they really are.
Generally speaking, harvest by trichomes gives you the most potent bud and (often) longest grow time to have more bulking and resin waves. This is why a high powered magnifier is suggested.
However, even going by the pistils, you want them to really start dying and turning orange... like 75%-100% of them
I reckon you've got a few weeks yet; but that's actually good; it will only get bigger and frostier as time goes on!
@Jaindoh, cheers man, it's so hard to judge I want to give her enough of a flush but obviously don't want to starve her if I don't need to. Do you think I should cut the nutes yet or give a bit longer? Thanks for your help.
I can see the difference from last week! The pictures show fuller buds. You are going to do zero flushing? That means nutes until you chop? Not even fresh water? I bought Flawless Finish from Advanced Nutrients for my flush. Supposedly it flushes the plant without starving it. That's kinda scary in my opinion. I had a buddy who was doing hydro. He was a newb, like us. He didn't flush plants before chop and his bud lit up like fireworks!
Absolutely brilliant diary to follow buddy, just about to start my first grow of 3 or 4 of these in coco with a 600w LED in a 1x1x2m tent. Doing it in my garage so had to play about to get the temps right which I believe I now have so gonna get started in the coming days.
If I can get even close to what you got I'll be a happy grower!
@BillyBoy86, I grew a second one of these using canna coco a+b and canna PK 13/14 in a 8ltr fabric pot and got 3.66oz from it. So she can yield pretty good. Also the second plant had literally no smell whilst growing and gives a nice high.
I have read this diary start to finish like 3x now. I am a first time grower using these genetics also in a space bucket. I'm on day 33 and 22". Thank you for your detailed record. It is really helpful to have something for comparison.