Spliff Seeds Lemon Cream Kush

This week has been a rollercoaster. Some good news, some bad. I will start with the good: Flowers are really fattening up now. It seems she is racing to the finish line rapidly. Trichomes are starting to shimmer and the new flush of pistils is starting to darken. Flowers are certainly getting sticky with resin. The bad news is the heat and humidity that most of the world has experienced this summer appears to be taking its toll. I have noticed some late-flowering stamens (nanners) forming. I doubt this is the strain, I am sure it's from the heat I have desperately tried to keep under control. One bright side, the humidity seems to be kept in check with an old school hack I learned from an old grower. Back when people only had an unused closet with zero ventilation, they would add a bucket of rock salt to their garden. This consists of two buckets. The first is drilled with holes in the bottom. The next bucket has bricks or something to keep the two buckets from completely sealing together when they are stacked. After inserting the bucket with the holes into the other one, salt is added. This salt takes moisture out of the air and, over time, will actually drip water down into the second bucket through the drilled holes and you dump it out periodically. I am shocked at how well this is working. My humidity was an alarming 76% before adding this, now it is at 46%. It did take a few days to get stabilized, and during the day my fan is pulling in more moist air, but the plant is certainly doing better than it was. My mold nightmares are hopefully over now. The suggested salt was rock salt but all I could find was water softener crystals. Rock salt should be easy to find in the winter, as it is used for icy sidewalks. Ironically, I won't need it then. I will be investing next spring though, just in case. Hopefully, we will be ready to harvest (or at least start) next week. Some colas are starting to look like they will be ready soon. Next summer, I may shut the garden down for the hottest months. It's just too nerve-wracking and stressful.