Plant was watered on 6/22 plain, pH'd to 6.5-6.6. I once again was aiming for the higher end since the runoff has been pretty consistent at 6.0. This girl just simply can not wait for water like everyone else. I guess she is going on a separate watering schedule than the others because by day 3 she starts getting depressed. By day 4 she is beyond depressed, just curled up in a little ball in the corner crying for her mommy. Image on 6/22/20 was after 4 days. Image on 6/26 was after the tea and a very light watering to hold her over until tea time. You can see just how expressive she really is by the stark difference of the 2 images. I would like to say she perked up that nicely right after her tea but that is not the case. She was already so mad at me by day 3, I knew she wasn't going to wait until tea time so I gave her less than a 1/4 of a gallon to hold her over on 6/25/20. A tea was brewed on 6/25/20 and applied 6/26/20. Tea consisted of 2 cups castings and 2 tbsp molasses.. Castings that were used to brew the tea were put around the stalk. Big big error during tea time. I did not pH the tea. I was freaking out once I realized but I do not believe it was any significant high end because runoff became perfect at around 6.4. Post tea, gnats picked up again so more DE was placed after tea on 6/26, used very generously and I surrounded her by sticky traps. They caught a few more than the last time but so far only 6 gnats on traps and no signs of any root issue No signs of pH fluctuation either due to my mistake. I will consider buying some Nematode SF if it keeps up. That has been my go to treatment in the past and it has been incredibly effective. Still undecided on when I am going to flip because I am quickly approaching week 8 and so I did a pretty significant defoliation on 6/22/20 as well as a lollipop on about the bottom half of the plant. Left anything on that had already hit the canopy height so this girl managed to keep one of her really low stems. Removed large fan leaves, nothing from the tops of the plant other than 1 or 2 that were covering it's own nodes. She continued to grow vertically, very quickly I might add so I believe that is going to push more towards the flip pretty soon. Week 8 was in initial goal and she has already been prepped for it.
Very nice canopy you've created there, friend! She looks very happy and healthy! If you can't nix the fungus gnats with dry cycles, check out Gnatrol; I use the 4oz pack which runs about $15USD and it has never failed to do the thing. I'll be following to see how this run turns out! 👊🌱☮️✌️💪
@samadhi, Thank you!! I think that I have them nixed between the sticky traps and dichotomous earth. I have not seen any new gnats on the trap so if they are still around, they are on their way out the door it seems! I have heard good things about Gnatrol. I think I will order some just to have on hand for purposes like these. Thanks for the suggestion and for checking out the plant!
@Fast_Buds, My original email called FF7 "mostly indica". By the looks of the plant it seems pretty sativa looking to me. Was there some sort of mix up or did I just get a VERY sativa leaning pheno? Can you also tell me if the strain names have been released as of yet? Thanks!