Delagdo's Gelato & Other Autos Agogo

Day 46 to Day 49 The Sweet Gelato Auto really is a beautiful plant. It is untrained and has a great main cola, and several really nice sidebranches. We had an !Environmental Incident! overnight on day 47. I checked on everything and emptied the dehumidifier before I went to bed, and all was fine. When I woke up 8 hours later, the tent was at 30°C and 40% humidity, as the dehumidifier seemed to be working flat out. The built in digital humidistat was set at 60%, and was reading 60%, but both other hygrometers in the tent read around 40%. The thermometers revealed it had reached a maximum of 32°C at canopy level before leveling off. I am not sure what caused this, or even what really happened, but I think the dust filter being full won't have helped. I had left it a long time since the last clean, and now it is clear the dehumidifier has been working fine again. Either that or it was some sort of electronic glitch solved by switching it off and on again. Other than this, each day recently we have had a maximum of 27°C or 28°C, minimum of between 20°C and 22°C, and a typical reading of 25°C at 60% humidity. The dehumidifier keeps things fairly stable when it doesn't go haywire. The Sweet Trainwreck Auto looks great. The biggest, tallest parts are the sidebranches. The main stem was trained down low and never caught up with them. I've been busy outside the tent these past few days, but I have managed to keep up with watering in the morning and the evening, every 12 hours, which the plants seem to love. The Ice Cool Auto is the smallest in stature, however I think it is not to be underestimated. It has the darkest tone of the three, and so is absorbing lots of energy, and is showing the super trichome production I was hoping to see. The calyxes are looking huge as they swell. It's looking the most mature of the three. *** Day 49 to Day 52 The current routine has run smoothly in the tent for the past few days. I've watered every 12 hours with the same EC 1.1 solution, temperatures have been a maximum of 28°C and minimum of 20°C. The plants have continued to flower. *** Day 53 to Day 57 The plants are moving into their final stage. There has been no increase in height at all. New leaf production has slowed, and has been counterbalanced by a bit of leaf loss from the lowest sections. I set the dehumidifier to 50%, the next lowest setting, on day 53. I really want to avoid the situation I had in my most recent grow last year, where I caused budrot and lost a portion of my crop :ouch: That was my first time using the dehumidifier. I did not have space for it in the tent, so I put it outside next to a vent. When I harvested the first plant I turned it off, which was the big mistake, so the drying plants did not dry to quickly and spoil. Seeing most of a Crystal Candy Auto plant go straight on the compost heap was a tough lesson but I was very relieved/lucky that the majority of the harvest was not affected. That will not happen this time! The dehumidifier works so much better inside the tent where it is able to suck in the warm damp air. Set at 50% it is working a lot harder than 60%, I can hear the compressor on a lot more, and it is generating quite a bit more heat. I have reduced the external heating again to compensate. The hygrometers are usually reading anywhere between 50%-60%, and the temperature is usually around 27°C, up to a maximum of 29°C. the minimum has been 21°C, though with the dehumidifier now working harder it is usually 23°C-25°C with the lights off if I don't open the tent. We are at 8 weeks from germination, which is when these strains can be harvested according to the catalogue (Ice Cool Auto says 8-9 weeks). Could they be harvested now? I think yes they could, however I think there's more to be gained by leaving them a bit longer. The calyxes are swelling but are not fully there, so they can get a bit fatter yet. Some of the trichomes are showing a nice milky glow, and in some parts are even dying off amber or brown, I'd say the majority are still ripening for my preference.