Wedding Cheesecake Auto

Greetings grow family! We're happy to be starting our next grow after taking a few months off. It's been a crazy, unprecedented year, for many reasons. Looking to the future, we hope that you'll join us as we work to cultivate a sense of hope... for a happy harvest! 😊 We are growing "Wedding Cheesecake Auto", by FastBuds. These seeds were free from FastBuds as part of our prize package for our "Dark Devil auto" diary taking 6th Place in the March 2020 "Diary of the Month" contest. A shout out to FastBuds for that! Check back soon for more! ✌️🌱💚🌱✌️ Soil Mix: 30% Fox Farms Ocean Forest 30% Fox Farms Happy Frog 15% Black Gold Seedling Mix 15% Coarse Perlite Worm Castings - 3/4 cup per 5 gallon pot NPK RAW Grow Microbes - 1 tsp per 5 gallon pot Germination Day 1: - soaked 3 seeds in distilled water for 12hrs - transferred to damp paper towel on a plate, which was placed on a heat mat set to 28C. Germination Day 2: - One seed cracked, barely showing tap root - Mixed soil. Wet a sample with ph 7.0 water and inserted soil pH probe. Will leave for 12 to 24 hrs to monitor levels. - Cleaned out, vacuumed, wiped down & disinfected our 2x4 grow tent. Checked all supports, hangers & clips, test ran exhaust fan, test ran grow light, checked all power cord connections. Generally just giving the whole system a good once over to ensure everything is functioning as expected after 3 months of inactivity. Germination Day 3: - All three seeds have sprouted in the paper towel. One seed had almost 1" of tap root, while another had barely an 8th of an inch. - We planted each seed into a 5 gallon fabric pot and each hole we made for the seed was sprinkled with "NPK RAW Microbes" before placing each seed and watering lightly with distilled water. We placed plastic humidity domes on each pot. - Soil pH readings from our probe tester leveled out at a pH of about 6.7. - The 3 pots were placed in our 2ft x 4ft x 6ft tent. We've got our two Sunblaster 6400K LED strip lights hanging down low and our HLG "Elite 360" light fixture up high, at about 40". The "Elite 360" fixture is the pre-built fixture which contains two 180w QB96 Elite V2 LED boards. It also has a built-in bluetooth controller, allowing us to control the light intensity via a "Meshtek" app. - For now, we only have 1 of the Sunblaster strips turned on, to help keep the temperature at about 80F inside the humidity domes. - We have our AC Infinity Cloudline T6 exhaust fan set to run on its lowest setting whenever the temp reaches 81F. We have 2 temperature probes in the tent, one just below the Elite 360 light fixture and one just above the soil of one of the pots. Germination Day 4 / (Day 1): - "Seed 1" has popped through the soil! That means we're going to officially call it: Day 1! 🌱 Day 2: - All three seeds are now showing through soil. - Turned on the 2nd Sunblaster LED strip light, raised both strip lights up, to about 18" above plants - RH inside of the humidity domes is between 75% - 82%. Outside of the humidity domes, RH is about 55% - 60%. Day 3: - RH inside the humidity domes dropped to 58%. Lightly misted the top of the soil around each seedling with distilled water, to bring RH back up to 75%-80%. Over the next couple of days, we will reduce the RH and will remove the humidity domes by around Day 6 or Day 7. - Turned on our 6" circulating fan at the top of the tent. The humidity domes currently protect the seedlings from direct breeze but we will start to "harden" them after the first week, by allowing them exposure to a gentle breeze, which helps strengthen the stem. Day 4: - today we removed the humidity domes for 4hrs - with the domes on, the light levels the seedlings were getting was around 6-7k LUX. With the humidity domes off, that jumped to 12k LUX so we'll have to keep a close eye on these tender girls during this first week, when they're not under their dome protection. - added humidifier, set on 'low'. - RH: 68-75% - Temp: 77-82F Day 5: - removed humidity domes for 8hrs - Watered very, very lightly, giving each seedling only about 100ml of distilled water. Today is the last day we'll be using distilled water, moving to tap water instead, which we dechlorinate through the process of aeration, as well as adjusting the pH as needed. No plans to feed until maybe late week 3, possibly week 4, depending on how things shape up. Day 6: - removed humidity domes permanently. - increased light intensity from 6k LUX to 11k LUX for 24hrs Day 7: - We made it through the first week without too many issues. We had a minor issue with heat yesterday, where the exhaust fan settings were accidentally changed and the tent reached 84F for about 4hrs. No harm done, so far as we can tell. - RH: fluctuates between 58%-75% - Temp: normally between 74F-79F - Next week we're going to make a few changes, including changing the layout of our Sunblaster LED's, as well as adding a 3rd 2ft fixture, a Sunblaster 6400K T5HO fluorescent, which we hope will level out our light levels from plant to plant. We'll also be switching from 24/0 light cycle, to 20/4.

We've started week 2 by making some adjustments to our tent, including hooking up the 4" fresh air intake, air conditioner and adjusting our lighting layout to provide more even light distribution across the canopy. Day 8: - added one 23 watt Sunblaster 6400K T5HO - lowered our "Elite 360" lighting fixture from 40" to 36" - each plant is receiving approx. 10,000 LUX. We will be slowing increasing this each day and watching for stress. - watered each plant with about 250ml of tap water, which had sat for 12hrs and then aerated for 4hrs, for dechlorination. - water pH = 6.5 Day 9: - no changes Day 10: - increased intensity of "Elite 360" light fixture, providing 10k-11k LUX. Day 11: - increased intensity of "Elite 360" light fixture, providing 12k-13k LUX. - watered each plant with approx. 300ml of dechlorinated tap water, pH 6.5/6.6 Day 12: - no changes Day 13: - Temp: 76-82F - RH: 57%-64% - Noticed some small spots and strips of discoloration on a few leaves. It looks like it could be from a pest. We'll try to get some pics of it tomorrow. Day 14: - Temp: 76-83F - Watered each plant with approx. 300ml of dechlorinated tap water. Added a tiny amount of Remo Nutrients "Grow" and General Hydroponics "Cal-iMAGic" (less than 1ml each per gallon), resulting in a 130ppm solution.

Luckily, we haven't had any concerns up to this point. We decided to top one of the three plants, "Plant #3", which seemed to be the tallest of the three. The other two plants will be LST only. We did a similar experiment with our Barney's Farm "LSD" grow last year and results were surprising in that there wasn't much difference between the topped plant and the LST'd plants. We'll see what happens this time around! Day 15 - Increased "Elite 360" light fixture intensity to approx. 35%. Combined with the Sunblaster LED strips and T5HO fluorescent, we have approx. 18k-20k LUX across the canopy, an increase of 2k-4k from the end of last week. Day 16: - Temp: 74-83F - RH: 47-62% - watered each plant with approx. 250ml dechlorinated tap water, containing .5ml per gallon of Remo Nutrients "Velokelp", equal to 110ppm Day 17: - trimmed the lowest set of branches from Plant #1 and Plant #3. Day 18: - Light intensity increased to 22k-24k LUX across canopy. - each plant is showing unique growth characteristics. Plant #2 is very squat and has very short internodal length compared to Plant #3. Day 19 - Growth seems slightly slower than expected. We're hoping that these girls are going to start showing more development by weeks end. - Watered each plant with approximately 400ml of dechlorinated, aerated tap water. We noticed a bit of discoloration of a few leaves and added .5 teaspoons of epsom salts per gallon, as well as .5ml per gallon of Remo Nutrients' "Micro", "Grow" & "Velokelp". This resulted in a 300ppm nutrient solution. - did some low-stress training on Plant #1 Day 20 - We decided to do a light foliar feeding of Cal-Mag just before "lights out" last night. We sprayed a 250ppm solution of "CALi-MAGic", ph adjusted to 6.4. - Today we had a brief period of about 2 hrs where our air conditioner did not turn on at the time the timer was set for, causing the temperature in the tent to rise to 87F. - The smell has become noticeable now. It's not strong, and our carbon filter, combined with the negative pressure from the exhaust fan, makes it completely unnoticeable while the tent is closed. Day 21 - LST on Plant #1. - Plants still showing a bit of what i believe is magnesium deficiency.

The plants finally seem like they're picking up steam, with more noticeable growth every day. We're really surprised by the variation between Plant #3 and the others. All plants have been receiving the same light levels and watering but Plant #3 is super leggy! The space between 2 nodes is almost as much as the entire height of Plant #2. Day 22 - light levels have been slowly increased throughout week 3. We're now averaging 27k LUX across the canopy. - More LST on Plants #1 and #3, started some very minor LST on Plant #2. - We plan to do another magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) foliar feed, although we think that our last foliar feed did have some positive effect and the yellowing of the leaves has improved some. - These girls are also finally starting to become thirsty and i expect that we'll be increasing our watering frequency this week. - We've noticed that these plants tend to respond better to daytime temps between 78-83F. Under 78F and they seem to look and grow rather sluggish. We wonder if that has to do with the fact that LED lights do not provide any UV, therefore, in order to maintain optimal leaf surface temperature, the air temp perhaps needs to be slightly higher than if using CMH or HPS bulbs. It's just a theory but regardless of the science, we're aiming for 80-82F during veg. - We trimmed the lowest set of branch shoots off of Plant #2. It is so compact in there... 6 nodes in less than 2 inches of growth! The branches are all tiny so we're going to experiment a little and focus the growth on the main stem, leaving a few of the more robust looking branches. Day 23 - Watered with dechlorinated, aerated tap water, with approximately 1ml/gal of GHE's "CALiMAGic". pH adjusted to 6.5 - Continued LST on plants #1 & #3. We got a little too carried away with Plant #1 and ended up ever so slightly breaking the main stem! Luckily, it was just a small "gash" and we're confident it'll heal up quickly (see "Day 23" photo above). - As part of our LST treatment, we do leaf tucking as well, which seems to be having a positive effect on the development of some of those branches that are covered by the larger fan leaves. - Day 23 really was a day of mishaps... our air conditioner timer did not turn on again and for about 6 hrs the temperature inside the tent reached 87F. - Our HLG Elite 360 light fixture is now running at approximately 40-45% intensity, at about 32" above the canopy. Combined with the Sunblaster strip lights, we're getting approximately 28-30,000 LUX across the canopy. - I expect that we'll start seeing some pre-flowers/pistils within this next week, at which time we'll be looking at swapping the three 6400K Sunblasters with two 2700K Sunblasters, to supplement our main light. - Lastly, we did another magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) foliar feed at lights-out. We went a bit stronger than anticipated, with a 700ppm solution of dechlorinated, aerated tap water and approximately 1 teaspoon of epsom salts per gallon. We were aiming for about 400ppm, so hopefully 700 isn't too high! pH adjusted to 6.6 and applied with a fine mist spray bottle. Day 24 - Started LST on Plant #2, tied down main top, some leaf tucking. - Temp: 73-82F - RH: 45-60% - Lowered HLG Elite 360 light fixture by 1-2 inches, to approximately 30 inches above canopy. - Lowered the center Sunblaster LED strip by 1-2 inches. - LUX: 27-30,000+ - Our "light meter" app maxes out at 30,000 LUX, so we're unable to read anything above that... A proper light meter is on our wishlist! 👌 Day 25 - LST on Plant #2 - Lowered Elite 360 fixture to 28" above canopy. Increased intensity to approx. 50%. - LUX estimated at 29-32,000 across canopy. Day 26 - Plant #2 showing some light/heat stress. - Raised Elite 360 fixture up 2-3 inches. - Aiming for slightly lower temperatures of 78-80F, instead of 80-82F Day 27 - Watered with a 315ppm nutrient solution. Watered to approximately 10% runoff. Day 28 - Defoliation of a few fan leaves and small branches from Plant #1 & #2. - Plant #2 really seems to have some dwarf genetics showing up or something... very small branches and leaves... looking under-developed. We're a bit concerned that she won't have what it takes to put on weight. - Temperatures have been swinging a bit further than we'd like, reaching down to 73F during lights off and occasionally getting up to 84F during lights on. Most of the time the temp sits between 79-80F. - Pistils are definitely showing on Plants # 1 & #2, with Plant #3 the furthest behind in pre-flower (but also the largest plant!). - Week 4 to week 5 is typically where we've run into nutrient deficiency and excess issues, so we're really hoping this coming week goes smoothly.

Week 5! Today we swapped our 6400K Sunblaster lights for 2700K. We left 1 6400K in the center of the tent but it will be phased out by the end of the week. We removed the humidifier and lowered our "Elite 360" light fixture by 2 inches. We also increased the light intensity to approximately 60%. Day 29 - Very minor LST adjustments to all 3 plants. We're going to try and minimize any training this week, to allow these girls to focus their energy on transitioning to flower. Day 30 - minor defoliation of a few small branches on Plant #2 & Plant #3 - removed 6400K Sunblaster - Increased intensity of "Elite 360" fixture from 60% to 65% Day 31 - watered with dechlorinated tap water with 1ml/gal of CALiMAGic (115 ppm), pH adjusted to 6.3 - watered to 10-20% runoff. Runoff levels MUCH higher than anticipated and correspond to the relative size of the plants... Smallest plant had highest levels, whereas the largest had the lowest, which makes sense but as you'll see, the levels were still VERY high: Plant #1 = 2650ppm Plant #2 (smallest) = 3000ppm Plant #3 (largest) = 1580ppm - we flushed Plant #1 & #2 each with the remaining dechlorinated cal-mag water that we had prepared, which was about 1.5 gallons each. - we had hoped to start a low dose flowering feed schedule this week but I think we need to get our ppm's a lot lower before we start adding bloom nutes. - we'll plan to do another good flush for their next watering. Hopefully that doesn't set them back, as i can imagine these girls are going to be looking for their Phosphorus. - we also had a power outage that caused the dark period to be extended from the usual 4 hrs, to 10hrs. Oddly, the plants looked really good when the lights came back on. They were very perky and just looked very healthy. It makes us wonder if we should allow for a slightly longer dark period than 4hrs. Our previous grows had us switching from a 20/4 light cycle during veg, to an 18/6 cycle during flowering, which seemed to work well for us. Day 32 - minor LST adjustments on Plant #3 - noted light stress on Plant #1 (leaf curl/canoeing), moved "Elite 360" fixture up by 2-3 inches. - raised Plant #2 with foam spacers under pot to maintain light intensity. - Temp: 73F - 80F - RH: 50-60% Day 33 - no change - started first 5hrs of lights-on period with "Elite 360" light fixture intensity slightly lower, at 60%, before increasing back to 65%. Day 34 - LST on Plant #1, bending main top over. - Plants appeared very droopy after dark period but perked up after an hour of light. Pots are still fairly heavy so they still have plenty of water. Day 35 - flushed Plant #1 and #2 with dechlorinated water, pH adjusted to 6.4 - We were shocked when we tested the runoff and found that it had increased! 😳 We hadn't added any new nutes so i can only assume that the soil is still releasing nutrients. Coco is looking more and more appealing... Runoff ppm: Plant #1 - 3200ppm Plant #2 - 2750ppm Plant #3 - 1500 - after flushing Plant #1 and #2, we finished off by watering each of those 2 plants with a 475ppm nutrient solution of bloom nutes. - Plant #3 got a slightly different treatment, since it's runoff levels were much lower. We top dressed with 1 tbsp of Gaia Green 2-8-4 Power Bloom dry amendment fertilizer, watered in with the same 475ppm nutrient solution but with an extra 3ml/gal of "CALiMAGic" cal-mag supplement. - we had wanted to top dress all 3 with the Gaia bloom fertilizer but those runoff levels have really thrown us off our plans. We just hope that we don't start running into lockout issues. - we're also concerned that while we're trying to get our ppm's down, that we're missing an important window where the plants should be reducing their veg nutes and increasing bloom nutes. - definitely ending week 5 with a few feelings of frustration.

Week 6 Week 6 is sure to be an interesting one with these girls. Last week showed us that our runoff levels were very high for Plant #1 & #2 and our attempts at flushing had little effect. We had hoped to have a clean transition to a flowering feed schedule by now but we do plan to do another heavy flush next watering, followed by feeding with flowering nutrients so as not to deprive of their adjusted requirements. Day 36 - moved HLG's "Elite 360" light fixture up by 1" and increased intensity from 65% to 70%. We are seeing some leaf curl but nothing too drastic. - trying to keep temperatures 2-3 degrees cooler, aiming for 77-79F during lights on and 72-74F during lights off. - defoliated a few remaining lower branch shoots from Plant #1 & #3. We decided to leave most of the fan leaves and did some minor leaf tucking so that none of the bud sites were being blocked. Day 37 - no changes - increased circulation fan speed and exhaust fan speed to account for higher humidity from saturated pots. Day 38 - defoliation of Plant #2 and Plant #3 - watered Plant #3 with dechlorinated tap water with 3ml/gallon of GHE's "CALiMAGic" and 1ml/gallon of Remo Nutrients' "Micro", "Bloom", "Astroflower", "Nature's Candy" & "Velokelp", resulting in a 500ppm nutrient solution. - moved Sunblaster 2700K T5's up 3-4 inches. - removed wire rack from under Plant #3 to provide a more even canopy. Day 39 - no changes Day 40 - watered Plant #1 & #2 with a 300ppm solution of dechlorinated tap water with CALiMAGic Cal-Mag supplement. Watered to 30% runoff. - Runoff still testing very high, at 2800ppm. - raised HLG "Elite 360" fixture 2-3 inches to maintain 20-24 inch distance to canopy. Increased intensity from 70 to 75%. Day 41 - minor LST adjustments, leaf tucking Day 42 - no changes

Week 7 It's been hot this past week. Our tent has been averaging 80-82F during lights on, with the a/c running and 75-78F during lights off without a/c. It's supposed to cool down a bit this week, so hopefully we'll be able to aim for the tent to run a few degrees cooler. Plant #3 is looking very spindly, with very thin leaves and very stretchy. I'm not sure what to expect out of that one. It's genetics seem to be the odd one out. Both Plant #1 and Plant #2 have similar structure, leaf shape and growing pattern. Day 43 - watered Plant #3 with dechlorinated tap water with 1ml/gal of Remo Nutrients' "Bloom", "Astroflower" and "Nature's Candy", resulting in a weak 120ppm nutrient solution. Watered to approx. 20% runoff. Runoff from Plant #3 = 1220ppm. The last half gallon that was applied was mixed slightly stronger, with an additional 1ml/gal of each nutrient, resulting in a 300ppm solution. - we went light on the nutrient mix due to top dressing with Gaia Green "PowerBloom" dry amendments last week. We feel like Plant #3 is very hungry, showing dark red leaf stems (phosphorous deficiency, if i'm not mistaken??) but we don't want to get carried away and cause a nutrient lockout at this critical stage. We're hoping we're giving enough, without giving too much. - defoliated a few fan leaves from the bottom of Plant #3. Day 44 - Plant #2 looking a bit droopy after lights off period. - Plant #1 and #2 still have fairly heavy pots, no watering required today. - Increased intensity of "Elite 360" light fixture to 80%. Day 45 - top dressed Plant #1 & #2 with Gaia Green 2-8-4 dry amendment fertlizer. - watered Plant #1 with 1 gal of dechlorinated tap water, with 120ppm CALiMAGic and 1 tsp of RAW Microbes for bloom stage. - moved Plant #2 up closer to light. - temporarily increased "Elite 360" light intensity from 80% to 85%, for 8hrs. Day 46 - Plant #2 still looking a bit droopy. We've kept a close eye on ensuring we're not over-watering but i suspect that there's still a bit of over-watering to blame since #2 is not taking up the water as fast as #1 or #3. - watered Plant #2 with dechlorinated tap water with 100ppm CALiMAGic and 1 tsp RAW Microbes for bloom stage. - temporarily increased "Elite 360" light intensity from 80% to 85%, for 16hrs. Day 47 - noticing issues showing up on lower leaves of Plant #1 and #3. - we're not sure if it's due to nutrient lockout... It would make sense for Plant #1 because runoff ppm levels have been very high but Plant #3 has had much more reasonable runoff levels. Day 48 - Watered Plant #1 & #3 with a 200ppm solution of Remo Nutrients' "Bloom", "Astroflower", "VeloKelp" and "Nature's Candy" (approx. 1ml of each per gallon of water). - watered Plant #1 to approximately 20-25% runoff. Runoff tested at 1860ppm. This is lower than last week but still very high. - watered Plant #2 with approximately 1 gallon of water, minimal runoff. - leaf issues have gotten much worse. Suspect nutrient lockout. - we considered doing a flush but thought we'd leave it until next watering. Day 49 - leaf issues continue to worsen, spreading to different leaves, mostly older fan leaves, lower growth. - turned on fan at bottom of tent, to provide increased air flow around pots, hopefully to dry them up a bit before we flush them.

Week 8 has started off with some challenges, as can be seen from our photos taken over the last few days of Week 7. Day 50 - flushed Plant #1 with approx. 4.5 gallons of dechlorinated water, pH adjusted to 6.4. Previous runoff ppm levels were around 2000ppm, today they are reading 1200ppm for the first .5 gallons of runoff and 950ppm for the remaining runoff that was collected. - flushed Plant #3 with only about 1.5 gallons of dechlorinated pH-adjusted water. Runoff tested at 850ppm for first .5 gallons collected, 680ppm for remaining runoff collected. - we did not flush Plant #2, since it's not showing deficiencies and was already flushed 1 week ago. - we then did a final watering of about .5 gallons of a 500ppm nutrient solution, consisting of 3ml/gal of "CALiMAGic", 1ml/gal of Remo's "Micro", and 3ml/gal each of Remo's "Bloom" and "Astroflower". pH adjusted to 6.2/6.3 - Plant #3 is just not bulking up the same as Plant #1 or #2. In retrospect, we probably should have defoliated #3 a little heavier, to focus the growth on a few main colas. I'll be surprised if Plant #3 produces decent buds at this point. Day 51 - nothing to report - smell has gotten much stronger Day 52 - all 3 plants looking "perky". - all 3 plants are taking on a bit of yellowing in the leaves but overall seem to have improved since the last flush. - trimmed off a few of the dead lower leaves, mainly just for the pictures, otherwise we would have left them. Day 53 - we probably could have watered today but decided to leave it until tomorrow. Day 54 - watered Plant #2 with approximately 3 gallons of aerated, dechlorinated tap water, pH-adjusted to 6.5/6.6. Runoff tested at 1800ppm for first .5 gallons of runoff, 1050ppm for remaining runoff tested. - top dressed plant #1 & #3 with 1tsp each of "RAW Microbes for Bloom Stage" before watering. - watered Plants #1 & #3 each with approximately .5 gallons of the same dechlorinated, pH-adjusted tap water. Top dressed plant #1 & #3 with 1tsp of "RAW Microbes for Bloom Stage" before watering. Day 55 - we're seeing a lot of yellowing of the leaves on all 3 plants. - still seeing brown spots appearing on the leaves of Plant #1. Also seeing some colouration in some of the sugar leaves which is likely due to genetics and cool air from the air conditioning intake, which is coldest on that side of the tent. - increased light intensity to 90% Day 56 - Plant #1 continues to show issues in the leaves, progressing from the fan leaves to the sugar leaves. - Plant #2 is starting to show minor issues in some of the lower fan leaves, as well as yellowing. - Plant #3 continues to lack bud development compared to Plant #1 and Plant #2. Yellowing of the lower fan leaves continues to progress.

Week 9! We feel a sense of urgency, on the brink of crisis, with a range of issues that we're doing our best to work through and minimize. We feel like the tall girl (Plant #3) is destined to be bit of a lanky disappointment. In retrospect, we should have done more defoliation early on, limiting the number of growing tops on this girl. Plants #1 and #2 are identifiable siblings, with similar structure, bud growth and feeding habits. Day 57 - watered Plant #1 with 2 gallons of plain dechlorinated tap water, pH adjusted to 6.7. Runoff tested at 750ppm. Then watered with .5 gallons of a 570ppm nutrient solution, pH adjusted to 6.2. - watered Plant #2 and #3 with approximately 1.5 gallons of nutrient solution. - minor defoliation of leaves that had yellowed and were badly drooping. Most leaves pulled away easily when grasped. - increased HLG Elite 360 light fixture to approximately 98%. Day 58 - Plant #1's leaves continue to worsen but bud growth and increased trichome production is noticeable and the smell continues to become richer, sweeter and more pungeant. Day 59 - Plant #1 looking pretty rough. We adjusted our intake hose that feeds from our air conditioner, to ensure the incoming cold air isn't blasting down that side of the tent. - in an attempt to lessen stress on the plants we moved our "Elite 360" light fixture up 2" and reduced the light schedule from 20/4 to 19/5. We did increase the light intensity from 95% to 100%, hopefully better distributing the light and avoiding "hot spots". Day 60 - Reduced light intensity back down to 95% to try and reduce leaf damage of Plant #1 - Tent temperature tends to climb to 83F when the light fixture is at 100% intensity. Running at 95% keeps temps around 79-80F without any additionally required adjustments to the air conditioner and fresh air intake. Day 61 - watered Plant #1 & #2 each with 1.5 gallons of dechlorinated tap water, pH adjusted to 6.5. Then watered each plant with .75 gallons of a 530ppm nutrient solution consisting of 3.5ml/gal of Remo Nutrients' "Micro", "Bloom", "Astroflower" and "Nature's Candy". pH adjusted to 6.2. - watered Plant #3 with .5 gallons plain water followed by 1.75 gallons of the nutrient solution. - swapped positions of Plant #1 and #3. Plant #3 will now be getting some of the 2300K spectrum from our Sunblaster T5HO's and Plant #1 should get a bit more relief from the light intensity. Day 62 - removed dead, shriveled leaves from the bottoms of all 3 plants. Plant #3 had the most dead/dying leaves, which pulled free with barely a touch. - checked bud density of Plant #1 and Plant #2 by very gently squeezing one of the buds. Both plants seemed to be very dense. Day 63 - temps were a bit higher today, around 82-83F. A/C shut off by itself because water reservoir was full. - Plant #3 starting to show fade in leaves

Week 10 Things seemed quite precarious there for a few weeks. We honestly weren't sure if Plant #1 was going to make it and we had all but written off Plant #3 (tall girl) as expecting nothing more than lanky, airy buds. Fortunately, both of those concerns are slowly being put to rest. Plant #1 is still in a bit of rough shape but the buds are filling out and maturing. We're hoping the leaf damage isn't going to be detrimental to the bud quality... Plant #3 (tall girl) is also slowly filling out, although it looks like she could still use a couple more weeks, whereas Plants #1 and #3 are getting very close. We'll have to try to split the difference when we decide to chop, since we aren't able to stagger our harvests. We use the same tent for drying/curing as we do for growing. We hope we can find a balance between giving Plant #3 (tall girl) enough time to mature, and not letting the other two go on for too long. We plan to only water Plant #1 and #2 with plain, dechlorinated tap water for the next week, hopefully planning to harvest early next week. Plant #3 on the other hand will likely get one more feeding to try and push a little more bud growth. We're continuing to run our lights on a 19-on/5-off schedule. Day 64 - smell has gotten much stronger. We're not really getting a lot of that typical "cheese" smell but the smell is nonetheless very pleasant, very pungent and seems to increase in complexity every day now. - we reduced the light intensity a small amount, from about 95% to 92%, as we noticed a little bit of light stress/burn showing up in Plant #3. - pulled a few more dead/dying leaves from the bottom of Plant #3 Day 65 - watered Plant #1 and #2 with plain, dechlorinated tap water, pH adjusted to 6.6. - watered Plant #3 with a 450ppm nutrient solution. This is likely to be the last feeding. Day 66 - lowered Plant #1 by about 5" by removing the stand it was on. Leaves are badly damaged and looking very rough. - all 3 pots are feeling quite light and will likely be watered tomorrow. Day 67 - wow! The colours in Plant #2 really came out over the last 24hrs and the smell is very sweet and very strong. - we decided not to water today after all. - Plant #3 is finally starting to stack up a little bit better. The buds still aren't very dense though and i can see Plants #1 and #2 finishing 7-14 days before Plant #3, which will be a challenge for us since we normally use the same tent for drying. Day 68 - watered all 3 plants with plain, dechlorinated tap water, pH adjusted down to 6.6. - watered each plant until runoff (approx. 10% runoff) - removed dead leaves from bottoms of Plant #1 and #3. - lowered air temperatures by 2-3 degrees via air conditioner, 78F (lights on), 69F (lights off). Day 69 - Plant #2 showing amber trichomes Day 70 - today is the last day of light for these ladies. We are going to provide 48hrs darkness before we chop. - Plant #2 is showing about 50% amber trichomes... A little more up top, a little less below. - Plant #3 could definitely use a bit more time but we're going to go ahead and harvest anyways. See you back here in a couple days to document the chop! ✌️

Day 73 After 48hrs darkness, with temperatures in the low 70's, we started wet-trimming all 3 plants, removing the fan leaves and some of the larger sugar leaves. We noticed that Plant #1 and Plant #2 both had very dense buds, whereas Plant #3 was very loose. Plant #3 really needed more time to bulk up and as such, we'll most likely be using all of Plant #3 for edible extracts. We're leaving the partially trimmed plants in their pots overnight again, before doing some more detailed wet-trimming and hanging each plant to dry. The pots are all bone dry at this point. We'll be doing a weight report and completing the "Harvest" portion of this journal once we've had the buds have dried and are ready for curing. Update #1 (Day 75) - It took us a few hrs over the course of two days to wet trim Plant #1 & #2. Plant #1 was very time consuming despite it's small size because of the damaged sugar leaves. We didn't want to leave any dead leaves or brown spots. - We decided not to do much trimming to Plant #3 since we're going to process the whole plant into either dry-ice kief or maybe bubble hash. - After wet-trimming Plant #1 and #2, all three plants were chopped and hung whole. - exhaust fan is on lowest setting, no circulation fans. - Temp: 68-72F - RH: 65-71% Update #2 (Day 80) - plants have been hanging whole for a few days now. - we use the "7-7-7" technique as a general guideline or starting point (70F @ 70% RH for 7 days) - For the first couple days we aimed for 70-71F and 65% RH. After that, we aim for 65-68F and 70% RH. - So far this has been working really well. We're on the 5th day of drying and we suspect about 2 more days left. Update - Day 81 - After the 6th day of drying, the buds are feeling crispy on the outside but soft when squeezed. - We trimmed the buds from the stalks and ended up with following weights: Plant #1: 52g Plant #2: 59g Plant #3: 144g Total: 255g