At start of week six I scoured the plant with my jewelers loupe and did see two tiny pistils, so it's thinking about going into pre-flower now :-) I'm glad it's still essentially in veg, as the LST is ongoing and I'm tryin to space out the colas as much as possible and bring them closer to the rim of the planter.I have defoliated ever so lightly if a fan leaf blocked light from a bud site but with the LST I'm able to keep the bud sited fairly separate and distinct. Day 36 I fed 1 liter of overnight bubbled earthworm/compost tea-straight not diluted. I have done a little nutes with Fox Farms "Grow Big" diluted about half strength. I also add 2tsp/gallon of my own homemade Cal-Mag every watering. That I made by crushing eggshells and covering with vinegar. It bubbles and releases the calcium into an uptake ready form and the basic quality of the calcium in the eggshells cancel out the acidity of the vinegar. I add Epsom salts for the magnesium: 1-1/2 tsp. eggshell vinegar solution and 1/2tsp. Epsom salts to One gallon water. Got this recipe from Youtube and believe it is effective, plus it's virtually free and organic. SO far there are no visible deficiencies or leaf tip burn so I'm happy for that! My soil was a good mix of soil, compost cow manure, my compost, crushed powdered eggshells, dried powdered seaweed, perlite (lots) and some peat moss.
Beautiful plant, cowboy! The buds look amazing and what a deep shade of green. How long until harvest? Looks like three weeks to me. Keep up the good work!
@misterb, Thanks Mr. B., right now the trichomes are milky and I suspect at least three more weeks if not more. Judging from other's grows they can go for a while. Growers Choice says 11 weeks in flower so they could go into about election day in a perfect world. It better hurry up though, I spotted the dreaded thrips today and the leaves are getting pretty spotted, bastards ! I knew better after having that one other time by bringing it outside in nice sunny weather, I'll never learn. At least it's still growing snd the buds fattening up so I won't worry too much. I got 3-1/2 ounces last year from some spider mite infested plants so they'll pull through just fine, nature has her ways.😀