Left her for a week while I was on vacation with an automatic dripping watering system I bought on Amazon. I gave her a heavy plain-water feeding on Friday leaving the bottom tray full so she could replenish with that for a day or so. The dripper was set to delay for 4 days, and then run for 4 mins every 3 hours. When I got back, the soil was still wet and this girl and the other in the same time were still alive with no mold, nanners, or bugs (much to my surprise)!
When I first got home, the tops were so heavy that they were drooping all over the place. I grabbed some hemp twine and tied the plant together to support the heavy colas. It seems to work and isn't affecting the buds. I'm hoping to harvest on Halloween, but if they're not ready, I'm sure she can go another week or two with the plain water flush. Now I'm watching her and the other plant in the same tent to see when they're ready. Ideally, I'll harvest them both at the same time, but we'll see what happens.
To my surprise, it looks like she doubled in thickness, but it could just be because I haven't seen her in a week. Unfortunately, my phone decided it wanted to go for a swim in the ocean, so I had to use an older phone to take the photos and they didn't come out great... sorry about that! I plan to have some better photos next weekend.
@Gutismoke102, Thanks - yours are looking good too! Looks like they're both about the same age (or I'm 1 week behind). None of the other grow diaries I've seen of this strain looked like mine except for yours so I'm going to be keeping an eye on that.
@TheUk420Show, Awe man - I wish. They were still pretty short, around 24" (61cm) but the LST really helped them produce.
Final results are 118 of the dense, good smokable buds, and 46g of airy/small buds in the hash pile. Totaling 164g or 5.85oz. Harvest diary will come soon along with a smoke report.
Great diary man! Id say your issue with the lack of smell/taste was definitely due to the cheaper lights and not even anything to do with the light output bc you wouldnt have yielded as well if that was the case but the actual light spectrum the LEDs put out. Howd pressing the bubble turn out though and how were the terps on that?
@DrWeird, Must have been an alright return if you were trying for diamonds and sauce man fair play 😂 But the upgrade will be sure to reflect in the next batch, I went from shitty 150w setup off amazon to the spiderfarmer sf2000 and sf1000 a couple months ago and still cant believe the difference, the new samsung chips are rediculously bright for the energy they use😵
@ElMangoLoco451, thanks for the input! I'm also thinking that when the temps went over 80F for an hour or two a day, that also contributed to this. Also noticed the leaves tacoing a bit too.
Well I'm glad I upgraded to the Kingbrite for the next run
The bubble wasn't bad, until I tried to get diamonds using the jartech method and basically decarbed it. Well.. next time will be better 🤣