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Started low stress training this week. Getting her to spread out around the pot a bit more. She's got plenty of room in the tent but starting another girl in there soon.
Big difference this week. Off ger veging light and moving to a much more powerful LED has helped. She is now filling out her pot nicely. Still LSTing to keep her short.
Been so hot outside atm. 30+ degrees most of this week. My tent is in the shed and its just far too hot. Added another fan to keep air moving around. Not much else I can do.
Another defoliation session this week. She was really bushy and you can see the amount of leaves I took off in her pot. I always leave them to degrade in the pot and give an extra boost of nutrients.
Started with a new flowering light this week. Also gave her some new super boost nutrients. Hopefully see the buds thicking up a bit over the next 2 weeks.
I was wondering what your thoughts are on defoliation. She is very bushy and hitting the edges of my tent now.
1. How much to take off
2. Pics of what she should look like after.
Both of the above would be very helpful to me. This is my first auto grow so being cautious
Right now I think your going to do more harm than good. You want to wait until the pre-flower has finished before defloating. Then you want to pull off all the fluff at bottom and around the base of the stock... If you want to give bit more light to the branches tie a string around your pot. Then tie the branches, and fasten to the pot. Don't stress the branches just a bit to spread the light. Cheers.
I would have thought she would be more sugary than this. Cant see any trichomes on the leaves. She had a slow start in life due to low wattage but looks healthy. Do we think she'll just take longer than usual to be ready for harvest or is she never going to get there?
Starting to see the buds fattening up now. The super boost took about 2 weeks to really start making a difference. I bought some new bio bizz nuetrients but haven't bothered with them yet. Will probably just save them for a new grow. I'm thinking 2-3 weeks before harvest now. Time for just PH'd water and let her discolour and use whats left in the soil.
What are your thoughts on how long I have left with my grow. She went passed 90 days from seed this week and starting to think I'm nearing harvest. I can check trichomes as I have microscope but there is very little of them on the buds. Experienced growers might be able to help.
Hey!
I would wait a bit more..
Harvest window opens when you start getting amber pistils.
Normally when there's 70% amber and 30% white pistils they're ready but that's not always the case.
The best way to check is looking at the trichomes.
Clear trichomes haven't reached their full potencial yet, cloudy ones are full of THC and amber are losing THC while gaining CBN.
So depending on your preference whether you want more of a head high or body high.
I normally use a 60x magnifying glass to look at trichomes when there are about 50/50% white and amber pistils.
I harvest when after examining and finding 70% cloudy trichomes and 30% amber trichomes.
For me that's a prefect combination, depending on the strain as well.
Have in mind if you use nutrients you'll need to flush the roots, watering with PHed water only for at least a week.
Good luck and Happy Growing!😃🌱🌿🌲
Always listen to the experiences of others. Was thinking to harvest last week. On the advice of others I didn't and can see why. She has plenty more to do yet. She's fattened up a load over the last 6 days or so. Gonna go another 2 weeks from here with the final week on just plain water.
She just continues to put on weight. Still eating all the nutrients. Put 1100 ppm in her last feed. Run off yesterday from 220 ppm in was 440. So she'll get another feed after the weekend. Probably be the last one she has.
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