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These are 4 seeds that came from a bag of Critical Jack so can’t be sure of the strain for definite as they may be pollinated by something else.
Starting this diary in flower. I was vegging these on the side whilst growing a couple of autos so they’d be ready to flip as soon as the autos were done. Two of the plants have been vegged for 2 months and the other two just over a month.
Just feeding a light veg nutes solution with CALMAG whilst they stretch then will start flowering nutes after a couple of weeks.
Getting a few of tiny spots of mold/rot on one of these plants in particular...
Thinking of harvesting now to stop it getting any worse and affecting the other 3 plants. Are these trichomes looking cloudy enough to be worth harvesting now? Don’t have any better magnification.
sorry but i have to disagree with everyone here, first off they dont look moldy at all, are you quite sure it's mold ? i'm not seeing it at all, that's why i ask. If you're absolutely sure of yourself what you can do is simply remove the affected area. What's the point of going to harvest if they're not ready , you'll just end up with poor quality product or some extract, when you can just keep monitoring and fixing the affected area and get your optimal potency at the end. Hope this helps ! 🚀
Come along really quick over the past week, noticed some tiny bits of rot on one of the plants so I’ve chopped that one early before it spreads. Was maybe over-watering a bit when the buds started to build and that one pheno was perhaps a bit more prone to rot.
Light schedule has been dropped to 11 hours and the cold night temps have really speeded up the ripening of the buds and is resulting in beautiful fading colours.
Been fed PK13/14 at the start of this week and now on plain water until they’re ready to dry out and finish.
Not expecting huge yields, I haven’t fed these much or tried to push them too hard... Just some nice ‘quality over ‘quantity buds to enjoy.
These girls are into their last couple of weeks with just plain rainwater to keep them ticking over until they’re ready to chop over the next week.
They’ve still thrown out plenty of new white pistils over the past week and the trichomes are only just going milky/cloudy.
A long veg time and a steady drop in daylight hours from 18 hours a day to 12/12 over a few weeks has caused these plants to finish in 7 weeks from the official start of 12/12.
The aroma is nice and strong now with the lime and citrus scents that I recognise from the Critical Jack really standing out. Colours have faded beautifully and most of the fan leaves have fully faded and fallen off now.
Excited to bring them down and start drying over the next week.
Really nice quality stuff this in the end. Lovely smell and flavour to all plants, buds are well matured. The effect is strong! Definitely a decent THC content because the high is really in your face.
The flavour is definitely reminiscent of original Critical Jack I’ve grown in the past, citrusy and fruity aromas that smell like starburst when squeezing a bud.
Certainly enjoying this so far.
Nice easy grow with minimal effort. Just left these to veg whilst concentrating on some other autos and just generally getting used to using LED lighting.
They all got a long veg time of at least 6 weeks and were already into pre-flower before the switch tp 12/12 so didn’t take long to flower, well matured with all cloudy trichs and orange pistils. Dried by hanging in the tent in the dark with a gentle fan blowing for 2 weeks then cured in jars.
Weren’t fed much so the end weight wasn’t huge but resulted in some good quality, dense and flavoursome buds!
@CRiSPrGrow, You have thank you, that’s the same way I’m thinking about it. The mold isn’t in the pictures, it’s brown bits of rot that I’ve found inside a few of the tops on one plant. Chopped those bits off.
Keeping the humidity as low as I can and checking often for any more mold but 4-5 weeks just feels far too early to chop this plant.
It’s the choice between trying to push it to get better quality buds but I could lose more to mold over that time, or just harvesting now with unripe buds.
@Ferenc, Thank you! The two at the back were vegged for 2 months and the front two just over a month.
Interested to see what the difference in yield will be.
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