Week 7 Update
Buds are starting to fill in nicely. One plant the buds have some freakishly long pistils. Nice light sweet chem odor starting to come through. Gave them a nice pop of PK 13/14 hoping to see some more filling in then a bit of bulking up over the next week or 2. Using a wet then dry type watering cycle feed ,feed, water. Weekly run off is coming out between 1000ppm to 1200ppm with a 6.2 ph. Weekly application of LABS/ Organic Blackstrap Molasses to the surface of the pots. Humidity is bouncing around between waterings at 50% to 55%.
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How to Test Your Digital Hygrometers
When starting to cure your buds using a 62% humidity is an industry benchmark we would all like to attain. Testing your Hygrometers will ensure you are hitting the mark as accurately as possible.
When salt and water (NaCl and H2O for the sci-geeks), are in a saturated solution at equilibrium, the resultant humidity is 75%. This gives a fantastic reference point to calibrate our hygrometer. There is an easy way to determine if your hygrometer is accurate. Here's the procedure you should use: You need a small ziploc bag, a plastic bottle cap, table salt or kosher salt, and water.
Place the salt in the bottle cap.
Dampen the salt with water. Do not put so much in that the salt gets "sloppy". You want a damp pile of salt in the bottle cap.
Place both the hygrometer and the bottle cap full of damp salt in the ziploc bag and seal it well trapping as much air into the bag as possible. (It is important not to let air in or out while the test is going on.)
Keep it like this for 12+ hours. Larger bags may take longer.
After 12+ hours in the damp salt environment, the actual air humidity inside the bag will be 75%. Compare it to your hygrometer, your hygrometer should also read 75%. If not, you will then know exactly how far off your hygrometer is. If it's off, note the amount that it actually reads and be sure to add or subtract that amount when reading the hygrometer. If the hygrometer has a control to adjust it you can set the hygrometer to 75% immediately after the test. Or simply mark the difference on each hydrometer.👍
@ganjapanda, I always wet trim. Then after drying and curing I usually give them a light trim to neaten them up a bit. I like my buds with a nice tight trim. There are a lot of growers that try to pad their weight by not trimming until after they've dried their crop.
I kept my window open/igloo'd around the base of my CMOG Autos to try and pull anything and only go a small amount of purple on the main sugar leaves 😓 i gotta find a way to drop it under 18 Celcius in my room to try and get more 💀
@ThrashedTV_BakedByGlaze, It's intresting I usually get one or two plants that show off some nice coloration near the end but I never get all of them to put on a nice show. I think it's just phenotype differences.👍
@GuerrillaNo_4, I have used Sensi Bloom in the past with good results. Supposedly the Connoisseur Bloom contains higher quality ingredients than the Sensi Bloom. In my opinion the both work well regardless.