๐The plant is looking good and the flowers are getting plumper everyday. Its super frosty and the aroma is getting strong. The odd almost putrid aroma is gone, just a hint of sickly sweet now. The touch of a flower leaves sticky stanky perfume that is wonderful, but just your basic, almost generic aroma. Only a couple of pistols have turned orange. The buds, especially the queen, are getting very plump, nice pine cones. The Queen cola is not very long, but it is getting very fat! There is some upward curling on the top layer of leaves with some folding. I had added an oscillating fan, turned on low speed, that was directed at the upper areas of the plants. When the buds get this fat I always worry about that nasty surprise of botrytis. I think the fan, combined with lower humidity, has caused the leaf curl and folding. I moved the fan a little further away from the plant and turned on the humidifier. The humidifier sits in the room outside the tent. It raised the humidity about 3% (its set to low). I have checked on the plants after lights out a couple of times and the humidity inside the tent skyrockets to 65%. Im not sure if it stays that high all night, but the fans and exhaust are running, so Im pretty sure its not an issue. The winter temps outdoors keep the house HVAC running more frequently, so during the day its set to 65F. The daytime temps in the tent have stayed at or below 75F. At night I turn up the Heat to 68F.
๐I have not performed an H2Only irrigation (due to procrastination and time available). The volume of solution I ad each event seems to be sufficient because the run-off EC is consistently in the range between .95 and 1EC. The pH of the run-off is also consistently around 6.0. This tells me the media is almost perfectly balanced. There is no accumulation of nutrients and that the plant is absorbing all the nutrients in need. Ive been diluting the solution between 1.1 - 1.2EC. I am at the 9th week mixing recipe on the General Hydroponics Drain to waste feed chart for the Flora Series of nutrients.
@@FirstCough, I appreciate your kind words. It's really hard to see the full size of the colas because of all the leaves. The buds are getting plump. The Queen cola is going to be a beauty...as long as luck is on my side.
Plant looks great. I like her shape it looks happy. I was gonna ask about the tennis balls too but gussed you would have been asked already๐. Just had to scroll down a bit.. Good luck for the rest of your grow.๐
Wow! Your plants are huge ๐ I already chopped mine yesterday, these plants just wanna flower forever it seems. I was finding new herms every day so I decided to end it, even though there was still a lot of new growth. Interested in seeing your results ๐
@FrogLord, Thanks! I think the stress that was causing the hermed calixes was the reluctance of the trichomes to mature to mostly cloudy. What's also odd about this plant is that it didn't start the new calix growth until it's tent mate was harvested...as if it was devastated that it's lifelong partner was killed. ๐ฟ ๐ท
Looking good mate. I love that raised up grill tray tennis balls. Iโve thought about doing the same sort of thing ages ago itโs so simple, I should think it would be quite tricky to remove when itโs bigger for maintenance but well worth a try good luck mate.
@nelly31, Thanks! The tennis balls are to keep the rack from poking holes in the floor of the tent. They also make it easier to slide the plant around. I don't have to remove my plant from the tent, but if I did the rack also would make it easier to pick up.
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@Smokwiri, wow such a hollow gesture. Am I supposed to be excited that you've spammed mine and hundreds of other diaries with the same crap? I'm not honored or impressed. ๐