Heading into week 12 and things are going OK. Last week we had 35 to 40 degree swings in the outside temperatures. High of 82-85 with evening temperatures dropping below 50. My lights are running from 8am to 8pm. Trying to keep my high temperature at 75 but I had some issues this week.
My buds started to swell this week and I have around 16 really nice colas. Then I have an additional 100 or so smaller buds. There not undergrowth but there not main colas. Yesterday I tried to count how many bud sites there are in my garden and I roughly counted 120ish. If I can get a 2 or 3 gram average I’ll be very happy with this garden.
The buds look healthy and are starting to smell. The grand daddy purple has a very grapes smell and the vanilla frosting is starting to smell fruity. I haven’t gotten that vanilla smell yet but the buds are frosty. We’re heading into week 6 of flower and I have one more feeding with the Fox farms beastie bloom and by the end of the week I will do a flush and start the fox farm’s cha ching. I’ll keep updating during the week.
I also was able to add 2 27 watt LED FULL SPECTRUM lights to go along with my PAR1200. I was able to free up 2 lights that were taking care of my little girls that are going outside. By the end of next week I’ll be able to free up 2 more of these 27 watt led tubes. I basically wanted to get a little extra light on the edges of my 30” x 36” screen frame. My PAR1200 draw 525 watts, so adding an additional 100 watts can’t hurt.
I added a few photos today, the buds keep swelling and they are so sticky! I started growing when I was 18. From 18 to 30 I grew many different size indoor and outdoor gardens. For me the last month before harvest is so hard. I’m like a fat kid at a candy store. I just want to smoke these beautiful flowers!! It’s even worse after I harvest. Lol these ladies smell and look so good. I’m so excited to smoke these ladies this summer. Have a great week everyone!
End of the week update, so I started to notice that my SCROG net was way over crowded in one area. The grand daddy purple and the two vanilla frosting plants in the front were tangled and the buds were on top of each other. I had to cut the net and reposition a bunch of the buds so they could breathe. I also had to remove a good deal of fan leaves in this area. I also had to use some sticks to support the buds when I reposition them. We’ll see how things work out. Some of the buds were damaged but they have space now so we’ll see what happens.
hey bro, have you search GD for this royal cookies strain? what is the breeder?
there are 63 diaries here in GD about it...
- growdiaries.com/explore
Anyway, that Grand daddy Purple sounds nice =]
@amazongrow,
I have looked at a bunch of the diaries on GD and I’m planning to actually grow one of my ladies in my current garden. I’m going to bring the royal cookie into the garden next week. The plant I took clones from is from a royal queen seed. I actually was finally able to see the flower from this strain and I really liked it.
@MrJones, from one mr. Jones to another mr. Jones thanks! This is my first year growing again after a 15 year break and I’m still amazed every time I grow my favorite plant in the world.
Great job!! What day did you end up chopping the GDP on. I’m at day 52 and triches are getting pretty milky, not amber yet though. Thinking of starting my flush tomorrow and going until day 60. Thoughts?