17 Oct 2021
Today is the 45th day of flower, and according to Humboldt Seed Company, my Ladies should be ready to harvest!!
I took several trichome pics of each plant today to check and see if they are ready; and they are!! Awesome! I’ll upload all the pics today for your viewing pleasure.
Week 15 officially kicked off yesterday, but today is the first entry of the flush in order to get my girls ready for harvest.
Each of my plants received a gallon of water with properly adjusted pH. The initial pH for C1 was 6.9, C2 was 7.0, and C3 was 7.1. I added .2ml of pH DOWN to each gallon which adjusted all of them to 6.4. The TDS going in for C1 & C2 was 85 ppm, and C2 was 84 ppm.
Runoff measurements were as follows:
C1 - pH: 5.8, TDS: 1796 ppm. C2 - pH: 5.7, TDS: 2086 ppm. C3 - pH: 5.6, TDS: 1979 ppm.
The tent temp was 82F, and humidity was 42%.
My plants are doing great, and I’ll be flushing with fresh water for the remainder of the grow until it’s time to harvest in a week or two. Hopefully they’ll be done in time for the Diary of the Month contest, but in reality, I’ll just be glad when they’re done!
Happy growing everyone!!
21 Oct 2021
I have been a lazy bastard lately. I wanted to water my plants two days ago, but didn’t. Then I wanted to water them yesterday, but again, I didn’t. There isn’t any reason really other than just plain laziness.
Today I’ve decided to stop being lazy and to continue the flush of my lovely plants!
Each plant is getting a gallon of properly pH’ed water and nothing else. The details for each gallon are as follows:
Initial pH for C1 & C2 was 7.0, and C3 was 7.1. I added 0.2 ml of pH DOWN to each gallon which adjusted the pH of all 3 gallons to 6.3. That’s what they were given; a gallon of fresh water with a pH of 6.3. The TDS level going in was 58 ppm for C1, and 86 ppm for both C2 & C3.
Runoff levels were as follows:
C1 - pH 5.9, TDS 1234 ppm.
C2 - pH 5.8, TDS 1326 ppm.
C3 - pH 5.7, TDS 1182 ppm.
The TDS level for all three plants fell significantly from the first flushing a few days ago. Hopefully the levels will continue to drop quickly so the harvest can commence!
My ladies are all starting to show their age now by looking at their fan leaves. Some of them have begun that late flower stage dry out, but not many. The plants are still looking great and their buds are starting to weigh down some of the branches. I’m going to get a few more support sticks to keep them from being weighed down too much and breaking. I’d hate to lose anymore branches before I cut them off on purpose.
We’re almost at the finish line fellow growers!! Best of luck to you all, and happy growing!