Here on out, I'm not labelling photos on strain since nothing can moved. Refer to prior weeks or spot the stretchy ones. Phenotype "B" in the back right and Phenotype "A" in the Front Left.
Since I only journaled SLH... For those interested and who haven't been following, The girls up front are authentic Gold Leaf from original breeder ILGM and the girl in the back right is unidentified found in a bag of some killer smoke. Also, side note, I may have scored with a seed found out of top shelf dispensary out of Michigan of Pineapple Muffin!
Anyways, I added the 2nd dose (first one during veg), of bone meal to suppliment soil & gently squeezed the pots to counter top feed compaction (I've done this weekly btw). Moved my supplimental lights up to final destination and now prepared for full flower.
Phenotype "B" is properly tagged as it's a "b"east of a stretcher at this point. It definitely has the thickest trunk as well.
Meanwhile Phenotype "A", I'm still expecting to produce the largest and densest colas. I'm familiar with SLH and it's general characteristics so I'm pretty confident this will be the case.
I noticed I like to predict a few weeks in advance. Like goal setting, but playing by nature's rules. Sorry it's a habit, but I love to see how in tune I still am after all these years.
I expect "B" to stretch another 6" before full flower has set in & "A" maybe half that at 3".
I noticed that the main LED that came with the tent combo in tandem with the IONBEAM bars x8 (16" & 11" kit of 4, the 16" set is powered by a Universal Power Supply backup battery unit in case of an untimely power outtage!), does an excellent job penetrating light to lower bud sites and so far see equal flowering results.
I'm still baffled by these LEDs... so far I'm glad I decided this route vs OLD SCHOOL even though it's been a learning and experimental process for myself. But as of now, I'll leave my final judgement for harvest and the first taste trial cause that's where it ultimately counts.
I know I went way out of budget these last few weeks, but I'm in this for the long haul. The UPS, S16 unit, dehumidifier(s), Supplimental Heater, Bone and Blood meal, Cloning equipment, etc have put me down another grand or so. Fingers crossed that this grow nets me some good top shelf with some serious weight for a 3x3!
I'm also still continuing the sunset/sunrise adaptive brightness with the brightness jumping levels every 10 minutes all the way up to level 9/10 (90min), and waning down in the same exact fashion except reversed. Update: Supplimental Lighting still on this schedule but updated main lighting to have 6hr sunrise/sunset with max 10 right at the center of the 12hr day (6hrs=360min/10levels = 36 min cycles).
I added 10 min buffer on each end of the day when going into flower. In short I'm technically running a 12hr 20min light cycle, to compensate for the sunrise/sunset simulation.