Day 60F
The PM on the cheese has gotten significantly worse in the last few days. I think it may have something to do with the constant humidity spikes every time I water. I haven鈥檛 been running my humidifier at all in flower so maybe it鈥檚 having trouble keeping the RH up during lights on. Just another reason to follow a daily watering schedule. The cheese and slurricane look fucking disgusting and I鈥檓 starting to doubt that a peroxide wash can totally fix it. It worked well for my outdoor crop so it should be fine but this time there is probably 3x the amount. I鈥檒l make sure to really soak the buds and rinse them off good.
Bbb#1 is flopping over like crazy from the weight. Too late to stake it up now so hopefully it holds until next week. Starting to foxtail a bit but nothing too bad. It is now 100% done and ready for chop.
Bbb#2 is just getting frostier and frostier by the day. The purple fade is really coming along nicely too. Might reveg. It is now 100% done and ready for harvest.
Black garlic #1 is finally filling out! I can鈥檛 believe it. Never heard of a plant packing weight on like that in week 8. The breeder did mention that it packs on weight later but I鈥檓 stunned. Taking her to 9.5 weeks.
Black garlic #2 is looking very average. Average color, average size buds, average frost, average smell, probably an average yield. And it鈥檚 starting to get a bit of PM. Overall not happy. Will be taking her to 9.5 weeks.
Zkittlez #1 has pleasantly surprised me. It was a bushy runt in veg but came through. It鈥檚 the third frostiest in the tent, super dense, stacked tight, smells great and looks great. It鈥檚 already got a nice amount of amber so it鈥檚 100% ready for chop.
Slurricane #4 looks insanely frosty even under all that PM. If I can鈥檛 wash it off it鈥檚 going in the trash. I want to chop this asap but have to cut everything at once unfortunately. It鈥檚 100% ready for harvest.
Badazz OG cheese is looking like a decent yielder but doesn鈥檛 have much else going for it. I think it still has some filling out to do. I can鈥檛 even smell the final profile change yet. The leaves are rotting off very quickly. Taking her 9.5 weeks.
I don鈥檛 mind harvesting a bit later rather than early. From my outdoor experience, when a plant is picked early it smells like hay and wet grass clippings until it鈥檚 been curing for 3 weeks. When I harvest late or at 30-50% amber trichomes it smells like same scent profile it had when growing. Just my experience.
I鈥檝e read that the tobacco industry adds calcium and potassium carbonate to their crops to help promote fire holding capacity and to increase the whiteness of ash. Turns out some of the organic amendments I bought last week contain exactly that. I鈥檓 going to give each plant a light top dress to see if the tobacco industry is onto something.