Tues., today is 8 weeks thru flowering….. Cal/Mag will now be stopped, and I’ll lower the ppm gradually from in the 600’s, which is where I’ve been at. I said previously that I was going to flush every 3rd watering, I have not been doing that. The plants are doing great, no need to adjust that since I wasn’t seeing any burnt tips, the first sign the plants have just over what they need.
I’m watering daily, it’s sucks having to make reverse osmosis water every day, around 15 gallons and then water after dinner each evening. But I’m running the dehumidifier full blast at 45-50%, so it dries the plants out quickly. I’m removing around 4 gallons of water daily and using it in my resevoir. I have to go in the growroom at 3am each morning when I go to bed to empty it or it will shut down from being filled and the humidity will rise to 75-80% in the room by the morning.
I have 2-3 plants that are done or nearly done. I’ll go thru the trichome coloring tomorrow, and decide how to proceed then. I can chop them or let them go, it makes no matter to me. If I had to guess, I’m also thinking some of the plants will need 11 weeks for perfection, and the others around 10. I’m intent to let everything finish properly this crop.
I’ll spend the next week making a final decision on the next crop’s strain……….I have 3 in the fridge, and some other things in small quantities. I was leaning towards the Barney’s farm strain I talked about before but I want to look at the Coco Nibbles strain I have by Rare Dankness. It’s (Pangae x WR x C99) X Scott’s OG X (WR x C99)……..wow, that‘s a handful. Dark chocolate and spice tastes and smells, my only concern was the medium to high yield notation. Half the plants at medium would probably yield me 75 oz, 25% less my usual (which right now over 8 crops under these Gavita‘s is 102 oz avg)…..
I’m seeing a little bit of leaning going on, it’s nothing to worry about. I’m just tucking branches at this point. They won’t fall as long as I keep them watered. The back of the room on the left side, are the largest plants and will probably take the longest. I may have to move a few of them to the other room if they need more time at harvest, so I can clean and start what’s next.