Kick Off-Super Bowel for the Superbowl!

After a lapse of maintince, I ended up with a pH lock out and had a few days of panic, until I was put right by the community of growmi's here. I lost a number of leaves from the white widows. All seems better now that I have the Ph up above 6.0.

Getting close to Chop O'clock and am watching the trich's closley. So far mostly clear but today one of the WW#1 buds are showning some amber! WW#2 is hard to scope but does not look like trich's are turning yet. It will be interesting to see how diffent she is from WW#1 as #2 was grown mostly with burpleish light.

Lil' Durban is not maturing very fast. The pistils are still not turning and buds are not swelling yet. She could take as many as 18 weeks, of course she's in dirt so not as fast as the NFT'd Widows.

I've decided to try using STS to self a WW Auto and a Northern Light Auto and maybe cross the two as well. My STS is due to arrive this week and I'll pop the seeds after I get my seed making tub set up. I've never tried ths before so it should be interesting.

More Bud porn. Pix today!

WW#1 full bud
WW#2 stalk
WW#1 Stalk
WW#1 Bud

Approx 10th week of flowering, WW's still clear and 1-2 amber Trich's. Lil Durban is still putting out white pistils.

I thought Auto's were supposed to be FAST? I'm thinking that there is not much difference except Auto's get more photons from18/6 all the way thru. I thought about switching to 12/12 to see if that would speed things up.

I turned off fan as itis getting very cold at night. THis AM temps are up a bit after lights came on.

Late flower Deff's!
I had some trouble with late flower Deff's. WW's were yellowing due to pH lockout so I raised the pH and got that fixed.
Lil' Durban started to show a tiger stripe on leaves so I went to:
And learned that it was a mag deff that could be solved with epsom salts. Lil' Durban was sort of dry so I added some ES to hot water and got it desolved then added cool water to about 14 oz and watered today. Lil' Durban is still throwing white pistils after 17 weeks from germination, ~12 weeks from first pistils. She's showing a few browning pistils so maybe another 4-5 weeks till harvest???
Trich's on WW's still clear though a few ambers are showing here and there.

Holy heck! Am having a lot of problems.
Lil' Durban is showing what appears to be a mag deff. so i added some Epsom salts a couple of days ago, no change in leaves so far.
WW#2 is showing yellowing old growth, but WW#1 in the same tank, rez is not?
I hadn't changed te rez in a while so decide to start from scratch and emptied the rez and ran a couple of gallons thru to clear out the pump etc. Filed the rez too full and had to pump out 2-3 gal to get it to upper level.
The tapp water is showing a PH of 7.1 and 240 ppm so I added all my remaining Bloom(30 ml), 60 ml of Micro and 30 ml of Grow. I'll check the pH and ppm's in a hour after the mix is stirred by the pump.

It took two whole days to lower the pH down to ~6.5. after changing the rez. Almost 30 ml of Down to change the 10 gal rez! Ph got up to7.4 for a while.

WW#1 still not showing much amber or even cloudy Trich's after approx 6 weeks of flower. WW#2 is losing it's fan leaves but no cloudy or amber trichs either.

I gave Lil' Durban a dose f epsom salts a few days ago but leaves still not loosing their tiger stripes? I'm letting it dry out amd will flush it with a gal of water to see how that does???

~ 8th week of flower. WW's sticky and still no cloudy or amber Trichs. I had hoped to be cutting and curing by now but I'm hanging in there and not getting antsy. rd to do but necessary.

I just flooded Lil' Durban util the pot bubbled and will see if that will get her out of her slump. I didn't see much run off so don't know if this will flush the salts?

Today PH was way down, 5.3 and ppm was up 801 (EC 1.7) in the rez so checked level and it was low so I added tap water to fill. This usualy raises Ph and lowers ppm's.
Lil' Durban is starting to show some improvment of the Mag deff, after flooding the soil. I'm thinking now that I may not have been giving enough water at a time.

WW#1 was intruding on Lil Durbans light so I trimmed off a lower bud and took it in to see what the Trich's looked like, Hooray some ambers and some cloudy. I had cut off another intruder a few weeks ago but it was just cough city and no high at all! Rather than air dry then jar this time, I jut put it inthe jar with the remainder of the first test bud at 41% RH to dry as slow as possible. I'll see if it is ready to smoke (~6% RH) by Sunday at game time.

Well I tried to roll up a second WW#1 bud again and still no high but plenty of cough. The girls started smell a couple of weeks ago then the smell changed to a toasty scent. They are getting pretty loud now but still no cloudy or few amber. 9th week of flower, over 100 days since germination? Autos are fast? Not so much from these no name WW seeds.

Lil' Durban still throwing white pistils and no sign of finishing.

WW#2 is showing yellowing fan leaves and trichs still clear? She's in the same rez as WW#1 and #1 shows no adverse signs now? Could it be the pheno differences? WW#2 buds are swelling over the last three weeks and even the lower buds are pumping up. I cut a lower bud and am drying it to see if it has the same "no high" as WW#1.

I'm hopeing that the on deck Northern Lights from OO seeds are faster and show more high.

Today is 7 weeks from first pistils, noticed some Trich's seemed cloudy today. Could it be that they are finishing??????????

Well good news, the ww#2 bud came up at 54% RH in a jar and I rolled up a test joint. It was a lot smoother smoking and did have a good HIGH, though it was a mild one. even so I hada hard time smoking it as I'd forget to have another toke. Smoked half the joint an slept like a brick!

Just checked the girls and they are doing well. Seems like the Trich's are getting along, though no ambers yet.

Lil' D still throwing white pistils. Damn sativas are slow!

Well, two weeks to go for the Super Bowl, so yesterday I cut off a well developed bud from WW#2. The stalk was about 10 inches of sticky perfumed bud, about 1 1/2 " in diameter. I figure a two week dry/cure will improve it and at least I'll have something to smoke on Super Sunday.

Too bad the 49ers lost to the Rams, but 7x in a row was asking a lot from Jimmy. I think he's due to be traded this off season. Fortunatly the Rams used to spring train in my childhood home town so I can reach back for my childhood Team.

One week left and the WW's are giving up. WW#2 has lost all it's fan leaves and is dying, I guess. Oct 1 to date is like 15 weeks from seed so for an auto 6 weeks into flower it's about time.
WW#1 is losing all it's fans and and is browning from the top down. PH and PPMs are steady so it's not nutes. WW#1 should yield well. It has taken up all the availible light it can and is over a sq meter in footprint. WW#2 is about a sq Foot in extent. But the buds are 5-8 inches long and there are a lot of buds.

Lil Durban just keeps chugging along. I noticed today that the pistils are starting to turn and curl in on the lower buds. It is a little two foot Christmas Tree shape and a cute little thing. It is 16 weeks from germ and still growing. A "Pure" Sativa it may take 18 weeks to fully mature.

Over the last couple of weeksI have sampled the WW's to judge it they were any good yet. First low bud WW#1 was unsmokeably harsh! OMG!
Last week I took a fully exposed bud from WW#2 and dry/cured it slowly in a jar. The humidity in Sacramento is so dry, despite the reacent rain is not condusive for Hanging in the open air, though I'm drying some WW#1 golf ball bud to see how they do.
Anyway this WW#2 is pretty good. Not One Hitter, but it makes me want to pick up my ukuleles again. Very nice for a god slow read of Pratchett.

This AM I was trying to decide whether or not to cut the WW#2 top buds??? It shows no amber at all and not too sure of cloudy either?? WW#1 still stalled and losing fan leaves. Seems that they are drinking pretty well. PPM's going up and PH steady.
Lil'Durban still chugging along, but WW#1 hogging the light.

Yesterterday I ct a WW#2 bud and started to dry it. It had some amber Trichs so it looks like it's done.

Today I cut a WW#1 Top bud and it too has some amber Trichs. I need some string to rig a drying box or two. WW's have at least twenty bud tops that should be ready this week. And probably 15-20 smaller buds that will geta few more weeks to mature.

The test buds that I've tried have been progressivly better and better. Slow curing in jars was pretty good, but when I harvest I'll need a better, less labor intensive method to prelim dry. I shouold have enough amber bud to dry and be ready for Sunday.

Well Super Sunday is here. My Autos are still undone and I'm patiently waiting for some amber. I slow dried a WW#1 bud this week as it was the most ripe of them all. I rolled a half-timejoint and it does have some terpines now but still not the ass kicking liftoff I was looking for with White Widow. Three hits of WW and back to the second half!
Rams-23 Bengals 20
Bengals covered the 4.5 points in the spread so I guess that covers the 6 out of 7 CBS "Pros" that projected a Bengals win.

WHite Widow is not too bad. Got lots of sleep after three hits.

WW#2 has been showing some amber so I have been clippinng off the mature buds and drying for two days bef0re putting in a jar. Smoking it does not give much high but it does help in sleeping afterwards. I'm hoping that WW#1 with a few more days will show some amber tric's
I've got Northern Lights up next from OO seeds, hopefully it will not take 15 weeks to finish.

Well WW#1 is starting to show amber Trich's. I've harvested all the top buds on WW#2 and it smokes nicely but no real high.
I had hoped for some energizing brain fuel that would get me playing my Ukes and writing the great American Porn novel, but not even peep. I'm going to cut another six WW#1 buds to get them drying and jarred
Lil' Durban is still throwing white pistils and no where near ready. It smells a little peppermint'ish so it has some character different from the Ww's.
I'll see if the soil grown Lil Durban is better than the hydro WW.

I'm calling this over now. Ever since Tommy kicked off the NFL 2021 season back in September, have nursed and fondled these three plants, but today I went in and found a pump failure! Fortunatly the little pump lasted log enough the outlast the White Widows and It's past time to finish harvesting them. I've cut almost all of WW#2 and 70% of WW#1 so it's just as well. I'll wet trim the remaining buds tomorrow. I've got almost ten jars curing now and the samples from last week aren't too bad. Not too strong but developing some punch as it cures.

However Little Durban is still ripeinging and looks like another week or two for the Stativa. So far it's almost 7 months from seed with Auto's at 18/6. Lil'D has a much more complex nose now and is pretty sticky. After learning about soil with Lil D, I think I'll do the next round of Northen Lights Auto's with just plain dirt. The NTF isn't bad but Dirt is much easier to do.

Tomorrow I will cut a nice bud off Lil'D for a sample and dry it. I'm hoping for ass kicking stuff from Durban Poison .