So I'm 68 days in flower..I've stunted her a few times pinching stems and defoliating so I think she's taking a little longer. Still only a few amber trichs. I started flushing, well giving straight water 3 days ago I barely used any nutes but I still wanna do a two week only water cycle. I've had nothing but problems with this grow but I've learned a lot. Was salty as fuck went in my room this morning
and it was 93°!! Wtf! I've had heat issues since June
been able to keep it to 86and under usually but only hit 70°'s once since June. My humidity is good I dropped it down to 40's for the last two weeks while I'm flushing. Battled fungus gnats 2x first time was rt at beg of flower and I got rid of them.
Then ileft on vacation July 5-20th roughly weeks 3-5 of flower. Had it sitting in water with an air stone bubbling the water. Well when I got home the gnats were back and in full effect. I slowed them down with sticky strips and letting my soil dry out
comoletely but I think I got root rot and they were going to town were I cudnt see them..my plant basically stopped growing (I know heat above 85 will pretty much stop growth completely) but I think the gnats had a big role in it also. I use tons of beneficial bacteria and fungus(even had mushrooms grow on soil during veg LOL) but I decided since it was close to finish I would use h2o2(hydrogen peroxide) even tho it will kill my bennies. I watered Treo days ago with this solution and my plants seem to love it. New puffy bunches of white hairs coming out of all the buds. The buds had been getting dry and losing stickiness and smell but after watering with that its starting to get sticky and smelly again. I think it wasn't getting oxygen to roots cuz of previous over watering and the gnats leaving carcases behind and eating my roots. I hope the trichomes don't turn on me in a day or so before I can finish my flush. I want to harvest on the later side anyway for the more "stoned" or couchlock effect as I'm growing for back pain insomnia and anxiety. I just don't want my thc to degrade cuz I left it to long. Also bad news but it hermied about a week ago. Its not forming seeds only false seed pods and balls that end up growing into leaves or swollen looking calaxes. I have one rt next to it that hermied months ago bud never grew one seed just swollen pods that form buds. Its got trichs all over it and I've smoked some at round 7 weeks and I got high. I plan to use that plant and my unusable popcorn buds off my good plant to make oil. Few questions
1. Can I use hygrozyme (an enzyme that eats away decaying organic matter) while I'm flushing? The bottle has NO info on it.
2.should I continue to use molasses during flush. My understanding is that it feeds the bennies in the soil. But if I used peroxide I probably killed most of them and I'm not adding any more bennies and will probably use the h2o2 solution again during flush. Does molasses have other benefits than feeding bennies? I don't want that sugar taste in my buds tho want clean buds.
3. I had to switch my 400 Watt hps for 2 150 Watt hps one on top and one vertically rt in front. I rotate every couple days for even coverage. In these last two weeks would putting the 400 back on top and using the 150's on sides benefit my plants ( supposing I can keep the heat down with all those lights), Or would I even benefit from just the 400 on top without the 150's seeing that's 100 more Watts it'd be getting. Or is it just to late to make a difference??
4. Is dropping humidity into 40's or even lower beneficial during last two weeks. I feel like the lower the humidity the more the plant will be able to transpire and pull water from soil up through leaves and buds and flush itself better?? Or is that completely wrong LOL??
5. I've read about turning lights off for up to 72 hours before harvest. This seems like a good idea but I have probably 50 or so popcorn buds going down all the branches. Some are VERY nice and devoloped and totally worth keeping for the head stash but some aren't formed all the way but have potential to be descent buds especially for oil making. Is there any way to do this dark cycle but then keep the buds down the stems growing longer??
6. I've read several places that people will not water the last few days then put in dark. Then chop the plant at the base and hang it upside down to dry for a week or so that way. Then chop buds off for cure. I'm sure ud have to check the plant daily as smaller buds would dry quicker and need to be jarred sooner. Obviously this way there wud be no way to continue growing the popcorn buds but if this method is a wise one I could sacrifice the fluffy little buds for a better smelling and tasting bud. This is 95% organic grow and I'd like it to reflect that in the aroma and taste.
Any tips on harvesting drying and curing would be appreciated. Trust me I've researched the subject and there's not a lot of info that seems correct to me. I'm looking for a slow dry slow cure. I'll put in the 2 mo it takes into it to have some dankness! I'm sure I'm forgetting something LOL anyone who's read this whole post I appreciate it know it was a long one
Peace and happy
growing!