vhawk
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This is day 56 since I switched to 12 hours of Darkness (And I'm not sure why autocorrect decided to capitalize Darkness, but I'm going to leave it there because it's amusing me).
The buds are still growing and getting fatter. My impatience has me anxious, and grinding my teeth in my sleep. They were listed as flowering in 50 days. But the trichs are still 75% clear, 24% cloudy with a very rare amber one. Fresh stigma/pistils keep popping up as you can see in the pics. My gf is complaining that there's already too much weed. I told her that I could yell at them and tell them to hurry the fuck up, but they're just like any other woman-they're going to take their sweet fucking time.
These are 4 feminist northern lights I bought from Southern Oregon seed company. ( I'm guessing that when I smoke the bud I'm going to want women to have equal pay for equal work. Or it's just my auto-correct fucking with me again). Have them under a 400w HPS, with a few extra 23w 2700k cfls on the edges. Soil grow in FF, in 5 gallon smart pots.
I was bad and broke from conventional wisdom on a couple things since that's what newbies do. I haven't routinely flushed, nor do I plan on it. Just watching the tds and ph of my runoff. Also I've switched to flowering nutes, 300-600 ppm alternating. PH adjusted to 6.2-6.3. I'm going to keep feeding them until I see a slow down in new flower growth, or they show signs of over feeding. The theories i've read about Flushing sound a lot like what I read about using enemas to remove 'toxins'. The guys that say it's all about curing properly seem to make more sense.
The other thing I did bad was to defoliate heavy several times. I think big fan leaves inhibit the growth from their respective nodes until they're removed. Pop the fan leaves and new stems grow vigorously same as if they had been LST'd. Plus it's how a plant would normal suffer being grazed on in the wild.
Anyways, I'm blathering on. Any guesses on when these ladies might be done? Pics were done with different lighting so the new stigma would show. Did my best. Thanks
The buds are still growing and getting fatter. My impatience has me anxious, and grinding my teeth in my sleep. They were listed as flowering in 50 days. But the trichs are still 75% clear, 24% cloudy with a very rare amber one. Fresh stigma/pistils keep popping up as you can see in the pics. My gf is complaining that there's already too much weed. I told her that I could yell at them and tell them to hurry the fuck up, but they're just like any other woman-they're going to take their sweet fucking time.
These are 4 feminist northern lights I bought from Southern Oregon seed company. ( I'm guessing that when I smoke the bud I'm going to want women to have equal pay for equal work. Or it's just my auto-correct fucking with me again). Have them under a 400w HPS, with a few extra 23w 2700k cfls on the edges. Soil grow in FF, in 5 gallon smart pots.
I was bad and broke from conventional wisdom on a couple things since that's what newbies do. I haven't routinely flushed, nor do I plan on it. Just watching the tds and ph of my runoff. Also I've switched to flowering nutes, 300-600 ppm alternating. PH adjusted to 6.2-6.3. I'm going to keep feeding them until I see a slow down in new flower growth, or they show signs of over feeding. The theories i've read about Flushing sound a lot like what I read about using enemas to remove 'toxins'. The guys that say it's all about curing properly seem to make more sense.
The other thing I did bad was to defoliate heavy several times. I think big fan leaves inhibit the growth from their respective nodes until they're removed. Pop the fan leaves and new stems grow vigorously same as if they had been LST'd. Plus it's how a plant would normal suffer being grazed on in the wild.
Anyways, I'm blathering on. Any guesses on when these ladies might be done? Pics were done with different lighting so the new stigma would show. Did my best. Thanks
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