Update from earlier today,
Today marks week 8 of flowering, which means the girls are almost finished (with the exception of the morning daze, which could go as long as 11 weeks, or as early as 9.
Upon close inspection with my handheld microscope I'm only seeing maybe 10% amber on the GDP trichs, that's a generous percentage too...so I'm going to give it a few more days - maybe cut it this weekend or something. It should be noted that one of the GDP branches had fallen over sometime and was badly bent - like a perfect supercrop, but I'm not trying to supercrop the week of harvest....so I cut the bit off trimmed a bit and it's currently hanging. This will give me a good idea also of how the GDP's effects are right at week 8 (for future reference).
One of the bubblegum plants was also harvested today. This strain has very thin branches that can hardly hold up the buds, and most of them are all hanging down the sides of its bucket. Thats no good on our part, but it's also no good for development. We chopped that plant and moved one of the other bubblegums into its place. I'll harvest them this weekend when (hopefully) they'll have less nute smell. The trichs are all cloudy with some amber. Good enough to try at least.
Purple Hawaiian was actually very tempting to pick from looking at her, but at a microscopic level there are still some clear trichs, a good amount of milky, but no amber - that i could see - so I'll wait til the weekend and see again. It has lost a lot of the nutey smell and is smelling a lot more exotic (hawaiian, if you will).
Chocolope is also tempting to cut because she looks and smells so good, but I havent come across any amber in any trichomes yet, so I've got to wait.
Moring Daze is not as tempting to cut because its still got a lot of white hairs, clear trichs, and plenty of more growing to done....even though it has the largest buds of all my plants, haha.
I apologize for this next part (kinda), because we're pretty sure that we're going to put the HPS light up and use one of the LEDs for our vegging closet since the girls grew so much better under that than they are under these CLFs. I apologize because I won't be able to post the finished Morning Daze under only LEDs, its last week or two will be under HPS and an LED....
tough shit, but it'd be better to get a fat yield and pay some more in those bills.
I'll post pics in another post...I have to restart my computer really quick, it's acting weird.
