Decided to get properly stuck in today and dived into my canopy looking for dead leaves, mould and un developed branches.
Found plenty of dead leaves and swiftly removed them.
Found NO MOULD so far!! I'm amazed really.
Found about 6 undeveloped branches, they'll probably get thrown in the hash pile.
Anyway, to get to the bottom of the middle of the plant i literally had to rip the canopy open, cola's are growing right into each other and touching all the way up. This was the first time i got to properly see how fat, long and developed all the cola's are throughout the plant as up till this point i've been EXTREMELY gentle with the plant as a whole.
I can conclude that i'm looking at way more than 10oz... the size of a lot of these cola's is ridiculous considering how many of them i have, most plants only have a few max, and their shapes... never seen buds grow like this... Anyway, after today's clean up i'm more excited than ever to harvest her, as for the first time u lot will be able to see what i'm going on about, nd just how much bud is growing on this tree. Each branch i cut will be lined up so you can get an over-all idea of each ones size and shape (current pictures show neither).
There is a bit of under developed bud at the very bottom of some branches (popcorn bud) but after today's opening up of the canopy and removal of leaves, there's more light penetration, more air penetration, and i'm quite hopeful these will develop a little more. Worst comes to worst i've got more stuff to make some quality hash with!
Speaking of which, touching the buds as much as i did today to rip open the canopy left me with VERY sticky fingers, so i started rubbing and ended up with a very decent sized ball of hash (for just pulling buds apart).
Gona make a nice smoke for tonight. This will be the first i get to try of this plant.
I also went shopping for some Rot Stop and Boost, and while there i was enlightened to the fact that Ripen is far from organic. So i will NOT be using it. Instead i went ahead and purchased a late flowering supplement called "Bloom Final", the same company that make the calmag i use, the Groigen and Florigen. Their range is fully organic.
Here's a little something on Bloom Final:
"Bloom FINAL is a high quality late flowering product that stimulates massive fruit and flower growth in the last 2 weeks before harvest. Bloom FINAL is based around an organic compound called Triacontanol that stimulates and increases the production of plant hormones related to fruiting and bloom response. The effect that increasing these hormone levels (naturally from within the plant) is immense, with large gains in yield and fruit size over the final stages. Use in conjunction with base nutrients from 2 weeks before harvest, and on its own (with no other additives or nutrients) for the final week. Highly concentrated and used at just 1ml/Litre."
Will be used in weeks 9/10 and then plain water in week 11, then harvest.