okay, time for a proper update.
harvested a few weeks ago...took the plants a few at a time each day depending on which ones were done...most finished in between 8 and 9 weeks. i need to record shit better but i didn't write down the chop days so....
anyway, been trimming all those plants while also cleaning up the flower tent and preparing for the last cycle in this house before I move. i also converted my old 4x8 veg tent into a flower tent by moving the 600w HPS into there..so now 1/2 of the tent is lit with HPS and the other half is T5..two 4' 8 bulb fixtures...6500K light LOL but fuck it..not dropping the money on flower bulbs for one cycle, and more light is better than less..
no more need for a huge veg tent..i'm only gonna be keeping alive a few moms to bring with me
the old mini flower tent (4x4) is now the veg tent w/ all clones..most of the clones have rooted at this point and are in plastic cups w/ ROLS and vermicompost.
I cut the clones a few weeks ago while cleaning up the lower branches of all the plants...everything is in flower now
except the clones..so I made sure to take a few cuts of each just in case something went horribly wrong. as usual I had to cull a few clones of each...aloe works too well! i did have a few stems turn to mush this time..think that was because I got lazy and left the fresh cuts in h2o for about 36 hrs before putting into rapid rooters...too long sitting in water. either way it worked out...200x aloe powder works on its own..this is confirmed from a second round of cuts I did - straight off the plant, dipped into powder, then into the rapidrooter. make sure you don't dip the cut into water before the powder...the powder will immediately turn to goop on the stem and its not fun to work with.
most of the plants went into flower on the 14th or 15th..i've been hitting with neem/silica/aloe foliar every 3 days...really trying to prevent PM this cycle. last run I was using neem @ 1tbs/gal..ramped it up to 2tbs/gal this time. got a little bit of leaf curl on a few plants but they are noticeably more shiny, hoping this will translate to PM protection. at this point its past the 2 week point so I am done spraying..just some neem meal teas from now on...along w/ sprouted barley seed (or diastatic malt powder) enzyme tea, aloe, TM-7 (every two or three weeks), ful-power, and probably the occasional botanical tea w/ comfrey and/or kelp....the usual. oh, and coconut h2o/freeze dried coconut h2o powder...going to test that one out. just got a small package in the mail. the liquid coconut h2o is too damn expensive, and tastes too good to feed to my plants! might be getting a costco membership sometime soon - apparently they sell a 4x1liter pack for pretty cheap...according to the coot.
not many pics from the harvest, but here is one:
God's Gift (one of three plants in a 30 gal no-till..there are pics of her very early in the thread, page 1 or 2 i think)
This harvest was by far the best I have ever had...pulled some crazy numbers. had to re-calibrate my scale just to make sure it wasn't fucking up lol. 230 grams dried from one plant (The Flav) in a #10 smartpot...the Plushberry in a #10 smartpot ended up coming in somewhere around 200 grams...none of the plants were under 2 oz. the buds were deceptively dense, especially for 600s...
total weight was around 44oz dried..not bad by my books
stay tuned for pics of the flower rooms...